Playing Chicken with China: How Propaganda Rationalizes Conflict.
Unf*cking The Republic
UNFTR Media
4.9 • 683 Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2021
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
There were 15 references to China in the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act. The recent bill passed by the House, which is more than what President Biden requested (because that makes fucking sense) contains 89 references to China. It’s official. We have our new existential bogeyman threat. Battle stations, everyone. We’re going to war with China. Someday. Or are we? Why would we? What the actual fuck is our problem? Today’s episode pulls back the cover on our latest propaganda campaign designed to scare the shit out of us and normalize aggression toward our largest trading partner on the planet.
Chapters
00:00:40 Intro
00:01:55 Chapter 1
00:05:15 Chapter 2
00:13:47 Chapter 3
00:19:25 Chapter 4
00:28:37 Chapter 5
00:37:31 Show Notes
00:39:41 Emails + Shoutouts
00:49:45 Outro
Resources
Richard Nixon Presidential Library: Nixon in China: Film
Militarist Monitor: Gatestone Institute
AlJazeera: Biden administration approves $650m weapon sale to Saudi Arabia
Democracy Now!: Historian Alfred McCoy Predicts the U.S. Empire is Collapsing as China’s Power Grows
60 Minutes Australia: Prepare for Armageddon: China's warning to the world
Democracy At Work: The Competition Between China and the U.S. - Global Capitalism with Richard Wolff
Democracy Now!: Noam Chomsky: Trump's attacks on China are a continuation of "Yellow Peril" fear-mongering
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Vivek Ramaswamy: Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America's Social Justice Scam
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| 0:00.0 | Unfucking the Republic is brought to you by Sam C, Cringy, and Cindy S, unfucking insane level members of the show. |
| 0:06.9 | Hey, it's 99. As you might imagine, Max is sufficiently tweaked after the House passed a $768 billion |
| 0:14.0 | defense spending bill, the NDAA for 2022, which was even more than President Biden requested. |
| 0:20.6 | On a related note, today's episode looks at the increasingly hostile rhetoric towards China |
| 0:25.1 | and how the U.S. is positioning itself and its allies to confront what they perceive |
| 0:29.0 | to be Chinese aggression. Make sure to stay tuned for show notes at the end of the episode. |
| 0:33.6 | We have some updates on our coffee store, new member shoutouts, and a rundown of how we plan to close out the year. |
| 0:38.9 | So stick around. |
| 0:41.5 | We, of course, are under no illusions that 20 years of hostility between the People's Republic of China and the United States of America are going to be swept away by one week of talks that we will have there. |
| 0:55.0 | We must recognize that the government of the People's Republic of China and the government |
| 1:00.0 | of the United States have had great differences. |
| 1:03.0 | We will have differences in the future. |
| 1:07.0 | But what we must do is to find a way to see that we can have differences without being enemies in war. |
| 1:18.1 | You to the end to the FTR. |
| 1:21.1 | I'm fucking the republic, beating people where they are. |
| 1:24.1 | Left, right, center, make you laugh, make you cry. |
| 1:27.1 | Max brings the heat of a basic white guy. |
| 1:29.4 | That's me. Could have run for office, could have got up off his ass. |
| 1:32.2 | He'd have made something other than a fucking podcast. But here we are, yo, the UNFPR show. |
| 1:37.4 | Man he faces ripping the script with the fuckers around the globe. And Brigty brings it back for Tom McGovern. Let's go. |
| 1:42.8 | Unfuckers, Uncuckers, Eurofuckers 99 |
| 1:45.3 | Down underfuckers and some fuckers, they out like they fucking minds. |
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