China’s Mounting Challenge to U.S. Hegemony

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🗓️ 5 April 2023

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Despite China warning “serious confrontation in the U.S.-China relationship,” House Speaker Kevin McCarthy confirmed plans to meet with Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen when she visits California on Wednesday. This week on Intercepted, Elbridge Colby, former defense strategist during the Trump administration, joins Jeremy Scahill and Murtaza Hussain to discuss and debate the emerging bipartisan consensus that China threatens U.S. economic and military dominance. They discuss the impact of the U.S. war machine globally, China’s military build-up, as well as China’s rapidly expanding international prominence and economic might. As Beijing celebrates its diplomatic efforts to broker a peace deal between Saudi Arabia and Iran, and makes moves aimed at ending Russia’s war in Ukraine, they debate whether Beijing poses a real threat to the U.S. and if a non-hegemonic world is possible.

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1:01.0	I'm Jeremy Scayhill.
1:09.0	I'm Matazo Sen.
1:11.0	Good to be with you again, my friend.
1:14.0	We're going to be focusing today's episode on China and the kind of emerging bipartisan elite consensus
1:23.0	that China should be viewed as the premier threat to the United States, to its national security,
1:29.0	and also the concerns that China is threatening American hegemony.
1:34.0	We're going to be talking to a really interesting guest.
1:37.0	He actually served in the Pentagon during the Trump administration.
1:41.0	His name is Elbridge Colby, and we'll mix it up a bit with him.
1:45.0	But before we get into that, I just wanted to say, Maz, that this week history is being made
1:51.0	in the United States with Donald Trump being arraigned on more than two dozen felony charges
1:58.0	that relate to his 2016 alleged hush money payments to the adult film star Stormy Daniels.
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