“We should be partners, not rivals," says Chinese President Xi Jinping to US President Donald Trump at a summit in Beijing.In his opening remarks, Trump touted his “fantastic relationship” with Xi, and said US business leaders were in the city to "pay respects" to Xi and China

What Ray Dalio advocates in this video is basically what China's top political leaders have done ever since the end of the 1970s. That approach is to view other nation-states as natural experiments in different systems of political economy, in order to use them as the basis for more effective policy design. These natural experiments enable canny observers to understand just how such systems of political economy work in practice, as well as whether or not they're actually viable. It's an approach