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Howard Yu

Howard Yu

Academic and author

Sep 21, 2026

14:04
So are today's middle powers experiencing an identity crisis because they are still themselves seeing themselves as architects of the sort of the international order, when we know that's changing, when increasingly they're becoming consumers of systems designed elsewhere, controlled elsewhere, managed elsewhere.
14:26
Yeah.
14:27
So there are two ways out from this problem.
14:29
But first is we need to stop, you know, it's almost the classic five stages of grief.
14:36
We need to stop denial first and go through the grief process and accept that we could reimagine the future.
14:44
You are right, because, you know, ever since the Second World War, right, the global world order, Let's take Europe as a case example, is one of the really anchor architect in terms of how the world would move.
15:03
And today, we here, I live in Switzerland, and we here are extremely anxious because we felt like we are losing control and it doesn't feel right.

32 MINS LATER

47:10
So is technological dependency becoming the new form of geopolitical dependency?

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