evidence: I think the bottom line is that Soros is truly a global, international, cosmopolitan capitalist for whom the ideal would be the withering away of nation-states and their replacement by an adequate, in his mind, global political form. I think the critics of Soros hit a kernel of truth in making this kind of claim about his underlying thinking. [...] And since 2016, now fast-forwarding a bit, he’s caught between hostility to Donald Trump and his increasingly aggressive politics toward China and his own quite aggressive claims about the fragility of the Chinese currency. Again, it’s currency politics that get him into trouble. In 2015, ’16, he basically thought the Chinese currency peg was going to blow. He can’t speculate heavily against it because the Chinese have quite effective capital controls in place. But this attracted to Soros the undying hostility of Chinese trolls and the Chinese government, which began to regard him at this point as a menace. There are a lot of really virulent antisemitic diatribes against Soros in China. There’s, on the one hand, a fascination with the so-called sort of tribal, economic, and commercial success of the Jews and then, on the other hand, vitriolic denunciations of Soros as the leader of a global conspiracy.