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TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

#659: Why America Gets China Wrong with Peter Alexander

TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

Marty Bent

Technology

4.8764 Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2025

⏱️ 107 minutes

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Summary

Marty sits down with Peter Alexander, an American consultant who has lived in China for 30 years, to discuss why the US fundamentally misunderstands Chinese culture and strategy, how America's supply chain dependency has eliminated its negotiating leverage, and what both countries need to do to avoid a destructive economic confrontation.

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0:00.0

You've had a dynamic where money has become freer than free.

0:10.0

If you talk about a Fed just gone nuts, all the central banks going nuts.

0:16.0

So it's all acting like safe haven.

0:18.0

I believe that in a world where central bankers are tripping over themselves to devalue their

0:23.5

currency, Bitcoin wins. In the world of fiat currencies, Bitcoin is the victor.

0:29.2

I mean, that's part of the bold case for Bitcoin.

0:31.8

If you're not paying attention, you probably should be.

0:36.3

Peter, welcome to the show.

0:38.3

Thank you for joining me.

0:40.3

Marty, I got to do this.

0:42.9

And this is going to demonstrate just how long I've been following you guys.

0:48.4

The mandibles.

0:51.6

Is the mandibles now?

0:52.5

I want to know.

0:55.5

I mean, I'll leave that to Matt to highlight and let him continue to beat you with a sock full of quarters every week because you haven't read it.

1:03.4

But no, I was I was, I just started laughing because I'm like, oh, after we went back and forth last night, I thought to myself, oh, I'm going to have to bum rush him at the beginning with the mandibles book. I don't have it on my bookshelf. I don't have it on my, on my, uh, Kindle either. It's a book. I'll get to it. I think eventually I will get to the mandibles.

1:28.3

Okay. But as I've said many times, a rabbit hole recap. It's essentially been read to me on air of the course of seven years from that.

1:36.1

Yeah. And to answer your question, yeah, I'm of the mind that we are in the middle of the mandibles right now.

1:44.4

Lovely. Yeah. Lovely.

1:45.6

Yeah.

1:45.8

Lovely.

1:47.3

Well, let's set the stage for this conversation.

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