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The Bunker – News without the nonsense

Daily: From A to Xi - What will China do in 2022?

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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News, Government, Politics, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 20 February 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

What will China do in 2022? Cindy Yu, The Spectator’s broadcast editor and host of the Chinese Whispers podcast, joins Alex Andreou to take a look at the direction of travel for the world’s most populous nation. What does a policy of ‘zero-covid’ mean for China? How will relations with America and Russia turn out? And is Xi Jinping lumbering up for conflict with Taiwan? “Sport has always been a good way for a controversial government in China to build bridges.” “Zero-covid is another barrier between China and the rest of the world.” “Putin and Xi share values when it come to how they run their countries.” “If China is going to invade Taiwan, what’s happening in Ukraine will not affect that.” “The idea of China overtaking America is too simplistic. Very rarely do you have a unipolar world.” “The more the West bashes China, the more the Chinese media whip that up into an anti-China narrative.” Presented by Alex Andreou. The Group Editor is Andrew Harrison. The Lead Producer is Jacob Jarvis. The producers are Jacob Archbold, Jelena Sofronijevic and Alex Rees. Audio production by Jade Bailey. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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I loved going to college.

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1:12.2

Politics and power is a realm of relative influence

1:17.2

wrote Farid Zakari in his book the post-American world so as China expands its role, whose role is diminishing, of course the established

1:27.2

power, the United States, it's not possible for two countries to be the leading dominant political power at the same time he concluded.

1:36.3

Would it surprise you to learn that the defining Western trope about China as a sleeping tiger with its implicit when not if mortal danger is probably two centuries old

1:50.1

based as it is on something apocryphal that Napoleon Bonaparte may or may not have said,

1:56.0

the West has observed China closely, almost breathlessly at times,

2:01.0

for a very long while.

2:04.0

We study the country suspiciously through interchangeable lenses of insecurity, xenophobia,

2:10.4

an exoticist fascination. But how often do we actually try to understand our

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