317 | Saagar & Marshall's 2022 Year-in-Review: China Protests & Zero COVID, the End of History Returns, and Is America Politically Exhausted?

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Saager Enjeti, Technology, Policy, News, Marshall Kosloff, International Relations, Politics, News Commentary, Public Policy, U.s. Politics, National Security, Economics

4.8 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Saagar and Marshall kick off The Realignment's End-of-Year coverage with a discussion of the issues that defined 2022: the rising backlash against China's Zero COVID policy, how liberal democracy fared against its authoritarian rivals, where the culture war stands post-midterms, and how political exhaustion could define the rest of the decade.

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0:00.0	March from soccer here, welcome back to the Realignment.
0:04.0	[♪ INTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:09.4	Everyone, welcome to soccer in my year-in review.
0:14.0	Discussion episode, kicking off the month of Realignment
0:18.1	coverage where we're just going to do this final big discussion
0:21.0	episode of the year going through the themes that we cover.
0:24.3	Let's start with something very obvious, soccer.
0:28.0	I would love to get your thoughts on the China COVID protests that are developing,
0:34.9	emerging.
0:35.9	We don't really have any sense of what's going on right now.
0:38.0	I did this really interesting episode with Frank DeCutter.
0:41.8	He wrote the People's Trilogy on Mal.
0:44.6	He's based in Hong Kong and he pointed out that this is the first time since
0:48.2	the year 1950s that they're basically just near zero, western, even foreign press
0:53.0	coverage in China right now.
0:54.6	So we don't really know what's happening.
0:56.2	So with that said, let's get your theory on this.
0:58.1	I'm glad that's actually my only takeaway.
1:00.3	I have no idea.
1:01.6	It's so difficult because all that's coming out to us is urban areas, Xinjiang, or Remki,
1:09.3	Shanghai, Beijing.
1:11.5	What's going on in the village?
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