Prof. Jeffrey Sachs, one of the few intellectuals, who does not think as a technocrat, but as a compassionate human being. Respect and greetings from a Dutchman!
Sachs and I were both advising the Russian government in the early 1990s. At the time I did not know of Sachs and he is unlikely to have known me. I walked away from a lucrative USAID contract because I was unwilling to bend my professional opinion to the economic interests of a few American businesses. I believe the world needs stability for the majority of humanity to thrive and this requires truth and justice. Neither is a priority when governments are involved. A few years later I founded The Wisdom Fund -
Professor Sachs, I salute and respect your true and fair comments on China and USA. Your analysis are based on facts. You are very different from many western economists. Unfortunately very few USA politicians take heed of your analysis! Thank you very much once again for your good spirit!
@@richiesd1 agree with you 💯. It is so good to hear from someone like Prof Sach calling for peace and win win situation rather war. Bless him for encouraging peace rather than war. ✌️✌️🙏🙏🙏💞💞💞
"US values and interests" - I would love to hear the honest explanation of those values and interests. The values and interests of the oligarchs- Unfettered access to plunder the global south's resources, seek ever increasing profits for the handful of multinational private companies even at the cost of all human life and the planet, continued covert and overt meddling globally with no regard for people's sovereignty and right to self determination? It's amazing that the US still tries to claim that it values vague ideas of "freedom" and "democracy." Shameful.
Well said. I lost my first comment? so i'le say it again. US values and interests are those of a bully. With the military Industrial Complex and it's 1000 bases around the world. It is able to facilitate the growth of the multinational corporate expansion throughout the world with that big stick. Worse they do that for free as these corporations manage to avoid paying their taxes with their gold plated lawyers, so strangely the poorest part pay for that. So I would have to add thievery to their 'values' list...
Specifically because they don’t have freedom and democracy that’s why they must emphasised they do and others don’t. When their minds are fooled and controlled how can they have freedom? When senators and presidents are elected by campaign financing how can there be democracy? And specifically because they don’t care about shame they can be as bad as they want.
Thank you so much, Prof. Sachs. This is the greatest lecture and most insightful vision I've ever heard about China during the pandemic. Hopefully, U.S. will work hand in hand with China, which will benefit not only two great people in both countries, but a more cooperative, prosperous, and energetic world at large.
Dilly and inocent comment..please study all the geopolitics to see how USA HAS BEEN OPERATING at least the last 100 years, your mouth will be open for a month at least!!
Great summary by Professor Sachs who tells us the necessity of cooperation to overcome the challenges we have to face due to global warming emergency. We have to learn from each other. We run together for juster societies and should not project our fears on China that also wants to prosper like we. Internal divisions in the U.S. is a real hindrance.Inequality throws shadows in the paradise of billionaires and millionaires.🌻
Always happy to hear Jeffrey Sachs being level headed and reasonable and I'm on a daily basis sad to see EU and Sweden following US in an effort to dominate the so called western region.
Prof Sachs one of most balanced and intently commited voice of reason and principles which he ardently translates for us through his economic and geopolitical message. Indian Military Veterans
Rare to find a sane respected professor that speak the realities, real events and the ills that the world faces that could lead to destruction. We should encourage the voices to be heard and heeded. As always, prof sach you are great.
Very grateful for all the preeminent Universities broadcasting presentations and conversations making them available for all to appreciate and ponder. Thank you, Cornell, Yale, Harvard, Berkeley, Stanford, MIT and more.
We appreciate the podcast. Professor Sachs lives in our hearts for his standing up for the wellbeing of the humanity. We appreciate Professor Sachs work.
Prof Jeffrey Sachs, may your voice for reason, hope and peace be heard all over our lovely blue planet. I salute a great man with a great vision. Your admirer from the distant Western Cape of South Africa. Kobus Coetzee
Thank you prof. Sir. We enjoy your lecture which is very important for the peacelovers people around the world.And we wished you a always healthy life n longlive.
Thankyou Professor Sachs for your rational view of the global position. The world needs you to continue the message of cooperation not conflict if we want our species to survive .
Thank you Professor Sachs for being such a persistent clear voice of reason in a country dominated by other voices. I wish that your voice could rise above the "group think" currently exist in the US and western mainstream media and in Washington DC. Because of educated and reasonable voices like yours the world that we all live in is a better world for all and mostly for our future generations.
This is one of many exceptional, excellent lectures by Professor Jeffery Sach, the series of lectures have one theme only...no war, war will destroy this world and try everything to stop world war, world war will end all God creations and all living things will forever fail to revive and disappear in total.
China is more focus on internal development and lifting the poor. Naval and military development is because of the lesson from the last century that all gun boats from the West patrolling up and down the Chinese rivers.
If China is attacked (militarily) the only thing their government will have to say to their people is "If you let them (the invaders) win, it will mean another hundred years of humiliation for China". That is all the motivation the Chinese people will need.
Prof Sachs I agree with you 100% and I would add that the reform of the education system should start from kinder garden through to university and not only at universities. Starting at a young age kids must be taught to live in peace and harmony, climate change, human equality and respect for each other...
A new foreign policy that transcends American exceptionalism is essential for addressing the evolving challenges of the 21st century. American exceptionalism, the belief in the U.S.'s unique role and superiority in global affairs, has historically driven policies that prioritize national interests and seek to set the global standard. While this approach has solidified America’s leadership in many respects, it has also fueled skepticism, resentment, and geopolitical friction, particularly with nations advocating for multipolarity and regional sovereignty. To move beyond this mindset, a more inclusive and cooperative foreign policy is needed-one that recognizes the diverse perspectives and priorities of other nations. This means shifting from unilateral action to multilateral engagement, emphasizing diplomacy, partnerships, and shared responsibility for global challenges. A policy that champions collaboration over confrontation would allow the U.S. to contribute meaningfully to international efforts on climate change, economic equity, public health, and peacebuilding. A departure from American exceptionalism would also require redefining the concept of leadership to include humility, empathy, and a commitment to mutual respect. Rather than imposing solutions, the U.S. could position itself as a facilitator of dialogue, an advocate for collective progress, and a partner in solving global problems. By fostering genuine alliances and engaging in fair and equitable partnerships, the U.S. could help create a world order based not on dominance but on shared values, cooperation, and sustainable development. Ultimately, this shift would not diminish America’s influence but rather reframe it as part of a more inclusive global leadership that prioritizes peace, stability, and prosperity for all nations.
The current American problem is that they lost their industrial base and have nothing to trade besides guns and overprinted money. I'm delighted I sold off the majority of my significant assets on the financial market at a premium price before I declared them terrible investments! Because they misjudged China, the US economy is currently in trouble. Moreover, I concur with Peter in the comments that no one can limit the planet.
@@bradsandler3526 Yes I concur. The prominence of institutional or basic financial managers cannot be exaggerated. Markets are oceans not lakes. Diversification too as stated is key. Take myself, having encountered my fair share of bad trades, I was able to realize how timing, capital, entry and a lot more are essential. Now, I have a $122k portfolio averaging a 12% monthly roi in less than a year following -Yvonne Annette Lively- so I do know the importance of basic knowledge and delegation.
The presentation is illuminating and I think share a light to many problems that developing countries are facing today. Food though for younger generations.
The “John Nash” of the prisoners dilemma is certainly the US, not China. The Chinese are extremely eager to deescalate and to get to cooperation. The US, perceiving that it has by far the upper hand in military hardware, the dominance of the US dollar, control of the world financial settlement system, and last but not least, a stranglehold on world public opinion - to many countries in the world, just the word “communism” appears as an unacceptable threat - the US is the party in the conflict that #1started the conflict with the trade war, closing of consular offices, massive sanctions against Chinese companies, and flexing of military muscle in the East and South China Sea, with its warships sailing dangerously close to china’s coastline, in an effort to provoke a conflict. China, through both official and unofficial channels, has repeatedly made clear to the US its sincere intention to deescalate, to point out to the US the fact that “with conflict, we both lose; with cooperation, we both win”. Alas, policy makers in the US won’t hear any of it. They are convinced that since “we defeated the Soviet Union and caused it to disintegrate and fall apart, we can and should do the same to China”. This is one of the few areas where there’s widespread consensus among both the right and the left wingers in the US. So the chances for breaking out of the prisoners dilemma are very remote indeed.
We're 8 billion. Every year 80 million net new precious humans join us. Civilization has been wildly successful. The systems that got us here did their jobs. Time for a new way forward. Nation states must give way to the realities of our time. Science has shown us clearly we're interrelated with all of life. One race Human One home Esrth..... Thanks for the enlightenment Mr Sachs!
China has finally found its way out of poverty. It may have made a few missteps on the way, what country would not have done so. China today, shines in terms of innovation and productivity. Go China, go... The US workforce needs to realize, that the development in the Asian countries will also serve to alleviate the huge US problem with the wealth gap. No longer will US oligarchs think that they can dismantle US production sites and go produce in China or other countries. These countries will all have higher wages and a well-off, well-educated workforce. Go China, go! China and the other SEA countries will no longer beckon the US companies and the added shipping costs will finally make the US workforce very attractive once more.
Should China become a democracy, the world will likely become even more dangerous. - Prof Kishore. So I think it is imperative that the US continues on the path of productive & positive engagement with China. Thank you Jeffery for your tireless efforts to educate the public and the world and our wish to see a more enlightened US on the world stage in the not too distant future.
Imagine China, 4 times the population size of the US becoming a democracy and acting exactly like the US. It will be, historically the largest terrorist state in the world!! Which crazy would want that?
Every one's National interest rest's on the world interest, since we all live here. Washington represents the military industrial congressional media complex, not the American people or the world. Start behaving like normal, caring human beings.
As outsider of these two economic giants, questions are who start the trade war and technology war, who blamed who, since all actions start from American. Who stumilates the sea waves in South China sea and in west Pacific Ocean. Who regards China as rival. China attacks USA economic or attacks West coast of America? No. Trade is American demand, but American never exports military weapon or high technology products to China so how to balance the deficits.
I was so confused when hearing Trump blaming China for creating a huge trade deficit by “pouring Chinese products” into US markets in 2018. Even if the US didn’t buy products from China, US companies would import products from other developing countries anyway, probably with higher costs.
When winning is taken as the other side must lose, it then becomes one's only go to strategy where ending up in the lower right quadrant of the prisoners' dilemma is only inevitable.
Mearsheimer is a very malicious, vicious, belligerent and angry old man who is still alive because he had so much hate, and he will do a genocide of the Chinese if he could..
Professor Sachs has a big picture global view of our current situation. He can see both sides. John mearsheimer only looks at the situation from the US side.
is China navigating its war ships near US territorial waters? is China encouraging Hawaiian, Puerto Rico, Guahan (Guam) independence through "NGO"s like NED? is China making military alliances with Mexico, Canada, Brazil like AUKUS or QUAD?
has China made issue of the illegal incarceration of non-US citizens like Julian Assange or Alex Saab? has China expressed concerns with regards to human rights violation of African Americans in the US? has China spoken about the continuous subjugation of Native Americans where an actual genocide actually occurred? has China criticised the US for not doing enough to prevent hate crimes against Asian Americans? let's not kid ourselves, we pretty clear who is escalating tensions
Good point about academia playing a role here. Unfortunately there are forces in the US that aim to disrupt links between US universities and Chinese academics. It’s also happening in my home country, Australia.
But your politicions are fomenting it, even going back to the status quo with less millitary on the agenda, notice how the US is moving and demanding control of Taiwanese companies? So it's your voting actions which caused this flash point in world politics 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🏴🏴🏴
Thank you Prof Sachs for sharing your vision. If China and the USA can work in cooperation, the world we live in will be so much more peaceful and climate, hunger and other issues can be resolved in unison
“Since World War II, during a supposed golden age of peace, the United States military has killed or helped kill some 20 million people, overthrown at least 36 governments, interfered in at least 85 foreign elections, attempted to assassinate over 50 foreign leaders, and dropped bombs on people in over 30 countries.”-David Swanson
The US military industrial complex benefits as well as the weapons' manufacturers and every industry connected to them. That is something the US will NOT give up.
USA remembers England’s chamberlain trying to pacify hitler and it did not work. U r correct, USA will not pacify China. Moreover, USA knows that China’s workforce is aging and that China will have to spend a great portion of their wealth on these soon retiring folks. For this reason and some other reasons, China is not that big of a threat
The US has 800+ military bases around the world. China has only 1. It is the US we should be worried about. The US has been at war 93% of the time - 227 out of 245 years - since its founding in 1776. i.e. the U.S. has only been at peace for less than 20 years total since its birth. History teaches us lessons about how it’s easier to blame others than blame ourselves. The greatest danger we face today is not coming from China. It is our drift toward proto-fascism.
@Rebecca Aldrich bases are nothing when the adversary have hypersonics. And why would you wish for a nuclear war? Is your ego that big that you can't accept being no. 2 while having your family safe? Shame on you. Seeing as you lean to fascism, i guess shame is not in your dictionary.
I agree that there are opportunities for collaboration between the USA and CCP: AI, climate change, addressing pandemics. There will be disagreements between the CCP and the USA: trade, Taiwan, technology theft Mr. Sachs Prisoner's Dilemma example is a good one. America has chosen to deescalate for 30 years and China has escalated, so the CCP has won the Prisoner's Dilemma economic game with shameless IP theft, violating its agreement when it joined the WTO, closing its markets, forced technology transfer, socialist support for SOEs. But America was too naïve and gullible to understand that America has lost to China for 30 years, with America suffering from a hollowed out American Midwest industrial base (now called the Rust Belt), millions of Americans losing their good-paying jobs, loss of technology, and endless trade deficits due to cheating and theft by the CCP. Now the CCP wants another round of the Prisoner's Dilemma game and the USA now understands the CCP will lie and cheat. I suspect that America will no longer be naïve and gullible. The rest of the West is also waking up to how China cheats and lies - and also to the horrific CCP genocide of the Uyghur in Xinjiang documented in a August 2022 UN report . So to misquote President Ronald Reagan: Don't trust and verify.
I think the main take away from this is how to define a world based on a non zero sums game (economic social equality) fueled by policies of global mutual aid avoiding entitlement conflict rather than the destructive zero sums game (neo-liberal capitalism) fueled by unsustainable over consumption of mass production with emphasis on self serving interests of wealth and power through confrontational social exploitations.
Professor Jeffrey Sach i hope you can be at the Geopolitical conflict Show host By Dr Ross Steward and Dr David Doloulo both base in Texas. They are Rare voices for Peace and stability coming out from America
The Thucydides Trap is not inevitable. It's idiotic non-sense promoted by Western elites to serve their interests and justify their despicable behaviour.
The capitulation that the US population needs to have is to realize it has been the world's villain all along and to realized an even greater truth is that it is the villain of its own story, so the bottom for America is not in, the hope is that America realizes it has to stop claiming innocence to its own history and atrocities, have some very very deep self-reflection and address grievances if the world is to reverse course on it's downard trajectory, the US is the single major player that will determine if there will be a major war moving forward from this point in history, don't be fooled it is not what others do, but what US does that determines peace or conflict, historically the rest of the world responds to US actions as they are rarely the instigators
No one is talking about China's long range anti-ship missiles. America is on the cusp of a Suez Canal moment. That's what will happen if the US tries to defend Taiwan.
Well left alone Taiwan is peacefully integrating into China culturally and economically with China as its biggest trade partner. And both sides agree to maintain the status quo. But then things start to turn sour when the US meddles with Hong Kong and Taiwan via CIA's regime change long-arm, the NED. Now we have the five eyes sailing nuclear-capable warships in the Taiwan straits very close to China's border. All of this to stir conflict in that region with the hope of slowing China's economy and to justify more tax money pouring to the military
I think telling the story of human's narrative, or the evolution and the human success for survival narrative, the foundational importance of cooperation, generosity, sharing of knowledge for the survival of the species has been ignored by the winners who wrote the history. May it be the contribution of native Americans for the initial setting of some colonisers( not the ones who fought as their account is well written, but the ones who quietly helped each other in a profound way) or the English in India to preserve the history, while East India company waged it's atrocities or other similar narratives. There always were benevolent and malevolent forces and acquisition victories have been written with gains for the few, while the silent forces of benevolence were operating in the back ground for the long term, paving the way for emotional well being for all sides. This kind of back ground will reduce crime, drug abuse, family/ societal conflicts and dead lock by eternal arguments without my action. The gentle way trumping the other forces for dominance will ensure harmony for the world while letting the better forces lead and guide the narrative. Hope the silent wise people, like the way prof Sach does, will come forward and speak out rather than hiding in their caves.
Hearing Prof Jeff brings some sanity to America people but sad can’t say the same for the neocons, war mongers and American politicians. Hence best for Russia and China to teach USA a lesson.
For Dr. Sachs, What do you think the role of Bitcoin and the bond market are in avoiding conflict between the U.S. and China? Do you think the loss of Chinese purchasing of US bonds can be recouped by countries like El Salvador adopting Bitcoin as a reserve currency and repaying national debt to the IMF? Can the US economy stay relevant by adopting a sound money standard and adopting an ideal based in Austrian economics? Can we right the American ship by taking interest away from foreign trade?
The merits of our current Taiwan come from the last generation of Chinese! Current Taiwanese are beneficiaries of them, but most of youth don't know it now. They have been misguided by the pro-Japan rich class cultivated by the colonial Japanese government during 1897-1945 peroid. Those who switched their names to Japanese ones got favors and business opportunities. So they got rich first and have been able to build on the fortune to spread false information about Chinese. They had sponsored and provided scholarship to Hong Kong students to come to Taiwan to learn 'leadership' long before the protests appeared in Hong Kong! Now the pro-China Taiwanese get hushed and discriminated in the names of National security and Social Order. No one dares to openly speak for the Chinese government and their system now. Because Hong Kong people "protested", many of us in Taiwan started believing to live under China was bad!
Very moving, religiously correct, heavenly mandated principle, measures and advise. USA/China... Reset your policy and action for a peaceful world so my generation do not smell blood.
Prof. Sachs is a marvelous thinker & speaker, and the PTB in the U.S. would do well to listen to him. The pandemic & the global climate crisis are never-before-seen opportunities for worldwide cooperation, & the U.S. should lead. Our history doesn't lend itself to any peaceful acknowlegment or strategies, but with voices like Prof. Sachs, maybe we have a prayer.
Nobel Peace Prizes are awarded to those who uphold the Established Tyranny. Let's hope he never stoops so low as to merit this honorific granted only to sycophants of power.
Most metrices and charts are showing China on a steep rise and America (and the west in general) are on a gradual decline. This is not acceptable to a (mainly) white anglo-saxon protestant country like the US, hence we see US's belligerent responses and foreign policies against China, trying to stop or slow down China's growth. From the American perspective, perhaps it is understandable that a dominant power is unwilling to cede its position to a second power. The question is, is this the best way for the US to approach the problem? Is the current Extreme competition and demonization of China in the best interest of the country (not mitigating the possibility of a hot war)? The whole country, discounting a small handful of journalists, scholars, and experts like Jeffrey Sachs, is almost completely polarized against China by unquestionably accepting the "China Threat" rhetoric. Any alternate view is being shouted down. There is almost no debate about the claim: "China is out to eat our lunch", which is counter to the spirit of a democratic country of truth through debating among diverse groups of people. I would argue the current path the US is taking together with its allies is a dangerous one. It is causing the Chinese people to unite around their government more tightly than any time in the history of that country and to be more self-reliant, at the same time the US is shooting its own foot (eg: the trade war). Are we not helping China to grow faster while accelerating our decline by continuing on this wrong-headed and dangerous path of extreme confrontation and provocation (especially in the Taiwan Astrait) against a country that doesn't look like it could be slowed down let alone contained? If so, is it not time to re-access the China policy by taking the rationality of people like Jeffrey Sachs into account?
You are a compassionate and a rational person.The elite at the top are psychopaths and couldn't care less who suffers be it people or nature itself. You,me or any other people.These sub-humans running the show would rather see it all burn before giving up an inch of their power,wealth or hegemony. Let alone seeing another country that is a non-anglosaxon country being number one. Make no mistake about it,the people at the very top are every bit as racist as the old colonial slave owners were.
I'm pessimistic about it, you see Noam Choamsky was right with capital R regarding Afghanistan from the start yet some Americans still hate him. Why though? Also the clutch of US MIC in US politic is still strong. i cant see real change of US' foreign policy at all.
In the prisoners' dilemma scenario, the 2 prisoners are unable to comminicate (they are in different cells), and so they have to guess what the other prisoner would do. In the case of China and the US, they most certainly can communicate. So there's no bloody excuse for the US to keep trying to sabotage, destabilize and fragment China, and keep China down. China's behavior is a reaction to US actions. The US has been behaving like a thug running a worldwide protection racket, and expects everyone, even superpowers such as China and Russia, to pay protection money.
15:30 Nash himself, on an interview, recognized the model does not fit human beings and that he was at the time already showing symptoms of schizophrenia that made him paranoid. Prof. Sachs, the reason why humans choke while eating - something that is not advantageous - is precisely because that's a side effect of the ability to articulate complex sounds like words. The ability to communicate is much more advantageous than the ability to eat quickly and get out of the lion's way.
One of the few sane voices in America these days daring to speak out concerning China and Russia.
Prof. Jeffrey Sachs, one of the few intellectuals, who does not think as a technocrat, but as a compassionate human being. Respect and greetings from a Dutchman!
Yes this man speaks volumes of wisdom
Sachs and I were both advising the Russian government in the early 1990s. At the time I did not know of Sachs and he is unlikely to have known me. I walked away from a lucrative USAID contract because I was unwilling to bend my professional opinion to the economic interests of a few American businesses. I believe the world needs stability for the majority of humanity to thrive and this requires truth and justice. Neither is a priority when governments are involved. A few years later I founded The Wisdom Fund -
God bless you for your integrity. Jiayou 💪💪🙏🙏
I strongly agreed with Gary Ong, thanks for doing the right thing, who you may have saved thousands of lives.
Your fund is based in China...any biase there?
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@@rebeccaaldrich3396 where should it based?
Professor Sachs, I salute and respect your true and fair comments on China and USA. Your analysis are based on facts.
You are very different from many western economists.
Unfortunately very few USA politicians take heed of your analysis!
Thank you very much once again for your good spirit!
Prof Sachs, much respect to you for having such a cool-headed and rational analysis on current US and China relationship
He’s the best, right?
@@richiesd1 agree with you 💯. It is so good to hear from someone like Prof Sach calling for peace and win win situation rather war. Bless him for encouraging peace rather than war. ✌️✌️🙏🙏🙏💞💞💞
@Joseph , whatever you say. If you’re American, keep on believing that.
Great talk Professor Sachs and great analysis....
"US values and interests" - I would love to hear the honest explanation of those values and interests. The values and interests of the oligarchs- Unfettered access to plunder the global south's resources, seek ever increasing profits for the handful of multinational private companies even at the cost of all human life and the planet, continued covert and overt meddling globally with no regard for people's sovereignty and right to self determination? It's amazing that the US still tries to claim that it values vague ideas of "freedom" and "democracy." Shameful.
Well said. I lost my first comment? so i'le say it again. US values and interests are those of a bully. With the military Industrial Complex and it's 1000 bases around the world. It is able to facilitate the growth of the multinational corporate expansion throughout the world with that big stick. Worse they do that for free as these corporations manage to avoid paying their taxes with their gold plated lawyers, so strangely the poorest part pay for that. So I would have to add thievery to their 'values' list...
You hit it right on the nailhead!
It had to be said, and you said it. excellent comment.
Specifically because they don’t have freedom and democracy that’s why they must emphasised they do and others don’t. When their minds are fooled and controlled how can they have freedom? When senators and presidents are elected by campaign financing how can there be democracy? And specifically because they don’t care about shame they can be as bad as they want.
@@michael511128 who controls the worlds finances start there. Hint not Americans.
Thank you, Professor Sachs for your love of humankind and human future. Thank you, Cornell, for allowing this lonely voice of reason to be shared.
Thank you so much, Prof. Sachs. This is the greatest lecture and most insightful vision I've ever heard about China during the pandemic. Hopefully, U.S. will work hand in hand with China, which will benefit not only two great people in both countries, but a more cooperative, prosperous, and energetic world at large.
Dilly and inocent comment..please study all the geopolitics to see how USA HAS BEEN OPERATING at least the last 100 years, your mouth will be open for a month at least!!
This is the lecture worth listening to. My respect to people who are fact-based and insightful. Prof. Sachs is certainly one of those people.
Well done Prof Sachs ; You certainly have my outmost respect.
Great summary by Professor Sachs who tells us the necessity of cooperation to overcome the challenges we have to face due to global warming emergency. We have to learn from each other. We run together for juster societies and should not project our fears on China that also wants to prosper like we. Internal divisions in the U.S. is a real hindrance.Inequality throws shadows in the paradise of billionaires and millionaires.🌻
Professor Sachs is an incredibly clear thinker and I appreciate him more every time I am fortunate enough to listen to him.
Always happy to hear Jeffrey Sachs being level headed and reasonable and I'm on a daily basis sad to see EU and Sweden following US in an effort to dominate the so called western region.
Wokeism in the face of stiffer competition from Asia economically and the aftermaths of COVID19 pandemic.
Prof Sachs one of most balanced and intently commited voice of reason and principles which he ardently translates for us through his economic and geopolitical message. Indian Military Veterans
Rare to find a sane respected professor that speak the realities, real events and the ills that the world faces that could lead to destruction. We should encourage the voices to be heard and heeded. As always, prof sach you are great.
What a wonderful talk by Pro. Sachs.
Very grateful for all the preeminent Universities broadcasting presentations and conversations making them available for all to appreciate and ponder. Thank you, Cornell, Yale, Harvard, Berkeley, Stanford, MIT and more.
I always enjoy being enlightened by Professor Sachs' analysis and perspective.
Great talk!!! Prof. Sachs is truly visionary.
We appreciate the podcast. Professor Sachs lives in our hearts for his standing up for the wellbeing of the humanity. We appreciate Professor Sachs work.
Respect to Professor Sachs
Prof Jeffrey Sachs, may your voice for reason, hope and peace be heard all over our lovely blue planet. I salute a great man with a great vision. Your admirer from the distant Western Cape of South Africa. Kobus Coetzee
Thank you prof. Sir. We enjoy your lecture which is very important for the peacelovers people around the world.And we wished you a always healthy life n longlive.
Well said Jeffrey! I hope more Americans are as fair-minded like you, the world would be a much safer place.
Thankyou Professor Sachs for your rational view of the global position. The world needs you to continue the message of cooperation not conflict if we want our species to survive .
Very wise and courageous contribution to US foreign policy!
Thank you Professor Sachs for being such a persistent clear voice of reason in a country dominated by other voices. I wish that your voice could rise above the "group think" currently exist in the US and western mainstream media and in Washington DC. Because of educated and reasonable voices like yours the world that we all live in is a better world for all and mostly for our future generations.
Two thumbs up, Professor Sachs.
Thank you professor.
I have had heard about Jeffrey Sachs a lot. Chomsky mentions him. This is the first time I am listening to him. Just great!
I have no questions. Mr. Sachs is absolutely correct in all that he says in this video
This is one of many exceptional, excellent lectures by Professor Jeffery Sach, the series of lectures have one theme only...no war, war will destroy this world and try everything to stop world war, world war will end all God creations and all living things will forever fail to revive and disappear in total.
China is more focus on internal development and lifting the poor. Naval and military development is because of the lesson from the last century that all gun boats from the West patrolling up and down the Chinese rivers.
Not just that part of China's history, but also the present and on going history, this time with the US leading the charge to dismantle China.
If China is attacked (militarily) the only thing their government will have to say to their people is "If you let them (the invaders) win, it will mean another hundred years of humiliation for China". That is all the motivation the Chinese people will need.
Best guidance fir US foreign policy for significantly better outcomes for the world! Thank you!
Prof Sachs I agree with you 100% and I would add that the reform of the education system should start from kinder garden through to university and not only at universities. Starting at a young age kids must be taught to live in peace and harmony, climate change, human equality and respect for each other...
The civilized world needed this years and years ago! Professor Sachs of along with Professor Mersheimer are worthy of high praise!
A new foreign policy that transcends American exceptionalism is essential for addressing the evolving challenges of the 21st century. American exceptionalism, the belief in the U.S.'s unique role and superiority in global affairs, has historically driven policies that prioritize national interests and seek to set the global standard. While this approach has solidified America’s leadership in many respects, it has also fueled skepticism, resentment, and geopolitical friction, particularly with nations advocating for multipolarity and regional sovereignty.
To move beyond this mindset, a more inclusive and cooperative foreign policy is needed-one that recognizes the diverse perspectives and priorities of other nations. This means shifting from unilateral action to multilateral engagement, emphasizing diplomacy, partnerships, and shared responsibility for global challenges. A policy that champions collaboration over confrontation would allow the U.S. to contribute meaningfully to international efforts on climate change, economic equity, public health, and peacebuilding.
A departure from American exceptionalism would also require redefining the concept of leadership to include humility, empathy, and a commitment to mutual respect. Rather than imposing solutions, the U.S. could position itself as a facilitator of dialogue, an advocate for collective progress, and a partner in solving global problems. By fostering genuine alliances and engaging in fair and equitable partnerships, the U.S. could help create a world order based not on dominance but on shared values, cooperation, and sustainable development.
Ultimately, this shift would not diminish America’s influence but rather reframe it as part of a more inclusive global leadership that prioritizes peace, stability, and prosperity for all nations.
The current American problem is that they lost their industrial base and have nothing to trade besides guns and overprinted money. I'm delighted I sold off the majority of my significant assets on the financial market at a premium price before I declared them terrible investments! Because they misjudged China, the US economy is currently in trouble. Moreover, I concur with Peter in the comments that no one can limit the planet.
Fortune befriends the bold. -Emily Dickinson
A sell? I mean despite the economic turmoil going on right now. I’m a strong bull. I think fin plan is essential before selling or buying
@@bradsandler3526 Yes I concur. The prominence of institutional or basic financial managers cannot be exaggerated. Markets are oceans not lakes. Diversification too as stated is key. Take myself, having encountered my fair share of bad trades, I was able to realize how timing, capital, entry and a lot more are essential. Now, I have a $122k portfolio averaging a 12% monthly roi in less than a year following -Yvonne Annette Lively- so I do know the importance of basic knowledge and delegation.
@@chenoweth816 Just looke her up. The web page seem valid but isn’t she sorta pricy for a 11% monthly roi?
But they got the internet, aren't they? That's more than enough to influence the world and make their citizens prosper.
I love that Jeffrey Sachs brought a PowerPoint presentation with him.
very smart professor
The presentation is illuminating and I think share a light to many problems that developing countries are facing today. Food though for younger generations.
Thank you Prof Jeffrey Sachs.
The “John Nash” of the prisoners dilemma is certainly the US, not China. The Chinese are extremely eager to deescalate and to get to cooperation. The US, perceiving that it has by far the upper hand in military hardware, the dominance of the US dollar, control of the world financial settlement system, and last but not least, a stranglehold on world public opinion - to many countries in the world, just the word “communism” appears as an unacceptable threat - the US is the party in the conflict that #1started the conflict with the trade war, closing of consular offices, massive sanctions against Chinese companies, and flexing of military muscle in the East and South China Sea, with its warships sailing dangerously close to china’s coastline, in an effort to provoke a conflict. China, through both official and unofficial channels, has repeatedly made clear to the US its sincere intention to deescalate, to point out to the US the fact that “with conflict, we both lose; with cooperation, we both win”. Alas, policy makers in the US won’t hear any of it. They are convinced that since “we defeated the Soviet Union and caused it to disintegrate and fall apart, we can and should do the same to China”. This is one of the few areas where there’s widespread consensus among both the right and the left wingers in the US. So the chances for breaking out of the prisoners dilemma are very remote indeed.
We're 8 billion. Every year 80 million net new precious humans join us. Civilization has been wildly successful. The systems that got us here did their jobs. Time for a new way forward. Nation states must give way to the realities of our time. Science has shown us clearly we're interrelated with all of life. One race Human One home Esrth..... Thanks for the enlightenment Mr Sachs!
China has finally found its way out of poverty. It may have made a few missteps on the way, what country would not have done so. China today, shines in terms of innovation and productivity. Go China, go...
The US workforce needs to realize, that the development in the Asian countries will also serve to alleviate the huge US problem with the wealth gap. No longer will US oligarchs think that they can dismantle US production sites and go produce in China or other countries. These countries will all have higher wages and a well-off, well-educated workforce. Go China, go! China and the other SEA countries will no longer beckon the US companies and the added shipping costs will finally make the US workforce very attractive once more.
Great talk and I couldn't agree more
This is The Best Interview that I have heard re: China geo politics.
Jeffrey will be great professor, the world will move toward what his prediction regardless what short term misled by some.
Should China become a democracy, the world will likely become even more dangerous. - Prof Kishore.
So I think it is imperative that the US continues on the path of productive & positive engagement with China. Thank you Jeffery for your tireless efforts to educate the public and the world and our wish to see a more enlightened US on the world stage in the not too distant future.
I really like Prof Kishor Mahbubani and am currently reading his book ‘has China won’
What was the context of the quote you posted ?
Imagine China, 4 times the population size of the US becoming a democracy and acting exactly like the US. It will be, historically the largest terrorist state in the world!!
Which crazy would want that?
Peace is the way to go
Every one's National interest rest's on the world interest, since we all live here. Washington represents the military industrial congressional media complex, not the American people or the world. Start behaving like normal, caring human beings.
As outsider of these two economic giants, questions are who start the trade war and technology war, who blamed who, since all actions start from American. Who stumilates the sea waves in South China sea and in west Pacific Ocean. Who regards China as rival. China attacks USA economic or attacks West coast of America? No. Trade is American demand, but American never exports military weapon or high technology products to China so how to balance the deficits.
Agree!!! US surrounds China with over 100 military bases and targets major cities in China with missiles. China is being defensive.
I was so confused when hearing Trump blaming China for creating a huge trade deficit by “pouring Chinese products” into US markets in 2018. Even if the US didn’t buy products from China, US companies would import products from other developing countries anyway, probably with higher costs.
@@fredt4578 How dare China put their country so close to all those bases and missiles.
@@lynnz3049 Companies are in China for one reason and one reason alone,cheap labor produces higher profits.
Thankyou prof..Sachs i enjoy your lecture.
When winning is taken as the other side must lose, it then becomes one's only go to strategy where ending up in the lower right quadrant of the prisoners' dilemma is only inevitable.
thanks for telling the truth.
Professor Sachs is much more reasonable than John Mearsheimer
That guy John is a Very extreme.
Mearshimer is a war monger, typical American.
Mearsheimer is a very malicious, vicious, belligerent and angry old man who is still alive because he had so much hate, and he will do a genocide of the Chinese if he could..
Professor Sachs has a big picture global view of our current situation. He can see both sides. John mearsheimer only looks at the situation from the US side.
Is it fair to compare the two?
is China navigating its war ships near US territorial waters? is China encouraging Hawaiian, Puerto Rico, Guahan (Guam) independence through "NGO"s like NED? is China making military alliances with Mexico, Canada, Brazil like AUKUS or QUAD?
has China made issue of the illegal incarceration of non-US citizens like Julian Assange or Alex Saab? has China expressed concerns with regards to human rights violation of African Americans in the US? has China spoken about the continuous subjugation of Native Americans where an actual genocide actually occurred? has China criticised the US for not doing enough to prevent hate crimes against Asian Americans?
let's not kid ourselves, we pretty clear who is escalating tensions
Good point about academia playing a role here. Unfortunately there are forces in the US that aim to disrupt links between US universities and Chinese academics. It’s also happening in my home country, Australia.
In Taiwan, I am learning to be numb. Thanks to the world politicians who behave like toddlers.
But your politicions are fomenting it, even going back to the status quo with less millitary on the agenda, notice how the US is moving and demanding control of Taiwanese companies? So it's your voting actions which caused this flash point in world politics 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🏴🏴🏴
Thank you Prof Sachs for sharing your vision. If China and the USA can work in cooperation, the world we live in will be so much more peaceful and climate, hunger and other issues can be resolved in unison
“Since World War II, during a supposed golden age of peace, the United States military has killed or helped kill some 20 million people, overthrown at least 36 governments, interfered in at least 85 foreign elections, attempted to assassinate over 50 foreign leaders, and dropped bombs on people in over 30 countries.”-David Swanson
These facts has to be disseminated to a lot more people around the world.
Thanks you Sir for your good and brave report on the situation despite being called............. for explaining the truth as it must be told.
I like his statements.
The US military industrial complex benefits as well as the weapons' manufacturers and every industry connected to them. That is something the US will NOT give up.
Arms manufacturers are the only true winners of wars.
Wasting breath talking to US govt, period.
USA remembers England’s chamberlain trying to pacify hitler and it did not work. U r correct, USA will not pacify China. Moreover, USA knows that China’s workforce is aging and that China will have to spend a great portion of their wealth on these soon retiring folks. For this reason and some other reasons, China is not that big of a threat
Will the massive power of US military/industrial complex and big capital over the US political process allow professor Sachs' idea to be possible?
Yeah China should be able to enforce it's will on Taiwan because they are bigger, right?
@@rebeccaaldrich3396 no, read history.
The US has 800+ military bases around the world. China has only 1. It is the US we should be worried about. The US has been at war 93% of the time - 227 out of 245 years - since its founding in 1776. i.e. the U.S. has only been at peace for less than 20 years total since its birth.
History teaches us lessons about how it’s easier to blame others than blame ourselves.
The greatest danger we face today is not coming from China. It is our drift toward proto-fascism.
@@silveriver9 thanks for the info. Now I'm not too concerned about a war with China. With 800 bases we'll definitely win.
@Rebecca Aldrich bases are nothing when the adversary have hypersonics. And why would you wish for a nuclear war? Is your ego that big that you can't accept being no. 2 while having your family safe? Shame on you. Seeing as you lean to fascism, i guess shame is not in your dictionary.
I agree that there are opportunities for collaboration between the USA and CCP: AI, climate change, addressing pandemics.
There will be disagreements between the CCP and the USA: trade, Taiwan, technology theft
Mr. Sachs Prisoner's Dilemma example is a good one. America has chosen to deescalate for 30 years and China has escalated, so the CCP has won the Prisoner's Dilemma economic game with shameless IP theft, violating its agreement when it joined the WTO, closing its markets, forced technology transfer, socialist support for SOEs. But America was too naïve and gullible to understand that America has lost to China for 30 years, with America suffering from a hollowed out American Midwest industrial base (now called the Rust Belt), millions of Americans losing their good-paying jobs, loss of technology, and endless trade deficits due to cheating and theft by the CCP.
Now the CCP wants another round of the Prisoner's Dilemma game and the USA now understands the CCP will lie and cheat. I suspect that America will no longer be naïve and gullible. The rest of the West is also waking up to how China cheats and lies - and also to the horrific CCP genocide of the Uyghur in Xinjiang documented in a August 2022 UN report .
So to misquote President Ronald Reagan: Don't trust and verify.
I think the main take away from this is how to define a world based on a non zero sums game (economic social equality) fueled by policies of global mutual aid avoiding entitlement conflict rather than the destructive zero sums game (neo-liberal capitalism) fueled by unsustainable over consumption of mass production with emphasis on self serving interests of wealth and power through confrontational social exploitations.
Professor Jeffrey Sach i hope you can be at the Geopolitical conflict Show host By Dr Ross Steward and Dr David Doloulo both base in Texas. They are Rare voices for Peace and stability coming out from America
IN OTHER WORDS ... A NEW FOREGEIN POLICY THAT OPEN THE FUTURE ... INSTEAD OF GO BACK TO THE PAST...
With out the PAST China won’t be here today.
Professor Sachs should be advising President Biden right now. Today. Okay, maybe tomorrow, because today is Thanksgiving!
Thucydides trap is among the western countries. Eastern philosophy is win win and all get alone!
The Thucydides Trap is not inevitable. It's idiotic non-sense promoted by Western elites to serve their interests and justify their despicable behaviour.
Prof should run for president and save the world.
Thank you
The capitulation that the US population needs to have is to realize it has been the world's villain all along and to realized an even greater truth is that it is the villain of its own story, so the bottom for America is not in, the hope is that America realizes it has to stop claiming innocence to its own history and atrocities, have some very very deep self-reflection and address grievances if the world is to reverse course on it's downard trajectory, the US is the single major player that will determine if there will be a major war moving forward from this point in history, don't be fooled it is not what others do, but what US does that determines peace or conflict, historically the rest of the world responds to US actions as they are rarely the instigators
Very well articulated. And they are the absolute truth.
"If you want to see the true nature of a person (or organisation), give them unlimited power". The US has had unlimited power since 1945.
Prof Sachs you are right I HV great respect you. ...this bring peace to the world for sure...now is danger world...
No one is talking about China's long range anti-ship missiles. America is on the cusp of a Suez Canal moment. That's what will happen if the US tries to defend Taiwan.
Well left alone Taiwan is peacefully integrating into China culturally and economically with China as its biggest trade partner. And both sides agree to maintain the status quo. But then things start to turn sour when the US meddles with Hong Kong and Taiwan via CIA's regime change long-arm, the NED. Now we have the five eyes sailing nuclear-capable warships in the Taiwan straits very close to China's border. All of this to stir conflict in that region with the hope of slowing China's economy and to justify more tax money pouring to the military
LOOOOOVE PROF. SACHS
Time for more insiders to stand up to the demented system.
I think telling the story of human's narrative, or the evolution and the human success for survival narrative, the foundational importance of cooperation, generosity, sharing of knowledge for the survival of the species has been ignored by the winners who wrote the history.
May it be the contribution of native Americans for the initial setting of some colonisers( not the ones who fought as their account is well written, but the ones who quietly helped each other in a profound way) or the English in India to preserve the history, while East India company waged it's atrocities or other similar narratives.
There always were benevolent and malevolent forces and acquisition victories have been written with gains for the few, while the silent forces of benevolence were operating in the back ground for the long term, paving the way for emotional well being for all sides. This kind of back ground will reduce crime, drug abuse, family/ societal conflicts and dead lock by eternal arguments without my action.
The gentle way trumping the other forces for dominance will ensure harmony for the world while letting the better forces lead and guide the narrative.
Hope the silent wise people, like the way prof Sach does, will come forward and speak out rather than hiding in their caves.
Hearing Prof Jeff brings some sanity to America people but sad can’t say the same for the neocons, war mongers and American politicians. Hence best for Russia and China to teach USA a lesson.
Makes complete sense.
For Dr. Sachs, What do you think the role of Bitcoin and the bond market are in avoiding conflict between the U.S. and China? Do you think the loss of Chinese purchasing of US bonds can be recouped by countries like El Salvador adopting Bitcoin as a reserve currency and repaying national debt to the IMF? Can the US economy stay relevant by adopting a sound money standard and adopting an ideal based in Austrian economics? Can we right the American ship by taking interest away from foreign trade?
Powerful insights
The merits of our current Taiwan come from the last generation of Chinese! Current Taiwanese are beneficiaries of them, but most of youth don't know it now. They have been misguided by the pro-Japan rich class cultivated by the colonial Japanese government during 1897-1945 peroid. Those who switched their names to Japanese ones got favors and business opportunities. So they got rich first and have been able to build on the fortune to spread false information about Chinese. They had sponsored and provided scholarship to Hong Kong students to come to Taiwan to learn 'leadership' long before the protests appeared in Hong Kong! Now the pro-China Taiwanese get hushed and discriminated in the names of National security and Social Order. No one dares to openly speak for the Chinese government and their system now. Because Hong Kong people "protested", many of us in Taiwan started believing to live under China was bad!
Just want to throw it out there not just the chances of accidents, how about manufactured accidents
Fully agree with Prof Sachs, I hope US Govt will take the advise to cooperate with China to create a better world for all of us
Very moving, religiously correct, heavenly mandated principle, measures and advise. USA/China... Reset your policy and action for a peaceful world so my generation do not smell blood.
Prof. Sachs is a marvelous thinker & speaker, and the PTB in the U.S. would do well to listen to him. The pandemic & the global climate crisis are never-before-seen opportunities for worldwide cooperation, & the U.S. should lead. Our history doesn't lend itself to any peaceful acknowlegment or strategies, but with voices like Prof. Sachs, maybe we have a prayer.
He should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
Nobel Peace Prizes are awarded to those who uphold the Established Tyranny. Let's hope he never stoops so low as to merit this honorific granted only to sycophants of power.
Most metrices and charts are showing China on a steep rise and America (and the west in general) are on a gradual decline. This is not acceptable to a (mainly) white anglo-saxon protestant country like the US, hence we see US's belligerent responses and foreign policies against China, trying to stop or slow down China's growth.
From the American perspective, perhaps it is understandable that a dominant power is unwilling to cede its position to a second power. The question is, is this the best way for the US to approach the problem? Is the current Extreme competition and demonization of China in the best interest of the country (not mitigating the possibility of a hot war)?
The whole country, discounting a small handful of journalists, scholars, and experts like Jeffrey Sachs, is almost completely polarized against China by unquestionably accepting the "China Threat" rhetoric. Any alternate view is being shouted down. There is almost no debate about the claim: "China is out to eat our lunch", which is counter to the spirit of a democratic country of truth through debating among diverse groups of people.
I would argue the current path the US is taking together with its allies is a dangerous one. It is causing the Chinese people to unite around their government more tightly than any time in the history of that country and to be more self-reliant, at the same time the US is shooting its own foot (eg: the trade war). Are we not helping China to grow faster while accelerating our decline by continuing on this wrong-headed and dangerous path of extreme confrontation and provocation (especially in the Taiwan Astrait) against a country that doesn't look like it could be slowed down let alone contained? If so, is it not time to re-access the China policy by taking the rationality of people like Jeffrey Sachs into account?
Well said
You are a compassionate and a rational person.The elite at the top are psychopaths and couldn't care less who suffers be it people or nature itself.
You,me or any other people.These sub-humans running the show would rather see it all burn before giving up an inch of their power,wealth or hegemony.
Let alone seeing another country that is a non-anglosaxon country being number one.
Make no mistake about it,the people at the very top are every bit as racist as the old colonial slave owners were.
US is like Sauron, "he does not share power".
I'm pessimistic about it, you see Noam Choamsky was right with capital R regarding Afghanistan from the start yet some Americans still hate him. Why though? Also the clutch of US MIC in US politic is still strong. i cant see real change of US' foreign policy at all.
Recently he stated USA treats everything with a sledgehammer. That hasn’t change.
we need a global doctrine subsidiarity rather than a naive nationalism or globalism; totally agree. Pro. Sachs
But cooperative behaviour is not the motivation in U.S economic and political thinking, it is rather individual striving and competition.
In the prisoners' dilemma scenario, the 2 prisoners are unable to comminicate (they are in different cells), and so they have to guess what the other prisoner would do.
In the case of China and the US, they most certainly can communicate. So there's no bloody excuse for the US to keep trying to sabotage, destabilize and fragment China, and keep China down.
China's behavior is a reaction to US actions. The US has been behaving like a thug running a worldwide protection racket, and expects everyone, even superpowers such as China and Russia, to pay protection money.
A new foreign.policy for democracy will.not change the word that must change also❤❤❤❤
15:30 Nash himself, on an interview, recognized the model does not fit human beings and that he was at the time already showing symptoms of schizophrenia that made him paranoid.
Prof. Sachs, the reason why humans choke while eating - something that is not advantageous - is precisely because that's a side effect of the ability to articulate complex sounds like words. The ability to communicate is much more advantageous than the ability to eat quickly and get out of the lion's way.
25:30, of all the colors let's choose very similar shades this graph.