Your brilliant speaker is the failed finance minister of Greece. He completely screwed his country and then walked away leaving others to sort out his mess. As the say those who can do and those who can't teach.
A brilliant thinker who doesn't know that Taiwan's position in the global economy has changed just a wee bit since the 1970s. Taiwan manufactures the vast majority of the world's semi-consuctors, especially the cutting edge ones. The very same semi-consuctors which the USA reckons is why they won the first cold war against the USSR. You do the rest of the math.
*It was Julius Nyerere who famously quipped: “The United States is also a one-party state but with typical American extravagance, they have two of them.”*
Until we repeal The Hague Act we can’t prosecute our war criminals. They’re all immune. Look at Trump. They’re delaying his trial until after his presidency.
The professor is an excellent teacher. He is able to fine tune the way he illustrates things to suit his audience. The ability to teach well is a gift. There are other brilliant men around, but not all are able to teach well.
Your teacher is the failed finance minister of Greece. He completely screwed his country and then walked away leaving others to sort out his mess. As the say those who can do and those who can't teach.
@@dooley-chhe stood up for his principles when the EU and his own prime minister sacrificed Greece on the altar of neoliberalism. If you think he's a failed minister then that says far more about you than him.
@@dooley-ch I think you will find that Germany and France actually ruin Greece. I remember reading about how these two nasty countries and the EU screwed Greece and turned that country into a mess. Varoufakis was so mad with these countries and the EU that he walked away from this evil institution.
Your intelligent speaker is the failed finance minister of Greece. He completely screwed his country and then walked away leaving others to sort out his mess. As the say those who can do and those who can't teach.
@@dooley-ch . Pray tell, why with an awesome mind, you weren't deem worthy to be listened to in Greece, or anywhere humans live, let alone asked to be coopted to solve any country's economic issue?
Recently, China issued USD bonds to the Saudis. These traded at only 0.007-0.029% above the 3Y/5Y rates and were oversubscribed by 19.9x. The Saudis will receive Chinese industrial products in return. With those USD, the Chinese will pay back the US on behalf of those countries trapped in USD debt. In exchange, those countries send resources to China. So, the end result is the world gets rid of their USD (instead of investing in US where it could be seized), countries free themselves of US debt trap, and the dollar floods back to the US.
This is why the inflation prices of all assets continues to accelerate. US Dollar debt-deflation through Quantitative Easing drives the Velocity of currencies through the Monroe Doctrine grift of Economic Codependency. The World is shorting the US Dollar, and its caused the political Establishment to have gone insane with rage that Western Empire has already collapsed. The conspiracy minded might see this as an intentional implosion or the US Dollar as an attempt to force the adoption of CBDCs obligatory for all Global citizen-slaves. WW3 is the goal of an insane ideology that needs to artificially inflate the commodities markets to act as an accelerated means of capturing Vassal States. Debt-deflation is a psychopathic methodology for sustaining the appearances of Social Management, where Institutional legitimacy no longer exists.
WoW incredible achievement but it's working in a way that's magical 🙏🏼 it's reminding me about the story, one ant can not do much but 1,4 billion can preform miracles or a lot 😊
@@maxlin7208 "When two neighboring countries fight each other, just know the USA visited one." - Nelson Mandela, South Africa. fact check it, if one dare to hear truth.
Mr Varoufakis is highly intelligent and a no-nonsense speaker. He has unusual in-depth knowledge on international affairs and his analysis on geopolitics matters is often excellent. This lecture on US-China competition is unambiguous and realistic.
Sadly he left out the parts about the CCP threatening to viloently invade Taiwan calling it a "rouge state" despite the fact the CCP never at any time controlled it. Oh yeah and neglected to talk about Chian trying to sieze territory that belongs to Japan and the Phillipines and trying to claim an entire ocean that is nowhere near any Chinese coastline as it's property. He kinda left out what the CCP does to the Uyghurs and Tibetans and.....on and on. Say when you look at it, it seems the world benefits from a power keep them in check.
I was going to write a comment, but everything has been already written. The only thing I can add is that beside the brilliant and just analysis, emotionally speaking it's extremely moving that such a brain exists and speaks out. Merci monsieur Varoufakis et cher professeur!
Efharisto Mr Varoufakis utmost respect to you Sir , how I wish we had another million people with the same disposition as you , you move with the angels , thank you. You speak the absolute truth. 🙏
Good and profound analysis by Mr Yanis. I trust China with many brilliant minds shared the same views, and I strongly believe that the Chinese think tanks have solutions to ward off the evil plots of the US. They had learned much through their century of humiliation and will deter the same from happening again. "The sweetest victory is fought without battle."
This USD system is unsustainable. For the few to enjoy disproportionate wealth, the rest have to contribute disproportionately to the system. Fewer and fewer countries are willing to do that.
@Liviticus it's absolutely breaking down. US dishes out largesse to its allies and friendly countries to maintain their loyalty. Those who don't benefit from that arrangement naturally have to contribute to the pool of largesse disproportionately. It's a zero sum game. For some to gain, others have to lose. That's why the others are looking at reducing dependence on USD.
It's much bigger than happens to the U.S. domestically--it's about the (in)ability of the U.S. to continue the way it has, by living irresponsibly yet keeping in other countries line in terms of using the dollar, once that goes all hell breaks loose including for the rich (who have much better ways of surviving the chaos and transition of course).
The fact is, this US dollar hegemony system is so well-designed and so sustainable that had been working and allowing the US sucked the world dry for the past 50+ years. It took another brilliant race/ civilization to just crack it open... The guy or guys who created it are genius and deserve an evil version of Nobel Price in Economy
Kudos to the speaker who is putting his whole hearted effort in promoting peace and preserve humanity... With plenty of good insights! The world needs more of such leaders!! 😊😊
@@JK-gu3tl There is no We The People in the US. We The Money only. The striking and peculiar characteristic of American society is, that it is not so much a democracy as a huge commercial company for the discovery, cultivation, and capitalization of its enormous territory.... The United States is primarily a commercial society ... and only secondarily a nation...
Great analysis and fair comments, I hope your suggestions will be heard by Chinese leaders. China foreign policy tends to keep low profile and focus on own interests, but China can not become economic leader without being a culture influencer.
I think that's a wrong approach, I believe. Economic dominance is itself "soft power" as the world will increasingly look to you for brands and consumer goods. Once you have large Chinese companies that produce great products, people will shift their opinion of Chinese culture as well. That will include popular culture as well over time. There's a reason why Chinese and Indian culture is very prevalent in Asia, but hardly noticed in eg Europe. For us in Europe, they're the "poor, low quality manufacturing base" still in the minds of especially the older generation. The opposite can apply as well: Sweden, Korea, France, Spain. Examples of economically strong to middle nations but cultural superpowers compared to their economic footprint. (edited for typos)
Not so, for China’s Century of Humiliation 1839-1949 of it's 2,245 years history in China's Centralized Administrative State of governing. China's non-interference and the defense of sovereignty directive policy mean no influence in any way, that include culture but offer Peace & Prosperity to countries worldwide to those who wishes. Give a Man a Fish, and You Feed Him for a Day. Teach a Man To Fish, and You Feed Him for a Lifetime, not Sun Tzu
As a french i'd like to say that i don't care about who has an empire, i care about the damage it does, to my understanding, China's in making empire is carefully planned both diplomatically and economically, so the geo politics of the "new chinese empire" might be extremely stable and not shaky, like the u.s empire was, they have made the calculation that strong regions, partners and allies (maybe even pawns) are a strength in itself, because you trade much more interessting goods and political stability with more advanced nations than with destroyed ones, which fuel the various economies which can help gather more knowledge, which can in turn led to innovations, which can then led to more things to build and invent, which can ultimately led to more fructuous exchanges with developped countries and so on.... America took almost by accident a destroyed world, and made sure it would stay destroyed and keep rotting in order to stay ahead of everyone else and gather their forces to put controlled peoples as head of states of "pawns" countries, this is the most vicious thing, and the problem is, it doesn't last if you don't bring a minimum of technical progress, people care mostly about their own despair and how to solve it, and when they see where the problem is coming from they'll try their best to fight it. {Btw that's why poor peoples copy things, when the colonizer bring technical progress that he got thanks to his riches that he may have got thanks to violence, submission, conquests and robbery, they adapt to the colonizer progress to return it against them, when the american imperialism bring nothing but threat and destruction because you're simply of their receiving end of their violence, they don't bring any kind of technical progress, rather they make sure it doesn't exist outside of their hand, so in order to adapt this quick, no other choice but to copy them and their weapons, the best you can do in order to match their display of power as quickly as possible to chase them away, this in turn may lead to either peace under containment and surveillance by the imperialist, or a complete war of despairation on the imperialist side, that feel the situation escaping it's control } The United states empire, is a failure of understanding the human nature, the balance of power have blinded them of all the others important factors required to control the world, and now they've created an unsustainable mess that directly affect them slowly, and there's no way out of it for them, they may try to go into isolationism and lose everything instantly, peoples around the world are gonna go seek them, they won't just flee like this, that what western elites have always done, but it was fine so long as the next empire was "friendly" to them their own kin in another form of regime and with different language, China is way too "alien" for them and, their beliefs, their ideologies, their so called values, their greed for money, their obsession with power... Normally every empire last for over a century or two, however the u.s empire lasted "only (but thankfully so)" 80 years, it's supposed to be at merely half of it's life, granted China always had an enormous potential, maybe even the biggest in the world and that may lay big questions for the future empires if there are any, at this point i don't see any country that can outgrow china in any way solely based on the potential it has. Some may say India but realestically speaking, India have a slow pace potential next to China, it's unstable, in a political way, in a cultural way, in an economical way, i'm sorry but this is the kind of situation that ask for decades of work and i mean litterally entire generations of compromise inside the population to fix thoses issues, i just don't see India held on until the end of the century, until the middle would already be astonishing. So China might become the last empire before AI and robots replace us or something like that i don't know, there's no ideology, only potentials, competences, pragmatism, realism, and technicity. One could master thoses objectives elements perfectly or just better than all others and may simply rule forever, the important part is to keep strategic goals over the long term and keep making plans to achieve thoses, but even so the u.s empire is made upon hazardous situations and a lot mistakes and we do see that now, they were way too confident and self centered to think they were doing things badly. The Chinese empire may very well be much more peaceful and organized to fuel the general devlopment even if we have to be dependant on them, who care so long that we can live and do things our way without outside troubles. Peoples generally don't even care about politics if politics leave them alone, i think their method is much more sustainable and responsible than any western empire could ever achieve, and particularly the united states. They maybe were the shortest lived out of them all, but they were the most brutal and devastating one, and so they're collapsing without any possible way to goes back, such an irresponsible empire that is born with the atom bomb might die with the atom bomb. Because in any case of history, empire are generally born with violence and die with violence. But not China, the europeans and americans made their empires thanks to the work of foreign slaves, and warfare on others to seize territories and ressources, Chineses built their empire with their own strength, that fact alone reassure me a lot, about their methods and intentions, their strategies, and the way they'll treat others, thousands of years of history forged this peoples and i intend to fully witness their achievments with great interest for the rest of my life, i'm curious to see how far they gonna lead this world, and damn the u.s if they try to destroy China with nukes before it can commit itself fully, this power projection will be built in a few years, then will become steadily stronger until there's no need to show any muscle anymore, ultimately, and no matter how aggresives toward the thing(s) and peoples they don't like at the moment they are, humans respect strength above all, the thing is to not overuse it, nobody like unpredictables bullies, even tho the americans are boiling against china right now, because they're full of it, they'll respect China maybe even more than others when this whole situation will be done.
thought provoking and best analysis I have not heard anywhere. Thanks for sharing your insight. If he can hold some critical position in one of the super power, this world would be a better place for all.
I agree, very clearly presented that made it impossible to actually not understand every point he's making. It's interesting that he was Greece's finance minister during the state's bankruptcy around late 2000s I believe.
Well worth listening to! The description of the reason for the US trade war with China is a good overview of what many of us already knew, but we might not have had it expressed that clearly before. What to do about it, though, needs much work!
Mr Yanis advice is invaluable and there are many hints that the Chinese are adopting what he is suggesting in recent years. Just one eg and just occur a few weeks ago, the Chinese added a few more countries to the policy of visa free stay in China . The purpose is to enhance more understanding of other cultures and Chinese and to enable tourist or foreigners to stay longer and understand what true China is really like. The many positive feedback of tourists coming to China have actually debunks a lot of untruth, negativity that their country propaganda tries to impose on their citizens.
I love the way Yanis illustrates these current events around the concept of a highway, it's especially poignant when taking Rome's rise to power into consideration because the Roman highway was integral to their success & defeat.
Think you need a reminder that Chomsky. Wanted people who didn’t want to take an experimental procedure. Kept in their homes, unable to even get food. The ultimate tyranny
I agree with everything except for his concluding point about trade. The initial problem that Kissinger struggled with is the trade imbalance. Addressing this problem will naturally involve rolling back free trade to some extent.
A great speech with remarkable understanding and analyses of an impending threatening problem, together with valuable and vital suggestions to counteract it. Deeply grateful.
Yanis Varoufakis is not only genius and brilliant he is a very honest and caring person at the expense of his financial interest. If he sold out he would have been rewarded by zillions of dollars. Bless you Dr. Varoufakis, you give me hope and inspiration.
Yanis, outstanding. No notes, no tele-prompter, yet so eloquent. Important point about US deficit financing, but also useful to emphasise to China the consequences of ignoring the US working class.
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Yanis Varoufakis again shows how brilliant a thinker he is. Thanks for putting this address available.
Your brilliant speaker is the failed finance minister of Greece. He completely screwed his country and then walked away leaving others to sort out his mess. As the say those who can do and those who can't teach.
Stop spamming the comments with your petulance and go back to playing with your toys. 🧸
A brilliant thinker who doesn't know that Taiwan's position in the global economy has changed just a wee bit since the 1970s.
Taiwan manufactures the vast majority of the world's semi-consuctors, especially the cutting edge ones.
The very same semi-consuctors which the USA reckons is why they won the first cold war against the USSR.
You do the rest of the math.
Platon and Aristotle were brilliant thinkers! Yanis Varoufakis is also from Greece but no brilliance!
Is Mr Varoufakis Turkey or Greek? Maybe from Palestine.
*It was Julius Nyerere who famously quipped: “The United States is also a one-party state but with typical American extravagance, they have two of them.”*
Excellently put it!
40 years in America, both parties do the share shit when in power.
Until we repeal The Hague Act we can’t prosecute our war criminals. They’re all immune. Look at Trump. They’re delaying his trial until after his presidency.
ROFL
That way they can blame each other for the failures.
Protect this man at all costs.
Yeah this man lives in the US. You know what could never happen? Some talking about China like that while living in China.
he lives in Greece, and he was talking in China.
Cause he talks so much sh**?
You all seems to know a lot of shits but know nothing cause you are too bias, cannot accept the true it hard ah.
Varoufakis lives somewhere in Greece...
Thank you Mr Varoufakis and Thinkers Forum for an exceptional presentation; KUDOS to you and the courageous Mr Assange.
❤agreed
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Thank you, Peter. Stay Strong !
Free thinking to you means reciting Putin's favourite propaganda.
@@markde9904 -and whose propaganda you want us to be on, NATO's?
Excellent analysis!❤
I've seen several Varoufakis expositions, always on point, lucid, insightful. Godspeed.
The professor is an excellent teacher. He is able to fine tune the way he illustrates things to suit his audience. The ability to teach well is a gift. There are other brilliant men around, but not all are able to teach well.
He was a professor at Sussex University before he became a politian in Greece.
Your teacher is the failed finance minister of Greece. He completely screwed his country and then walked away leaving others to sort out his mess. As the say those who can do and those who can't teach.
@@dooley-chhe stood up for his principles when the EU and his own prime minister sacrificed Greece on the altar of neoliberalism. If you think he's a failed minister then that says far more about you than him.
@@dooley-ch I think you will find that Germany and France actually ruin Greece. I remember reading about how these two nasty countries and the EU screwed Greece and turned that country into a mess. Varoufakis was so mad with these countries and the EU that he walked away from this evil institution.
@@dooley-chyou post the same thing under everything. He must be on to something if he riled you up so much.
Very excellent speech. Yanis was spot on. Speaking the truth and nothing but the truth. Keep up the good work. God bless and take care.
Your intelligent speaker is the failed finance minister of Greece. He completely screwed his country and then walked away leaving others to sort out his mess. As the say those who can do and those who can't teach.
bro he is former greek finance minister brooooo if u would have zero idea about greek debt memes u would have laughing on this joker
@@dooley-ch . Pray tell, why with an awesome mind, you weren't deem worthy to be listened to in Greece, or anywhere humans live, let alone asked to be coopted to solve any country's economic issue?
Thank you Yannis, you are one of the few true voices helping us to avoid WW3. *1972 Nixon visited China
Yanis Varoufakis is an intelligent and very brave person.The world needs many more like him .
Yanis is gem of a micro economist. His lecture is on point. I love listening to him from Ghana ❤
Recently, China issued USD bonds to the Saudis. These traded at only 0.007-0.029% above the 3Y/5Y rates and were oversubscribed by 19.9x. The Saudis will receive Chinese industrial products in return. With those USD, the Chinese will pay back the US on behalf of those countries trapped in USD debt. In exchange, those countries send resources to China.
So, the end result is the world gets rid of their USD (instead of investing in US where it could be seized), countries free themselves of US debt trap, and the dollar floods back to the US.
And a currency swap deal
Brilliant 👍👏❤️
And the USA continues to print money... Yes your way is a long term cause, but this new electronic transaction system is a gamechanger.
This is why the inflation prices of all assets continues to accelerate. US Dollar debt-deflation through Quantitative Easing drives the Velocity of currencies through the Monroe Doctrine grift of Economic Codependency.
The World is shorting the US Dollar, and its caused the political Establishment to have gone insane with rage that Western Empire has already collapsed.
The conspiracy minded might see this as an intentional implosion or the US Dollar as an attempt to force the adoption of CBDCs obligatory for all Global citizen-slaves.
WW3 is the goal of an insane ideology that needs to artificially inflate the commodities markets to act as an accelerated means of capturing Vassal States.
Debt-deflation is a psychopathic methodology for sustaining the appearances of Social Management, where Institutional legitimacy no longer exists.
WoW incredible achievement but it's working in a way that's magical 🙏🏼 it's reminding me about the story, one ant can not do much but 1,4 billion can preform miracles or a lot 😊
Always a pleasure to hear this brilliant mind: Yanis.
Yanis is a treasure for China! Listen to him and heed his advices.
Lol I think China has enough problems without yanis fucking it up worse for them
If you're Chinese you should speak for yourself. Relying on others to tell your story isn't gonna cut it
@@sadqqwwqeq4175 You Can Lead a Horse To Water, But You Can’t Make It Drink
@@maxlin7208 "When two neighboring countries fight each other, just know the USA visited one."
- Nelson Mandela, South Africa. fact check it, if one dare to hear truth.
@@chriswong9158 what's your point? I was replying to the person started this thread with the words being literal.
Its a privilege to be able to listen to lectures like this on RUclips. Thank you!
Great presentation! I’m going to watch it again! Thanks for the enlightenment!
Right on Mr. Varoufakis. Thank you for all your video presentation.
Everyone should watch Minister Yanis explaining how and why? Always enjoy his talk and listen his simple reasoning.
Brilliant thinker!
It's Greek to me... really, he's origin is Greek
Mr Varoufakis is highly intelligent and a no-nonsense speaker. He has unusual in-depth knowledge on international affairs and his analysis on geopolitics matters is often excellent.
This lecture on US-China competition is unambiguous and realistic.
Sadly he left out the parts about the CCP threatening to viloently invade Taiwan calling it a "rouge state" despite the fact the CCP never at any time controlled it. Oh yeah and neglected to talk about Chian trying to sieze territory that belongs to Japan and the Phillipines and trying to claim an entire ocean that is nowhere near any Chinese coastline as it's property. He kinda left out what the CCP does to the Uyghurs and Tibetans and.....on and on. Say when you look at it, it seems the world benefits from a power keep them in check.
If he needs your marketing skills, he ain’t that smart, mmmkay pal…
Brilliant Yanis Varoufakis. Thank You.
I was going to write a comment, but everything has been already written. The only thing I can add is that beside the brilliant and just analysis, emotionally speaking it's extremely moving that such a brain exists and speaks out. Merci monsieur Varoufakis et cher professeur!
This lecture really makes you think, and that's priceless. Thank Mr. Varoufakis, thank you Thinkers Forum. Duly subscribed.
Thank you for your courage in speaking truth to power.
In Solidarity
excellent speech, almost all the comments are positive , very rare to see
Efharisto Mr Varoufakis utmost respect to you Sir , how I wish we had another million people with the same disposition as you , you move with the angels , thank you. You speak the absolute truth. 🙏
talk is cheap... trash.... gets you nowehere.... doing does
Brilliant talk on the geopitic of US and China by an excellent ex-Greece minister Yanis Varoufakis
Amazing knowledge and information to know and gain, thank you very much !! ❤
Love listening to this man whit his Greek accent.
Brilliantly explained! Thank you.
Yanis is sincere! Really enjoy the simplicity with which he explains geo-political gymnastics!
Good and profound analysis by Mr Yanis. I trust China with many brilliant minds shared the same views, and I strongly believe that the Chinese think tanks have solutions to ward off the evil plots of the US. They had learned much through their century of humiliation and will deter the same from happening again. "The sweetest victory is fought without battle."
Thank you for stating FACTS!!!
best investment of 37 minutes I've made in a while..
This USD system is unsustainable. For the few to enjoy disproportionate wealth, the rest have to contribute disproportionately to the system. Fewer and fewer countries are willing to do that.
@Liviticus it's absolutely breaking down. US dishes out largesse to its allies and friendly countries to maintain their loyalty. Those who don't benefit from that arrangement naturally have to contribute to the pool of largesse disproportionately. It's a zero sum game. For some to gain, others have to lose. That's why the others are looking at reducing dependence on USD.
There are more billionaires in China than there are in the U.S.
I think this is what he's trying to say!
It's much bigger than happens to the U.S. domestically--it's about the (in)ability of the U.S. to continue the way it has, by living irresponsibly yet keeping in other countries line in terms of using the dollar, once that goes all hell breaks loose including for the rich (who have much better ways of surviving the chaos and transition of course).
The fact is, this US dollar hegemony system is so well-designed and so sustainable that had been working and allowing the US sucked the world dry for the past 50+ years. It took another brilliant race/ civilization to just crack it open... The guy or guys who created it are genius and deserve an evil version of Nobel Price in Economy
Brilliant mind and communicator.
Many insights never thought of before. Thank you
Kudos to the speaker who is putting his whole hearted effort in promoting peace and preserve humanity... With plenty of good insights! The world needs more of such leaders!! 😊😊
What a great 👍 speech!
"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between" - Oscar Wilde.
Nonsense
@@JK-gu3tl
There is no We The People in the US. We The Money only.
The striking and peculiar characteristic of American society is, that it is not so much a democracy as a huge commercial company for the discovery, cultivation, and capitalization of its enormous territory.... The United States is primarily a commercial society ... and only secondarily a nation...
😂😂😂
@@bobiel9048It's always been a vasal of The City of London and still is just look at how the Fed R has financed Israel
But true
A very pragmatic, down-to-earth speech. Thank You Mr Yanis Varoufakis. You are a BRAVE and GOOD man for speaking the TRUTH. You are an ANGEL!
❤ Excellent speech, textbook material !
Absolutely brilliant and sharp insights from Yanis Varoufakis ✊
His views on India will be much appreciated.
May almighty God bless you Yanis, you are a such courageous and clever men.
its a very interesting angle to look at the motive of the tradewar and where the world might be heading.
very smart and deep thinking person
Great presentation! Thank you Yanis! You are one of the foremost advocate of how we can still save the world from US hegemony.
Right on spot, one of the wise person with humanity in mind . thinker and influencer
Fascinating and thought provoking.
A true thinker. Things you don’t hear MSM experts talk about.
MSM and expert…2 mutually exclusive items
Excellent
This guy it's just---Pure brain
Edit: Wow so many likes thank you!!
A Greek !!! a thinker...
Finally the truth, thank you 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
Great analysis and fair comments, I hope your suggestions will be heard by Chinese leaders. China foreign policy tends to keep low profile and focus on own interests, but China can not become economic leader without being a culture influencer.
How do you imagine China being a cultural influencer?
I think that's a wrong approach, I believe.
Economic dominance is itself "soft power" as the world will increasingly look to you for brands and consumer goods. Once you have large Chinese companies that produce great products, people will shift their opinion of Chinese culture as well.
That will include popular culture as well over time. There's a reason why Chinese and Indian culture is very prevalent in Asia, but hardly noticed in eg Europe.
For us in Europe, they're the "poor, low quality manufacturing base" still in the minds of especially the older generation.
The opposite can apply as well:
Sweden, Korea, France, Spain. Examples of economically strong to middle nations but cultural superpowers compared to their economic footprint.
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You want CCP to be an open book😂. Lala land.
with 1/4 of world population and a history of several thousand years, I'd say China already has cultural influence.
Not so, for China’s Century of Humiliation 1839-1949 of it's 2,245 years history in China's Centralized Administrative State of governing. China's non-interference and the defense of sovereignty directive policy mean no influence in any way, that include culture but offer Peace & Prosperity to countries worldwide to those who wishes.
Give a Man a Fish, and You Feed Him for a Day. Teach a Man To Fish, and You Feed Him for a Lifetime, not Sun Tzu
Connecting the dots.... Great analysis!
Of course I can't verify what the certainly knowledgeable Yanis Varoufakis is stating - but it all fits together like hell 😀😎👍
Spot on.
This guy is the most intelligent European politician and is one of the current world leading thinkers. Realist.
As a french i'd like to say that i don't care about who has an empire, i care about the damage it does, to my understanding, China's in making empire is carefully planned both diplomatically and economically, so the geo politics of the "new chinese empire" might be extremely stable and not shaky, like the u.s empire was, they have made the calculation that strong regions, partners and allies (maybe even pawns) are a strength in itself, because you trade much more interessting goods and political stability with more advanced nations than with destroyed ones, which fuel the various economies which can help gather more knowledge, which can in turn led to innovations, which can then led to more things to build and invent, which can ultimately led to more fructuous exchanges with developped countries and so on.... America took almost by accident a destroyed world, and made sure it would stay destroyed and keep rotting in order to stay ahead of everyone else and gather their forces to put controlled peoples as head of states of "pawns" countries, this is the most vicious thing, and the problem is, it doesn't last if you don't bring a minimum of technical progress, people care mostly about their own despair and how to solve it, and when they see where the problem is coming from they'll try their best to fight it.
{Btw that's why poor peoples copy things, when the colonizer bring technical progress that he got thanks to his riches that he may have got thanks to violence, submission, conquests and robbery, they adapt to the colonizer progress to return it against them, when the american imperialism bring nothing but threat and destruction because you're simply of their receiving end of their violence, they don't bring any kind of technical progress, rather they make sure it doesn't exist outside of their hand, so in order to adapt this quick, no other choice but to copy them and their weapons, the best you can do in order to match their display of power as quickly as possible to chase them away, this in turn may lead to either peace under containment and surveillance by the imperialist, or a complete war of despairation on the imperialist side, that feel the situation escaping it's control }
The United states empire, is a failure of understanding the human nature, the balance of power have blinded them of all the others important factors required to control the world, and now they've created an unsustainable mess that directly affect them slowly, and there's no way out of it for them, they may try to go into isolationism and lose everything instantly, peoples around the world are gonna go seek them, they won't just flee like this, that what western elites have always done, but it was fine so long as the next empire was "friendly" to them their own kin in another form of regime and with different language, China is way too "alien" for them and, their beliefs, their ideologies, their so called values, their greed for money, their obsession with power...
Normally every empire last for over a century or two, however the u.s empire lasted "only (but thankfully so)" 80 years, it's supposed to be at merely half of it's life, granted China always had an enormous potential, maybe even the biggest in the world and that may lay big questions for the future empires if there are any, at this point i don't see any country that can outgrow china in any way solely based on the potential it has. Some may say India but realestically speaking, India have a slow pace potential next to China, it's unstable, in a political way, in a cultural way, in an economical way, i'm sorry but this is the kind of situation that ask for decades of work and i mean litterally entire generations of compromise inside the population to fix thoses issues, i just don't see India held on until the end of the century, until the middle would already be astonishing.
So China might become the last empire before AI and robots replace us or something like that i don't know, there's no ideology, only potentials, competences, pragmatism, realism, and technicity. One could master thoses objectives elements perfectly or just better than all others and may simply rule forever, the important part is to keep strategic goals over the long term and keep making plans to achieve thoses, but even so the u.s empire is made upon hazardous situations and a lot mistakes and we do see that now, they were way too confident and self centered to think they were doing things badly. The Chinese empire may very well be much more peaceful and organized to fuel the general devlopment even if we have to be dependant on them, who care so long that we can live and do things our way without outside troubles. Peoples generally don't even care about politics if politics leave them alone, i think their method is much more sustainable and responsible than any western empire could ever achieve, and particularly the united states. They maybe were the shortest lived out of them all, but they were the most brutal and devastating one, and so they're collapsing without any possible way to goes back, such an irresponsible empire that is born with the atom bomb might die with the atom bomb. Because in any case of history, empire are generally born with violence and die with violence.
But not China, the europeans and americans made their empires thanks to the work of foreign slaves, and warfare on others to seize territories and ressources, Chineses built their empire with their own strength, that fact alone reassure me a lot, about their methods and intentions, their strategies, and the way they'll treat others, thousands of years of history forged this peoples and i intend to fully witness their achievments with great interest for the rest of my life, i'm curious to see how far they gonna lead this world, and damn the u.s if they try to destroy China with nukes before it can commit itself fully, this power projection will be built in a few years, then will become steadily stronger until there's no need to show any muscle anymore, ultimately, and no matter how aggresives toward the thing(s) and peoples they don't like at the moment they are, humans respect strength above all, the thing is to not overuse it, nobody like unpredictables bullies, even tho the americans are boiling against china right now, because they're full of it, they'll respect China maybe even more than others when this whole situation will be done.
Its interesting but too long, write an article
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Well written and knowledgeable. 👍
I read all of it because your thoughts are clear, insightful with a sprinkle of harmony at the end.
You should write a book, great piece you’ve written 👏🏻
Brilliant analysis by Mr. Varoufakis. Thanks for sharing it.
Very impressive talk Mr. Yanis Varoufakis. Thank you for that.
Yanis is as always an excellent speaker. he has a lot of experience of geopolitics and everything is saying is true.
Very refreshing and thought provoking, listened to it a few times in a row
Thanks!
you nailed it bro, thank you sir
Very simple lecture. I got a lot more out of this than many other sources.
Thank you.
briliant Yanis 👍 take care of you and peace to our planet 🤞regards from Thailand
What a brilliant, impressive and informative speech. Thank you so much for sharing the video.
This is the most important talk on current affairs that I have heard in years. A brilliant analysis.
Agree, especially #3 and #4th recommendations.
Stunning thesis. Tremendous presentation and thought promoting.
Great lecture by Mr Yan is Varoufakis! Thank you for sharing your insights. Very perceptive and accurate!
Always a pleasure to hear him
Really interesting speech
thought provoking and best analysis I have not heard anywhere. Thanks for sharing your insight. If he can hold some critical position in one of the super power, this world would be a better place for all.
I agree, very clearly presented that made it impossible to actually not understand every point he's making. It's interesting that he was Greece's finance minister during the state's bankruptcy around late 2000s I believe.
Such an intelligent, visionary, strategic, and fact-based assessment and analysis of the US cold war against China!
100 hundred percent u r right
Glad to have found this channel. Thank u @Thinkers Forum
Well worth listening to!
The description of the reason for the US trade war with China is a good overview of what many of us already knew, but we might not have had it expressed that clearly before.
What to do about it, though, needs much work!
Mr Yanis advice is invaluable and there are many hints that the Chinese are adopting what he is suggesting in recent years. Just one eg and just occur a few weeks ago, the Chinese added a few more countries to the policy of visa free stay in China . The purpose is to enhance more understanding of other cultures and Chinese and to enable tourist or foreigners to stay longer and understand what true China is really like. The many positive feedback of tourists coming to China have actually debunks a lot of untruth, negativity that their country propaganda tries to impose on their citizens.
Excellent speech. Thanks.👍💯
I love this gentleman he's open my eyes.
Thank you comrade Yanis, this is most intelligent speech of the last 5 years!❤
I love the way Yanis illustrates these current events around the concept of a highway, it's especially poignant when taking Rome's rise to power into consideration because the Roman highway was integral to their success & defeat.
Yianis is one of the most important thinkers of our time after Chomsky
Think you need a reminder that Chomsky. Wanted people who didn’t want to take an experimental procedure. Kept in their homes, unable to even get food.
The ultimate tyranny
Wow, truly insightful
Best explanation.
Well said
Very rare to hear smart and sensible guy talking objectively on the cold war.
I agree with everything except for his concluding point about trade. The initial problem that Kissinger struggled with is the trade imbalance. Addressing this problem will naturally involve rolling back free trade to some extent.
A great speech with remarkable understanding and analyses of an impending threatening problem, together with valuable and vital suggestions to counteract it. Deeply grateful.
Yanis Varoufakis is not only genius and brilliant he is a very honest and caring person at the expense of his financial interest. If he sold out he would have been rewarded by zillions of dollars. Bless you Dr. Varoufakis, you give me hope and inspiration.
This was well worth watching till the end where he daws a succinct and thought-provoking conclusion
Yanis, outstanding. No notes, no tele-prompter, yet so eloquent. Important point about US deficit financing, but also useful to emphasise to China the consequences of ignoring the US working class.
You mean the American capitalists who ignored the American working class, right?
Well said!
He is soooo smart and insightful
Niahou! Danke fur best summation
Excellents observations, thanks!
Good exposition of current economy, thank you Yanis.
Yanis Varoufakis is a brilliant thinker.