BREAKDOWN: What's Behind Growing US-China Tensions?
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4.8 • 689 Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2022
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
A combination of domestic issues in China and geostrategic questions in the U.S. are making relations tense.
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U.S. President Joe Biden is slated to talk with Chinese President Xi Jinping later this week. In the background lurks growing tensions around House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s potential visit to Taiwan next month. On today’s episode, NLW looks at the big issues behind these headlines that are shaping both the U.S. and China’s response to growing tensions.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. |
| 0:09.2 | It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. |
| 0:14.8 | The breakdown is sponsored by nexo.io, chain aliasis, and FtX, and produced and distributed by CoinDesk. |
| 0:22.7 | What's going on, guys? It is Wednesday, July 27th, and today we are talking about what is |
| 0:27.9 | behind growing U.S.-China tensions. A quick note before we get into this, there are two ways |
| 0:34.6 | to listen to the breakdown podcast. You can find us on the Coin Desk Podcast Network, |
| 0:39.3 | where the show comes out every afternoon and is featured alongside other great Coin Desk shows, |
| 0:44.3 | or you can listen on the breakdown only feed, which comes out a few hours later in the evening. |
| 0:48.7 | Wherever you listen, if you are enjoying the breakdown, I would so appreciate it if you took |
| 0:53.0 | the time to leave a review |
| 0:54.6 | or a rating. It makes a huge difference, and I appreciate every one of you who takes the time to do |
| 0:59.2 | that. Also, a disclosure, as always, in addition to them being a sponsor of the show, I also work |
| 1:04.2 | with FTX. Now, today is, of course, FOMC meeting day, where we will learn if the Fed decided to raise rates the |
| 1:12.7 | anticipated 75 basis points to match last month's hike, or if they went all the way to a 100 |
| 1:19.0 | basis point hike, a full percentage point raise, something that hasn't been seen since 1981. |
| 1:25.5 | What they do and how the market reacts will set the tone for the next two |
| 1:29.2 | months until the September meeting, which many market commenters see as really the key in |
| 1:34.4 | determining what the rest of the fall looks like when it comes to monetary policy. |
| 1:38.8 | All of that will be the focus of tomorrow's show after I have a chance to not only see |
| 1:43.2 | what the Fed did, but see how |
| 1:44.8 | people are responding to it. In the meantime, however, there has been a key geopolitical story |
| 1:49.6 | that has been getting louder and louder and punching through into big headline awareness. |
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