China, All the Way to New York

Bombshell

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4.8 • 691 Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s episode, while Loren cleans out her office, Radha and Erin dig into an array of China-related topics: Huawei! India! Hong Kong! And last, but certainly not least, the World Health Organization. The ladies then turn to White House/American mayhem and try to be analytical while lamenting ongoing violence against black Americans and the potential deployment of U.S. troops in American cities. And finally, an awkward transition to a discussion of pop-culture yields some gems.

Links

Huawei

Scott Bade, “Huawei’s Terrible Week,” Tech Crunch, May 30, 2020
Emily Feng, “The Latest US Blow to China’s Huawei Could Knock Out Its Global 5G Plans,” NPR, May 28, 2020

India Border

Jeffrey Gettleman and Steven Lee Myers, “China and India at 14,000 Feet Along the Border,” New York Times, May 30, 2020

Hong Kong

Sergei Klebnikov, “Trump Announces New Sanctions On Chinese Officials, But Won’t Scrap Phase One Trade Deal,” Forbes, May 29, 2020
“Trump Targets China Over Hong Kong Security Law,” BBC News, May 30, 2020
Kenneth Rapoza, “Imaging Hong Kong Without Its US Special Status Deal,” Forbes, May 29, 2020
Jack Caporal, “The US-China Mini Deal (That Never Was?)” CSIS, October 17, 2019

WHO

Brianna Ehley and Alice Miranda Ollstein, “Trump Announces US Withdrawal from the World Health Organization,” Politico, May 29, 2020
“Coronavirus: Backlash After Trump Signals US Exit from WHO,” BBC News, May 30, 2020

Protests in US

Dan Lamothe, “Trump Administration Offers Active-Duty Military Forces and Intelligence to Help Quell Minnesota Unrest,” Washington Post, May 30, 2020
Samuel Sinyangwe, Tweet, October 5, 2019
Jennifer Doleac, Tweet, May 31, 2020
Megan Ming Francis, Tweet, May 30, 2020
Audrey McNamara, “ Paul Mayor Says Earlier Comments About Arrested Protesters Being Out of State Were Not Correct,” CBS News, May 30, 2020
“Pentagon Puts Military Police on Alert to Go to Minneapolis,” CNBC, May 30, 2020

George Floyd

Kate Shellnutt, “George Floy Left a Gospel Legacy in Houston,” Chrsitanity Today, May 28, 2020

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Bombshell. I'm Erin Simpson.
0:12.0	I'm Lauren D.N. Schellman.
0:13.4	And I'm Rod Arangar.
0:14.9	And we are back with a differently distributed episode.
0:19.4	Obviously, we've been distributed for many weeks now. We were
0:22.6	distributed many weeks last year as well, but this time, this week, we are in new locations.
0:28.8	I am recording from my sister's attic, which I have to say is in fact quite lovely. Lauren,
0:34.4	you're recording from your soon-to-be former office. That's right. I am packing my office while we record.
0:41.3	So I will offer pithy insights while wondering why I have so many Tom Ricks books.
0:46.9	Nothing against Tom Ricks, but I'm not going to read these books again.
0:49.8	And I've been carding them from office to office for a decade.
0:53.4	15 million.
0:56.5	Oh, my God.
0:57.4	Is Fiasco 15 years old?
0:59.1	Oh, crap, it is.
1:00.7	Oh, no.
1:03.1	I can't deal with that insight this morning.
1:06.4	And Rada is in her usual undisclosed location in the Bay Area where she hunkers down and
1:12.1	avoids small children and large children.
1:15.2	That's right.
1:16.1	I was like, I'm hiding in our creepy room.
1:18.8	That's what we used to call it before it became my permanent work office.
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