BONUS - Is China Imperialist? w/ Tony Norfield
Added 2021-07-21 10:00:00 +0000 UTCAs promised, here is a continuation of the discussion with Tony Norfield about capitalist imperialism and finance: is China's Belt and Road Initiative an imperialist endeavor? Despite having billionaires and huge corporations, is China even capitalist? What would a new Cold War between America and China look like?
Outro: Pulp - Underwear
Comments
fantastic discussion. Really enjoyed Tony as a guest
Charles Govan
2021-07-26 18:45:05 +0000 UTCIn any case, I agree that it's hard to characterize the Belt and Road as any more neocolonial or imperialistic than the IMF/World Bank or other private lenders. But, thus far, it's not substantially less so, either. China is building "Dependence, not debt-trap diplomacy" according to Carmody. I think something else we should look at is China's actions on its periphery. How does it treat Xinjiang, Tibet, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Southeast Asia, Eastern Russia, Central Asia, etc? From my research I would argue that China's foreign policy is driven by very cynical geopolitical realism. Internally, ethnic nationalism is its driving ideology. Moreover, in any discussion of a new cold war or decoupling we should understand that China itself has agency. The Dual-Circulation Policy, taken to its logical conclusion, is a world where China has the option to de-couple, but where the world is dependent on China. This would cause a natural backlash, and a new cold war and/or decoupling may happen regardless of US policy.
BAS
2021-07-26 07:01:22 +0000 UTCNorfield makes a very strange characterization of the Hong Kong democracy movement. No one here is under the illusion that there was universal suffrage under British Colonialism.
BAS
2021-07-24 08:28:19 +0000 UTCLong live xi thot
dillards dept.
2021-07-22 03:40:41 +0000 UTCDamn Stevie Wonder again!!! Great job guys and gals. Love the show.
Daughters of Delos
2021-07-22 01:45:26 +0000 UTC
