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One of these are hosted by the US state department, but the person talking is from JP Morgan, which they cover in the introduction. The person moderating is from the state department, but she isn't presenting anything, just moderating questions to the guest speaker, who is not a politician.

The others are Peter Zeihan, and an essay in Foreign Affairs. These are not politicians.

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It doesn't help your point since the US State Dept would likely not host content that's in contradiction with the administration. I'm not saying it's staged of course, but there are chances a convenient opinion was presented.

Also, JP Morgan doesn't really count for expert. That's not because they don't know what they are doing but because their incentives are not aligned, they have a stock to defend.

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