Xi Jinping’s paranoid approach to AGI, debt crisis, & Politburo politics — Victor Shih

Today I'm talking with Victor Shih, who is the director of the 21st Century China Center at UC San Diego.

China is obviously one of the most important economic and geopolitical issues of our time, doubly so if you believe what I believe about AI.

I was especially keen to talk to you because you have deep expertise not only in Chinese elite politics, but also its economic system

and fiscal and banking policies. We'll get into all of that before we get into the AI topics.

Is China actually a more decentralized system than America? If you look at government spending by provincial governments vs.