Hello everybody and welcome back to RevLeft Radio.

On today's episode I have back on the show Danny Haifong, who was on the show many times,

but I think the biggest episode he was on to talk about is broke, I think in 2019, called

American exceptionalism and American innocence.

Great episode, I'll lead to that in the show notes for people that are interested in that.

But today he's back on to talk about China, Taiwan, the recent Pelosi visit, what conditions

could lead to an actual explicit move on the part of China to move on Taiwan, the US's

interests and meddling in the area and much more.

So this is a topical situation that recently happened and we're just kind of reflecting

on it and pulling out some imperialist and geopolitical insights to make sense of the

situation and to help us look forward to what's coming down the pike in the coming years,

specifically regarding Taiwan, but more broadly the US and Chinese relations.

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