And they've also benefited from being part of this larger free trade area, which is the European single market and which sits inside of the larger global trading and financial system, upheld and fostered by the US in its capacity as a champion of free trade and as a purveyor of international security, which it's important to note, we haven't discussed yet whether or not China is prepared to play that role. And if that's a requirement for the yuan to become a global currency, but in terms of Germany, is the ideal Chinese model here one where Germany, if we're comparing China to Germany, would have kept the Deutschmark but still managed to create a free economic zone that it would use to export high end manufactured goods and which would be something analogous to the BRI while giving Berlin the kind of political control that currently exists in Brussels and where everyone ends up using the Deutschmark. Does that kind of make sense as an analog for what the ideal system would look like? (31/40)
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