Net Assessment: The China Hand
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🗓️ 18 October 2018
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
This week's Net Assessment podcast featured a deep-dive into the Vice President's early October speech on the competition with China. Largely drowned out by the Kavanaugh SCOTUS controversy, Melanie, Chris, and Bryan give this important speech due consideration, to include administration views on Taiwan, China's defense buildup, and its growing global influence. The crew also discussed foreign aid, the F-35, the deficit, the alleged assassination of Jamal Khashoggi, and the resignation of Nikki Haley. All of this while celebrating Melanie's birthday.
Vice President's Speech
- Remarks by Vice President Pence on the Administration's Policy Toward China
- Ethan Epstein, "How China Infiltrated US Classrooms," Politico, January 16, 2018.
- Glenn Thrush, "Trump Embraces Foreign Aid to Counter China's Global Influence," New York Times, October 14, 2018.
- Jim DeBrosse, "Waiting for the Great Leap Forward," Cincinnati Magazine, May 4, 2017.
- Alan Rappeport, "In New Slap at China, US Expands Power to Block Foreign Investments," New York Times, October 10, 2018.
- Jane Perlez and Yufan Huang, "Behind China's $1 Trillion Plan to Shake Up the Economic Order," New York Times, May 13, 2017.
- Adva Saldinger, "A New US Development Finance Agency Takes Flight," Devex, October 4, 2018
- Glenn Thrush, "Trump Embraces Foreign Aid to Counter China's Global Influence," The New York Times, October 14, 2018
Airing of Grievances
- https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna920191
- https://www.pogo.org/investigation/2018/09/exclusive-f-35-program-facing-another-setback/
- https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/16/trumps-tax-cut-didnt-reduce-the-deficit--despite-his-many-promises.html
Attaboys
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/10/12/western-walkout-saudi-davos-desert-conference-over-jamal-khashoggi-undermines-kingdoms-modernization-plans/
- https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/16/trumps-tax-cut-didnt-reduce-the-deficit--despite-his-many-promises.html
- https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/09/politics/nikki-haley-resignation/index.html
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You are actually not listening to the War on the Rocks podcast. You're about to listen to the |
| 0:12.3 | second episode of net assessment |
| 0:14.1 | our new contentious argumentative national security podcast featuring Melanie |
| 0:18.5 | Marlow, Chris Preble, and Brian McGrath. This is one of the last episodes that we're going to be transmitting |
| 0:25.2 | out on the War on the Rock's feed, so be sure to sign up for net assessment on your podcast |
| 0:29.2 | app of choice. Enjoy the show. It's a fun one. Hello and Hello and welcome to Nef Assessment, the podcast devoted to spirited conversation about the tough issues facing America's national security community. |
| 0:49.0 | I'm Melanie Marlow of Carnegie Mellon University and I'm joined by Chris Preble of the Cato Institute and |
| 0:54.4 | Brian McGrath of the Hudson Institute. So gentlemen how are we today? |
| 0:58.8 | Hello again. What have we been up to? Brian? |
| 1:02.1 | I am still basking in the glory of I'm already rolling my eyes but okay go ahead. |
| 1:08.8 | Yeah exactly where can this possibly go because it's not good. Where did you go undergraduate? George Washington. |
| 1:16.0 | George Washington. Do you even have a football team? No, we did not. Thank you. |
| 1:20.0 | Saturday night. I was in attendance in the center of the known world, Charlottesville, Virginia, for the epic victory of the unranked and unheralded Virginia Cavaliers over the 15th ranked Miami hurricanes, the forces of darkness and evil. |
| 1:39.6 | And it was phenomenal. I was among my fraternity brothers where God lives on the on the lawn |
| 1:48.6 | in Charlotte. It was just it was wonderful And as if that weren't enough on Saturday night, |
| 1:56.0 | a couple of just a couple days from now, |
| 1:59.0 | the 35th reunion of the Lenape High School class of 1983 will be occurring in |
| 2:05.9 | which means you're old so yeah which means I'm old I am 53 years old we'll be having |
| 2:11.0 | our 35th reunion and gathering that crowd and I'm very excited about that |
| 2:16.2 | That's what's going on in my life |
| 2:18.3 | Brian is a fashion mess today. There are no cuff links. His tying his pants don't match. |
| 2:24.3 | His own admission he has car salesman hair. |
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