Brian Becker Seminar #3: January 6 assault, US policy toward China, and more (Preview)
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
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🗓️ 28 May 2021
⏱️ 9 minutes
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In this February 2021 patrons-only seminar, Brian and the crew analyzed the January 6th fascist insurrection and the state of U.S. policy toward China. Check out the preview now and subscribe at patreon.com/thesocialistprogram to hear the rest!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to The Socialist Program. |
| 0:03.0 | This is the audio of our monthly seminar. |
| 0:05.0 | Subscribe and support this programming at patreon.com slash the Socialist Program to join live once a month and ask Brian Becker your questions and listen to them as soon as they come out. |
| 0:16.0 | Thanks so much for your help in keeping this independent show going. We can make this program with you, |
| 0:21.1 | but not without you. So here's one question, Brian. What do you all make of Biden's China task force, |
| 0:28.4 | the one that he instructed the Pentagon to initiate? And what do you think is the proper response |
| 0:33.7 | from progressive forces of the United States? Yeah. So the task force is trying to figure out how to fine-tune Trump's policies. |
| 0:43.0 | Basically, Anthony Blinken, the new Secretary of State, is essentially agreeing with Mike Pompeo on almost all things China. |
| 0:51.4 | There's no real criticism of Pompeo. |
| 0:56.4 | When asked in these media interviews and at his confirmation hearings, he's basically, yeah, Trump is right, Mike Pompeo is right, |
| 1:01.5 | but we have to make sure that we're more effective. So I think what Biden would like to do |
| 1:07.9 | that is a little bit different from Trump is to go back to where Obama |
| 1:15.4 | was in 2010 and 2011 with the pivot to Asia. The Asia pivot was to deploy 60% of the U.S. |
| 1:25.3 | Naval and Air Force assets into the Pacific by the year 2020, which was last year, |
| 1:31.2 | taking them out of the Middle East, redeploying to Asia, to the Pacific. But the other part of it was |
| 1:37.4 | the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which was not only a pro-corporate anti-democratic, so-called free trade agreement, you know, |
| 1:45.7 | which set up special jurisdictional courts where unelected corporate lawyers could decide |
| 1:51.7 | whether or not a corporation's profits had been harmed by the actions of government. |
| 1:57.3 | So like when Obama finally decided to stop the Keystone XL pipeline, the Canadian |
| 2:04.8 | company said, well, that's hurting our possible profit margins over the long term. There were courts |
| 2:10.9 | that they could go to through different international trade mechanisms, including WTO. But the |
| 2:17.3 | Trans-Pacific Partnership would be that on steroids. |
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