5/24/22 Chas Freeman on America’s Messy Taiwan Policy

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Scott Horton

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4.8 • 902 Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Scott is joined by Chas Freeman to discuss the history of U.S. policy concerning Taiwan. And they talk about President Biden’s recent press conference where he misstated the official U.S. policy on Taiwan for the fourth time as president. Discussed on the show: “Not So Deft On Taiwan” (Washington Post) Chas W. Freeman was Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs from 1993-94 and served as U. S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia during operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. Follow him at his website, chasfreeman.net. This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: The War State and Why The Vietnam War?, by Mike Swanson; Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott; EasyShip; Free Range Feeder; Thc Hemp Spot; Green Mill Supercritical; Bug-A-Salt and Listen and Think Audio. Shop Libertarian Institute merch or donate to the show through Patreon, PayPal or Bitcoin: 1DZBZNJrxUhQhEzgDh7k8JXHXRjYu5tZiG. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	All right, y'all welcome to the Scott Horton's show.
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0:39.1	archive is also available at YouTube. YouTube. diplomat and he chairs Projects International Incorporated and was Assistant Secretary of Defense for
0:58.0	International Security Affairs from 93 to 94 and as we've discussed before he was the principal US interpreter
1:06.7	during Nixon's landmark trip to China 50 years ago in 1972.
1:13.7	Welcome back to the show.
1:14.6	Choss, how you doing, sir?
1:16.2	Glad to be back.
1:17.5	Very happy to have you here.
1:18.7	And obviously, huge news going on all around the world, particularly in regards to your speciality, great power
1:25.7	competition with Russia and China here.
1:28.9	And Biden, who is elderly, for the fourth time in a year, has misstated, or has he, America's strategic ambiguity policy toward China. This is something
1:47.1	W Bush and Donald Trump also got wrong. It's a little bit complicated. In
1:52.0	fact we're running on anti-war.com today an article by Joe Biden from 2001
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