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Welcome to the dig, a podcast from Jackubin magazine. My name is Daniel Denver and

I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island. This is the big picture episode on China that I have been

meaning to do forever. The US and China find themselves in a dynamic of

escalating nationalism that mutually reinforce one another. This is disastrous

for American and Chinese people because it poses the risk of military

conflict and because it reinforces the power of reactionary and repressive forces at the expensive working-class people in both countries.

And it's disastrous for people everywhere on Earth.

As long as the world's two largest economies are bent on conflict with each other, they

will be reinforcing the very dynamics of the global capitalist world system that are driving this conflict, a system that

perversely creates overcapacity in American, Chinese, and manufacturing sectors

worldwide even as half the world's population lack secure access to the most basic needs.

Industrialized countries are producing too much stuff, not because everyone has what they need, but because entrenched

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