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1/2: Tom Cotton knocks self-censoring observations re PRC. Peter Berkowitz, Hoover Institution

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🗓️ 8 April 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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1/2: Tom Cotton knocks self-censoring observations re PRC. Peter Berkowitz, Hoover Institution
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/04/06/sen_cotton_educates_nation_about_china_challenge_152609.html

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0:35.9

Hi on the world.

0:37.0

I'm John Baxter.

0:40.2

I welcome my colleague Peter Berkowitz of the Hoover Institution,

0:50.8

writing his column for Real Clear Politics on a senator and a senator's book. This is seven things you can't say about China.

0:57.1

The senator is important here because everything of these last years about China is all tied up with the American attitude about itself. This is not independent. This is not

1:04.3

foreign policy as we understand it. This is a new kind of policy. This is the culture of the United States crashing against the culture of China, trying to

1:15.8

understand each other.

1:17.4

At the same time, the U.S. is held to an accounting that China is not.

1:23.4

We're not a dictatorship.

1:24.9

China is.

1:25.9

We're transparent.

1:27.1

China is not.

1:28.3

Peter, a very good evening to you. What senator and what do we need to know about him?

1:33.3

Well, Senator Tom Cotton is a junior senator from Arkansas.

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