Trump Threatens Chinese Students, Negotiations in Gaza & Listener Q's: Is a General Strike Possible? [Preview]
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
4.7 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
The Trump Administration is demanding the revocation of visas for all Chinese students. The courts challenge Trump’s tariffs. Is a ceasefire in Gaza coming? Can a general strike happen in the US? Brian and Layan take listener questions and discuss these topics and more.
Brian Becker is joined by Layan Sima Fuleihan, a Palestinian organizer with the Shut It Down for Palestine coalition, a popular educator, the Education Director at The People’s Forum, and an editor at 1804 Books.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to The Socialist Program. |
| 0:04.0 | This is John Prysner, a producer of this show. |
| 0:07.0 | This is a preview of a patrons-only episode. |
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| 0:22.4 | keep this show on the air. |
| 0:27.1 | Donald Trump has declared war on international students, specifically on Chinese students. |
| 0:33.0 | The U.S. government is now demanding the revocation of visas for all Chinese students studying |
| 0:39.1 | in the United States. I'm Leanne Seema Fullahan, here with Brian Becker, and this is in the |
| 0:44.9 | news, a segment of the Socialist Program, a patrons-only show. Today we will continue with taking |
| 0:51.6 | questions. We won't be able to answer all of them today, |
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| 1:16.4 | All right, Leanne, 277,000 Chinese students studying in the United States. |
| 1:24.2 | Chinese students have been in United States universities for several decades, ever since |
| 1:29.8 | China, quote, opened up. They're opening up reforms in the late 1970s. Deng Xiaoping came in |
| 1:37.3 | 1979. He met with Jimmy Carter. That's when there was formal normalization of relations between |
| 1:43.3 | the U.S. and the People's Republic of China. |
| 1:45.9 | Just a historical reminder that up until 1972, between 1949 and 1972, the United States |
| 1:53.5 | deprived China of its rightful seat at the United Nations, insisting instead that the |
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