China plays chess, while Russia plays poker

The David McWilliams Podcast

David McWilliams

News & Politics

4.5 • 692 Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Putin has managed to turn Russia into a vassal state of China, a fact confirmed by Xi’s visit to Russia. The Sino/Russo alliance against the West is solidified between them but the alliance is not one of equals. Russia is China’s petrol station, while China provides Russia with manufacturing goods. This is China's moment. This week we discuss politics, geo-strategy and the enduring appeal, despite its failings, of the West. Plus a riff on car seats, Yuri Gagarin and why in 1492, it was European not Chinese ships that crossed the oceans to conquer the New World.

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1:35.0	And this has been, I think, one of the most consequential weeks in many, many years.
1:40.2	We sometimes overuse, or maybe we do overuse, that Lenin idea of there are decades when nothing happens.
1:44.3	There are weeks when decades happen, which is a quote from Vladimir Lenin as he was going through Finland to the Finland station in Leningrad, which was then St. Petersburg, about
1:49.9	to launch his revolution. And actually he was actually a good man for quotes, our Lenin.
1:54.0	He was a very good man for quotes. But that point, John, seems to me we're going to kick off
2:00.2	today that I was watching this week,
2:03.9	Xi and Putin. Now, they might not have been watching me, but I was watching them. I wouldn't be so sure
2:09.9	about that. You have TikTok, don't you? I have TikTok. I do not have TikTok. I do not have TikTok,
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