China Watch Radio

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By: Bill Graff, Michael Olsen, Jonathan McCollyer, David Welch, Amy Hao

Pealing back a layer in geopolitics, searching through the lessons of history, comparing and contrasting culture, and reading between the lines of "great power competition", China Watch Radio delves into the past, present and future of US/China relations while balancing a critical eye for humanitarian abuses and authoritarian structures with a genuine hope for our shared humanity.

The CCP Loosens COVID Restrictions As US Bound Exports Crash
#7
12/09/2022

As Xi Jinping arrives in Saudi Arabia, amid questions about the future of the petrodollar, decline in US bound exports from China slow dramatically.


The People Of China Inspire Us To Rise
#6
12/02/2022

The passions of Democracy rise in the most unlikely place. As and apartment building burns with people locked into their apartments and World Cup spectators celebrate mask-less in huge crowds, the Zero-COVID policy and Xi's "president for life" status are too much for the people to bear. The people of China are inspiring us to fight for our freedoms.


What Does It Mean To Be Number One?
#5
11/18/2022

When General Mark A. Milley assures us that, while China sets the pace, the United States will remain the Number 1 military well into the 21st century, what does that really mean and is that really going to prevent a major conflict from breaking out? As the United States loses faith in our institutions and struggles against cultural decline, is there a super man or super woman who will right out trajectory? What role does a religious or spiritual awareness play in the societal level of great power conflict? If any of these questions spark your interest, you won't want...


Something's Fishy In US/China Relations
#4
11/11/2022

Will US and China icy relations start to thaw now that both countries have completed their own very different versions of elections? If activity around the Spratly Islands are any indicator, where hundreds of Chinese so called fishing vessels, with reinforced hulls and overpowered engines, have congregated to conduct "grey zone" intimidation of other nations fishing fleets, then the answer may well be a resounding "no".


Who's Virus Is It Anyway?
#3
11/03/2022

After the recent Senate Report "An Analysis of the Origins of the COVID-19 Pandemic" suggested that the pandemic virus is far more likely to have originated from human research than from the wonders of nature, we thought it would be a good time to have a frank conversation on the topic and say all of the things you get banned from YouTube for saying.


The Greatest Betrayal Ever Caught On Camera
#3
10/28/2022

Integrative medicine practitioner Dr. Frank He tells us how changes in China's medical industry, due to the corrupting effects of big pharma money, would have prevented him from providing treatment during the pandemic, had he not moved to the US. Amy and Michael discuss the machinations behind Xi Jinping's ouster of both Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao, along with their corresponding factions, explaining that Xi convinced Hu to help remove Jiang, before Xi betrayed Hu and removed him as well.


How To Survive Xi Jinping's 5 Year Plan
#2
10/21/2022

Amy Hao joins us to greatly illuminate the hidden subtexts of the on going 20th Communist Party Congress in Beijing. She explains why senior party leaders don't wear Covid masks, while lower ranked party members do. She also mentions that 4 high ranking party members, including Jiang Zemin were absent and that one party member did not clap when everyone else did. The conversation also turns to the clandestine power of Blackrock, the semiconductor trade war and the best way for the US to effect positive political change in China.


Will Xi Jinping Give The World An October Surprise Or Will He Get One?
#1
10/14/2022

Amy Hao joins us to illuminate the political tinderbox of the CCP's Twentieth Party Congress starting Oct 16th. Is a recent demonstration on a bridge in Beijing a minor incident or a spark that will lead to a major conflagration? If reaffirmed in his various rolls as leader of the CCP, will Xi reverse his Zero Covid policy or will he hang on to the immense power those restrictions give the state? With the US Commerce Department acting to dramatically curtail Chinese imports of advanced semiconductors and semiconductor manufacturing equipment, will the CCP retaliate with an export ban on...


Has China Already Invaded The US? If So, Can Our Core Principles Survive?
#1
10/06/2022

According to whistle blowing NGO Safeguard Defenders, Chinese quasi-police stations have been established throughout the globe and "Chinese authorities claim that from April 2021 to July 2022, 230,000 nationals had been “persuaded to return” to face criminal proceedings in China". One of the police stations is in New York city, home of many Uyghur and the Shen Yun dance company. The PLA Navy has been caught on satellite imagery conducting amphibious landing exercises using supposedly civilian ferries. Peter Zeihan predicts "The End Of China Has Begun", citing China's demographic decline and inability to produce high end semiconductors. Several callers debate how changing demo...


With So Many Thumbs On The Scale, Which Way Will It Tip?
#52
09/30/2022

With Guam rapidly preparing for the possibility of defending its self from a "Pearl Harbor" like strike and two of the worlds most strategically sensitive pipelines, we ask the question "Are we at a tipping point?" David points out a surprising and rising amount amount of domestic support on mainland China for the use of military force to "re-unify" Taiwan. While Michael describes the comical situation where Xie Zhenhua, leader of China's climate negotiations, chides Europe for backsliding on their climate goals. Billy also points out that Blackrock and Vanguard are on course to own just about everything by 2028.<...