China's Foreign Policy Part 3, 1965-1975: When Enemies Become "Friends"
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
4.7 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2021
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Today's episode is the third in a multi-part series that takes an in-depth look at the history of China's foreign policy. We discuss how Chinese foreign policy shifted after the Cultural Revolution. This culminated with China and the U.S. under the Nixon administration forging a new alliance that reshaped global politics.
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 | We continue our series examining China's foreign policy over the decades. |
| 0:08.0 | Today we talk about 1965 to 1975, the beginning of the cultural revolution, the deepening split |
| 0:16.9 | between the People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union, and finally the visit by |
| 0:23.6 | Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger and the beginning of normalization of relations between the |
| 0:29.1 | United States and China. |
| 0:32.3 | 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 a new system. We need a new society. We need to demand that which may have sounded impossible |
| 0:39.1 | even a few weeks ago, but is not only realizable, but an imperative necessity. Welcome to The Real Story on The Socialist Program. |
| 1:12.3 | I'm your host, Brian Becker. |
| 1:19.1 | If you enjoy the show, please support this independent programming by going to patreon.com forward slash the socialist program and subscribing. |
| 1:23.5 | We can do this show. |
| 1:24.9 | We can bring you this kind of programming with your support, but not without it. |
| 1:29.7 | We're joined by Dr. Ken Hammond. |
| 1:31.7 | He's a professor of East Asian and Global History at New Mexico State University. |
| 1:37.2 | He's the founding director of the Confucius Institute at New Mexico State University |
| 1:42.0 | and an activist with Pivot to Peace. |
| 1:46.1 | Ken Hammond, welcome back. |
| 1:48.1 | Glad to be back, Brian. I'm enjoying our conversations. |
| 1:51.8 | Likewise, and we're going to, as I mentioned in the introduction, we're going to pick up where we left off. |
| 1:58.0 | This was following the 1965 counter-revolution that killed more than a million |
| 2:04.0 | Indonesians and brought down the progressive government of Sukarno, an ally of China, |
| 2:09.8 | and replaced it with a semi-fascist or fascist military dictatorship aligned with the United States. |
| 2:16.5 | A very, very big blow to China, increasing |
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