China's Venezuelan vicissitudes
Sinica Podcast
Kaiser Kuo
4.8 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2020
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
In a show taped on March 2, before the full force of COVID-19 had hit the U.S., Kaiser and Jeremy chatted with Parsifal D'Sola Alvarado about China's strategy in the resource-rich but economically devastated Venezuela. Parsifal is a co-founder of the Andrés Bello China-Latin America Research Foundation and a foreign policy adviser to Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó.
2:47: China-Venezuela relations before Hugo Chávez
11:29: Popular attitudes toward China under Chávez
30:27: Between Maduro and Guaidó, China is hedging its bets
40:40: Documenting Chinese interaction in Venezuela
45:02: Do policymakers understand China’s involvement in South America
Recommendations:
Jeremy: A list of healthcare and medical professionals on Twitter, dubbed “COVID-19 medical Twitter” by Jeremy.
Parsifal: A book in Spanish by Francisco Suniaga, El pasajero de Truman, and The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom, by Simon Winchester.
Kaiser: Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland, by Patrick Radden Keefe.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the cynical podcast, a weekly discussion of current affairs in China, produced in partnership with SubChina. |
| 0:14.7 | SubChina is simply the best way there is to keep on top of all the important news coming out of China |
| 0:18.5 | with our indispensable daily newsletter, website, and growing range of podcasts and videos. I'm Kaiser Guo, coming to you today from the |
| 0:26.2 | Cineka South Studio in downtown Durham, North Carolina, joining me from stately Goldcorn Manor in the |
| 0:31.8 | genteel outskirts of Nashville, Tennessee, is a man who was so unable to control his excitement |
| 0:37.2 | in casting his first ever presidential |
| 0:39.0 | primary ballot that he had to wear adult diapers to the polls, Mr. Jeremy Goldcorn. |
| 0:46.7 | Jeremy, so did you vote early, man? |
| 0:50.2 | Yeah, I voted on, I think the first day was possible. |
| 0:53.1 | All right. See, you couldn't continue to sit there. |
| 0:55.2 | I'm an immigrant. |
| 0:55.9 | I'm somebody who hasn't had a lot of democracy in my life, so I'm trying to make up for it. |
| 1:01.6 | Sadly, I arrive in this country to this state, but what can one do? |
| 1:06.8 | You guys vote Super Tuesday like us, right? |
| 1:09.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:10.1 | All right, all right. |
| 1:11.4 | I will not inquire as to who you voted for the Democratic race, but I can tell you that I threw mine away because my candidate is already out of the race. |
| 1:20.6 | Oh, well, dang it. |
| 1:22.5 | Anyway, enough for that. |
| 1:25.2 | Beijing's relationship with Venezuela has been fascinating to watch, especially in recent years, as China has looked with conflicting emotions at this resource-rich but economically devastated country and has tried to anticipate Venezuela's political future. For Beijing, Venezuela went from the largest recipient of Chinese loans in the whole world to a basket |
| 1:45.7 | case that was really fraught with all sorts of political risk. |
| 1:48.8 | Now, I suspect that I am not the only person interested in China who is guilty of not |
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