Li JINGJING—China and Europe’s economy is deeply interconnected, yet the anti-China rhetoric still has been rising in Europe. In this episode, member of the European Parliament, Clare Daly, shares the struggles that Europe is facing, and her thoughts on how Europe has been under increasing US pressure to worsen relations with China, against the interests of people in Europe.
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BRIAN BERLETIC—Today we talk with Li Jingjing, a Chinese journalist who has traveled across China to tell the story of the nation’s rise as well as its role within the wider world. In this chat, Li talks about the many deeply-inculcated biases an outright lies the West exploits to block the rise of China to her well-merited place among the natural leaders of humanity. In this video, Li explains how China raised hundreds of millions out of poverty, how Bejing developed Tibet, one of the most difficult places on earth to lay down modern infrastructure, how it brought Laos out of its geographic isolation, and why Chinese people respect authority and have such positive feelings toward the police and armed forces.
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RODERIC DAY—Though it came as a shock to Western audiences, who understand China to be a tyrannical state-capitalist authoritarian regime, observers in the imperial periphery have always seen things rather differently. As far back as 2004, Fidel Castro argued that “China has objectively become the most promising hope and the best example for all Third World countries,” and in August 2014, he reaffirmed this sanguine outlook: “Xi Jinping is one of the strongest and most capable revolutionary leaders I have met in my life.”
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WEI LING CHUA—It took China 15 years of negotiation with the US before the US allowed China to enter the WTO in 2000. During that time, the West was happy to transfer polluted and labor-intensive industries to China: they were happy to allow China to set up factories to assemble iPhones for Apple. Why not? Apple pays the price of a cappuccino to the Chinese factories for each iPhone assembled while selling the iPhones back to Chinese consumers and the rest of the world for hundreds of dollars per unit of iPhone.
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RON UNZ—The social importance of competitive examinations was enormous, playing the same role in determining membership in the ruling elite that the aristocratic bloodlines of Europe’s nobility did until modern times, and this system embedded itself just as deeply in the popular culture. The great noble houses of France or Germany might trace their lineages back to ancestors elevated under Charlemagne or Barbarossa, with their heirs afterward rising and falling in standing and estates, while in China the proud family traditions would boast generations of top-scoring test-takers, along with the important government positions that they had received as a result.
