Thursday, February 3, 2022
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 3 February 2022
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Summary
Part I (00:13 - 07:53)
China, Covid, the Winter Olympics, and the Surveillance State — Totalitarianism Tightens its GripLiving by the Code: In China, Covid-Era Controls May Outlast the Virus by New York Times (Chris Buckley, Vivian Wang and Keith Bradsher)China’s Finely Crafted Web of Digital Surveillance for the Beijing Olympics has been Years in the Making by Washington Post (Christian Shepherd)Part II (07:53 - 20:58)
The Ratchet Effect and a Warning: When Government Claims New Powers, It Almost Never Gives Them BackCovid Restrictions and Other Overreach Bring America Toward a Libertarian Moment by Wall Street Journal (Gerard Baker)Part III (20:58 - 24:04)
The Bureaucracy Always Wins: How Covid Has Served as an Catalyst For Growth in Government Size and Spending
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| 0:00.0 | It's Thursday, February 3rd, 2022. I'm Albert Moller and this is the briefing, a daily |
| 0:10.1 | analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. We're going to go to China |
| 0:14.3 | first of all today because the Winter Olympic Games of 2022 will be beginning on |
| 0:19.6 | Friday, that's tomorrow and of course it's taking place in the area of Beijing but also in the |
| 0:24.9 | environments around it the Olympic Games are a massive endeavor in this particular |
| 0:29.9 | case we confront a host of moral issues most of them beginning and ending with the word |
| 0:34.0 | China with the name of that nation with the realization that this olympiad is going to |
| 0:38.5 | be held in Beijing at the very moment that it is becoming absolutely impossible to deny the malign influence |
| 0:46.5 | and designs of the Communist Party in Beijing at the very same time it has now basically |
| 0:52.1 | remilitarized to an extent that was not even |
| 0:55.0 | foreseen by American intelligence a matter of just a couple of decades ago. |
| 0:59.0 | We see the repression of Hong Kong, the absolute denial even of the |
| 1:05.0 | the country of Hong Kong, the absolute crushing of democracy groups there. |
| 1:08.0 | We also see threats against Taiwan. |
| 1:11.0 | We are looking at a very assertive China under the direction of the Chinese Communist Party |
| 1:16.2 | and we also see President Xi Jin Ping becoming basically the autocrat for life at least to this point as the leader of the Communist Party and |
| 1:24.8 | as the leader of an increasingly openly repressive state and when we're looking at China |
| 1:29.7 | we're looking at a state that was already repressive we We're looking at a Communist Party that is already |
| 1:35.1 | intruded into the most private decisions of life. It reminds us of the necessity of the |
| 1:39.9 | word totalitarian, a word that basically became known to most people in the West only in the |
| 1:45.2 | 20th century. And there are people yet who use the word and don't understand what it |
| 1:49.5 | means. Let's just go back to say the medieval monarchy. |
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