S8 Ep713: PREVIEW FOR LATER. GUEST: Gordon Chang. Chang analyzes how China exploits global instability and anti-Trump sentiment to undermine the international system, gaining strategic "runway" while the United States and its NATO partners struggle with internal an
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 8 April 2026
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PREVIEW FOR LATER. GUEST: Gordon Chang. Chang analyzes how Chinaexploits global instability and anti-Trumpsentiment to undermine the international system, gaining strategic "runway" while the United States and its NATOpartners struggle with internal and external challenges. (2)
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| 0:00.0 | This is John Batchelor. My colleague Gordon Chang assesses what China gains or not gains after the apparent settlement of the Straits of Hormuz, apparent because it's a day-to-day situation right now. What is China's gain? What is the loss, if there is one? Here's Gordon. More tonight. Yes, China is benefiting a lot |
| 0:25.4 | from this. And as Charles just mentioned, it is puzzling. But clearly, people hate Trump. And Trump |
| 0:34.0 | indulges them. So this is a very bad story for the Western Alliance at a time when |
| 0:41.4 | Russia and China are trying to take down the international system. They're supporting all sorts of |
| 0:47.3 | bad actors and China is able to get some runway because the United States is not able for various reasons. Both the United |
| 0:57.4 | States is to be blamed and so are the NATO partners. But China gets a lot of runway to destabilize the |
| 1:06.1 | world and to accomplish its aims. |
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