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3 Dec 2025 Conversations with Tyler Dan Wang on What China and America Can Learn from Each Other
“Malaysia, I can see. I think Vietnam has been prickly forever. The US didn’t beat them.”
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- 3 Dec 2025
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…How about Malaysia? If the leaders of Malaysia and Vietnam regularly have to go to Beijing to kowtow for the emperor’s pleasure, how much of a threat do you think that is to American imperial power? I don’t know. I’m asking you. Malaysia, I can see. I think Vietnam has been prickly forever. The US didn’t beat them. China didn’t beat them in the late ’70s. They will be a funny kind of holdout. They may win some manufacturing share at the expense of China over time. I don’t think they’ll be dominated. Singapore.…
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