BEFORE CHINA BECAME AN EXISTENTIAL THREAT: 4/4: America Second: How America's Elites Are Making China Stronger Hardcover February 15, 2022 @isaacstonefish. Founder and CEO of Strategy Risks.
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
4.5 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2024
⏱️ 6 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
@isaacstonefish. Founder and CEO of Strategy Risks.
https://www.amazon.com/America-Second-Americas-Elites-Stronger/dp/0525657703/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
In America Second, Isaac Stone Fish traces the evolution of the Party’s influence in America. He shows how America’s leaders initially welcomed China’s entry into the U.S. economy, believing that trade and engagement would lead to a more democratic China. And he explains how—although this belief has proven misguided--many of our businesspeople and politicians have become too dependent on China to challenge it.
OCTOBER 1, 1949
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | This is a new book is America second. |
| 0:03.0 | This is CBS I in the World. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm John Bess with Isaac Stone Fish. |
| 0:08.0 | His new book is America Second. |
| 0:10.0 | How America's elites are making China stronger. |
| 0:14.0 | Isaac is not only an author and a journalist, he's also the CEO of Strategy Risks, |
| 0:19.6 | answering questions about how to work with China, especially this anxiety people have, |
| 0:26.0 | will I lose business? Now big news organizations worry about China. It's not just Hollywood. |
| 0:31.4 | Bloomberg worries about China. |
| 0:33.0 | Forbes magazine worries about China. |
| 0:35.5 | And Isaac has detailed anecdotes about that. |
| 0:40.0 | The Washington Post, everybody has to worry when putting journalists into China or trying to write about China in a way that displeases the leadership. |
| 0:50.0 | However, we come now to the American people. |
| 0:53.0 | And have I written this number down correctly? |
| 0:55.9 | 89% of the American people when polled |
| 0:59.2 | believe that China is either an adversary or is extremely competitive to the point of challenging. |
| 1:08.0 | Is that 89%? |
| 1:09.3 | Is that still current, Isaac? |
| 1:11.6 | It's a very high number, whatever it is, surprisingly high. I think the experiences of the pandemic, learning about Xinjiang, and understanding that American exceptionalism might have a timeline on it has really |
| 1:26.8 | radically shifted the ways that Americans have thought about China. |
| 1:30.3 | What surprising is that the men and women who led the change of opinion about China |
| 1:38.0 | are not with the 89% of the American people. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from John Batchelor, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of John Batchelor and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.