China model

where although the US for a very long time has been doing industrial policy, at least around its military industrial complex, and Europe has been doing industrial policy in different ways as well, obviously subsidization for key industries in lots of countries.

How do you understand that sort of convergence? And where do you think these two points will sort of end up? Are we seeing a kind of convergence towards the China model? Will that continue, say, in the next decade?

Let me confess that I wasn't so... skeptical about that earlier form of convergence i mean from where i sat uh in china watching it happen it would have been hard to argue that in in the couple of decades that i was here we didn't see uh chinese chinese people quote unquote becoming more like americans in in in many ways uh i don't think that that you could have denied that that in terms of uh values and attitudes uh the more contact there was between foreign populations and Chinese people, the more the values seemed to converge.

So the short way of saying that is engagement was working, right? There was no reason to blow it up as we did.

The Chinese dictator Xi Jinping was very pleased with this.

And they came out with the Beijing Consensus on Artificial Intelligence in Education.

And if you read it, it says we need AI in all education, and we need to use it to pursue the goals outlined, particularly in goal number four of the UN's 2030 agenda, the 17 Sustainable Development Goals.

Goal number four says all the kids need to be essentially so brainwashed they will not just submit to the UN's agenda, sustainable development, gender equality, global citizenship.

Right.

So we also see China mobilizing an Asia development model, and China is always the rogue player, right? Xi Jinping promotes the Beijing Consensus, which is an economic and political development model based on China's state-led development and the alternative of adopting Asian Confucian values in contrast to Western liberal ones, right? Very directly alongside China's assistance framework of the Belt and Road Initiative.

And China is just a special case or sort of a wild card when it comes to aid because they do do very little social aid.

China is mostly focused on infrastructure, economic development, technology transfer, and a lot more loans than traditional development assistance.