Robert Sutter on US China Relations

The Politics Guys

Michael Baranowski

Politics, News

4.5 • 772 Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2018

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Mike talks to Dr. Robert Sutter, a Professor of International Affairs at the Elliott School of George Washington University. Dr. Sutter has worked both in government and in academia, including positions with the CIA, State Department, and Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He's published 20 books, over 200 articles and several hundred government reports dealing with contemporary East Asian and Pacific countries and their relations with the United States. His most recent book is US-China Relations: Perilous Past, Uncertain Present. Mike and Dr. Sutter discuss how China is like Prussia, China's investment in Africa, the US / China trade deficit, China & North Korea, if the 21st century will be the 'Chinese Century', and lots more. We'd really appreciate it if you could take the short, super-easy Politics Guys libsyn survey. Here's the link: survey.libsyn.com/politicsguys Listener support helps make The Politics Guys possible. If you’re interested in supporting the show, go to politicsguys.com/support. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-politics-guys/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the politics guys, a place for a bipartisan, rational, and civil debate on American politics and policy.
0:06.2	I'm Michael Barronowski, a political scientist at Northern Kentucky University.
0:10.3	Before we get to my interview with China expert Robert Sutter, just a brief reminder,
0:15.6	folks, if you haven't yet filled out the Libson survey, politics guys survey, it would be really helpful if you did.
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0:28.5	doing it on your phone, which you probably will. But it would be a big help to us. And again,
0:32.6	to find that, it's survey.libson.com slash politics guys. That's Libson, L-I-B-S-Y-N. And I will also have that
0:41.8	URL in the show notes. Thanks very much. My guest today is Dr. Robert Sutter, a professor of
0:47.4	international affairs at the Elliott School of George Washington University. Dr. Sutter has worked
0:52.6	both in government and in academia, including
0:55.2	positions with the CIA, State Department, and Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He's published
1:00.9	20 books, over 200 articles, and several hundred government reports dealing with contemporary
1:05.8	East Asian and Pacific countries and their relations with the United States.
1:12.2	Dr. Sutter, welcome to the show.
1:13.6	Thank you.
1:14.4	Happy to be here.
1:21.0	You've been studying China for a long time now, which I think gives you a depth of knowledge and a perspective that sometimes in some media accounts can be lacking, I think.
1:26.9	And so I'd like to start with a little bit of historical context about the United States' relationship
1:33.1	with China.
1:35.6	For most of the post-World War II era, I think Americans saw the Soviet Union as the primary
1:43.2	strategic rival. And there was some concern about
1:46.5	Japan, we could see starting in the 1980s, but really in the 21st century, I think it's China
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