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Can America Fight Back Against the Authoritarian Economic Statecraft of China? Bethany Allen Believes We Can

Democracy Paradox

English - December 12, 2023 10:00 - 53 minutes - 36.7 MB
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In the past 26 years, to this day, there has not been one major Hollywood production that has gone against a major Chinese Communist Party red line. Not one. Twenty-six years of silence.

Bethany Allen

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A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com.

Bethany Allen is the China reporter at Axios and the author of Beijing Rules: How China Weaponized Its Economy to Confront the World.

Key Highlights

Introduction - 0:48The Authoritarian Economic Statecraft of China - 3:32Trump Administration and China Policy - 22:24Another Cold War -  34:26American Options for Response - 48:16


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