Chris Johnson on the U.S.-China relationship

Intelligence Matters

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Politics, News, Government

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🗓️ 19 December 2017

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

The U.S. relationship with China is arguably one of the most strategically important, as highlighted by the Trump administration calling China a "strategic competitor" in its new national security strategy. In this episode, Michael spends time with Chris Johnson, one of his most trusted former China analysts while the two worked at the CIA, to examine how China has evolved to challenge the U.S. on the global stage: its economic growth; its geopolitical influence; Chinese political power plays and the key factors that drive the U.S.-China relationship.

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0:31.0	This is an extraordinarily important relationship between Washington and Beijing.
0:37.4	The most I think.
0:38.4	You know, maybe the most important, right?
0:39.7	I once said that to President Bush, and he said, no, no, no, Michael, it's Mexico City
0:43.7	and Ottawa, China's third.
0:49.6	What the party elders, Jackson Man, and many others thought they were getting with
0:53.1	Xi Jinping is what I call a sexy Hu Jintao.
0:55.6	You know, in other words, a guy like Hu Jintao who would respect the boundaries and the
0:59.8	way the system was structured, but would get stuff done.
1:02.6	And what they found out is they got something very different.
1:06.6	What's your sense of the degree of Chinese influence over North Korea?
1:12.3	They have absolute leverage, and yet they're absolutely unwilling to use it.
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