Ep 367 | China’s Real Threat & Dems’ Fake Impeachment | Guest: Melissa Chen

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🗓️ 11 February 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Today we're speaking with Melissa Chen, a writer for the Spectator and an expert on China. Melissa describes how the Biden administration's approach to China (or lack thereof) compares to what the Trump administration has done. Basically all that has happened so far is that Biden has reversed many of Trump's executive actions and orders regarding China, and his administration banned the term "China virus," so that's just great. Seems like the current president is more concerned with moral posturing around race rather than the geopolitical threat presented by the CCP. Then, we give a quick rundown of what's going on with Trump's impeachment. The Senate voted to move forward with the trial, but conviction is very unlikely. As we've said before, Trump is often clumsy with his words, but he definitely did not incite violence on January 6. -- Today's Sponsors: Patriot Mobile: Get free PREMIERE activation where they set up the phone for you, and get a special gift, with the offer code 'ALLIE'. Go to PatrioMobile.com/ALLIE! Raycon: A pair of Raycons in your ears can make all the difference. Right now they're offering 15% off all their products for 'Relatable' listeners -> go to BuyRaycon.com/ALLIE! -- Today's Sources: Impeachment trial Day One: Democrats defeat move to end trial https://washex.am/3p8vrrx Texas lawyer, trapped by cat filter on Zoom call, informs judge he is not a cat https://bit.ly/3rBeGqo -- Buy Allie's book, You're Not Enough (& That's Okay): Escaping the Toxic Culture of Self-Love: https://alliebethstuckey.com/book Relatable merchandise: https://shop.blazemedia.com/collections/allie-stuckey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey guys, welcome to your relatable. Happy Wednesday. Hope everyone has had a great first
0:14.9	half of your week. Today I have an awesome interview ahead with Melissa Chin of Spectator,
0:22.1	USA. She is an expert on China. She grew up in Singapore. So she is very familiar with
0:29.9	this authoritarian regime having grown up in proximity to it and even under some authoritarian
0:37.6	laws herself. And so she just has an amazing perspective on not just the threat of China,
0:42.4	but specifically how she sees Biden being soft on China. And what we can do about it, why
0:47.7	should we should be hopeful, why we should be concerned. So I'm excited for you to listen
0:51.0	to that conversation. And then I'm going to tell you what is going on with this impeachment
0:55.4	trial. Going to be honest guys, didn't really know that was going on yesterday. I just slipped
1:02.1	my mind. I am not on Twitter as much. Maybe that's why, but also this just seems so pointless,
1:09.0	but I'll get all into that in just a little bit. So first let me talk to Melissa Chin without
1:17.8	further ado. Here she is. Melissa, thank you so much for joining me. I want to talk to you
1:27.7	about the Biden administration and their take on China. You write about this a lot for
1:34.0	the spectator. And I just want to kind of get first your general take. Well, what do you think
1:39.3	the Biden administration approach is going to be to the threat of China?
1:43.1	I think so firstly to kind of frame this. I think the Trump administration ushered in a very
1:53.5	new bipartisan attitude towards China, which sees it not as a potential collaborator, a partner
2:00.7	any longer, but more as a strategic threat or rival. And this position did push Biden quite
2:08.4	sharply to the right. At least compared to where Biden was as vice president. And so you've seen
2:17.6	even during the campaign trail, Biden was actually very hawkish on China. He called Xi Jinping a thug.
2:25.6	He actually, I think in August, said that yes, what's going on is Xinjiang is a genocide. So he
2:32.3	has adopted a very hawkish stance on China. And that was very apparent since started campaigning.
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