Xi Elevates China’s Socialist Goals, Prepares Country for Global ‘Storms’
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
4.7 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2022
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
The Communist Party of China is in its 20th Congress, a week-long meeting of 2,296 elected delegates from around the country in a nominations and voting process in which 95 million CPC members participated. The delegates set the priorities for China for the next five years.
Brian and Tings Chak, researcher at the Tricontinental Institute for Social Research & a member of Dongsheng News collective, discuss the biggest takeaways, China’s economy, Xi Jinping’s presidency, Biden’s recent singling out of China in his National Security Doctrine, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | The 20th Party Congress of the Communist Party of China is still in session in Beijing. |
| 0:07.0 | Today we'll be talking about the leadership and its political orientation at the Congress |
| 0:13.0 | in an international political environment that's increasingly complex and dangerous. |
| 0:19.0 | We need a new system. We need a new society. |
| 0:22.6 | We need to demand that which may have sounded impossible even a few weeks ago, |
| 0:27.6 | but is not only realizable, but an imperative necessity. Welcome to this week's episode of the Socialist Program. |
| 0:57.8 | I'm your host, Brian Becker. |
| 0:59.6 | Today we'll be talking once again with Ting's Chack. |
| 1:02.5 | Ting's is a researcher at the Tri-Continental Institute for Social Research. |
| 1:07.6 | She's a member of the Dongshang News Collective, |
| 1:10.0 | and she's the author of the pamphlet, |
| 1:12.3 | Serve the People, The Eradication of Extreme Poverty in China. Tings, Jack, welcome back. |
| 1:18.5 | Thanks for having me, Brian. |
| 1:20.1 | Great pleasure. Ting's, this is a major event in China. It happens every five years. |
| 1:25.8 | The new leadership or the old leadership if it's reelected |
| 1:29.4 | is selected or elected once again. The party gets an opportunity to identify the key problems, |
| 1:36.8 | challenges facing the party, facing the country. The Communist Party of China has been the ruling |
| 1:43.0 | party since 1949, a consequence of a 27-year-long |
| 1:48.1 | civil war that started in the 1920s, ended in 1949. China since 1949 has completely shifted, |
| 1:58.6 | changed, and impacted not only the people in China, but the global political |
| 2:03.0 | environment. When you look at this party Congress, which is still in session, and there will be |
| 2:08.4 | important decisions that will be made later so we don't know the final outcome, what's your |
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