How Coronavirus Is Accelerating the End of Globalism, Feat. Peter Zeihan

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Some countries just aren’t going to emerge from the Coronavirus.”</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Peter Zeihan is one of the world’s foremost geopolitical experts. In his new book “Disunited Nations: The Scramble for Power in an Ungoverned World,” Zeihan argues that we’re at the end of the largest expansionary period in human history. As America withdraws from global leadership, a totally new (and for most parts of the world, more painful) ‘normal’ will emerge. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On this episode of The Breakdown, Zeihan joins @NLW to discuss why the Coronavirus crisis is rapidly accelerating the end of the era of globalization. </span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How the American-led global order used the dollar as the tool to keep the world together </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Why geopolitics and demography are coinciding to end the era of globalization </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Why Covid-19 will spark a massive return of American manufacturing </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Why, when it comes to the dollar’s status as the world’s reserve currency “Never before has the “exorbitant privilege” of being the world’s reserve currency felt more exorbitant or more like a privilege. </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Why the crisis could spell the end for the Euro </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Why China isn’t nearly as well positioned in the post globalization era as many assume </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Why the best positioned countries in the coming era are the US, Japan, Argentina, France and Turkey</span></li> </ul>