Summary
Erin, Radha and Loren return after some technical difficulties to rehash the G20, a newsy leader summit full of the president reversing the well-honed positions of his staff. Radha explains how China and the US are talking trade again, with a re-opening of US exports to Huawei and a gentle ask that China remake itself utterly. White House mayhem reminds us all that we almost went to war with Iran and we have no leaders anywhere at the Department of Defense. And do you have summer reading material to distract yourself from the world? Bombshell can help with its summer reading list.
Links
G20
- Megan Henney, "At G20 Summit in Japan, These Were the Biggest Moments You Missed," Fox Business, June 29, 2019
- Spencer Kimball, "It's a Temporary Timeout: Trump and Xi Agree to Negotiations, But Offer No Clear Path to End US-China Trade War," CNBC, June 29, 2019
Iran
- Conor Finnegan, "Iran May Stand Down on Nuclear Threat After Europe, China Work to Bypass US Sanctions," ABC News, June 28, 2019
Trade
- Keith Bradsher, "A China-US Trade Truce Could Enshrine a Global Economic Shift," New York Times, June 29, 2019
- Michael Martina and Jonathan Landay, "Experts Think Trump Policy on China Counterproductive: Draft Letter," Reuters, June 29, 2019
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Bombshell. I'm Erin Simpson. |
| 0:12.0 | I'm Lauren DeYoung-Sholman. |
| 0:14.0 | And I'm Radha Ayngar. |
| 0:16.0 | And we're here for take two of our lovely podcast. |
| 0:20.0 | I have to say that we all got up early yesterday. That was Sunday. |
| 0:24.1 | Today is now Monday. And had a lively, fabulous conversation that was apparently totally |
| 0:30.5 | mangled by technical difficulties. And in our defense, while we have many advanced degrees between us, |
| 0:51.0 | none of them are in engineering or audio science or anything that would prepare you for the thousand different things we actually have to do to prepare this podcast on a regular basis. I like to hold close to my heart that Kai Rizdahl was impressed by our sound |
| 0:55.5 | engineering abilities. So I just, you know, when we fail, it's still impressive to Kai. Thank you. |
| 1:02.5 | I think that's right. And, you know, one of the things we could think about from, from that end is, |
| 1:07.6 | you know, the things that are required, you know, the technical things are we each |
| 1:12.2 | are in three different cities right now, which means we need three laptops, three high-functioning |
| 1:17.8 | Wi-Fi connections, recording devices. Rada and I both have our recording rigs. Lauren is in a more |
| 1:25.0 | austere sort of set up. We also child care. We need a room to be |
| 1:31.0 | quiet for an hour at a time. I don't know how often any of you have lives where that is |
| 1:36.9 | allowable, but that's a useful feature. I need a computer that lets you plug a USB device into it, which means, and that runs Skype, |
| 1:47.2 | which means that my work computer is not available. |
| 1:50.6 | So I have to travel with a secondary computer so that we can have this conversation for you. |
| 1:55.3 | What I'm saying is we're dealing with a lot of shit here. |
| 1:57.9 | And so we are here to rehash this conversation |
| 2:01.4 | because we love you, our listeners, just so much. |
| 2:04.4 | And because we don't want Trey, our producer, |
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