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2/2: #PRC: Recommendations for confronting and containing and even combatting CCP in the New Year. Peter Berkowitz, Hoover Institution.

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 21 November 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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2/2: #PRC:  Recommendations for confronting and containing and even combatting CCP in the New Year. Peter Berkowitz, Hoover Institution.

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0:33.9

My job matched with my colleague Peter Berkowitz of the Hoover Institution.

0:37.9

We're looking at the challenge of the People's Republic of China,

0:41.1

which is right now in trouble, deep trouble.

0:46.1

The economy is very, very, very troubled.

0:50.0

The real estate is a crater.

0:53.4

The consumer is frightened, so therefore there's no consumer commitment at all to the future.

0:59.9

The military, however, is extremely well-armed and aggressive in the neighborhood.

1:06.3

At the same time, we have the story of trade, what is to be done.

1:10.4

As I understand it, the Biden

1:11.9

administration continued many, if not all of the trade limitations that the first Trump

1:18.0

administration proposed and executed. That may be where we're going now. I mentioned this word

1:25.8

tariffs. Immediately people break out in hives when I raise the possibility of tariffs.

1:32.8

Is that part of the thinking of the tools that must be used in order to back off China from its aggression, Peter?

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