Maybe that the americans are crazy i mean russia hacked the election and now chinas poison in america and. America needs reparations is what im seeing on the American Media i mean im in new zealand im halfway between east and west have family in asia family in the west and i was calling in early february back into the United States telling them what they. Were saying and they would listen people got angry with me they were like the American Media was a like 45 days behind asia i have friends in saigon in taipei you who are not locked down there going to work you know they havent missed my daughter in taipei hasnt missed any time so this blaming china reparations you know maybe we could start at the beginning you know theres 3000000 dead people in Southeast Asia because of us fly not. Aircraft carriers in the South China Sea and by i mean vietnam we could start with reparations there one food of laos has so Many American bombs and that they can even use it i mean lets get real and lets
Had his own office after his 2008 secs from conviction well discuss that its time to boost your news i. Q. President trump has long made trade a major stumping point of his administration and according to u. S. Trade Representatives Office american trade to the u. K. Was at a surplus of about 5 and a half 1000000000. 00 and today both countries are heading back to the negotiating table to hammer out what a new trade pact would look like in a post world coming just at the end of this year so for more on all of this we are being joined by our panel George Galloway former u. K. M. P. And of course our president s one cohost boom bust or a gentleman george i would like to start with you some 300. 00 trade personnel were on the 1st round of video chat the u. S. Trade representative robert lighthouses are announced a number of objectives last year which included full access for u. S. Agricultural products it was very. Beg not sure what that means and reduced tariffs for u. S. Manufactured go
Taipei hasnt missed any time so this blaming china reparations you know maybe we could start at the beginning you know theres 3000000 dead people in Southeast Asia because of this flying off the aircraft carriers in the South China Sea and by i mean vietnam we could start with reparations there one 3rd of laos has so Many American bombs on it they can even use it i mean lets get real and lets Work Together as a world here. You know well that would be great and that would be the most important takeaway from this pandemic is to Work Together but what weve seen is just the opposite weve seen its every man for himself and thats very disquieting brad let me come to you. Its part of my profession i watch a lot of american cable news and look at the major broadsheets and number one their knowledge of china is very very poor this gives me an opportunity to plug james his book here which is very very good on the china mirage but you know it seems to me that again you know theres a great deal of
To discuss this and more im joined by my guest read like unship in prague hes an american journalist in the Czech Republic where hes been covering the covert 19 pandemic in europe along with chinas response previously hes worked as a journalist for telesur 8 and a contributor and mastodon news and in new zealand we cross to James Bradley he is the New York Times number one bestselling author of the china mirage as well as host of his own pod cast untold pacific hi gentlemen crossed out rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciated this talk about the u. S. China relationship during this pandemic and most importantly after it james let me go to you know we we here with donald trump with his threatening words there will be consequences of course that is undefined to this point here and i can understand the traumatization that people are feeling in the United States i would. Say it was a lack of preparedness and just the nature of the medical system
Leave plenty of time for a giveandtake around the table. Socialism is in the air right now but the book first of all is a history i will quickly set the history then spend some minutes and then we can have a back and forth. So socialism was coined by the followers of a small group of thinkers the british and french they were about to overthrow governments who had ideas of sharing and also have the quite a good idea the way to get there was to demonstrate the validity of their ideas. And they created through the mid 18 hundreds 40 or 50 of these experimental communities mostly in the United States even though these visionaries were europeans. Why in the United States . Its easy to get land and because the social mores were much more fluid and their ideas were taken seriously. Perhaps the most important was robert oh when he announced he was coming to the United States to create a community to demonstrate the validity of his ideas and was taken tremendously seriously he commissioned an a