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The Edition: can the West take on China?

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🗓️ 1 April 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Can the West take on China? We may need some kind of economic Nato (00:50). Are Mormons misunderstood, by Netflix and everyone else? (14:15) And what does it really mean to be Spiritual But Not Religious? (27:45).

With James Forsyth, The Spectator's political editor; Iain Duncan Smith, former leader of the Conservative Party; Damian Thompson, host of the Spectator's Holy Smoke podcast; James Holt, a Mormon theologian; author James Mumford; and Mary Wakefield, The Spectator's Commissioning Editor.

Presented by Lara Prendergast.

Produced by Cindy Yu, Max Jeffery and Sam Russell.

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Hello and welcome to the edition.

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Each week we talk about some of the most important and intriguing issues from the magazine

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with the writers behind them. I'm Nara Prendergast.

0:37.0

This week, how can the West fight back against

0:39.7

China's economic bullying? And are Mormons misunderstood? Finally, what's wrong with being

0:47.3

spiritual but not religious? First up, nine Brits have now been sanctioned by China for

0:53.9

spreading what they call lies and

0:55.6

disinformation about human rights abuses against Uyghur Muslims. In this week's magazine, our political

1:00.9

editor James Versaith says the West needs to unite against China. To explain, he joins me now

1:06.4

alongside Ian Duncan Smith, the Tory MP and former party leader who was targeted by the sanctions.

1:12.5

James, in your piece in this week's magazine, you say that the West now needs a collective

1:16.1

response to China's economic bullying. What exactly would you like to see happen?

1:20.7

So I think what is needed is some kind of thing along the lines of a kind of NATO for trade

1:24.7

to ensure that there is a collective Western response when

1:28.1

China attempts to pick countries off one by one. I think we've seen the way that China turned on

1:32.9

Australia, for example, after Australia called for an independent inquiry into the origins

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