Welcome to the War Economy!

Interview with David Baverez, investor, essayist, and China specialist based in Hong Kong

Dear readers,

More than a year after launching this newsletter, I am delighted to introduce a new format: here is the first filmed podcast of Why the West.

Click on the video below to watch the interview on the Why the West YouTube channel (called Chroniques occidentales in French). Unfortunately for English speakers, the interview is in French, but YouTube's automatic English subtitle translation tool works very well!

I will, of course, continue writing articles for this newsletter. These will now be supplemented by these filmed interviews. For this first podcast, I had the pleasure of interviewing David Baverez, investor, essayist, and China specialist based in Hong Kong.

He has just published Bienvenue en économie de guerre (Welcome to the war economy in English, not translated yet) and the book number 1 bestseller on the French Amazon in the International Relations category. In this interview, we discuss the following questions:

• China and the West, two opposing civilizations?

• Is China seeking revenge?

• What is the war economy?

• Are we in a new technological cold war?

• The 21st century will be technological;

• How do the Chinese understand the concept of freedom?

• What should Europe do in response to China?

• Is China repeating the same mistake it made 500 years ago?

• France is the country of human rights, China is the country of human duties;

• Now that it is the workshop of the world, will China become the retirement home of the planet?

Please feel free to share your feedback: your opinion is valuable in making this podcast a relevant complement to the newsletter.

Enjoy watching,

Guillaume

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