1/8: Three years later, the Pandemic breaks #PRC healthcare, confidence and recovery: 1/8: Chaos Under Heaven: Trump, Xi, and the Battle for the Twenty-First Century, by Josh Rogin.
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🗓️ 15 January 2023
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1/8: Three years later, the Pandemic breaks #PRC healthcare, confidence and recovery: 1/8: Chaos Under Heaven: Trump, Xi, and the Battle for the Twenty-First Century, by Josh Rogin.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08B364SKG/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0
The explosive, behind-the-scenes story of Donald Trump’s high-stakes confrontation with Beijing, from an award-winning Washington Post columnist and peerless observer of the U.S.–China relationship
There was no calm before the storm. Donald Trump’s surprise electoral victory shattered the fragile understanding between Washington and Beijing, putting the most important relationship of the twenty-first century in the hands of a novice who had bitterly attacked China from the campaign trail. Almost as soon as he entered office, Trump brought to a boil the long-simmering rivalry between the two countries, while also striking up a “friendship” with Chinese president Xi Jinping — whose manipulations of his American counterpart would undermine the White House’s already disjointed response to the historic challenge of a rising China. All the while, Trump’s own officials fought to steer U.S. policy from within.
By the time the COVID-19 pandemic erupted in Wuhan, Trump’s love-hate relationship with Xi had sparked a trade war, while Xi’s aggression had pushed the world to the brink of a new Cold War. But their quarrel had also forced a long-overdue reckoning within the United States over China’s audacious foreign-influence operations, horrific human rights abuses, and creeping digital despotism. Ironically, this awakening was one of the biggest foreign-policy victories of Trump’s fractious term in office
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| 0:30.0 | Here's CBS Eye on the World. Here's John Bacheler. |
| 0:34.0 | And it's a great pleasure to welcome the author, Josh Rogan, of the Washington Post. He |
| 0:40.6 | is a journalist as well, writes the global opinions column for the post, but now the author, |
| 0:44.8 | Josh Rogan, to congratulate him for his new book, Chaos Under Heaven. Trump, she, and |
| 0:51.8 | the battle for the 21st century. The book is a story of the Trump administration evolving |
| 0:59.4 | policy with the People's Republic of China. It is also the story right now of the evolving |
| 1:06.2 | policy of new administrations, add-in finitom, Mr. Biden's and whatever follows. We begin, |
| 1:12.4 | however, with something that one of the principles in the book, Matthew Pottenger, at one time |
| 1:18.8 | Deputy National Security Advisor, Colonel Matthew Pottenger of the US Marine Corps, retired, |
| 1:24.9 | quoted in the course of the descriptions of the evolving policy of the Trump administration. |
| 1:32.7 | This is from Confucius, from the Anilex. I read the English translation. If names cannot |
| 1:39.3 | be correct, then language cannot be in accordance with the truth of things. And if language |
| 1:45.1 | cannot be in accordance with the truth of things, then affairs cannot be carried on to success. |
| 1:52.6 | Josh, a very good evening to you. Congratulations. And the Confucius quote, identifies to me a reader |
| 1:59.0 | of irony that the relationship between Washington and Beijing between the capitalist republic |
| 2:06.3 | of the United States and the communist authoritarian regime of China is a search for the names |
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