China's Foreign Policy Part 5, 1989-1995: Navigating From Isolation to Global Economic Integration after Tiananmen Square
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
4.7 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 15 July 2021
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Today's episode is the fifth in a multi-part series that takes an in-depth look at the history of China's foreign policy. In the aftermath of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, China found itself internationally isolated and subjected to harsh new economic sanctions. Then in 1992, Deng Xiaoping launches the "Southern Tour", culminating in the dramatic deepening of market reforms. This leads to a massive influx of foreign investment as China becomes deeply integrated into the global economy.
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 multi-part series on China's foreign policy. |
| 0:05.7 | In this episode, we pick it up after the Tiananmen Square events of June 1989, |
| 0:12.5 | talking about the years 1989 to 1995. |
| 0:17.4 | We need a new system. |
| 0:19.5 | We need a new society. |
| 0:25.6 | 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 on The Socialist Program. |
| 0:56.0 | I'm your host, Brian Becker. |
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| 1:08.0 | We can do this show with you, but not without you. We're joined by Dr. Ken |
| 1:13.0 | Hammond, professor of East Asian and global history at New Mexico State University. Ken is also |
| 1:19.7 | the founding director of the Confucius Institute at New Mexico State University. He is also an organizer |
| 1:26.5 | and activist with the organization Pivot to Peace. |
| 1:30.5 | Dr. Ken Hammond, welcome back. Glad to be here, Brian. Looking forward to continuing the conversation. |
| 1:37.4 | Indeed. I mean, we are looking at China's foreign policy for people who might be listening for the first time since the formation, |
| 1:46.4 | the foundation of the People's Republic of China in 1949. So we looked at the decade between |
| 1:52.6 | 1949 and roughly 1960, the period or the decade of the 1950s, when a key element of China's foreign policy was its participation |
| 2:03.8 | inside what was called the socialist bloc countries led by the Soviet Union. |
| 2:10.5 | The 1960s, the next decade roughly translates to the falling out or dispute with the socialist camp. |
| 2:19.9 | Maybe perhaps China felt it had been cast out by the Soviet Union of the socialist camp. |
| 2:27.3 | And then the decade of the 1970s, China is not only outside the socialist camp, |
| 2:33.3 | but in many ways an adversary, an openly stated |
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