China and America (and Taiwan and Ukraine) (Robert Wright & Kishore Mahbubani)

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Nonzero

News & Politics, Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.7 • 618 Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2022

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Summary

Kishore’s diplomatic career and recent book, Has China Won? ... Kishore: America is walking towards a cliff when it comes to handling China ... Is the US making a Chinese invasion of Taiwan more likely? ... China’s perception of the Uyghur situation ... How anti-China sentiment in America increases Chinese nationalism ... Diagnosing the degeneration of US-China relations since 2012 ... Bob: Has technology empowered the Chinese to petition their government? ... Good news! China has no plans to export its political system ... Assessing the threat Beijing poses to freedom in America ... China’s view of the Ukraine invasion ...

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Bob. I just wanted to let you know that the conversation you're about to hear and or see is actually two conversations. The first conversation was taped before Russia invaded Ukraine. Then after the invasion, Kishore was kind enough to come back and talk with me a little about how the invasion looks from China's point of view.
0:23.9	So that part is at the end of the conversation.
0:29.3	While I've got you here, I might as well suggest that if you like the right show, you might rate and review us.
0:40.5	It really does help. If you don't like the right show,
0:48.2	forget that I ever even suggested rating or reviewing us. Anyway, now I will get out of the way and let you enjoy a conversation that I really enjoyed and got a lot out of.
0:54.0	You're listening to a podcast from Blogging Heads TV.
1:01.7	Hi, Kishore.
1:03.8	Hi, Bob.
1:05.0	How are you doing?
1:06.8	Very well.
1:08.2	Good, good.
1:09.2	Let me introduce this.
1:10.0	I'm Robert Wright.
1:10.6	This is The Wright Show. Available on both streaming video and via audio podcast.
1:14.2	You are Kishore Mabubani.
1:17.5	Is that correct?
1:18.9	Absolutely correct.
1:20.7	Okay.
1:21.3	Well, that's the last time I'll try the last name.
1:23.5	I'm not going to press my luck.
1:25.1	I'll stick with the first name from here on out.
1:27.6	And you are, you're in Singapore. You are a long time Singapore diplomat, for one thing.
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