268: Robert Spalding | How China Took Over America
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
4.8 • 12.4K Ratings
🗓️ 23 October 2019
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Robert Spalding (@robert_spalding) is a national security strategist and a globally recognized expert on Chinese economic competition and influence. He retired from the US Air Force as a brigadier general, and is the author of Stealth War: How China Took Over While America's Elite Slept.
What We Discuss with Robert Spalding:- The consequences the United States faces as a result of its economic connections to a totalitarian state that openly opposes its core values.
- How electronics and sensors are being created for American consumers that send data to China to feed the government's artificial intelligence systems.
- Why there can't be a global free market system when the second biggest economy in the world isn't participating.
- How US manufacturing suffers as a result of consumer demand for "cheap stuff" that China is more than happy to fulfill.
- China's fraudulent accounting methods, akin to a ponzi scheme, that actively erode the US economy with assistance from the very people this hurts.
- And much more...
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the show, I'm Jordan Harbinger. |
| 0:05.4 | As always, I'm here with producer Jason DeFilippo. |
| 0:08.1 | On the Jordan Harbinger show, we decode the stories, secrets, and skills of the world's |
| 0:12.2 | most brilliant and interesting people and turn their wisdom into practical advice that |
| 0:16.8 | you can use to impact your own life and those around you. |
| 0:20.1 | Today, Brigadier General Robert Spalding, he is the special assistant to the US Air Force |
| 0:25.5 | Vice Chief of Staff. |
| 0:26.5 | It sounds kind of a big deal. |
| 0:30.9 | This is one of the scariest books I've read in a long time. |
| 0:36.5 | There's a big part of me that wanted this all to be some sort of exaggerated, scare |
| 0:41.0 | porn fiction. |
| 0:42.4 | However, that belief is hard to maintain when you're talking to a China expert working |
| 0:46.8 | in the freaking Pentagon. |
| 0:48.7 | War looks a lot different than it did a century ago, and the Chinese Communist Party |
| 0:52.5 | has an outline, literally has documents for economic warfare and subjugation of other |
| 0:56.9 | countries and populations, and it is well documented. |
| 1:00.3 | Both parties in the USA have really slept on this, the whole China trying to get it at |
| 1:05.5 | the edge on everything. |
| 1:06.5 | We have slept on this, and today we're going to explore some of the current and potential |
| 1:10.5 | future consequences of this policy or this disastrous policy. |
| 1:14.2 | We already know that US manufacturing is being destroyed in part because of cheap stuff |
| 1:18.1 | from China, that there's no secret there. |
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