And as I told Prime Minister Modi last night, he's got approval ratings that would make me jealous. But it wasn't just India. This attitude captured too much of our economic relationship with the rest of the world. So We shipped countless jobs overseas and with them our capacity to make things from furniture, appliances, and even weapons of war. We traded hard power for soft power because with economic integration, we were told, would also come peace through sameness. Over time, we'd all assume the same sort of bland, secular, universal values, no matter where you lived. (05:01–05:12)
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Asserts that the U.S. outsourced many jobs and lost manufacturing capacity, including for weapons.
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