Vance says having the US as the center of the global economy gives a kind of false prosperity; he compares it to coal in Appalachia, which created no prosperity at all but a long history of exploitation by wealthy outsiders.
Tell us more of your intriguing ideas, "super-heterodox" thing-knower
JD Vance wants to end the US dollar's position as a global reserve currency.
(Loud cheers in Beijing and Moscow)