The Pax Americana replaces the World War II nation-state order with an international rules-based order, global free trade, and consumerism.
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Free trade
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...but from the trump perspective why should america pay for um free trade over the seas let the world pay pay for it so..."
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Trump's sea strategy converts the U.S. Navy from protector of free trade into a force that charges or coerces those who want to trade.
Jiang says Bill Clinton functioned as a Bush-mentored vehicle for pushing neoliberal free-trade policies and remaking the Democratic Party from within.
The host contrasts zero-tariff nineteenth-century British universalism with earlier tariff warfare, arguing that victorious empires drop narrow mercantilism and adopt moral-open trade once they hold the center.
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"...but from the trump perspective why should america pay for um free trade over the seas let the world pay pay for it so..."
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"...party. Right? That did not want immigrants. That did not want free trade. And did not believe that China would be a good trading..."
"It's so interesting. During the colonial period, during the Duchess Dutch in the Indies and during Britain, they were all fighting each other as..."
"They stopped tariffs, open up trade to the world, become the pimp kings that run the trade empire because that's an intelligent thing. Open..."
"...Okay? America is saying, no guys, let's just focus on global free trade. Let's have everyone trade together and if everyone trades together there..."
"That's what fascism is, the unit of will. We as a people, if we come together, we will be this invincible, inevitable historical force..."
"...return for permanent normal trade relations status, which meant basically just free trade between the United States and China, China would agree on two..."
"...United States, but on a different system, which was the British free trade system. You know, once you dominate the global financial systems and..."
"...but at the same time this eviscerated ultimately america you know free trade eviscerated american industries and so trump administration's message at davos is..."
"...about left and right dichotomy versa which is false whereas the free trade versus american system dichotomy is very real but it's obscured so..."
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