China’s Economic Threat

The Untold Story with Martha MacCallum

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🗓️ 18 April 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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While tensions between the United States and China increase, whether China will invade Taiwan remains a major question for American industries. Senior Fellow for China Strategy at the Heritage Foundation, Michael Pillsbury describes the potential military risk China imposes and the challenges of separating the U.S. and Chinese economies. Michael explains that China has been applying pressure to the U.S. in very knowledgeable, tactical ways, and the U.S. should focus on long-term initiatives to decouple from their markets. He urges the U.S. to take China seriously and invest more time in learning their language and culture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:28.6	Welcome Welcome to the Untold Story podcast. I'm Martha McCallum. Now we have an opportunity to talk about China a bit more in depth with Michael Pillsbury from the Heritage Foundation. He's a distinguished defense policy advisor, former high-ranking government official,
0:57.1	and author of many books that are read at the highest levels of government on China.
1:02.5	And Michael, welcome.
1:03.6	Great to have you with us today.
1:05.9	Thanks a lot.
1:06.6	Glad to be here.
1:07.7	So we just spoke with Jennifer Griffin at the Pentagon about the military scenarios
1:13.4	that would come into play if China were to invade Taiwan. And we talked about the importance of the
1:19.8	semiconductor industry and how in many ways it represents sort of the oil or fuel of prior conflicts
1:26.6	because it's so significant in the development of
1:29.3	AI and military capabilities, drones, magnets, all of these very important issues.
1:36.1	On the other side of it, looking at China from the Chinese perspective and how you think
1:42.0	they are viewing this dynamic right now, where there feels
1:46.3	like increased tensions and even a move towards decoupling the economy is between the
1:52.3	United States and China.
1:54.7	Are we in a very new moment with our adversary now?
1:58.0	Well, you could say we're always in a very new moment, but there's a couple of things
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