Unrest in China — with Matt Pottinger

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🗓️ 5 December 2022

⏱️ 67 minutes

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From civil disobedience we have not seen in China since Tiananmen Square, to loosening zero covid policy, and leadership tightening its political grip in unprecedented ways, this has been quite a few weeks in China. What is US policy on a range of issues – the protests, semiconductors, Taiwan and also TikTok? Matt Pottinger returns to the podcast. Matt covered China and lived in China as a journalist for Reuters and then The Wall Street Journal. Then, in his early 30s, he made quite a career change. Matt joined the US Marine Corps, and had multiple combat deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan. Later on Matt played an instrumental role in reshaping the West’s relationship with China, when he served as the deputy National Security Advisor in the Trump administration, and was the architect of the administration’s strategy towards China. Today, he is regularly called upon by policymakers on both sides of the aisle, to consult on US policy towards China. He recently co-authored an essay for Foreign Affairs titled “Xi Jinping in His Own Words” -- https://tinyurl.com/2t59vm7z Matt is a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution and Chair of the China program at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.

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0:00.0	What you have now is a Communist Party-run company,
0:04.8	bite dance, and its most important overseas platform,
0:09.7	Tic-Toc, and it has a Communist Party committee, the editor-in-chief is the chairman of that Communist Party Committee,
0:16.0	that Communist Party Committee and Bight Dance have inked agreements with China's internal security apparatus, the Public Security Bureau, promising
0:26.2	that they will make sure that their algorithms are informed by, quote, correct political direction. Before we get to our conversation a little bit of housekeeping we're moving our
0:48.6	publishing of our episodes from Fridays to Mondays.
0:52.8	So starting with today, keep an eye out in your feed when you start your week.
0:58.0	Now on to our conversation with Matt Pottinger.
1:01.1	From civil disobedience we've not seen since Tiananmen Square and letting go of
1:05.5	zero COVID policy and a leadership tightening its political grip in
1:10.3	unprecedented ways this has been quite a few weeks in China. What is US policy in response?
1:17.0	In response to the protests, dealing with semiconductors, dealing with Taiwan, and also
1:22.0	what's US policy on
1:23.4	Tik-Tok. Matt Pottinger returns to the podcast. Matt covered China and lived in
1:29.4	China as a journalist for Reuters and then the Wall Street Journal. And then in his early 30s he
1:35.2	made quite a career change. He joined the US Marine Corps and had multiple combat
1:40.4	deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan.
1:43.2	Later on, Matt played an instrumental role in the geopolitical story of our time,
1:47.6	our topic today, reshaping the West's relationship with China,
1:51.4	where he served as the Deputy National Security
1:53.7	Advisor in the Trump administration and was the architect of the
1:57.2	administration's strategy towards China. A lot of those policies endure even
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