A second full episode this week for you Sinica listeners! Jude Blanchette joins to talk about the House Select Committee on United States Competition with the Chinese Communist Party, and all that is wrong with it, from its framing of the CCP as an "existential threat" to its focus on the CCP, and how all of this adds up to an embarrassing moral panic that distracts from the serious issues the U.S. confronts when it comes to China.
4:37 – What’s wrong with the Select Committee’s framing of China as an “existential threat,” and why the first hearing was an embarrassment
9:01 – The current moment as a moral panic over China
12:09 – Domestic political drivers of U.S. China policy
15:04 – Why the United States versus the Chinese Communist Party is the wrong framing too
22:46 – Is this more like McCarthyism — or antisemitism?
28:58 – The downstream effects of U.S. tech containment policy toward China
42:01 – The advantage of simplistic, Manichean messaging
46:15 – Prioritizing U.S. issues with China: why Confucius Institutes and TikTok are so far down the to-do list, and what really matters48:59 – And what are the real issues that deserve priority?
A complete transcript of this podcast is available at TheChinaProject.com
Recommendations:
Jude: Miracle and Wonder: Conversations with Paul Simon by Malcolm Gladwell and Bruce Headlam, from Audible
Kaiser: This podcast interview with Angela Rasmussen, the virologist who has been in the front lines fighting back against the resurgent lab leak theory, from the Slate What Next: TBD podcast
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