Uploaded October 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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0:00 What triggered Trump’s 100-percent tariff threat?
9:13 How China is mirroring the US playbook
16:52 The real escalation: America's "50% rule"
25:33 Why has US media coverage been so bad?
28:13 Biden's role in fueling the trade war
39:44 US China policy as cognitive empathy failure
47:43 Heading to Overtime

Discussed in Overtime:
Have more China hawks got their claws into Trump 2.0?
Where the trade war could (and should) go next.
Bob: We need a Laura Loomer for China.
China-hawkism: Trump vs Biden.
America's EV gap.
How the US fails to see how China sees Taiwan.
Paul: The coming weeks will be critical.

Robert Wright (Nonzero, The Evolution of God, Why Buddhism Is True) and Paul Triolo (Albright Stonebridge Group, pstaidecrypted.substack.com/). Recorded October 17, 2025.

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