China Moves Left Under Xi Jinping: Part 2

The Socialist Program with Brian Becker

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🗓️ 23 September 2021

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

We continue our discussion of the major changes in Chinese politics and society ushered in by President Xi Jinping. We cover the emerging "common prosperity" economic policy aimed at redistributing China's wealth, the country's key geopolitical strategy known as the Belt and Road Initiative, and how this all fits in with the Communist Party's perspective on building socialism.

Brian is joined by Kenneth Hammond, a Professor of East Asian and Global History at New Mexico State University and an activist with the organization Pivot to Peace.

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0:00.0	Today we continue our discussion about the distinctive leadership of Xi Jinping as the leader of the Communist Party in China and of the Chinese state.
0:13.5	We need a new system. We need a new society. We need to demand that which may have sounded impossible even a few weeks ago, but is not only realizable, but an imperative necessity. Welcome to the Real Story segment of the Socialist Program. I'm your host, Brian Becker.
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1:13.0	forward slash the socialist program. Today we continue our discussion about the leadership in China,
1:19.6	the leadership of Xi Jinping. We're going to be talking again with Dr. Ken Hammond. Dr. Hammond is a professor
1:26.6	of East Asian and global history at New Mexico
1:29.0	State University. He is the founding director of the Confucius Institute at New Mexico State University.
1:36.2	And he is also a writer and activist with the Peace Organization Pivot to Peace. Ken Hammond,
1:43.0	welcome back. Glad to be back. Lots more to talk about.
1:46.9	Yes, there is. And we said in part one of this two-part series on Xi Jinping, of course, we had the
1:53.1	earlier seven-part series on China's foreign policy. But in our first of these two parts, we
1:59.3	sort of framed how Xi Jinping emerged both as an element of change, but also with an element of continuity from the previous leaderships that had been in power since the Communist Party of China took power in 1949.
2:21.8	So first was Mazé Deng, Deng Xiaoping came next,
2:28.2	Zheng Xiamin, Hu Jintao, and then starting in 2013, Xi Jinping.
2:37.5	And the thesis that we worked from, Ken, was that this really was a remarkably important transition in the leadership.
2:39.0	So let's just get started by, again, for the audience, for people who might have missed
2:44.4	the last show or it's been a couple of weeks since they heard it, let's just frame in a
2:49.5	particular way the difference, the distinction,
2:53.4	in short, in brief, and then we'll get into more detail of Xi Jinping's leadership. The assertion
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