No Mercy / No Malice: Coexistence or Confrontation?

Hogging seats on a crowded train, not saying excuse me, watching videos on your phone with no headphones in. Sometimes it feels like we don't know how to act anymore. What we have been seeing, increasingly, is people breaking rules. Why should I play by the rules if nobody else is going to do that for me? This week on Explain It to Me, how to mind your manners.

New episodes Sundays wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Scott Galloway, and this is No Mercy, No Malice. The U.S. is the world's indispensable nation. China is the most consequential.

Alice Hahn and James King, the co-hosts of China Decode, are our Sherpas for navigating the criss-crossing fault lines of competition, containment, and cooperation that shape Sino-American relations. One of Trump's many weaknesses is believing he's playing three-dimensional chess when he's eating the pieces. Things are different now. In 2017, Trump visited a China still playing catch-up, calling itself a developing country, needing America more than America needed it. That country no longer exists.

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