Ep 443 | Our Biggest Geopolitical Threat & What to Do About It | Guest: Melissa Chen

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey

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News, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, News Commentary

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🗓️ 23 June 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Joining us today is Melissa Chen: a journalist, the New York editor for Spectator USA, and the managing director of Ideas Beyond Borders. Melissa is passionate about free speech and has a lot to say about China's current suppression of speech and content online and elsewhere, plus why it's a mistake to dismiss China's growing influence over our culture and media. --- Today's Sponsors: Good Ranchers delivers 100% American steak or chicken directly to your door! It's individually wrapped, vacuum sealed and ready to grill. Go to GoodRanchers.com/ALLIE & save $20 off, plus get free express shipping! Fast Growing Trees is a better way to buy shrubs, plants, and trees for your home and yard. Now through July 31 go to FastGrowingTrees.com/ALLIE for 15% off! --- 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 Relatable. Today I am with Melissa Chin of Spectator USA. I've had
0:16.6	her on the podcast before. Today we are going to talk about the threat of China. How
0:22.2	we got here to the place to where China has influenced our culture, influenced our media,
0:27.7	influenced the way we think in our economics and our technological development so much and how
0:32.8	we can possibly get out of their influence, which as you will learn through this conversation,
0:38.4	is so important. And so she's got a lot of insight to give us on this. I'm excited for you to
0:43.7	hear it without further ado. Here is Melissa Chin. Melissa, thank you so much for joining us. Can you tell
0:54.0	everyone who you are? What you do? Okay, my name is Melissa Chin and I'm the New York editor of
1:00.2	Spectator USA. I'm also the managing director of an organization called Ideas Beyond Borders.
1:06.4	And what we do is we translate books in Arabic to get advice them and make them available for free.
1:11.9	Wow. And you talk a lot about, well you talk about a lot of different subjects and you're
1:17.2	a really great follow for that reason. One area that I want to focus on today is China, our relationship
1:24.8	with China kind of in general and also specifically how you foresee the Biden administration kind of
1:31.6	dealing with this hostile regime. First, can you kind of tell us your expertise in this area?
1:39.8	So I've always been interested in the China issue because I think this is the geopolitical
1:45.9	relationship that is really going to reshape the 21st century. I came to the United States when I
1:52.4	was about 17. I immigrated here for college and I love the values of the United States, especially
1:58.7	the First Amendment. So I was pretty disappointed when I started seeing in college when we'd be about
2:04.3	like when I was in grad school about 2015, how the country was changing and it reminded me of what
2:09.3	it's like being back home in Singapore where there were certain kind of avenues of speech where
2:14.9	you weren't allowed to discuss. And you know, kind of being Chinese, I knew also how important
2:22.5	Confucian values were to shaping society. And I felt, okay, this is a topic that I need to be a
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