As a long time foreign correspondent, I've worked in lots of places, but nowhere is important

to the world as China. I'm Jane Perlaz, former Beijing Bureau Chief for the New York Times.

Join me on my new podcast, Face Off, US versus China,

where I'll take you behind the scenes in the tumultuous US-China relationship.

Find face-off wherever you get your podcasts. You're going to be. What's going on everyone?

What's going on everyone? Welcome to another episode of Bro history.

It's Henry Zamoda, my good friend Danny

Adel Jabbar and our frequent guest Joseph Solis Mullen. Hey Joe how's it going

how are you? Going as good as the warmongers who make our foreign policy decisions will allow it to go.

That's pretty much where I'm at.

I'm in total scenic mode.

Okay, so...

This is gonna be a spicy episode.

First and foremost, guys, sorry for the lack of content over the past two weeks.

Selfish reasons, I'll be honest.

I was in Puerto Rico for my bachelor's party with Danny.

That's where we recorded our last episode so I took time we took time off to

enjoy the beginning of the summer and the last week or the last I get married in July the last month or 60 day period of

bacheloretum. Enough about you know my my personal trip. Let's talk about the news. That's why you guys are

listening. I want to talk about this. To start us off on this show, this New York Times article came out and you guys have both read it and the New York Times has been I think as good as they are capable of being.

They've been pretty factual over the past two months or past 100 days since the war in Ukraine started.

You know, obviously falsifications, you know, they happened through a mission, but overall,

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