China's Foreign Policy Part 7, 2011-2021: US "Pivots to Asia" and Xi Jinping Takes the Reins
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
4.7 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 29 July 2021
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Today's episode is the seventh in a multi-part series that takes an in-depth look at the history of China's foreign policy. During the Obama administration, US imperialism adopts the "Pivot to Asia" strategy and makes China its top target. At the same time, Xi Jinping becomes China's president and navigates China's rise.
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 | In 2011, President Barack Obama announced the pivot to Asia. |
| 0:07.0 | And in March 2013, Xi Jinping was chosen to be the president of China. |
| 0:14.8 | Today, we continue with part seven in our multi-part series examining China's foreign policy. |
| 0:22.6 | We need a new system. |
| 0:24.8 | We need a new society. |
| 0:26.7 | We need to demand that which may have sounded impossible even a few weeks ago, |
| 0:31.0 | but is not only realizable, but an imperative necessity. |
| 1:01.6 | Thank you. but an imperative necessity. Welcome back to The Real Story on The Socialist Program. I'm your host, Brian Becker. |
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| 1:12.3 | We need your support. |
| 1:14.8 | We're joined again by Dr. Ken Hammond, professor of East Asian and global history at |
| 1:20.0 | New Mexico State University, founding director of the Confucius Institute at New Mexico State |
| 1:25.8 | University and an activist with Pivot to Peace. |
| 1:29.7 | Dr. Hammond, welcome back. |
| 1:31.6 | Always glad to be back. |
| 1:33.5 | We're going to talk about 2011 to 2021. |
| 1:38.8 | This is the last decade in this multi-part series on China's foreign policy. We began the series looking at the |
| 1:46.9 | first decade, 1949 to 1959. That was the period where the Chinese government was in close |
| 1:54.3 | alliance with the Soviet Union, the two countries together, along with their socialist allies |
| 1:59.5 | in Eastern and Central Europe and |
| 2:01.2 | North Vietnam and North Korea, constituted two-fifths of the world's population. |
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