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Pete Buttigieg: “The international order as we know it, many of the trading…”

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

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Pete Buttigieg at the 2026 Global Progress Action Summit - 5/9/2026

Published | Video Starts at 18:16

Many of those fundamental elements are still there, and we should tap them while being unsentimental about just how much has changed. Look, The international order as we know it, many of the trading systems too were built for a time, and in a time that is just deeply different than now. 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. (18:16–18:28)

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