The Real Story: Understanding China's Foreign Policy -- 1949-1959
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
4.7 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2021
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Today's episode is the first in a multi-part series take an in-depth look at the history of China's foreign policy. As the U.S. war machine ramps up aggression towards China, understanding the history of the country's engagement with the world is more crucial than ever. In this section, we discuss the early phase of foreign policy pursued by the People's Republic of China, characterized by fervent anti-colonialism and a complex alliance with the Soviet Union.
Brian is joined by Kenneth Hammond, a Professor of East Asian and Global History at New Mexico State University and an activist with the organization Pivot to Peace.
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| 0:00.0 | Starting in 2018, the United States adopted a new military doctrine announcing that major power |
| 0:08.8 | confrontation with China would be its dominant focus. |
| 0:13.1 | Today, we examined China's foreign policy and its evolution since the 1949 revolution |
| 0:19.8 | brought the Communist Party of China to power. |
| 0:23.5 | We need a new system. We need a new society. We need to demand that which may have sounded |
| 0:29.7 | impossible even a few weeks ago, but is not only realizable, but an imperative necessity. |
| 1:02.0 | Thank you. realizable but an imperative necessity. Welcome to The Real Story on the Socialist Program. I'm your host, Brian Becker. |
| 1:04.0 | We're joined by Dr. Ken Hammond. |
| 1:07.0 | Dr. Hammond is a professor of East Asian and global history at New Mexico State University. |
| 1:12.7 | He is a founding director of the Confucius Institute at the New Mexico State University. |
| 1:18.6 | He is also an organizer and activist with the Peace Organization Pivot to Peace. |
| 1:25.1 | Ken Hammond, welcome back. |
| 1:26.8 | Glad to be here, Brian. Ken, in our conversation with you |
| 1:30.7 | a couple weeks ago, we talked about what to expect with the new Biden administration. Obviously, |
| 1:37.0 | since 2018, the U.S. military policy has been reoriented. Its foreign policy reoriented, the so-called Asia Pivot that |
| 1:47.5 | President Obama announced in Australia 10 years ago. 2011 has manifested itself, evolved, or |
| 1:55.2 | shown itself to be basically a policy of confrontation. In Asia, pivot might have meant many different things, |
| 2:02.8 | but apparently what it means is preparing for World War III with China. And we talked about |
| 2:09.2 | what U.S. foreign policy is all about regarding China, what drives it. We talked a little bit |
| 2:16.0 | about how the Chinese are viewing U.S. foreign policy. |
| 2:19.9 | Today, though, we want to talk about China's foreign policy. And China's foreign policy, |
| 2:25.3 | meaning the policy of the People's Republic of China since the Communist Party of China |
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