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Niall Ferguson
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International man of history, Flying Scotsman. Author,
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columnist. Opinions my own.Stanford, CAniallferguson.comBorn April 18, 1964
Joined June 2009
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“Like the post-1945 British Labour governments, he wants to shelter domestic manufacturing and the working class behind tariffs while reducing overseas commitments. But the net result will be both economically damaging and geopolitically weakening. Americans will come to miss globalism and policing the world. They will belatedly realize that there is no portal through which the United States can return to the 1950s, much less the 1900s. And the principal beneficiary of Project Minecraft will not be Russia, but China. Call it Project Manchuria.”—
Who Watches the Watchers? 