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Welcome back to the BNP everyone and thank you for joining! This episode is slightly abridged and coming out early because I am going camping this weekend up on the Utah-AZ border. I'm stoked. :) But enough about me.
This episode we welcome back esteemed writer and historian Dr. Ken Hammond PhD. Dr. Hammond is a professor of East Asian history and founder of the Confucius Institute at New Mexico St. University. He is also an activist for Pivot to Peace: https://peacepivot.org/.
Dr. Hammond continues our deep dive into the rise of modern China since the 1949 Communist Revolution. We tackle the years of the so-called Cultural Revolution, including its internal facets, flaws and unreported benefits. Importantly, it is a fair and nuanced assessment of an event that is universally demonized and exaggerated in the West.
We then touch on China's guiding ideology as it has evolved over the years, and how the presidency of Xi Jinping has signaled a noticeable shift away from Capitalist oligarchic corruption and towards the Socialist vision that animated the revolution. China's anti-corruption campaign is working, and they are leading the world in the field of green and renewable technology.
To save the planet, we as Americans need to work together with China whether we like it or not, and sabre rattling from the Pentagon is both unproductive and dangerous.
Finally, Dr. Hammond recounts his experience at Kent St. University on the very day in 1970 when National Guardsmen opened fire on students, killing 4, paralyzing 1 and injuring many others. Fascinating to have a firsthand account of that horrible day.
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