Unrest in China with Matt Pottinger

Published: Dec. 5, 2022, noon

b'From civil disobedience we have not seen in China since Tiananmen Square, to loosening zero covid policy, and leadership tightening its political grip in unprecedented ways, this has been quite a few weeks in China. What is US policy on a range of issues \\u2013 the protests, semiconductors, Taiwan and also TikTok?\\n\\nMatt Pottinger returns to the podcast. Matt covered China and lived in China as a journalist for Reuters and then The Wall Street Journal. Then, in his early 30s, he made quite a career change. Matt joined the US Marine Corps, and had multiple combat deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan.\\n\\nLater on Matt played an instrumental role in reshaping the West\\u2019s relationship with China, when he served as the deputy National Security Advisor in the Trump administration, and was the architect of the administration\\u2019s strategy towards China. \\n\\nToday, he is regularly called upon by policymakers on both sides of the aisle, to consult on US policy towards China. He recently co-authored an essay for Foreign Affairs titled \\u201cXi Jinping in His Own Words\\u201d -- https://tinyurl.com/2t59vm7z\\n\\nMatt is a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution and Chair of the China program at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.'