Ian Johnson and Lin Yao on "liberal" Chinese Trump supporters
Sinica Podcast
Kaiser Kuo
4.8 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 31 December 2020
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Why have so many prominent critical and dissident intellectuals from China come out vocally in support of Donald Trump? This week on Sinica, Kaiser and Jeremy set out to answer that question, and are joined by journalist Ian Johnson of the New York Times and by Lin Yao, a political scientist now earning a law degree at Yale, who writes frequently on Chinese intellectuals and U.S. politics.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the cynical podcast, the week of the discussion of current affairs in China, produced in partnership with SubChina. |
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| 0:20.8 | news sources or check out all the original writing including reported stories, editorials, |
| 0:25.9 | and regular columns, as well as our growing library of videos and, of course, podcasts on our website. |
| 0:31.6 | We cover everything from China's fraught foreign relations to its ingenious entrepreneurs, |
| 0:36.3 | from the ongoing repression of |
| 0:38.4 | Uighurs and other Muslim people in China's Xinjiang region to China's ambitious efforts |
| 0:42.6 | to eliminate poverty. |
| 0:44.3 | It's a feast of business, political, and cultural news about a nation that is reshaping the world. |
| 0:50.7 | I'm Kaiser Guo coming to you today from my home in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. |
| 0:54.6 | Joining me from his sprawling 40-acre estate just outside Nashville, Tennessee is Jeremy Goldcourt. |
| 0:59.3 | The man recently outed as the individual who runs Tennessee Senator Marsha Blackburn's Twitter account. |
| 1:05.9 | And he was responsible for a December 3rd tweet that read, |
| 1:08.6 | China has a 5,000-year history of cheating and stealing. |
| 1:12.2 | Some things will never change. |
| 1:14.1 | Classic, Jeremy. |
| 1:15.6 | May you continue to provide nuanced |
| 1:18.0 | and balanced insights |
| 1:19.5 | from our esteemed senator. |
| 1:22.8 | Oh, our esteemed Senator, |
| 1:24.0 | Masha, she's great, isn't she? |
| 1:25.6 | Only the best for us here in Tennessee. |
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