What Westerners Should Learn About The Accomplishments & Challenges of China
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
4.7 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2022
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Anti-China news and disinformation dominate the mainstream press in Western countries. When the pandemic hit, several researchers, mainly in the Global South, decided that they needed a news source for the facts of what is going on in China day to day.
Tings Chak, based in Shanghai, and others founded Dongsheng News, which covers national policies like the campaign that eradicated extreme poverty and new advances in the fight against the climate crisis, news issues like agriculture and regional government, and important topics like culture and society for a true perspective into China.
Brian is joined by Tings to take you inside China to discuss the necessity of alternative media about China, the realities of Covid in China, the US, and the world, the views in different parts of China about the U.S. and Chinese governments, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | We need a new system. We need a new society. |
| 0:04.0 | We need to demand that which may have sounded impossible even a few weeks ago, |
| 0:09.0 | but is not only realizable, but an imperative necessity. Welcome back to the Socialist Program. I'm your host, Brian Becker. We're here again at the Los Angeles People's Summit for Democracy. We're joined by Ting's Chack from Dengheng News. Welcome. |
| 0:44.3 | Thanks, Brian. Glad to finally meet you in person. |
| 0:47.3 | We're meeting in person. I interviewed you a few weeks ago, and that was part of the real story episode of the Socialist program. And we talked about many things. |
| 0:56.0 | But what I want to talk to you, many things about China. |
| 0:59.0 | What I want to talk to you about today is the project that you're working on, Deng |
| 1:02.0 | News. |
| 1:03.0 | I read it every week. |
| 1:05.0 | There's actually two different newsletters that come out. |
| 1:08.0 | One is called China Voices and then perhaps China News. |
| 1:11.2 | And then there's some other sub-variance of Deng-Sheng News about Africa and so on. |
| 1:16.8 | Let's just talk about what it is. |
| 1:18.3 | How did it get started? |
| 1:19.3 | Sure. |
| 1:20.3 | I mean, we started in May of 2020. |
| 1:23.3 | And so just like taking us back a little bit in that moment, that was more or less the time that Wuhan was coming out of the pandemic. |
| 1:31.5 | The pandemic was only really beginning in the world. |
| 1:34.4 | And a few of us who were avid news readers who are interested in geopolitics, but interested in a question of China. |
| 1:42.0 | But we couldn't find out any kind of good information |
| 1:45.0 | because we were witnessing what was happening in the early pandemic period and the increasing |
| 1:50.8 | anti-China narrative that was happening. |
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