Why Does Biden's China Policy Look So Much Like Trump's?
The NPR Politics Podcast
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4.5 • 24.9K Ratings
🗓️ 4 October 2021
⏱️ 15 minutes
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This episode: White House correspondent Scott Detrow, White House correspondent Asma Khalid, and international correspondent John Ruwitch.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, this is Nate. Currently I am in the middle of a farm field digging up potatoes with |
| 0:04.7 | my bare hands. You were listening to the MPR Politics Podcast, which was recorded at. |
| 0:10.3 | Nate kind of sounds like Matthew Broderick, I'm just gonna say it. It's uh, it's 12th |
| 0:14.0 | 13th Eastern on Monday, October 4th. Things may have changed by the time you hear this |
| 0:18.8 | podcast. Alright, on with the show. |
| 0:21.9 | There was no potato digging scene in Ferris Boulis Day off. That is true. |
| 0:29.8 | None at all. Hey there, it's the MPR Politics Podcast. I'm Scott Detro. Potatoes are |
| 0:34.6 | one of my favorite foods and I cover the White House. |
| 0:38.1 | I must m'holl it. I too enjoy potatoes, so I've never actually dug them up with my own |
| 0:42.4 | hands. So kudos to you. And I also cover the White House. |
| 0:45.9 | Uh, mashter baked. Uh, masht. |
| 0:48.7 | Mashtas and no brainer. And today in addition to our favorite potato recipes, uh, we are |
| 0:53.8 | talking about the US relationship with China and luckily for us and for NPR and for listeners, |
| 0:58.8 | NPR has a reporter whose entire job it is to cover that very issue. And that's NPR's |
| 1:03.7 | John Ruich. John, welcome to the podcast. Hey, I'm happy to be here. |
| 1:07.5 | We are talking about China today because US trade representative Catherine Tye just |
| 1:11.9 | gave a speech laying out changes. The Biden administration is is making on how it approaches |
| 1:17.4 | trade with China. And the big headline is that it's actually leaving a lot of those |
| 1:20.8 | tougher Trump era policies in place. This is part of an effort by the Biden administration |
| 1:26.3 | to try and do two things at the same time, protect workers and businesses from what Tye |
| 1:30.3 | describes as unfair trade practices by China, but also doing this without hurting the |
| 1:35.1 | parts of the economy that rely on Chinese goods, which is of course huge parts of the |
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