Glossary
The host's label for a hegemon that secures legitimacy by dropping tariffs, opening trade, and presenting itself as universal rather than merely national.
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moral empire
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...zero over the course of the 19th century. They become a moral empire. They drop tariffs. They end chud nationalism. They end. This close..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...zero over the course of the 19th century. They become a moral empire. They drop tariffs. They end chud nationalism. They end. This close..."
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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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"...zero over the course of the 19th century. They become a moral empire. They drop tariffs. They end chud nationalism. They end. This close..."
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"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..."
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Uberboyo pushes Jiang from geopolitics into demography, soft power, religion, bureaucracy, and aging.
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