Episode Details
| Title | #466 – Jeffrey Wasserstrom: China, Xi Jinping, Trade War, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Mao |
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| Date | 4/24/2025 |
| Podcast | Lex Fridman Podcast ↗ |
Key Insights
Bullish:
- 🟢 $CHINACENSOR - China's censorship methods are becoming increasingly sophisticated and prevalent, utilizing fear, friction, and flooding techniques to control information.
- “There's a lot of censorship. My favorite book about one of my favorite books about Chinese censorship, Margaret Roberts, where she talks about there are three different ways that the government can control the stories. And she says there's fear, which is this kind of direct censorship thing, like banning things. But there's also friction, which she says she has three apps, fear, friction, and flooding.” - Jeffrey (50:54)
- 🟢 $CHINAMILITARY - 🔒
Bearish:
- 🔻 $CHINAECON - 🔒
- 🔻 $HONGKONG - 🔒
- 🔻 $CHINA - 🔒