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This Week in Startups

E1105: Unpacking the US/China Relationship with Foreign Policy & Technology Expert Jacob Helberg

This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanis

Technology

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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FOLLOW Jacob: https://twitter.com/jacobhelberg
FOLLOW Jason: https://linktr.ee/calacanis

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0:18.5

Hey everybody, hey everybody, everybody, welcome to another episode of this weekend startups.

0:22.3

I'm your host, Jason Calicanis.

0:23.7

And we are in the summer of the pandemic in 2020, it's August.

0:28.6

And while we're in this pandemic, which has been caused by COVID-19, or as the president likes to call it,

0:38.0

the China virus, we have an escalating issue, and it's one that's been boiling up for decades and you've heard

0:45.6

me ranting and raving about it on Twitter and even on this podcast that I think people are

0:49.6

crazy if they would ever put a woway router in their country or it's insane that people would

0:57.4

put tick-talk on their phones and not believe that the CCP, the Chinese Communist

1:02.4

Party, would have not have access to that.

1:05.0

And I've been heartbroken watching Hong Kong put up the fight of their lives and lose their lives and lose their freedom.

1:16.0

And at the same time, watching a bunch of entitled Americans and journalists trivialize the seriousness of this.

1:24.9

Not all, but many.

1:27.2

And people complaining that they're going to lose their follower count

1:31.2

on their Tik-Tog app.

1:32.4

And what will that mean the New York Times, these poor kids are going to lose it while

1:37.6

when I was growing up and I was in school and I worked for Amnesty International

1:42.4

we were concerned about human rights and

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