The Committee on the Present Danger: China, As Dangerous as PNAC, Pandemic Neocons (Part 2 of 2)

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Abby & Robbie Martin

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4.6 • 814 Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2020

⏱️ 159 minutes

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Robbie Martin breaks down how key neocon figures like Frank Gaffney, Gordon Chang, and James Woolsey from the Committee on the Present Danger: China have taken advantage of the fear in the wake of COVID-19, and how this think tank has a symbiotic relationship with certain GOP elected officials like Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Tom Cotton and Trump administration insiders in spreading and pushing anti-Chinese paranoia and propaganda. The history of The Committee on the Present Danger is also explained, like how it once supplied 33 of its own members into the Ronald Reagan administration. Listen to part one here: http://bit.ly/39IEJTt Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to Media Roots Radio on Patreon // www.patreon.com/mediarootsradio FOLLOW // twitter.com/FluorescentGrey

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Hello.
0:23.6	This is Robbie Martin.
0:42.7	It's just going to be me again today on Media Roots Radio for part two of my podcast on the push of anti-China propaganda
0:54.6	and the ramp-up, specifically,
0:57.0	of propaganda in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak.
1:03.0	So part two of the podcast
1:05.0	is going to start with a very viral news story
1:10.0	that's penetrated into the mainstream social media
1:14.0	sphere, sort of the mainstream sphere that's no longer just a right-wing media talking point
1:19.7	about how the World Health Organization is nefariously being puppeted by China to obfuscate blame away from the United States.
1:32.0	There's a new video released by a Hong Kong journalist, interviewing a WHO official, and when she
1:42.1	starts asking questions about Taiwan, the guy's feed gets cut, like he hangs up
1:48.5	the Skype call. And then she calls him back and he still really won't answer questions about
1:55.3	Taiwan. And everyone is using this as a big, huge piece of evidence that the WHO is just totally
2:04.3	beholden to China, that it's really troublesome and that proves that it's all corrupt and
2:12.3	blah, blah, blah.
2:13.5	Well, I'm sorry, but when I saw that video, seemed like a straight up jamie kurchick style
2:18.7	cold war 2.0 stunt like with the rainbow suspenders on russia today this hong kong
2:25.1	journalist is trying to bring up a controversial political subject about having to do with
2:31.2	china not recognizing Taiwan.
2:40.4	And I just find it fascinating that people are really glomming on to that as some kind of strong evidence that, you know, it's like how the China owns the NBA and all this shit.
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