Trade War Debate Justin Yifu Lin vs Niall Ferguson

Well worth watching.

My comment:
I have read a couple of Niall Ferguson's books, namely "Empire" and "The Ascent of Money." They're actually not bad. It's unbelievable that he has turned into a shill for the laughable American narrative of "Blame China." He looked and sounded like a rabid dog barking and yelping before being put down. He lost the debate on every count. When he could not debate on substance, he started expectorating vituperative nonsense about how America brings freedom to the world while China has Tibet. He must have thought that he was debating in front of the stupendously stupefied American public, but the debate was being held in South Korea, and the subject was the US-China trade war. The audience was not impressed. The ex-Professor of History should really brush up on his history. I had thought that he would do quite a bit better than this. His performance was an utterly disgusting disgrace. I can understand Trump, but Harvard professor and Hoover Fellow Niall Ferguson? I guess there really is no hope. Then Justin Lin makes that bet with Niall about the future world order in 20 years. Poor whimpering Niall loses even that, meekly negotiating from Lin's proposed $2 million USD to $200,000 RMB. For people who do not know the background of Justin Lin, he was a model military officer of the ROC in Taiwan when he defected to China in 1979. He later got his PhD in economics from the University of Chicago, the breeding ground of Nobel laureates in Economics. He was also the SVP of WB from 2008-2012. I tend to believe in Justin Lin's prediction of the future.
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