Vijay Prashad: US threatens China because China threatens US hegemony

Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté

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🗓️ 12 August 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Become a Useful Idiot for extended interviews and bonus content at http://usefulidiots.substack.com “The jaws of Hell have opened wide.” Historian and author Vijay Prashad is worried about the next war that the US will provoke. Nukes in Ukraine, a new missile crisis in Taiwan, destabilizing sovereign South American nations, asserting control in Africa. All in the name of US hegemony. He focuses in on China: what if Xi Jinping flew to Guam like Nancy Pelosi flew to Taiwan? What would the US do? There are 29 US military bases in Africa. How many Chinese military bases are there? null. The US is expanding NATO to bypass the UN treaty in an attempt to rule the world. Is China to blame? Prashad, who has a new book co-authored by Noam Chomsky, analyzes the US’s increasingly dictatorial role in the world from Russia to China to Cuba to South America: Colombia just elected a new left president. One of Gustavo Petro’s first moves was to call for an end to the US-led, so-called “war on drugs.” Subscribe for the extended episode to hear Vijay discuss all of that, plus how capitalism has destroyed the ability of people to control their own lives; the nonsensical decision to place Cuba on the state sponsor of terrorism list; and why Jordan Peterson needs a hug. It’s all this, and more, on this week’s episode of Useful Idiots. Check it out. Click here for the full episode, including the extended interview with Vijay Prashad on the US expanding control over South America and why Jordan Peterson needs a hug: https://usefulidiots.substack.com/p/extended-episode-vijay-prashad-us?r=je5va&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Useful Idiots. I'm one of your host Katie helper. And I am the other host,
0:10.0	Aaron Matte. How are you, Katie? I'm good. You. I'm well. I can't believe it's almost the
0:14.7	fall though. Oh, come on. Don't say that. Don't say that, right? Yeah. You're right. We're in the
0:19.0	thick of it. We're still got a lot of summer on us. We're in summer fun right now still.
0:24.0	Fall is always depressing. Fall is like the Sunday night when you were kid before school.
0:28.9	Mm hmm. I don't know why that makes sense because before winter, I guess that doesn't make sense,
0:34.9	actually. I'm not patting myself on the back for that one. That was good. I was better than I
0:39.0	thought momentarily. A couple seconds ago, I thought it wasn't good, but now I like it.
0:43.2	So you're staying behind your judgment of fall as being kind of a down day. Yeah. Yeah.
0:47.5	The Sunday. Right. Yeah. But not as much of a downer as school, which is weird because I didn't
0:52.8	even dislike school. I just didn't like that transition from weekend to school. But I remember
0:58.6	looking forward to the falls, the return of all my favorite television programming, all the season
1:02.7	premieres and all the shows I would watch. Like what? You know, I don't know. Like all the like
1:08.9	Seinfeld and Roseanne. Yeah. All those great shows. Yeah. Very problematic now. Roseanne
1:16.7	Barr is problematic now. Yeah. Right. She's part of the matter as a person. Her show I don't think
1:21.4	was. And then Seinfeld is problematic as a person and as a show. So I felt as problematic as a person.
1:26.6	I think so. I mean, look, tough standards out here. It's very easy to be problematic. I guess
1:31.2	these days. Yeah. Yeah. We'll have to look into that. We'll have to. He's not canceled yet. We've
1:35.6	got to check it out. Investigate. Yeah. I anyway, look, we can have the Seinfeld debates
1:41.1	some other time. Let's get to our four food groups. Let's get to our four basic food groups.
1:44.1	Democrats suck. Republican suck. Isn't that weird? Isn't that terrible? So Aaron, you got the
1:48.1	Demsuck. All right. So this week, Democrats did do something. And as someone out there who watches
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