Name: 【TED】Ian Bremmer: How the US should use its superpower status (How the US should use its superpower status | Ian Bremmer)
Uploaded: 2017-04-08T09:43:41.000Z
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When you come to TEDx, you always think about technology,

the world changing, becoming more innovative.

Everyone's talking about driverless cars these days,

and I love the concept of a driverless car,

I want access to the steering wheel and the brake, just in case.

I don't know about you, but I am not ready for a driverless bus.

I am not ready for a driverless airplane.

the United States is large and in charge.

Americanization and globalization for the last several generations

Right? Whether it's the World Trade Organization

our values, our friends, our allies, our money, our standards.

So it's sort of interesting, if you want to look at how the US looks,

This is our view of how the world is run.

and it feels pretty good, it feels pretty comfortable.

Well, I don't know how many of you saw the China trip last week

for the most important meeting of the world's leaders in China.

The National Security Advisor was actually spewing expletives

along with all the media and everybody else.

They look like they're about to get into a cage match, right?

And they did. It was 90 minutes long, and they talked about Syria.

There's not a lot of mutual like or trust,

but it's not as if the Americans are telling him what to do.

How about when the whole 20 are getting together?

Surely, when the leaders are all onstage,

then the Americans are pulling their weight.

But Putin is telling Turkish president Erdogan what to do,

and Obama is like, what's going on over there?

You see. And the problem is it's not a G20,

a world order where there is no single country or alliance

that can meet the challenges of global leadership.

the G7, all of our friends, that's history.

Goods and services and people and capital are moving across borders

I want to do two things with the rest of this talk.

I want to talk about the implications of that

So why? What are the implications. Why are we here?

we spent two trillion dollars on wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

We have large numbers of middle and working classes

that feel like they've not benefited from promises of globalization,

so they don't want to see it particularly.

where we don't need OPEC or the Middle East the way we used to.

We produce all that right here in the United States.

So the Americans don't want to be the global sheriff for security

The Americans don't want to even be the cheerleader of global values.

and the most important alliance in the world

But it is now weaker than it has been at any point since World War II,

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【TED】Ian Bremmer: How the US should use its superpower status (How the US should use its superpower status | Ian Bremmer)

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crisis

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extreme