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The core difference between America and China runs in opposite directions: there capital controls politics, here politics must rein in capital.

Drawn from what Keyu Jin said

SubjectsambitionChinaAmericapolitics

ambition How much to take on and how hard to push: superlinear returns to effort, focus, slack time, and procrastination.

politics How people actually hold political views: tribes, partisanship, and whether anybody reasons their way in.

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What Keyu Jin actually said

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  1. Keyu Jin

    Economist specialising in China's economy

    In the US, capital controls politics, one could argue. In China, it has to be the other way around. Capital must be reigned in by politics. As part of the capitalist class, do not have the ambition to exceed the powers of the political class, is really at the core of it, I’d say, is the biggest difference between US and China.

    Where this was said

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    ↗Keyu Jin: China's Economy, Tariffs, Trade, Trump, Communism & Capitalism | Lex Fridman Podcast #477youtube.com

    video · 1h 49m · spoken · official transcript

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