America, China, and Xi Jinping's Visit to Washington

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🗓️ 8 September 2015

⏱️ 51 minutes

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In the latest installment of our podcast, we gathered some top Asia wonks - WOTR Senior Editor Van Jackson of CNAS, Evan Montgomery of CSBA, Mira-Rapp Hooper of CSIS, and Samm Sacks of the Eurasia Group. The topic? The state of U.S.-China relations and the major issues likely to occupy President Barack Obama when Chinese President Xi Jinping comes to town. Have a listen! Image Credit: thierry ehrmann

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0:00.0	So everybody. Thanks for listening. This is the latest installment of the War on the
0:04.9	rocks podcast series. I'm Van Jackson, senior editor at War on the Rocks among other
0:10.4	things and we're here today to talk about Asia and the Obama
0:14.4	Shejing Ping visit at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. And with me
0:19.6	I have three of the finest folks that you'll ever find on foreign policy,
0:26.3	the alliteration was not on purpose.
0:28.4	If you wanted to just introduce yourselves quickly,
0:30.6	we can get started.
0:32.0	I'm Mira Rapp Hooper. I'm a fellow here at
0:33.9	CS I'm the director of our Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative. I'm Sam Sachs. I'm a
0:39.2	China analyst at Eurasia Group. I'm in Montgomery's Senior Fellow with a set of the strategic and budgetary assessments.
0:45.0	That's right.
0:46.0	All these folks are awesome, no joke.
0:48.6	So yesterday I made the mistake of looking at my 401k and I was told that I shouldn't and I turned on morning Joe and other than Donald Trump the thing that was swamping coverage was crash of the Chinese stock market, right?
1:08.1	The Chinese economy looks like it's on stilts or it's wobbly. Something's happening here. It's affecting us, it seems like.
1:16.7	And I gotta ask Sam, is there any way you can take a quick snapshot for us about a what is happening to the Chinese stock market
1:26.1	and B how would a Chinese downturn affect the US economy like how are we? Is this a fleeting thing for us?
1:34.3	Should we be more concerned?
1:36.6	I think that this is the first real public legitimacy crisis that the Shegen-Ping
1:41.2	administration has faced.
1:43.0	We've seen since she came to power a real commitment to accepting slower growth
1:49.0	with the understanding that unless the Chinese economy shifted to a more sustainable model of growth,
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