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Speaker 2: I realize politics gets involved in all this stuff. Like

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Speaker 2: You know, you have to the praiseier side or beat

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Speaker 2: become friends, and this is paving the way for How

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Speaker 2: do you know what are you talking about? Do you

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Speaker 2: remember when George Bush said he looked into Putin's soul

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Speaker 2: or whatever and saw a good man. How did that

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Speaker 2: turn out? President She smiling at Joe Biden's calling him

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Speaker 2: old friend is not an indication of anything and all.

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Speaker 2: The guy has a million slaves. He took over Hong

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Speaker 2: cynicism and anti Chinese bias personally, But perhaps we can

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Speaker 2: ask Josh Rogan, global opinions calumnists for The Washington Post

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Speaker 2: and author of Chaos Under having Trump sheet in the

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Speaker 2: Battle for the twenty first century. Josh, I'm excited about

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Speaker 2: this new era of friendship and cooperation, aren't you.

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Speaker 3: Man. I hate to be the spoiler. I hate to

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Speaker 3: like as far as you could get. Now, you guys

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Speaker 3: the order of one of the worst mass murdering totalitarian

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Speaker 2: But Josh, didn't you hear he said he might give

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Speaker 3: Well, here's the thing about the pandas, And don't get

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Speaker 3: So there's this whole For months, there was a one

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Speaker 2: Where are you on the likelihood? Because if I'm president,

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Speaker 2: So I'm watching some of the coverage on the cable

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Speaker 3: It's really I mean, it's really good for choosing thing.

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Speaker 3: know what Using Thing got from this. Meaning I don't

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Speaker 3: know what we got. Resumption of communication is really not

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Speaker 3: a thing that we should be like, you know, really celebrating.

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Speaker 3: That's that should be like the minimum. I think, I

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Speaker 3: don't know, maybe I'm crity.

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Speaker 2: No, I saw you write that, and I agreed. Touting

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Speaker 2: the fact that they're now willing to take our phone calls. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: that is like the minimum requirement of a friendship. And

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Speaker 2: they then they and then and then they haven't done

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Speaker 2: it yet. They've just said they would in the future,

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Speaker 2: So no guarantee they will still take our phone calls.

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Speaker 2: Josh Rogan's The Global Opinions calling this for The Washington Post.

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Speaker 2: Go ahead, Josh, if.

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Speaker 3: You were my best friend for twenty five years, I

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Speaker 3: would hope you would take my phone call, but you

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Speaker 2: Is that right?

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Speaker 3: Friends like that these enemies? Yeah.

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Speaker 2: So my final question, it's a sprawling one, and you

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Speaker 2: could write not one, but to multiple books on the topic,

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Speaker 2: is how goes the great decoupling or disentangling of the economies?

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Speaker 3: You know it goes? You know, I think, like you know,

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Speaker 3: we have to decouple and what we don't have to

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Speaker 3: you know, like if you want to talk about like

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Speaker 3: You know, Manu put a bunch of Mariotte hotels in China.

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Speaker 3: I'm okay with that. But when it comes to the AI,

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Speaker 3: to the nuclear secrets and to the top silicon chips

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Speaker 3: into the things that make our missiles, you know, missiles, no,

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Speaker 3: we're gonna have to decouple from that. When it comes

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Speaker 3: to masks, I guess we're going to need our own

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Speaker 3: masks because it's give me another pandemic. And then what

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Speaker 3: we really need to de couple of guys is the money.

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Speaker 3: We need to stop having our Wall Street firms send

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Speaker 3: the companies that are building the machines that's pointed against us.

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Speaker 3: That's the crazy part of the decoupling that we can't

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Speaker 3: dollars to clap and do standing ovations for Jiji thing

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Speaker 3: last night, they're all taking your money, your savings, your

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Speaker 3: retirement and they're investigating companies that are committing atrocities and

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Speaker 3: building the military. That's we're pointed right at us, and

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Speaker 3: that seems crazy. So, I mean, you know, you're right,

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Speaker 3: that's going to have to build another book, if not

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Speaker 3: a whole nother show.

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Speaker 2: And we could be talking about TikTok as well. We

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Speaker 2: were earlier on the show. The fact that we let

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Speaker 2: the communists Chinese at least in some measure, control the

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Speaker 2: number one news source for our young it's a suicidal,

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Speaker 2: you know thing. We're engaged, but it's unbelievable we'll talk

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Speaker 2: about that more another time, Josh, I hope you can

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Speaker 2: come on and chat again soon anytime. All right, thanks

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Speaker 2: a million. How good was that? Armstrong and Yetty