A quote in this episode of interview of Jeffrey Sachs by Alexander Mercuris was quite insightful. Mercuris said, "....people on the council of foreign relations, ...... and they talk about revitalizing the US economy in order to meet the challenge of China, and I have to say that seems to me an absolutely warped sense of priorities. You don't revitalize your economy in order to meet the challenge of China. If you are going to revitalize your economy, you do it in order to increase the prosperity, the happiness, the sense of contentment in your own country amongst your own people. But that is the mindset these people seem to have. They subordinate everything to their geopolitical ideas."

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