Dangerous Game: Pelosi Provokes China Over Taiwan
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
4.7 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2022
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
The Biden administration is turning up the heat against China yet again, as news leaks that Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is traveling to Taiwan in August—another in a series of majorly escalatory acts.
Brian is joined by Dr. Ken Hammond, professor of East Asian and Global History at New Mexico State University, founding director of the Confucius Institute at New Mexico State University, and activist with Pivot to Peace.
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| 0:00.0 | Nancy Pelosi has announced that she's going to Taiwan. |
| 0:05.0 | The Chinese are calling this a strategic level provocation. |
| 0:09.0 | The Chinese defense minister said that China is prepared to fight to the very end to protect Taiwan's status. |
| 0:16.0 | We need a new system. We need a new society. |
| 0:20.0 | We need to demand that which may have sounded impossible even a few weeks ago, but is not only realizable, but an imperative necessity. Welcome to the Socialist Program. I'm your host, Brian Becker. Today we're talking to Dr. Ken |
| 0:57.9 | Hammond. He is a professor of East Asian and global history at New Mexico State University. He's a founding director of the Confucius Institute. He's also an organizer and activist with the Peace Organization Pivot to Peace. Dr. Ken Hammond, |
| 1:13.5 | welcome back to the Socialist Program. Always glad to be here. Ken, people who are sort of learning |
| 1:20.9 | about China for the first time or don't know that much, don't follow the news closely, especially |
| 1:25.8 | people in the United States who get their |
| 1:28.3 | news and information and perspective from the Western capitalist-owned so-called mainstream media. |
| 1:34.3 | They might not understand why the Chinese are saying they're prepared to fight till the end, |
| 1:40.3 | simply because news leaked that Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi Pelosi, intends to go to Taiwan in August. |
| 1:47.5 | Let's help people understand why this is so central for China. |
| 1:52.4 | You know, the idea that the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the third person in the line |
| 1:57.1 | of succession to the presidency, a very, very high-ranking member of the United States government |
| 2:01.4 | is planning on making an official journey, an official visit to the island of Taiwan. |
| 2:07.8 | It goes completely against the official position of the government of the United States, |
| 2:12.9 | which is that there is only one China and that Taiwan is part of China. |
| 2:17.4 | This was stated in the Shanghai |
| 2:19.9 | communique 50 years ago. It was reiterated in two subsequent bilateral communiques. This is the |
| 2:26.7 | official position of the United States. And it is also the status of things in the United Nations. |
| 2:32.9 | China holds the seat for itself in the United Nations |
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