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Podcast: The Bill Walton Show
Episode: China Then and Now: From a Century of Humiliation to a $4 Trillion Trade Surplus with Pat Mulloy and Stefan Halper
Description: “You're looking at a country which is the most radical actor on the global stage since the French Revolution.” China is plowing forward with an agenda of economic aggression, empirical ambitions, and a complete disregard for international law and customs. How did this happen? It turns out to be a toxic combination of long national embarrassment, Confucian thought, and terrible missteps by the U.S. and others. To give us a much-needed Chinese history lesson, I brought in former Commerce Department official Pat Mulloy, who also served as a commissioner on the U.S.-China Economic and Secu...