China Reaffirms Closer Relations with Russia as Ukraine War Continues
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
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🗓️ 31 March 2022
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Key international relationships are being profoundly tested by the war in Ukraine, especially the alliance between China and Russia – the two countries at the top of the U.S. empire’s hit list. How does China’s government view Russia’s decision to invade Ukraine? Will the relationship between the two countries grow closer or more distant as the western powers attempt to cut Russia off from the global economy? What consequences will this have for the entire world?
Brian is joined by Dr. Ken Hammond, professor of East Asian and Global History at New Mexico State University, founding director of the Confucius Institute at New Mexico State University, and activist with Pivot to Peace.
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| 0:00.0 | China and Russia are allies. |
| 0:05.0 | How does China view the war in Ukraine? |
| 0:09.0 | We need a new system. |
| 0:11.0 | We need a new society. |
| 0:13.0 | We need to demand that which may have sounded impossible even a few weeks ago, |
| 0:18.0 | but is not only realizable, but an imperative necessity. |
| 0:21.6 | The Welcome to this week's episode of the Real Story on the Socialist program. |
| 0:48.9 | I'm your host, Brian Becker. |
| 0:51.1 | Today we'll be talking with Dr. Ken Hammond. |
| 0:53.7 | He is a professor of East Asian and |
| 0:55.9 | global history at New Mexico State University. He's the founding director of the Confucius Institute |
| 1:01.7 | at that university, and he is an organizer and activist with the organization Pivot to Peace. |
| 1:08.8 | Dr. Ken Hammond, welcome back. Glad to be here. Ken, you and I have talked at length |
| 1:14.2 | about China's foreign policy over the decades. We did a nine-part series looking at China's foreign |
| 1:21.2 | policy since 1949. Of course, in the recent years, China's relationship with Russia has been paramount. |
| 1:30.4 | And at the same time, China has done a lot to integrate countries in Eastern Europe into the Belt and Road initiative. |
| 1:39.3 | Obviously, China wants to have good relations with all the countries in Eastern and Central Europe. |
| 1:44.1 | And at the same time, it has this very special relationship with Russia. |
| 1:49.0 | Xi Jinping met with Putin. |
| 1:50.6 | On the sidelines of the Olympics, there was a 5,000 long word statement, sort of cementing the ties |
| 1:58.3 | or announcing how close China's relationship is with Russia. |
| 2:03.5 | In fact, in that statement, which I want to go over with you, they talk about the relationship |
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