Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, went to China, presumably to lower tensions between the United

States and China. But the very next day after he met with Xi Jinping, the head of China,

Joseph Biden, the president of the United States, called Xi Jinping a dictator at a Democratic Party fundraiser when there was

lots of media there. And that became the news, the news in the United States, and even more

importantly for U.S.-China relations, the news inside of China. At the same time, the Wall Street

Journal has again accused Cuba of becoming a base for Chinese spying against the United States.

Where is all of this heading?

We need a new system. We need a new society.

We need to demand that which may have sounded impossible even a few weeks ago, but is not only realizable,

but an imperative necessity. Welcome to this week's episode of The Real Story on the Socialist program. I'm your host, Brian Becker.

Today we're talking once again with Dr. Ken

Hammond. Ken is a professor of East Asian and Global History in New Mexico State University.

He's the founding director of the Confucius Institute at New Mexico State University.

He's an activist and organizer with the organization Pivot to Peace,

and he is the author of a new book, China's Revolution and the Quest for a Socialist Future,

which you can find at 1804 Books.com. Ken Hammond, welcome back. Glad to be here.

Well, Ken, I don't know. what's the right word? Fiasco, idiocy, stupidity, hubris, arrogance. I don't know, all of these adjectives seem to be

working for me when it comes to the Biden administration's attempt at so-called diplomacy.

First of all, let's start

with your take. Well, I think it's the classic all of the above. We've seen American policy,

if we can even call it that, towards China, just sort of flailing about fairly wildly for a while

now. There's a foundation. There's certainly a solid grounding

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