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Pete Buttigieg: “At the time that the Security Council was set up, something…”

Featuring: Pete Buttigieg, Democratic | Former Secretary of Transportation, Former Mayor of South Bend | National

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But also, if you look at frameworks like NATO or the WTO or the UN itself, you know, a lot of these were built, ironically, largely by the United States at a time that is radically different from our own. At the time that the Security Council was set up, something like 90% of people in China were rural peasants. Unable to read. Today, people living in China, for the most part, enjoy superior technology in transportation and certain other sectors to people living in America. So we're just in a different world. (30:03–30:13)

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Asserts that when the UN Security Council was established, 90% of China's population were rural peasants.

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