Episode 489: China’s Lockdowns
Newt's World
Gingrich 360
4.6 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2022
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
What is happening with the COVID lockdowns in China? What was discussed at the meeting between President Joe Biden and President Xi Jinping in Bali, Indonesia on November 14th? Newt’s guest is Dr. Weifeng Zhong. He is a Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. He also runs the “Policy Change Index” project, which uses machine learning to read large volumes of propaganda text.
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| 0:35.0 | On this episode of Newt's World, President Joe Biden met with President Xi Jinping of the |
| 0:41.1 | People's Republic of China in Bali, Indonesia on November 14. According to the White House, |
| 0:47.7 | quote, the two leaders spoke candidly about their respective priorities and intentions across |
| 0:54.8 | a range of issues. President Biden said that the US will continue to compete vigorously with China, |
| 1:01.7 | including by investing in sources of strength at home and aligning efforts with allies and |
| 1:07.6 | partners around the world. I wanted to discuss what seemed to really happen behind closed doors |
| 1:14.7 | in this meeting. The meeting follows the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party |
| 1:20.9 | from October 16 through 22, 2022, much of which was not reported broadly in the press. |
| 1:28.5 | Here to provide guidance to the events of this last several weeks, I'm really pleased to welcome |
| 1:34.1 | back my guest, Dr. Wafeng Zhang. He is a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason |
| 1:41.7 | University. He also runs the Policy Change Index project which uses machine learning to |
| 1:48.3 | reach large volumes of propaganda text. The project has produced algorithms to predict China's |
| 1:54.5 | major policy changes. |
| 2:04.5 | Wafeng, thank you for joining us again on Newt's World. Thank you, Mr. Speaker for having me. |
| 2:10.9 | You know, on November 14, President Biden met with Xi Jinping. From your perspective, |
| 2:17.4 | what came of the meeting? For a while now, I think meetings like this |
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