President Biden and his strategy for China
Business Daily
BBC
4.4 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2021
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Will the US President continue with an increasingly hostile attitude towards China? Or does economic common sense demand that Washington should back off from Beijing? Ed Butler asks Diana Choyleva of Enodo Economics, and he chairs a debate between David Sacks of the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington DC and Kishore Mahbubani, a distinguished fellow at the National University of Singapore.
(Picture: US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping. Credit: Getty Images.)
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| 0:00.0 | From the BBC World Service. |
| 0:02.9 | These attackers have no fear. |
| 0:04.5 | They would have killed me had they found out. |
| 0:06.4 | It was really intense. |
| 0:08.4 | I just saw the entire financial markets grinding to a halt. |
| 0:12.5 | This is what they've stolen. |
| 0:14.0 | So many millions of dollars. |
| 0:15.2 | Oh, it's got to be North Korea. |
| 0:16.3 | There was chaos. |
| 0:17.2 | What do you mean they've disappeared? |
| 0:18.3 | It was almost like a perfect crime. |
| 0:19.8 | Where did they get them on? |
| 0:20.8 | How in the world did this happen? |
| 0:22.6 | The Lazarus Heist from the BBC World Service coming soon. |
| 0:29.9 | Hello there, I'm Ed Butler and welcome to Business Daily from the BBC. |
| 0:34.1 | Our question today, does President Biden have a plan in his increasingly confrontational approach |
| 0:40.3 | to China? |
| 0:41.3 | I would say that we do have an emerging strategy. |
| 0:45.3 | There's a bipartisan consensus in Washington that China is engaging in a range of behaviors |
| 0:53.3 | that are inimical to U.S. interests |
| 0:55.4 | and the interests of our allies and partners in the region. |
| 0:58.3 | Well, that's one view, but does economic common sense demand |
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