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The Dispatch Podcast

Can We Beat China? | Interview: Sen. Tom Cotton

The Dispatch Podcast

The Dispatch

Politics, News

4.43K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

GOP Sen. Tom Cotton joins Jamie Weinstein to discuss his news book, Seven Things You Can't Say About China, as well as the looming military threats against Taiwan and the Republican Party’s divided foreign policy views. The Agenda: —Tariff trouble —The China threat is more severe than most Americans realize —Taiwan’s defense spending needs to increase significantly —The foreign-policy divide within the GOP —China’s influence in global trade Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:03.0

My guest today is Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton. He is out with a new book,

1:08.9

seven things you can't say about China. And we get in very deeply to what he

1:13.6

wrote in that book, what threat he thinks China poses to the U.S., what the U.S. should do about it.

1:18.2

We also get into some news of the day items and the nature of what some see as a foreign policy

1:24.9

fight within the Republican Party between those who are more isolationist

1:28.3

and those who are more interventionist. So without further ado, I give you Senator Tom Cotton.

1:52.4

Thank you. Senator Tom Cotton, welcome to the Dispatch podcast. Thanks, Jamie. Thanks for having me on. Senator, I want to focus most of the interview on your book, which I read and enjoyed, but I thought I'd

1:57.6

opened with two news of the day items for you. Trade, we had Liberation

2:01.4

Day on Tuesday, obviously a lot of market turmoil. Do you believe what we was announced on Tuesday

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