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Welcome to the dig, a podcast from Jacobin magazine.

My name is Daniel Denver and I'm broadcasting this introduction from The road in Vienna.

Once upon a time neoliberalism created a framework for great power peace between the incumbent

American hegemony and a rising China. But the 2008 economic crisis proved that framework to have

been a brittle one. Relations soon began to sour as economic and also

military tensions heightened.

Under Trump, the conflict roared into an outright trade war and then under

Biden became systematically entwined with a new nationalist economic policy.

Four years, but with special precision under Bidenics.

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