Pres. Biden wants to end U.S. reliance on China. Could Beijing show us the way?

On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

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🗓️ 12 October 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Key parts of our economy and defense rely on imports from China. President Biden wants to end that dependence. On the flipside, President Xi has been trying to untangle China’s economy from ours for years. How’s that working out? Hung Tran and Elaine Dezenski join Meghna Chakrabarti.

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0:18.8	This is on point.
0:25.9	I'm Meg Nechakrabardi.
0:27.6	The world's most powerful countries often times behave
0:31.2	in very similar ways.
0:34.0	I'm talking about fundamentally human ways,
0:38.1	meaning human beings want to protect themselves, right?
0:42.4	So in the case of powerful nations,
0:45.0	this means acting to protect their own national
0:48.2	and economic security.
0:50.7	So we've been fascinated to watch the two binary stars
0:55.6	of 21st century global power, the US and China, of course,
0:58.9	drawn together by globalization's gravitational pull
1:03.0	and also forever orbiting each other at a wary distance.
1:07.4	Well, they've been behaving in very similar ways
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