本期播客深入探讨了技术与地缘政治的交叉领域。嘉宾Bruno Maçães提出新理论，认为未来世界格局不再是国家间的领土和资源争夺，而是“世界建造”的竞赛。最强大的国家将掌握进入我们生活方方面面的“后门”，以随时随地改变世界。节目还分析了美国退出全球秩序建设及其为中国提供新世界蓝图的机会，并探讨了这对国际秩序、个人自由、虚拟化治理以及美国未来角色的深远影响。

🌍 **世界建造的竞赛取代传统地缘政治：** 文章核心观点提出，地缘政治的竞争模式已发生转变，不再是争夺领土和资源，而是国家通过技术构建和塑造世界秩序。最强的国家将拥有影响生活各个方面的能力，并能随时随地改变现实。

🇺🇸🇨🇳 **美中在世界秩序建设上的角色演变：** 文章探讨了美国为何停止构建其曾倡导的全球秩序，这为中国提供了机会，使其能够按照自身的技术标准和意识形态蓝图来构建新的世界。这标志着全球权力格局的重大转变。

🌐 **虚拟化与治理模式的未来：** 随着世界日益虚拟化，文章提出了对国际秩序性质、个人自由以及治理形式的深远影响。它预示着未来治理将更加依赖于技术，可能带来新的挑战和机遇。

📉 **美国角色退缩及其潜在后果：** 文章对美国从其“世界建造”项目中的退缩表示担忧，甚至担心其可能主动摧毁现有秩序。这种情况将对全球稳定和未来发展轨迹产生负面影响。

In Episode 434 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Bruno Maçães, a geopolitical strategist and the former Minister of European Affairs for Portugal, whose latest book titled "World Builders" explores the intersection of technology and geopolitics.

In the first hour, Bruno puts forward a radical new theory of geopolitics and technology that no longer views the world as a neutral battlefield between great powers to control territory and resources, but rather as a contest in world building that will afford the most powerful states back-doors into all aspects of our lives that they can use to alter the state of the world at any time or place of their choosing.

In the second hour, Kofinas and Maçães explore why the United States has ceased building the global order it once championed, paving the way for China to construct a new world according to its own technological standards and ideological blueprints. We discuss what this means for the nature of the international order, individual freedom, the form that governance is likely to take in an increasingly virtualized world, and what is in store for all of us if things remain on their current trajectory and the United States recedes from its world building project, or perhaps, even worse, decides to destroy it entirely.

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Episode Recorded on 08/04/2025