US Wages Economic War on China, But It Won’t Stop Its Rise w/ Ben Norton
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
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🗓️ 27 March 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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The US is waging an economic war on China while threatening Chinese students here on student visas. But China has maintained huge economic and social growth, in spite of severe economic sanctions and new tariffs.
Brian Becker is joined by Ben Norton, an investigative journalist currently based in Beijing, and the editor of the independent news website Geopolitical Economy Report, at geopoliticaleconomy.com.
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| 0:00.0 | The Trump administration has ignited a global trade war. |
| 0:05.6 | China's huge economic and social growth continues in spite of severe U.S. sanctions. |
| 0:12.8 | The Israeli government, having been given a green light by the Trump administration, is |
| 0:17.3 | escalating its war against the people in Gaza. |
| 0:26.6 | U.S. students are being arrested and kidnapped by U.S. government officials and sent to prisons. The war in Ukraine grinds on. |
| 0:28.6 | There's a lot to talk about. The world is changing. |
| 0:31.6 | Welcome to the Socialist Program. |
| 0:33.6 | We need a new system. We need a new society. We need to demand that which may have sounded impossible even a few weeks ago, but is not only realizable, but an imperative necessity. Today we're talking with Ben Norton. |
| 0:55.0 | Ben Norton. |
| 1:12.4 | Ben is an investigative journalist currently based in Beijing, China. |
| 1:16.9 | He is the editor of the independent news website Geopolitical Economy. |
| 1:22.1 | You can find their materials at Geopoliticaleconomy.com. Ben Norton, welcome back. Thanks for having me, Brian. It's always a |
| 1:30.8 | pleasure being here and one of my favorite shows. Thanks, Ben. I do want to talk to you mainly about |
| 1:36.1 | China, U.S.-China relations, China's economic growth, the war being waged against China. |
| 1:41.8 | But I want to start with this story about student repression. |
| 1:45.0 | In all 50 states, there are investigations against Chinese students who are international students |
| 1:50.6 | going to school in the United States. |
| 1:53.0 | Now, Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian, has been kidnapped by ICE taken to an ICE detention |
| 1:57.8 | center. |
| 1:59.3 | Even last night, a Fulbright scholar at Tufts University was kidnapped |
| 2:04.2 | and taken to a U.S. prison. There's a South Korean student who's been here since she was seven or |
| 2:09.9 | eight or nine years old. She's 21 now. She's an American for all intents and purposes. |
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