TheDocumentaryPodcast-20260921-FromMaoAndNixonToXiAndTrumpAHistoryOfChinaUSTrade
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The Documentary,
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home of the best documentaries from the BBC World Service.
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Hello and welcome to the documentary from the BBC World Service.
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I'm Will Bain.
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Today, as President Xi gets set this week to head to Washington
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DC for talks with President Trump,
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we're going to chart the history of US -China economic
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relations from opium bans to joining the World Trade Organization.
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Yes, we will chart the sometimes rocky journey between what are
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now the world's two largest economies and how what's gone before.
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perhaps informs what might go on this week.
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That's coming up on Business Daily,
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exploring how work and money impact people around the world.
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President Nixon's departure for China.
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South Lawn,
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17 February 1972.
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President Nixon prepares to leave Washington for China for what he would call...
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This was the week that changed the world.
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...as President Xi prepares to fly in the opposite direction for an expected meeting with President
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Trump in Washington this week.
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What's happened in the intervening period in the trade relationship between
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China and the United States?
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They've really taken advantage of our country for a long period of time.
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We're faced with...
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opportunities never seen before.
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We both understand that the capabilities and requirements of our two countries
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complement each other.
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The American people are a great people.
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The Chinese people are a great people.
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We have great differences today.
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What brings us together is that we have
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common interests which transcend those differences.
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The modern trading relationship between the US and China starts around
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that moment in 1969.
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And that's where most of our focus will be.
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But it's not the complete story.
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So let's go back.
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Way back.
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1784 back.
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The Empress of China became the first ship to carry goods across
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the Pacific Ocean directly between the US and China.
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It was just a year before that,
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trade between the two countries had been allowed under the Treaty of Paris.
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Tea, silk and porcelain would be sent from China.
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Going the other way were things like silver,
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sandalwood and furs.
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The first really big trade dispute,
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well you would have heard of the rouse recently over the importation of the illegal drug fentanyl
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into the United States.
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Well, back then, the Chinese were upset about the amount of opium being sent from
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foreign countries,
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primarily Britain,
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but the US had also got in on the act.
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It led to the first treaty on trade between the countries in 1844.
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And tariffs?
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Well,
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they're not a new issue either.
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At the time of the American Civil War,
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the US government needed to raise money.
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How to do it?
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Yep, sorry President Trump,
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but the word tariffs was also a favourite of those politicians back then,
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with import taxes of 50 % in some cases.
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After the Second World War came the founding of the People's Republic of China and trade,
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well,
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it almost ceased until 1969 and
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President Nixon on that inaugural address.
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During this administration,
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our lines of communication will be open.
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We seek an open world.
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open to ideas,
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open to the exchange of goods and people.
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Well, joining us is Chad P.
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Bowne.
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He's co -author of the book How to Win a Trade War and a senior fellow at
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the Peterson Institute think tank in Washington,
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D .C.
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He also served in two different Democrat White House administrations.
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At that stage,
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China was really so underdeveloped
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that there was really very little technologically
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that...
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China could do,
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with the exception of really labor
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-intensive manufacturing.
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And during that era,
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and so we're talking about,
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you know, footwear and clothing and textile,
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sewing, things of that nature.
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In 1972,
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President Nixon arrived in China to meet with Chairman Mao and his premier Zhao
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Enlai.
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The peoples of our two countries have always been friendly
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to each other.
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But owing to reasons known to all,
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contacts between the two peoples were suspended
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for over 20 years.
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But what we have said in that communique is not nearly as important
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as what we will do in the years ahead.
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We have been here a week.
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This was the week that changed the world.
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Trade quickly increased between the countries,
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growing from $13 million in 1972 to $992
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million by 1978.
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And at that time,
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it was the US who held most of the chips with a trade surplus.
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That soon changed,
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though.
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Trade rocketed in the 1980s,
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Ronald Reagan visiting China in 1984,
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first addressing Chinese community leaders of the Great Hall.
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When it does come,
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China will rapidly become a powerful and rich nation.
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The population is industrious,
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frugal,
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intelligent and quick to learn.
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Well,
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today China's economy crackles with the dynamics of change.
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And then staff at the Shanghai Foxborough Company.
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Your pioneer efforts demonstrate that a promising
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future
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China beckons for expanded cooperation between our people.
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China had asked to be entered into the formal trading
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system at the time,
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the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade,
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I believe in 1986,
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right?
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And so that was the formal process.
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Anybody that wanted in,
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you know, have to do a lot of preparations,
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talk about how you're going to change your economy,
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what you're going to do,
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how you're going to get rid of your own tariffs and other kinds of trade barriers for the rest of the
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existing membership to allow you in.
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And was on sort of a path.
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to be brought into the trading system.
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And then in the late 1980s,
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you had the Tiananmen Square incident,
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right?
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And massacre and the human rights concerns that popped up,
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which undoubtedly slowed the
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progress of China's entry into the Western
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dominated system,
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right? At this stage,
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it was the United States,
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Europe.
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Japan, right?
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It was really,
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you know,
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these Western allies holding the keys about whether or not China was going to be allowed to get
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in. And Tiananmen Square was really a black eye and made it very difficult politically
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to allow China into the system for a long period of time.
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You're listening to Business Daily from the BBC World
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Series.
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I'm Will Bain,
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and today we're looking at the history of trade between the United States and China,
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Speaker 2 (TheDocumentaryPodcast-20260921-FromMaoAndNixonToXiAndTrumpAHistoryOfChinaUSTrade)
ahead of the expected summit in Washington between Presidents Trump and Xi later
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on this week.
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Well,
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by the 1990s,
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trade between them was booming,
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helped by President Clinton signing a bill which normalized trade with China.
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I guess I ought to point out that our work's not over when I sign
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the bill, for China still must complete its WTO accession negotiations.
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and live up to the agreements it has negotiated with us and our partners before
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it can join.
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But when it happens,
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China will open its markets to American products from wheat to cars
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to consulting services.
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And our companies will be far more able to sell goods without moving factories or
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investments there.
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In 1997,
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President Jiang Zemin gave this speech in the States to a group
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of U .S.-China -based business groups.
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In front of developing our economic relations and
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trade as well as expanding the scientific and
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the technological exchanges between China and the United States,
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Speaker 6 (TheDocumentaryPodcast-20260921-FromMaoAndNixonToXiAndTrumpAHistoryOfChinaUSTrade)
we're faced with opportunities.
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never seen before.
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Speaker 6 (TheDocumentaryPodcast-20260921-FromMaoAndNixonToXiAndTrumpAHistoryOfChinaUSTrade)
China's market is open to you all,
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Speaker 6 (TheDocumentaryPodcast-20260921-FromMaoAndNixonToXiAndTrumpAHistoryOfChinaUSTrade)
of course.
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Speaker 6 (TheDocumentaryPodcast-20260921-FromMaoAndNixonToXiAndTrumpAHistoryOfChinaUSTrade)
An open market is a competitive market.
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Speaker 2 (TheDocumentaryPodcast-20260921-FromMaoAndNixonToXiAndTrumpAHistoryOfChinaUSTrade)
Let's go back to Chad Bowne from the Peterson Institute and co -author of
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the book How to Win a Trade War.
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You have broader trade liberalization happening certainly in the United States.
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And then China just became,
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you know,
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a bigger and bigger part of that in the late 1990s when the talks,
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you know,
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got really serious with the Clinton administration.
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And then finally it's allowed in in 2001.
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And zooming right in there then as well,
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the Clinton administration,
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Speaker 2 (TheDocumentaryPodcast-20260921-FromMaoAndNixonToXiAndTrumpAHistoryOfChinaUSTrade)
what is the rationale to speed up that process with China particularly?
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Are they seeing a benefit,
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I guess, on the home front from cheaper what?
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Electronics or is it they're trying to ride some kind of boom,
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right? What is it?
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Speaker 1 (TheDocumentaryPodcast-20260921-FromMaoAndNixonToXiAndTrumpAHistoryOfChinaUSTrade)
Yeah, I'm not sure.
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China formally into the rules -based trading system.
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By then,
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Speaker 1 (TheDocumentaryPodcast-20260921-FromMaoAndNixonToXiAndTrumpAHistoryOfChinaUSTrade)
you've got a lot of Western companies that are invested in
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China that are,
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you know, got plants in China.
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China's on a trajectory in and of itself of engaging in
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a lot of market -oriented reforms.
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And I think the general feeling was,
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well,
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if you can get China into the WTO,
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Speaker 1 (TheDocumentaryPodcast-20260921-FromMaoAndNixonToXiAndTrumpAHistoryOfChinaUSTrade)
this is going to further those domestic reformers'
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efforts.
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You're handing them tools that's going to help their system become more
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like ours and less like the traditional state capitalists
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where you've got all kinds of price controls and a lot of government interference.
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But even looking back in that era at
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President Clinton's statements and speeches on this.
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I don't think anybody was naive to think even in that era,
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right, that China was somehow going to become like us
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in any sense.
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But there was this real question of,
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well, China.
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China seems to be opening up.
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Is it better to have them doing this within our system,
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right, the system that we've designed,
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this thing called the World Trade Organization,
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or have it do so outside of the system and not abiding
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by any rules that we might have access to?
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And with the backing of President Clinton and then George W.
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Bush, China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001.
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In accordance with the decision -making procedures.
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under Article 9 and 12 of the World
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Trade Organization Agreement agreed in November 95
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WT slash L slash
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93 to adopt the draft decision on
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the accession of the People's Republic of China.
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The Minister's Ministerial
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Conference so agrees.
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Speaker 2 (TheDocumentaryPodcast-20260921-FromMaoAndNixonToXiAndTrumpAHistoryOfChinaUSTrade)
And in those next few years then,
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were there obvious to your mind sectors,
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companies perhaps that come to mind who are winners and losers straight away?
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Initially,
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right,
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it probably went as...
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One would expect,
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right? China continue on really dominating,
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you know,
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what we would refer to now as low -end manufacturing,
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really labor -intensive manufacturing.
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Where we see China dominating to this day,
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right, the type of stuff,
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if you went into your local supermarket,
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you went to a Walmart and you bought,
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I don't know,
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some new tongs for your barbecue,
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right, or a new spatula for your kitchen,
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that kind of stuff.
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Are we talking about that kind of thing?
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Yeah.
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I mean, you had – what was happening in China at this time is also you got tens
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of millions of people moving from rural areas into the
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city and looking for jobs,
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right,
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and looking to be put to work in manufacturing
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and in assembly and without a whole lot of skills during that era.
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And so it was a lot of that type of work.
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But that being said,
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it did start to obviously have an impact on communities
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outside of China.
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Right. In the United States and other countries around the world.
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But also alongside that,
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presumably, it's good for U .S.
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consumers in that moment.
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Right. Absolutely.
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That's where it looks like this is a brilliant kind of political decision when stuff,
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you know, everyday household objects are becoming cheaper very quickly,
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presumably.
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Absolutely.
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That,
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you know, it is,
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you know, economists have documented,
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you know, the significant.
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sort of deflationary effects it has had on China's entry
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into the global economy had on prices,
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right, and moderating prices over that era.
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And at the same time,
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that is also the period,
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right, where we're talking about Apple as the standard
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bearer, if you like,
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but American businesses hitting on this idea that moving lots
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of their manufacturing to China is bluntly good business.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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It was,
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you know, access to much lower cost labor.
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And in terms of scale,
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right, the number of people that you could find,
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right,
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that were willing to do,
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you know, very,
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very difficult work at very low cost was
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unparalleled,
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you know, for anywhere in the world.
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The emphasis that the Chinese government put
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on building out the infrastructure.
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to be able to support international trade.
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And so what that means is if you want to build these factories,
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then you've got to have the big port facilities to be able to
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get it out to.
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other consumer markets all over the world.
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And China just did all of these things,
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right?
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They really offered companies the full package of items
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necessary to really lower their costs of manufacturing.
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And trying to convince the public that there's a lot of cheaper
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goods and so you're better off because of that,
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oftentimes it's not a political winner,
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even though you're exactly right.
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Well, your town is changing before your eyes.
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Yeah, exactly.
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Speaker 2 (TheDocumentaryPodcast-20260921-FromMaoAndNixonToXiAndTrumpAHistoryOfChinaUSTrade)
It is the kind of story of our times,
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isn't it? So when do people start seeing that?
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Speaker 2 (TheDocumentaryPodcast-20260921-FromMaoAndNixonToXiAndTrumpAHistoryOfChinaUSTrade)
Chad, when does the China shock start to be,
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I don't know,
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being really realized?
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I think individual local communities were definitely seeing it during
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that era.
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But I think as a broader political phenomenon,
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you know,
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it didn't get aggregated up to you seeing,
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you know,
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politicians bundling together lots of.
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communities all being adversely affected by this one big thing until probably
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the middle of the 2000s when you saw the rise of Donald Trump.
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President Trump and Xi,
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one minute best friends,
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the next best of enemies.
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Both standing firm,
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but both willing to do a deal.
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There are no winners in trade wars.
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Bullying and hegemony will lead to self -isolation.
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They've really taken advantage of our country for a long period of time.
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They've ripped us off.
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Speaker 1 (TheDocumentaryPodcast-20260921-FromMaoAndNixonToXiAndTrumpAHistoryOfChinaUSTrade)
He campaigned in 2016 against trade
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in general.
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So I don't think it's fair to say that President Trump likes trade with anyone.
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It's not just China.
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But he did put a focus on the trading relationship with China
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and certainly was the first American president to
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do something consequentially different about it.
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But that being said.
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I don't think that even if President Trump hadn't
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come along in 2016,
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that things between the United States and China were going to continue as is.
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I think even by the early 2010s,
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certainly here in the United States,
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there was recognition that the relationship with China needed
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to change.
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And I think there's...
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You know, one piece of that was President Xi Jinping.
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You know, he comes around in 2013.
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Speaker 1 (TheDocumentaryPodcast-20260921-FromMaoAndNixonToXiAndTrumpAHistoryOfChinaUSTrade)
There's a with any Chinese leader,
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Speaker 1 (TheDocumentaryPodcast-20260921-FromMaoAndNixonToXiAndTrumpAHistoryOfChinaUSTrade)
you're kind of watching and reading the tea leaves.
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Is he going to continue on with the reform efforts that had been continuing?
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Speaker 1 (TheDocumentaryPodcast-20260921-FromMaoAndNixonToXiAndTrumpAHistoryOfChinaUSTrade)
And it really took a little bit of time.
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But I think by 2014,
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2015, it was it was already pretty clear that China was going down a
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different path with President Xi.
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I think on the U .S.
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side, even by the second half of the Obama administration,
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so preceding President Trump.
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You had the design of new trade agreements.
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That had recognized that the WTO was proving ineffective to deal
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with the China problem.
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But of course,
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the real difference with President Trump is he
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comes into office and he has a special affinity
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for these things called tariffs.
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And he started to use them and he is,
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you know, use them to great effect,
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especially with respect to China.
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This week,
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then your level of hope,
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Chad.
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what actually can be achieved.
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I mean, is it good news,
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I suppose, at least that the two sides are at least meeting again,
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Speaker 2 (TheDocumentaryPodcast-20260921-FromMaoAndNixonToXiAndTrumpAHistoryOfChinaUSTrade)
the most senior people in the two sides?
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Speaker 1 (TheDocumentaryPodcast-20260921-FromMaoAndNixonToXiAndTrumpAHistoryOfChinaUSTrade)
It is absolutely good news that President Xi
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and President Trump are going to meet.
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But that being said,
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I think my expectations,
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at least at the moment,
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are relatively modest.
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And that's partially because the United States right now has very
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little leverage with respect to China.
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China has such dominance over these
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essential inputs that you need to run your economy,
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right?
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Rare earths,
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permanent magnets,
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a lot of these other critical minerals.
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and has shown the willingness to threaten to cut the United States off from them,
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that the United States' hands are tied and can't really
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ask for much from China in return.
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No escalation,
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hopefully, but also I think very little progress as well on some of the really
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deeper underlying challenges between the two countries.
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Our thanks to Chad Bowne from the Peterson Institute in Washington,
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D .C.
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That's it for this episode of the documentary from Business Daily made by me,
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Will Bain.
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You can find more of our global business stories and discover how they affect workers,
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We have got coverage.
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all this week on that trip by President Xi to the
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United States,
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including hearing from businesses who are trying to navigate working
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between the world's two largest economies and also hearing from our top correspondents in
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