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Podcast: ChinaTalk
Episode: (Ad Free) Imperial Japan + Export Controls = Pearl Harbor!?
Description: What can US-China relations learn from US-Japan relations before WW2? To discuss, I’m joined by Stony Brook University’s Michael Barnhart, author of the 1987 Japan Prepares for Total War: The Search for Economic Security, 1919–1941 and the more recent Can You Beat Churchill?: Teaching History through Simulations (https://www.amazon.com/Can-You-Beat-Churchill-Simulations/dp/1501755641), with Scholar’s Stage essayist Tanner Greer (@Scholars_Stage) cohosting.We discussWhat motivated Japan to invade ChinaWhy FDR was particularly worried about a Japanese invasion of the USSRWhy Japan and the Nazis thought the West would be on their sideThe benefits of payin...