A Strategic Deep Dive on TikTok, The Boiling Moat of Taiwan, and China’s Next-Gen Statecraft (4K)

One Piece

Eiichiro Oda (inferred)

“you can use a comic that is very widely translated, like One Piece... go back and forth without using a dictionary. So you can actually study dialogue”— Tim Ferriss

The Economist

“The Economist magazine has what's called the Economist Intelligence Unit. They do rankings... Taiwan is the most liberal democratic state in all of Asia”— Matt Pottinger

The Wall Street Journal

“During the days when I was a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, based in China.”— Matt Pottinger

The Sydney Morning Herald

“John Garnaut was a journalist like me in China, an Australian, he wrote for The Sydney Morning Herald.”— Matt Pottinger

Reuters

“So I spent my 20s for the most part as a reporter writing for Reuters and The Wall Street Journal in China.”— Matt Pottinger

The New York Times

“If the Russians are getting around sanctions with tether and so on and so forth, at least according to a cover story in the New York Times”— Tim Ferriss

People's Daily

“The People's Daily, which is the Communist Party mouthpiece newspaper, a couple of weeks later, makes clear that what he was talking about were short-form video apps”— Matt Pottinger

I Ching

“you ultimately end up creating your own syllabary romanized language to approximate Chinese or you end up studying the I Ching and teaching it.”— Matt Pottinger

Saving Private Ryan

“it would be a disaster for — imagine Saving Private Ryan, but you have to run three miles to get to the machine gun nest that's shooting at you.”— Matt Pottinger