PREVIEW: #PRC: #CLINTON ADMINISTRATION: Conversation with Isaac Stone Fish, author AMERICA 2ND, re the diplomatic and military tangle the Clinton Administration endured in the second term, from threats to Taiwan to investment opportunities. More tonight
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 30 June 2024
⏱️ 4 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Finger Motion Inc. is a mobile data specialist company licensed in China to provide mobile payment and recharge platform solutions to the massive and ever growing Chinese economy, Finger Motion seamlessly manages mobile recharge data, |
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| 0:26.8 | contain forward-looking statements which may not be realized. This is John |
| 0:31.2 | Bachelor conversation with Isaac Stone Fish for his book America Second, |
| 0:36.2 | how America's elites are making China stronger. |
| 0:39.5 | Isaac takes us back to the Clinton administration and the tangle that Mr Clinton, the Defense |
| 0:45.8 | Department and the whole U.S. government got in over Taiwan following or during the troubles that Mr Clinton had about an investigation into his finances |
| 0:58.0 | into his conduct with Ms Lewinsky. |
| 1:02.2 | In general, the saga of the second administration and Isaac very |
| 1:08.0 | carefully reminds us Mr Clinton got into the tangle and got out of the tangle but the legacy moved China from |
| 1:18.6 | the military political confrontation with the U.S. into a business relationship that was very |
| 1:26.2 | successful. Here's Isakstone Fish. The book is America Second, how America's |
| 1:31.6 | elites are making China stronger. This is more than 25 years ago and yet more of this tonight. |
| 1:38.6 | Well and poorly at the same time. So the negative was a massive fundraising scandal, mostly forgotten today, but that |
| 1:48.3 | drew a huge amount of ink for everyone moved on to focus on the greater Lewinsky scandal. |
| 1:54.8 | And what happened was a Chinese director of military intelligence |
| 1:58.5 | gave a DNC fundraiser several hundred thousand dollars to try and help elect Bill |
| 2:06.4 | Clinton and that's illegal under US law massive, huge amount of congressional testimony, and it didn't allow Beijing |
| 2:18.8 | to operate in DC like it wanted and it was a very big negative for Clinton in his relations with |
| 2:24.0 | Taiwan with China with his own party because of the scandal. What Clinton did do |
| 2:29.3 | well was his response to this Lee Dunhui issue. |
| 2:34.8 | So Lee was invited by Congress to give a speech at Cornell. |
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