Walter Russell Mead discusses Russia and Saudi Arabia, the remote-work revolution, nineteenth-century French industrial policy, and living in the shadow of a singularity on his podcast What Really Matters.

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United States President Joe Biden and China's President Xi Jinping meet on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Nusa Dua on the Indonesian island of Bali on November 14, 2022. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)t