And the political rupture or geopolitical rupture is not the only thing that has changed it. Even things like artificial intelligence, which is profoundly changing everything, is not the only thing that's changed it. So Many of our assumptions and the corresponding institutions in our international system were developed... at a time when the majority of people in China were rural farmers or peasants living in poverty. Today, a middle class city dweller in a Chinese city arguably lives a more sophisticated, technologically sophisticated, day to day life than a middle class American city dweller. (18:39–18:55)
CLAIM
Asserts that international systems were developed when China was predominantly rural and impoverished, which is no longer the case.
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