and all of these measures, in all of these contexts-- antitrust, hate speech, privacy, taxes. A lot of these might be motivated by protectionist concerns. A lot of them might be motivated by value differences.
In fact, there was another headline recently about the word "iPhone" being used for another product. There's that back and forth in terms of protectionist measures.
as I said I think the decisions that we made even looking back on them now uh almost 2 years since we made them almost criticisms of the president during the election campaign saying he was a protectionist um and there's been not a
to destroy the power of the United States, not only in economic terms but also in political terms to destroy that role, that symbol, that the United States always had of democracy and freedom. And if we go down the protectionist route, I am afraid that this is what is going to happen. And I don't think we should let this happening at all. I mean, we should do something about that because otherwise, we would live in a world that will not be the one we know as being reshaped by an individual, Osama bin Laden, and a bunch of religious fanatics;
These are the major drivers of climate breakdown. Now, we know that these tactics, these protectionist , progressive, interventionist tactics, not only were used by rich nations for their own industrial development,
economy left standing because corporate America was basically able to pass on through higher pricing the cost of much of America's welfare state. And for a becoming socialist is near zero. The risk of us becoming protectionist because of enormous worker anxiety and a
It's insane. This book will change something, maybe where you put the salt shaker on the table from now on. But yeah. I think it was just kind of a confluence of events, and she was being protectionist . But it actually ended up being for the best.
So I think that we'll see that change. It's in Europe, which is interesting, because it's a pretty protectionist kind of vibe over there obviously. They allow everybody to invest their money however they want.
in China as a sort of retaliation for what is happening in the United States. So, it's a very delicate, very delicate situation. So, to conclude, I think that if we go down the protectionist route, if this relationship between China and the US, which are vital for our economy, actually fall apart, we may risk to end up in a situation very similar to the Great Depression. The Great Depression,
So my professional training as an historian is primarily archival research-- at least it was at that time. And while some portions of my dissertation-- I'm looking at a 100-year span of the use of the rhetoric and apparatus to target animal protectionists in the United States-- some of it, I was able to use archival-- you know, standard historian's archival tools.
the resources to do it, and right now there is a bill before the Indian parliament, and I won't talk about India for too much longer but, foreign universities would like to come in, it's a great market for them, different, some elites, some not elites and so far they've been barred completely from setting up campus's. So it's really been a protectionist regime. There is a bill, there is a higher education minister who is much more open to changing things, but it's controversial. There have been questions about will the cast quotas