1 00:00:03,160 --> 00:00:07,640 Speaker 1: This is red Pilled America. Hey fambam. This three part 2 00:00:07,760 --> 00:00:11,680 Speaker 1: series American Icon was first broadcast in April twenty nineteen, 3 00:00:11,920 --> 00:00:14,520 Speaker 1: and it tells the story of American manufacturing through the 4 00:00:14,560 --> 00:00:17,759 Speaker 1: creation of the baseball cap. Right now, we're giving fifty 5 00:00:17,800 --> 00:00:21,240 Speaker 1: percent off all of our RPA baseball caps. Please grab 6 00:00:21,239 --> 00:00:23,799 Speaker 1: one for yourself or a friend today. It's a great 7 00:00:23,840 --> 00:00:26,520 Speaker 1: way to support and promote the show. Just go to 8 00:00:26,600 --> 00:00:29,840 Speaker 1: Redpilled America dot com and click shop in the top menu. 9 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:32,680 Speaker 1: The sale lasts through the end of the month. Get 10 00:00:32,720 --> 00:00:36,519 Speaker 1: fifty percent off an RPA baseball cap today. Support what 11 00:00:36,600 --> 00:00:37,920 Speaker 1: you love or it goes away. 12 00:00:38,360 --> 00:00:43,360 Speaker 2: Now enjoy the show. 13 00:00:44,640 --> 00:00:46,279 Speaker 1: Previously unread Pilled America. 14 00:00:46,640 --> 00:00:51,640 Speaker 3: So Eerie has lost nearly one in three manufacturing jobs. 15 00:00:51,680 --> 00:00:53,280 Speaker 3: You know that. Hang it, don't leave. 16 00:00:53,400 --> 00:00:56,680 Speaker 4: I promise our jobs will come back. 17 00:00:56,880 --> 00:01:00,320 Speaker 1: But is that possible? Can manufacturing jobs really come back 18 00:01:00,320 --> 00:01:01,280 Speaker 1: to the United States? 19 00:01:01,520 --> 00:01:02,800 Speaker 2: So we went on a bit of a journey to 20 00:01:02,800 --> 00:01:05,280 Speaker 2: see if we could make an affordable cap here in 21 00:01:05,319 --> 00:01:11,440 Speaker 2: the United States. And then we got an idea. 22 00:01:09,560 --> 00:01:11,840 Speaker 1: Why don't we make a made in America baseball cap 23 00:01:11,880 --> 00:01:14,480 Speaker 1: and let our cap tell the story of American manufacturing. 24 00:01:16,880 --> 00:01:18,880 Speaker 5: She'd wanted the game to be Americanized. 25 00:01:19,120 --> 00:01:22,320 Speaker 6: I believe there was motivation behind it for merchandising. 26 00:01:22,480 --> 00:01:26,560 Speaker 1: Baseball was now officially American. The baseball cap was poised 27 00:01:26,560 --> 00:01:27,880 Speaker 1: to become the nation's hat. 28 00:01:28,360 --> 00:01:30,839 Speaker 3: There were local hat factories too. 29 00:01:30,920 --> 00:01:33,520 Speaker 1: By the end of the nineteen sixties, the baseball cap 30 00:01:33,640 --> 00:01:36,720 Speaker 1: was slowly becoming the nation's hat. They were mainly being 31 00:01:36,760 --> 00:01:40,839 Speaker 1: manufactured in the United States, but a new development was underway. 32 00:01:41,160 --> 00:01:44,559 Speaker 1: Many companies started to turn to South Korea and other 33 00:01:44,640 --> 00:01:47,880 Speaker 1: foreign countries to build this American icon. But it would 34 00:01:47,880 --> 00:01:51,240 Speaker 1: be an unexpected event that would dramatically alter the story 35 00:01:51,280 --> 00:01:57,320 Speaker 1: of the baseball cap. I'm Patrick Curlci. 36 00:01:57,160 --> 00:01:58,600 Speaker 2: And I'm Adriana Cortez. 37 00:01:58,920 --> 00:02:02,320 Speaker 1: And this is Red Pilled America, a storytelling show. 38 00:02:03,480 --> 00:02:06,080 Speaker 2: This is not another talk show covering the day's news. 39 00:02:06,280 --> 00:02:08,200 Speaker 2: We are all about telling stories. 40 00:02:08,720 --> 00:02:09,160 Speaker 7: Stories. 41 00:02:09,160 --> 00:02:11,639 Speaker 1: Hollywood doesn't want you to hear stories. 42 00:02:11,720 --> 00:02:16,320 Speaker 2: The media marks stories about everyday Americans. If the globalist ignore. 43 00:02:17,440 --> 00:02:20,440 Speaker 1: You could think of red Pilled America as audio documentaries, 44 00:02:20,480 --> 00:02:24,519 Speaker 1: and we promise only one thing, the truth. 45 00:02:28,960 --> 00:02:32,480 Speaker 2: Welcome to Red Pilled America. 46 00:02:37,840 --> 00:02:41,359 Speaker 1: The phrase free trade has such a liberating sound to it. 47 00:02:41,360 --> 00:02:44,840 Speaker 1: It conjures up the vision of liberty and freedom. Americans 48 00:02:44,840 --> 00:02:48,080 Speaker 1: think of it as being synonymous with capitalism, a system 49 00:02:48,080 --> 00:02:50,320 Speaker 1: that is thought to have brought so much wealth to 50 00:02:50,360 --> 00:02:53,080 Speaker 1: our nation. But you may be surprised to learn that 51 00:02:53,120 --> 00:02:55,480 Speaker 1: free trade as we know it today was not a 52 00:02:55,520 --> 00:02:58,359 Speaker 1: principle coveted by the men and women that made America 53 00:02:58,400 --> 00:03:01,440 Speaker 1: great in the first place. In fact, quite the opposite. 54 00:03:01,560 --> 00:03:04,399 Speaker 3: Free trade was first developed by the British Empire. 55 00:03:04,600 --> 00:03:08,799 Speaker 1: That's Curtis Ellis, senior policy advisor with America First, an 56 00:03:08,840 --> 00:03:14,200 Speaker 1: independent nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting policies that put America first. 57 00:03:14,600 --> 00:03:17,440 Speaker 1: Curtis was a senior policy adviser with the Donald J. 58 00:03:17,600 --> 00:03:21,200 Speaker 1: Trump for President campaign. In other words, he's an expert 59 00:03:21,200 --> 00:03:23,639 Speaker 1: on the policies that got Donald Trump elected. 60 00:03:23,880 --> 00:03:29,280 Speaker 3: And Abraham Lincoln and his economic team, which, of course, 61 00:03:29,480 --> 00:03:33,560 Speaker 3: remember Abraham Lincoln was the first Republican president. They were 62 00:03:33,600 --> 00:03:35,760 Speaker 3: staunchly opposed to free trade. 63 00:03:35,840 --> 00:03:39,880 Speaker 1: As baseball became our country's national pastime, President Lincoln was 64 00:03:39,920 --> 00:03:43,800 Speaker 1: rejecting the British concept of free trade and instead embarked 65 00:03:43,840 --> 00:03:47,160 Speaker 1: on a mission to grow and protect American manufacturing. Under 66 00:03:47,160 --> 00:03:49,920 Speaker 1: their policies, the United States would go on to become 67 00:03:49,960 --> 00:03:53,760 Speaker 1: the world's industrial powerhouse, but then a new concept crept 68 00:03:53,760 --> 00:03:57,000 Speaker 1: into the minds of our leaders, forever changing our economy. 69 00:04:00,600 --> 00:04:03,360 Speaker 1: I'm Patrick Corelchi and this is Red Pilled America. It's 70 00:04:03,400 --> 00:04:06,560 Speaker 1: our second episode looking at the story of American manufacturing. 71 00:04:07,200 --> 00:04:09,120 Speaker 1: You don't need to have heard our last episode to 72 00:04:09,160 --> 00:04:11,680 Speaker 1: understand this one, but just in case you missed it. 73 00:04:12,080 --> 00:04:14,360 Speaker 1: In part one, we explain how your humble hosts had 74 00:04:14,360 --> 00:04:17,319 Speaker 1: an eye opening moment. We wanted to make a baseball 75 00:04:17,360 --> 00:04:19,520 Speaker 1: hat for our listeners, and after we priced it out, 76 00:04:19,680 --> 00:04:22,279 Speaker 1: we were surprised by the low cost, so we checked 77 00:04:22,320 --> 00:04:24,680 Speaker 1: the tag on the sample and there it was made 78 00:04:24,760 --> 00:04:27,800 Speaker 1: in Bangladesh. We did a little research and found out 79 00:04:27,800 --> 00:04:31,240 Speaker 1: that the overwhelming majority of baseball caps are made overseas. 80 00:04:31,720 --> 00:04:33,800 Speaker 1: So we had an idea, why don't we make a 81 00:04:33,839 --> 00:04:36,800 Speaker 1: maid in America baseball cap and through the process let 82 00:04:36,800 --> 00:04:39,920 Speaker 1: our cap tell the story of American manufacturing. What would 83 00:04:39,960 --> 00:04:43,560 Speaker 1: we learn and perhaps more importantly, by trying to fabricate 84 00:04:43,600 --> 00:04:46,360 Speaker 1: our own cap right here in the United States? What 85 00:04:46,400 --> 00:04:49,440 Speaker 1: would it teach us about the viability of American manufacturing? 86 00:04:49,839 --> 00:04:52,719 Speaker 1: Can we really start making profitable products again here on 87 00:04:52,800 --> 00:04:55,280 Speaker 1: our soil? What would it take to make that happen. 88 00:04:55,760 --> 00:04:58,000 Speaker 1: We started our journey by traveling back to the birth 89 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:01,400 Speaker 1: of baseball and watched as the National League pitching feenom. A. G. 90 00:05:01,560 --> 00:05:05,520 Speaker 1: Spalding became a America's first sporting goods mobile, building a 91 00:05:05,560 --> 00:05:09,440 Speaker 1: near monopolistic enterprise in the baseball industry that included manufacturing 92 00:05:09,440 --> 00:05:13,600 Speaker 1: of balls, gloves, shoes, and baseball caps. A. G. Spalding 93 00:05:13,720 --> 00:05:16,040 Speaker 1: used his power in the sport to brand baseball as 94 00:05:16,080 --> 00:05:19,039 Speaker 1: a sport with pure American roots, and it became the 95 00:05:19,080 --> 00:05:23,280 Speaker 1: country's national pastime. As the sport grew, the baseball cap 96 00:05:23,320 --> 00:05:26,200 Speaker 1: grew with it, and with the advent of televised baseball 97 00:05:26,279 --> 00:05:28,680 Speaker 1: and the spread of the Little League, the baseball cap 98 00:05:28,720 --> 00:05:32,840 Speaker 1: was slowly becoming the nation's hat, almost solely manufactured in 99 00:05:32,880 --> 00:05:35,920 Speaker 1: the United States. But then a chance meeting between two 100 00:05:35,960 --> 00:05:40,040 Speaker 1: athletes from entirely different sports would forever change the story 101 00:05:40,080 --> 00:05:45,280 Speaker 1: of American manufacturing. How did the baseball cap go from 102 00:05:45,360 --> 00:05:49,080 Speaker 1: maid in America to maid and everywhere but America. To 103 00:05:49,080 --> 00:05:51,479 Speaker 1: find the answer, we next need to look at how 104 00:05:51,520 --> 00:05:54,640 Speaker 1: the idea of free trade took hold in America and 105 00:05:54,720 --> 00:05:58,680 Speaker 1: how that new policy impacted our manufacturing industry. But to 106 00:05:58,720 --> 00:06:00,640 Speaker 1: do that, we need to go back to a group 107 00:06:00,680 --> 00:06:03,200 Speaker 1: of men that knew what it took to really make 108 00:06:03,240 --> 00:06:04,200 Speaker 1: America great again. 109 00:06:10,839 --> 00:06:16,279 Speaker 2: Hi, I'm Adriana Cortez. At the dawn of the Second 110 00:06:16,279 --> 00:06:20,120 Speaker 2: Industrial Revolution, America had a different take on free trade 111 00:06:20,200 --> 00:06:26,320 Speaker 2: than it does today. The concept was a British invention, 112 00:06:26,520 --> 00:06:30,920 Speaker 2: and President Lincoln and his chief economic advisor, Henry Carey, 113 00:06:31,160 --> 00:06:34,760 Speaker 2: were unabashed protectionist. 114 00:06:33,720 --> 00:06:38,840 Speaker 3: They were staunchly opposed to free trade. They wanted to 115 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:46,200 Speaker 3: encourage the development of American industry, American manufacturing, and particularly 116 00:06:46,320 --> 00:06:54,039 Speaker 3: their theory. Their philosophy was the value added manufacturing should 117 00:06:54,120 --> 00:07:00,120 Speaker 3: be located as close to the raw materials that went 118 00:07:00,320 --> 00:07:06,240 Speaker 3: into the manufactured product as possible, as close as possible. 119 00:07:06,360 --> 00:07:08,520 Speaker 2: The phrase is used as a put down today, but 120 00:07:08,640 --> 00:07:13,360 Speaker 2: Henry Carey's approach of protectionism was an America first policy. 121 00:07:13,760 --> 00:07:16,680 Speaker 3: What it meant at that time and what he advocated. 122 00:07:17,280 --> 00:07:22,200 Speaker 3: The example that he used was that the textile mills 123 00:07:23,080 --> 00:07:29,760 Speaker 3: that turned cotton into fiber and then into cloth should 124 00:07:29,840 --> 00:07:33,720 Speaker 3: be located right next to the cotton field, because at 125 00:07:33,760 --> 00:07:37,400 Speaker 3: that time the cotton was grown in the United States 126 00:07:38,160 --> 00:07:40,720 Speaker 3: and it was shipped to Great Britain, where the dark 127 00:07:40,800 --> 00:07:47,760 Speaker 3: Satanic mills of the Dickensian Industrial Revolution turned it into cloth, 128 00:07:48,080 --> 00:07:51,120 Speaker 3: and then it was shipped back to the United States. Now, 129 00:07:51,240 --> 00:07:57,440 Speaker 3: Carrie and Lincoln and those who followed the Lincoln philosophy 130 00:07:57,800 --> 00:08:01,640 Speaker 3: felt that it would be better to have these mills here, 131 00:08:02,040 --> 00:08:05,400 Speaker 3: and to specific we have them down south where the 132 00:08:05,400 --> 00:08:09,280 Speaker 3: cotton was grown. It would make better use of the 133 00:08:09,880 --> 00:08:14,320 Speaker 3: human capital, the labor that existed there. When people were 134 00:08:14,360 --> 00:08:18,040 Speaker 3: not planting or harvesting, they could be working in the 135 00:08:18,080 --> 00:08:21,600 Speaker 3: mills and making the cloth, and it would be in 136 00:08:21,640 --> 00:08:23,040 Speaker 3: that sense more efficient. 137 00:08:23,560 --> 00:08:27,840 Speaker 2: The Lincoln administration applied this to everything. Rather than send 138 00:08:27,880 --> 00:08:30,280 Speaker 2: iron and coal to Great Britain to be made into steel, 139 00:08:30,680 --> 00:08:33,640 Speaker 2: they believed American steel should be close to our source 140 00:08:33,720 --> 00:08:36,480 Speaker 2: of iron and coal that went into the making of steel. 141 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:40,920 Speaker 2: Why purchase British steel made from American raw materials when 142 00:08:40,960 --> 00:08:43,240 Speaker 2: you can make the finished goods right here in the 143 00:08:43,320 --> 00:08:45,160 Speaker 2: United States right now. 144 00:08:45,160 --> 00:08:51,960 Speaker 3: This philosophy and this economic policy was the bedrock principle 145 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:56,760 Speaker 3: of the Republican Party for fifty years, at least sixty 146 00:08:56,840 --> 00:09:12,400 Speaker 3: years perhaps, And we saw steel mills grow up in 147 00:09:12,480 --> 00:09:17,480 Speaker 3: Pennsylvania near the anthracite coal fields. If you draw a 148 00:09:17,520 --> 00:09:25,000 Speaker 3: circle around Pittsburgh and Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Within a five hundred 149 00:09:25,080 --> 00:09:28,400 Speaker 3: mile radius, you will find all the raw materials you 150 00:09:28,559 --> 00:09:35,040 Speaker 3: need to make steel. You'll find coal, iron, ore, limestone, etc. 151 00:09:35,760 --> 00:09:41,319 Speaker 3: And the water transport system. So this was the philosophy 152 00:09:41,440 --> 00:09:46,800 Speaker 3: the economic policies that built America into a great manufacturing power, 153 00:09:47,160 --> 00:09:51,280 Speaker 3: the greatest economic power on Earth. While Britain pursued its 154 00:09:51,320 --> 00:09:56,679 Speaker 3: policy of free trade, America pursued a policy of protection 155 00:09:57,400 --> 00:10:02,720 Speaker 3: and nurturing domestic industries, and we overtook Britain as the 156 00:10:02,720 --> 00:10:04,280 Speaker 3: great industrial power. 157 00:10:06,880 --> 00:10:12,480 Speaker 2: American manufacturing flourished largely because the country took on a 158 00:10:12,520 --> 00:10:17,880 Speaker 2: protectionist approach to home grown production into the early nineteen hundreds. 159 00:10:17,920 --> 00:10:21,520 Speaker 2: The federal government was largely funded by this protectionist approach. 160 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:25,160 Speaker 2: There was no federal income tax. Washington, d c. Was 161 00:10:25,200 --> 00:10:28,680 Speaker 2: almost exclusively funded by tariffs and excise taxes. 162 00:10:28,960 --> 00:10:30,760 Speaker 8: The tariff is what funded our country. 163 00:10:31,080 --> 00:10:35,319 Speaker 2: That's Greg Autry, professor of Clinical Entrepreneurship at the University 164 00:10:35,320 --> 00:10:38,400 Speaker 2: of Southern California and the co author of Death by 165 00:10:38,520 --> 00:10:42,080 Speaker 2: China Confronting the Dragon, a global call to Action. 166 00:10:42,559 --> 00:10:45,640 Speaker 8: We potentially had high tariffs and protected our markets and 167 00:10:45,679 --> 00:10:46,640 Speaker 8: did really, really well. 168 00:10:46,679 --> 00:10:47,680 Speaker 7: May the country reach. 169 00:10:48,040 --> 00:10:51,000 Speaker 2: But with the ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment in nineteen 170 00:10:51,080 --> 00:10:54,320 Speaker 2: thirteen that allowed Washington d c. To tax income, a 171 00:10:54,400 --> 00:10:58,920 Speaker 2: dramatic change was underway. The federal government began a shift 172 00:10:58,960 --> 00:11:02,440 Speaker 2: from being funded by tariffs and excise taxes to being 173 00:11:02,559 --> 00:11:05,319 Speaker 2: funded by an income tax on its citizens. 174 00:11:05,920 --> 00:11:10,959 Speaker 8: When we flipped and started taxing income, which encourages people 175 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:13,560 Speaker 8: basically not to work as opposed to encouraging people not 176 00:11:13,640 --> 00:11:17,199 Speaker 8: to import things, in my opinion, began to go downhill. 177 00:11:17,440 --> 00:11:21,800 Speaker 8: Every tax is both a revenue generating mechanism and a 178 00:11:22,440 --> 00:11:26,720 Speaker 8: behavioral modifier, right because it causes you to do less 179 00:11:26,760 --> 00:11:29,960 Speaker 8: of the thing that's tax because it makes the returns 180 00:11:29,960 --> 00:11:30,600 Speaker 8: on that lower. 181 00:11:30,960 --> 00:11:35,679 Speaker 2: The shift in America's revenue source has been dramatic. Tariffs 182 00:11:35,679 --> 00:11:38,520 Speaker 2: were once the dominant source of funding for Washington DC. 183 00:11:39,160 --> 00:11:42,760 Speaker 2: Today tariffs only amount to one point two percent of 184 00:11:42,800 --> 00:11:46,679 Speaker 2: our federal government's revenue, with an entirely new source of 185 00:11:46,720 --> 00:11:50,800 Speaker 2: federal funding coming from taxing income. Revenue from tariffs were 186 00:11:50,800 --> 00:11:55,200 Speaker 2: no longer vital to keeping Washington DC running. Imports were 187 00:11:55,200 --> 00:11:59,280 Speaker 2: on their way to being more attractive in the American market. However, 188 00:11:59,679 --> 00:12:03,440 Speaker 2: through the nineteen fifties, there was still sizable tariffsodas on 189 00:12:03,520 --> 00:12:07,600 Speaker 2: foreign goods, including the textiles that create the baseball cap. 190 00:12:08,360 --> 00:12:12,000 Speaker 2: These tariffs and quotas limited imports and protected our country's 191 00:12:12,080 --> 00:12:15,200 Speaker 2: manufacturing jobs. But it would take the end of World 192 00:12:15,200 --> 00:12:17,760 Speaker 2: War II to set the stage for a dramatic shift 193 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:19,720 Speaker 2: in American foreign trade policy. 194 00:12:22,559 --> 00:12:25,440 Speaker 3: After World War II, we were king of the hill. 195 00:12:25,800 --> 00:12:30,960 Speaker 3: We were almost the sole remaining industrial power. Japan, which 196 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:35,560 Speaker 3: had been in the industrial power of its own, was destroyed. Likewise, Germany, 197 00:12:36,240 --> 00:12:40,559 Speaker 3: England was on its knees. Europe was a smoking ruin, 198 00:12:41,120 --> 00:12:43,280 Speaker 3: Japan was a radioactive smoking ruin. 199 00:12:43,840 --> 00:12:47,960 Speaker 2: America was the last standing industrial power except for one 200 00:12:48,040 --> 00:12:54,840 Speaker 2: surviving adversary, the Soviet Union. So began the Cold War, 201 00:12:55,360 --> 00:12:58,760 Speaker 2: a period of geopolitical tensions between the United States and 202 00:12:58,800 --> 00:13:02,800 Speaker 2: the USSR. At the close of World War two, Communism 203 00:13:02,880 --> 00:13:06,320 Speaker 2: had taken route in various spots across the globe, in 204 00:13:06,400 --> 00:13:15,000 Speaker 2: the Eastern European countries of Poland, East Germany, Albania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Romania, Czechoslovakia, 205 00:13:15,080 --> 00:13:19,280 Speaker 2: and Hungary. In Asia, it took hold in North Korea, Vietnam, 206 00:13:19,559 --> 00:13:24,160 Speaker 2: and even the world's most populous country fell to Marxist ideology. 207 00:13:24,840 --> 00:13:28,880 Speaker 2: On October first, nineteen forty nine, MAUSA Tongue announced the 208 00:13:28,920 --> 00:13:33,199 Speaker 2: creation of the People's Republic of China, or the PRC. 209 00:13:33,840 --> 00:13:36,840 Speaker 2: As a result, the United States cut off all diplomatic 210 00:13:36,880 --> 00:13:42,000 Speaker 2: ties with China. Communism was on the rise, and America 211 00:13:42,040 --> 00:13:50,600 Speaker 2: took on a novel approach to fighting its expansion. Again. 212 00:13:50,840 --> 00:13:55,040 Speaker 3: Curtis Ellis, there was a deliberate decision made that we 213 00:13:55,080 --> 00:14:00,920 Speaker 3: would help rebuild Japan and Europe by opening our markets 214 00:14:01,280 --> 00:14:05,640 Speaker 3: to their manufactured goods, and we would use trade as 215 00:14:05,880 --> 00:14:09,839 Speaker 3: aid instead of just sending money over to them as 216 00:14:09,960 --> 00:14:14,920 Speaker 3: foreign aid. We would help these countries pull themselves up 217 00:14:14,960 --> 00:14:21,000 Speaker 3: by the bootstrap by selling goods to America. This worked 218 00:14:21,280 --> 00:14:26,200 Speaker 3: tremendously well. We developed middle class economies around the world, 219 00:14:26,480 --> 00:14:30,800 Speaker 3: and not coincidentally, these were countries that were on the 220 00:14:30,840 --> 00:14:34,520 Speaker 3: front line in the Cold War. We did not want 221 00:14:34,560 --> 00:14:38,560 Speaker 3: them to go communists in the great contest between the 222 00:14:38,600 --> 00:14:43,080 Speaker 3: Eastern Bloc and the West. We wanted to make sure 223 00:14:43,160 --> 00:14:47,960 Speaker 3: that Italy and France and Western Europe and Japan and 224 00:14:48,080 --> 00:14:54,840 Speaker 3: Taiwan remained in the capitalist camp, so we used access 225 00:14:54,880 --> 00:14:58,080 Speaker 3: to the American market as a way to help build 226 00:14:58,120 --> 00:14:58,560 Speaker 3: them up. 227 00:14:58,880 --> 00:15:01,800 Speaker 2: However, there was a feature in this new trade policy 228 00:15:01,840 --> 00:15:05,760 Speaker 2: that made the free in free trade seemed like false advertising. 229 00:15:06,240 --> 00:15:09,240 Speaker 2: Goods weren't really free to flow between all of the 230 00:15:09,280 --> 00:15:12,640 Speaker 2: countries that the United States traded with. It was instead 231 00:15:12,960 --> 00:15:14,200 Speaker 2: a one sided affair. 232 00:15:14,720 --> 00:15:20,680 Speaker 3: Free trade became the guiding principle and opening our markets 233 00:15:20,720 --> 00:15:25,200 Speaker 3: to other countries in a non reciprocal fashion, because remember, 234 00:15:25,560 --> 00:15:30,560 Speaker 3: Japan never opened its markets to American exports, and neither 235 00:15:30,640 --> 00:15:34,960 Speaker 3: did Europe. Actually, except for some notable exceptions, Europe pretty 236 00:15:35,040 --> 00:15:37,680 Speaker 3: much was running a one way street where they could 237 00:15:37,720 --> 00:15:41,840 Speaker 3: sell Volkswagens and fiats here, but we did not have 238 00:15:41,920 --> 00:15:45,720 Speaker 3: the same access to the European market for our Fords 239 00:15:45,720 --> 00:15:51,239 Speaker 3: and Chevies. The initial impetus for that was a geopolitical strategy. 240 00:15:51,800 --> 00:15:54,160 Speaker 3: We wanted to build those countries up so they did 241 00:15:54,200 --> 00:15:55,440 Speaker 3: not go red. 242 00:16:03,120 --> 00:16:06,520 Speaker 2: What started off as a noble effort, even a strategic 243 00:16:06,640 --> 00:16:10,600 Speaker 2: geopolitical success, had taken on a life of its own. 244 00:16:11,160 --> 00:16:14,400 Speaker 2: The definition of free trade morphed into opening up our 245 00:16:14,440 --> 00:16:18,360 Speaker 2: markets to foreign imports, even if that same foreign country 246 00:16:18,520 --> 00:16:22,640 Speaker 2: did not open its markets to the United States. America 247 00:16:22,760 --> 00:16:25,760 Speaker 2: was on its way to becoming a country of consumers 248 00:16:26,240 --> 00:16:28,400 Speaker 2: instead of a country of makers. 249 00:16:28,880 --> 00:16:35,160 Speaker 3: By the nineteen sixties, the intelligentsia and the policymakers in 250 00:16:36,000 --> 00:16:41,480 Speaker 3: Washington had pretty much adopted the philosophy of free trade 251 00:16:42,280 --> 00:16:47,800 Speaker 3: and forgotten the policies that had built up America into 252 00:16:47,840 --> 00:16:50,000 Speaker 3: the industrial powerhouse that we were. 253 00:16:50,840 --> 00:16:54,280 Speaker 2: But opening up our markets to our allies Japan, Italy, 254 00:16:54,400 --> 00:16:57,400 Speaker 2: West Germany and the like at the time did not 255 00:16:57,600 --> 00:17:02,680 Speaker 2: decimate American manufacturing. These countries already had highly developed in 256 00:17:02,720 --> 00:17:06,760 Speaker 2: dusty field know how, and we're producing high priced modern products. 257 00:17:07,160 --> 00:17:10,840 Speaker 2: Their citizens weren't working at slaid wages under appalling conditions, 258 00:17:11,119 --> 00:17:13,960 Speaker 2: and anyways, there was still quotas on the amount of 259 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:16,960 Speaker 2: foreign goods like textiles that could be imported into the 260 00:17:17,080 --> 00:17:20,600 Speaker 2: United States. But as early as nineteen sixty, the signs 261 00:17:20,600 --> 00:17:23,560 Speaker 2: of a future problem started to rear its ugly head, 262 00:17:23,880 --> 00:17:27,680 Speaker 2: and South Carolina Senator Fritz Haullings began sounding the alarm. 263 00:17:28,119 --> 00:17:34,159 Speaker 3: And Senator Hollings from South Carolina was warning President elect 264 00:17:34,240 --> 00:17:39,680 Speaker 3: Kennedy in nineteen sixty to please don't make the textile 265 00:17:39,760 --> 00:17:45,439 Speaker 3: workers of South Carolina sacrifice even more jobs to the 266 00:17:45,520 --> 00:17:50,479 Speaker 3: State Department's desire to win friends and influence un votes 267 00:17:51,040 --> 00:17:55,640 Speaker 3: by giving away our textile jobs. 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That's Licoriceguy dot com. 299 00:19:52,200 --> 00:19:55,040 Speaker 1: They ship daily, treat yourself and those you love, and 300 00:19:55,080 --> 00:20:00,920 Speaker 1: taste the difference. Welcome back to Red Pilled America. By 301 00:20:00,920 --> 00:20:03,520 Speaker 1: the nineteen seventies, China was still in the of their 302 00:20:03,560 --> 00:20:07,560 Speaker 1: Cultural Revolution, a socio political movement pushed by the country's 303 00:20:07,560 --> 00:20:11,640 Speaker 1: communist leader Mauntzeitung to reassert his authority over the government. 304 00:20:12,280 --> 00:20:15,639 Speaker 1: MAO mobilized the youth into paramilitary groups to attack and 305 00:20:15,680 --> 00:20:20,520 Speaker 1: harass intellectuals and elders for embracing bourgeois values in the process, 306 00:20:20,640 --> 00:20:24,080 Speaker 1: Mao attempted to purge all remnants of capitalist and traditionalist 307 00:20:24,160 --> 00:20:27,760 Speaker 1: elements from Chinese society. So when the World Table Tennis 308 00:20:27,880 --> 00:20:31,200 Speaker 1: Championship in Nagoya, Japan, arrived on March twenty eighth, nineteen 309 00:20:31,240 --> 00:20:35,240 Speaker 1: seventy one, the Chinese athletes were directed to avoid foreigners 310 00:20:35,240 --> 00:20:37,280 Speaker 1: and their Western influences on their trip. 311 00:20:38,560 --> 00:20:41,920 Speaker 9: Do You Thank You, Hango Pawe. 312 00:20:42,200 --> 00:20:44,600 Speaker 1: China's team won the gold, led by the three time 313 00:20:44,680 --> 00:20:48,040 Speaker 1: world champion Swang Zeitung, but a chance meeting between the 314 00:20:48,119 --> 00:20:51,119 Speaker 1: Chinese team and an American player would turn a simple 315 00:20:51,160 --> 00:20:55,840 Speaker 1: table tennis championship into an international incident. Glenn Cowan, a 316 00:20:55,920 --> 00:20:59,240 Speaker 1: long haired hippie on Team USA, missed his bus and 317 00:20:59,400 --> 00:21:02,960 Speaker 1: accidentally walked into the shuttle carrying the Chinese national team. 318 00:21:03,359 --> 00:21:05,719 Speaker 1: As the doors closed behind him, he was met by 319 00:21:05,720 --> 00:21:09,119 Speaker 1: the cold stairs of suspicion by the Communist players. The 320 00:21:09,359 --> 00:21:14,320 Speaker 1: entire team mc nord Glen all but one. China's star player, Chuangxeitung, 321 00:21:14,680 --> 00:21:17,800 Speaker 1: warmly greeted the American and, through an interpreter, presented the 322 00:21:17,880 --> 00:21:21,440 Speaker 1: Yankee with the silk print of China's hwang Shan mountains. 323 00:21:21,480 --> 00:21:23,639 Speaker 1: This chance meeting set off a chain of events that 324 00:21:23,680 --> 00:21:26,120 Speaker 1: would thaw the twenty year Cold War between the US 325 00:21:26,200 --> 00:21:29,439 Speaker 1: and China. At the time, China's relationship with the Soviet 326 00:21:29,520 --> 00:21:31,919 Speaker 1: Union had been in turmoil, and they saw this as 327 00:21:31,960 --> 00:21:34,720 Speaker 1: an opportunity to open up dialog with the United States. 328 00:21:35,280 --> 00:21:37,480 Speaker 1: So they invited the US ping pong players to their 329 00:21:37,480 --> 00:21:40,720 Speaker 1: country for an exhibition game, and within days the American 330 00:21:40,720 --> 00:21:44,679 Speaker 1: team was en route to China. This was a remarkable development. 331 00:21:45,359 --> 00:21:48,120 Speaker 1: The two countries had not had diplomatic ties for over 332 00:21:48,160 --> 00:21:52,240 Speaker 1: two decades. China allowed a small group of American reporters 333 00:21:52,280 --> 00:21:54,520 Speaker 1: to follow the ping pong players on their ten day 334 00:21:54,560 --> 00:21:55,440 Speaker 1: tour of the country. 335 00:21:55,920 --> 00:21:59,119 Speaker 10: This is where the trip begins, the Kowloon Railroad station 336 00:21:59,480 --> 00:22:02,600 Speaker 10: near the Hong Kong Ferry landing. The train goes first 337 00:22:02,640 --> 00:22:06,040 Speaker 10: from here to the border. When I left China twenty 338 00:22:06,040 --> 00:22:09,680 Speaker 10: two years ago, I rode out an American naval cruiser. 339 00:22:10,320 --> 00:22:12,359 Speaker 10: That was the spring of nineteen forty nine, when the 340 00:22:12,359 --> 00:22:16,960 Speaker 10: present government in Peking was consolidating its position. The intervening 341 00:22:17,040 --> 00:22:20,720 Speaker 10: twenty two years have been bleak ones in Chinese American relations. 342 00:22:21,160 --> 00:22:23,960 Speaker 10: It's a short trip to the border in the New Territories. 343 00:22:24,840 --> 00:22:27,760 Speaker 10: At the China Travel Service, our NBC news team was 344 00:22:27,800 --> 00:22:31,440 Speaker 10: issued round trip tickets for the train to Canton. Our 345 00:22:31,480 --> 00:22:34,440 Speaker 10: passports were checked and we were told that visas would 346 00:22:34,480 --> 00:22:35,240 Speaker 10: be waiting. 347 00:22:34,920 --> 00:22:35,879 Speaker 4: For us at the border. 348 00:22:36,520 --> 00:22:38,439 Speaker 10: We were also assured that we would be met on 349 00:22:38,480 --> 00:22:41,399 Speaker 10: the other side. Beyond that, we know nothing of what 350 00:22:41,520 --> 00:22:44,720 Speaker 10: is likely to happen. Hopefully we will be taken to 351 00:22:44,800 --> 00:22:47,000 Speaker 10: catch up with the US ping pong team, which went 352 00:22:47,040 --> 00:22:49,520 Speaker 10: in one day ahead of us. But where we will 353 00:22:49,560 --> 00:22:53,439 Speaker 10: go and how from Peking is still unclear. Obviously more 354 00:22:53,560 --> 00:22:55,760 Speaker 10: is at stake than a few games of table tennis. 355 00:22:55,960 --> 00:22:58,520 Speaker 10: Hopefully this may mean the start of something new and 356 00:22:58,600 --> 00:23:00,240 Speaker 10: better in US China relations. 357 00:23:00,560 --> 00:23:04,280 Speaker 1: The exhibition more resembled a diplomatic event than a sporting competition. 358 00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:07,880 Speaker 1: China used the opportunity to open the door to future 359 00:23:07,920 --> 00:23:08,800 Speaker 1: talks with America. 360 00:23:09,320 --> 00:23:12,280 Speaker 5: Nard Premier Joan Lai, the class designs and a new 361 00:23:12,359 --> 00:23:15,679 Speaker 5: page is opening in relations between the United States and China. 362 00:23:16,240 --> 00:23:19,359 Speaker 5: He termed the present visit to China of US table 363 00:23:19,440 --> 00:23:23,680 Speaker 5: tennis players and three American newsmen a beginning again of friendship. 364 00:23:24,080 --> 00:23:26,320 Speaker 5: Any set, he believes it would have the approval and 365 00:23:26,400 --> 00:23:29,680 Speaker 5: support of the great majority of the people in both countries. 366 00:23:30,080 --> 00:23:33,439 Speaker 5: The Chinese Premium made his historical remark that the cause 367 00:23:33,480 --> 00:23:36,640 Speaker 5: of reception for the Earth read from five nations will 368 00:23:36,720 --> 00:23:40,040 Speaker 5: in taking high Hall of the people. It seemed clear 369 00:23:40,119 --> 00:23:42,640 Speaker 5: that he was calling for a reciproacle move on the. 370 00:23:42,560 --> 00:23:43,400 Speaker 10: Part of Washington. 371 00:23:44,040 --> 00:23:46,359 Speaker 1: The exhibition ping pong game was played in front of 372 00:23:46,359 --> 00:23:48,440 Speaker 1: eighteen thousand Chinese spectators. 373 00:23:48,880 --> 00:23:52,080 Speaker 11: In China, one thing more popular than opera is ping 374 00:23:52,119 --> 00:23:55,480 Speaker 11: pong or table tennis. In fact, it's more popular than 375 00:23:55,560 --> 00:23:59,440 Speaker 11: just about anything. This match in Pey King was played 376 00:23:59,480 --> 00:24:02,080 Speaker 11: in a new auditorium with eighteen thousand seats. 377 00:24:02,280 --> 00:24:03,439 Speaker 7: They were all built. 378 00:24:05,040 --> 00:24:08,400 Speaker 12: Long haired Glenn Cowan caused a stir when he appeared 379 00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:10,080 Speaker 12: with his long hair held in place with. 380 00:24:10,160 --> 00:24:11,040 Speaker 7: A red head bed. 381 00:24:15,480 --> 00:24:18,560 Speaker 12: The crowd sat attentively for platting the good shots and 382 00:24:18,640 --> 00:24:25,080 Speaker 12: showing no partiality between nationalities. Peaking Television covered the events. 383 00:24:26,359 --> 00:24:29,520 Speaker 12: The Chinese and everyone else were surprised when the American 384 00:24:29,600 --> 00:24:34,080 Speaker 12: men won the first two matches. The Chinese finally won 385 00:24:34,359 --> 00:24:38,360 Speaker 12: as had been expected. Then came the closing ceremony, more 386 00:24:38,400 --> 00:24:42,399 Speaker 12: impressive than the start. 387 00:24:45,880 --> 00:24:50,040 Speaker 10: It has been an incredible afternoon, the Chinese cheering, Americans, 388 00:24:50,080 --> 00:24:55,000 Speaker 10: clapping hands, Americans and Chinese holding hands. A remarkable display 389 00:24:55,080 --> 00:24:58,119 Speaker 10: of warmth and good will in sports. At least, the 390 00:24:58,200 --> 00:25:01,919 Speaker 10: Chinese and Americans have obviously found a common meeting ground 391 00:25:02,240 --> 00:25:02,800 Speaker 10: the rules. 392 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:06,680 Speaker 11: Significance of the entire trip was not ping pong, but politics. 393 00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:10,320 Speaker 11: The most important moment came when the Americans, along with 394 00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:13,920 Speaker 11: other touring teams, were invited to a reception given by 395 00:25:13,960 --> 00:25:16,920 Speaker 11: Premiere Joe and Live in Peaching's Great Hall of. 396 00:25:16,840 --> 00:25:20,879 Speaker 12: The People's Premier Joe in Life first shook hands with 397 00:25:20,920 --> 00:25:24,600 Speaker 12: each member of all the delegations. Premierge Aw was clearly 398 00:25:24,640 --> 00:25:28,320 Speaker 12: in a good mood. He was alternately charming and witting. 399 00:25:28,920 --> 00:25:32,160 Speaker 12: Glenn cowan long haired member of the US team, engaged 400 00:25:32,160 --> 00:25:36,600 Speaker 12: the Prime Minister in a discussion about hippies. This led 401 00:25:36,640 --> 00:25:38,520 Speaker 12: to a general talk about youths. 402 00:25:38,200 --> 00:25:38,720 Speaker 7: In the world. 403 00:25:39,320 --> 00:25:43,000 Speaker 12: After the preliminary exchanges, the Premier brought up what seemed 404 00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:43,359 Speaker 12: to have. 405 00:25:43,280 --> 00:25:44,639 Speaker 13: Been on his mind all along. 406 00:25:45,520 --> 00:25:48,360 Speaker 12: It was a momentous statement as far as the future 407 00:25:48,359 --> 00:25:51,840 Speaker 12: of China and the United States was concerned. They said 408 00:25:51,880 --> 00:25:54,600 Speaker 12: a new page was opening in U S China relations. 409 00:25:56,040 --> 00:25:59,720 Speaker 14: Jurer in the Youngberian Three Gendan John Bomby think. 410 00:26:00,480 --> 00:26:02,879 Speaker 12: The Premier's remarks were clearly the highlight of the t 411 00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:07,240 Speaker 12: Altennant's visit the Peking, the next move seemed to be 412 00:26:07,320 --> 00:26:08,600 Speaker 12: up to the United States. 413 00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:12,400 Speaker 1: The Nixon administration welcomed the development, and on the same 414 00:26:12,480 --> 00:26:15,040 Speaker 1: day that the American team met with the Chinese premiere, 415 00:26:15,400 --> 00:26:17,960 Speaker 1: the White House announced that the US was loosening its 416 00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:22,159 Speaker 1: trade embargoes and travel bands against the communist country. Again, 417 00:26:22,280 --> 00:26:23,280 Speaker 1: Greg Autry. 418 00:26:23,280 --> 00:26:26,920 Speaker 8: In the early nineteen Samminbies, as we were seeking peace 419 00:26:26,960 --> 00:26:31,080 Speaker 8: in Vietnam, Nixon really wanted to get out of Vietnam 420 00:26:31,119 --> 00:26:33,320 Speaker 8: to deal with a number of domest stake he issues, 421 00:26:33,600 --> 00:26:36,639 Speaker 8: and he wanted to confront the Soviet Union maigrectly. 422 00:26:36,920 --> 00:26:39,960 Speaker 1: This Ping Pong diplomacy, as it was dubbed, provided a 423 00:26:40,040 --> 00:26:42,760 Speaker 1: chance to repair relations with the People's Republic of China 424 00:26:42,960 --> 00:26:46,240 Speaker 1: while applying diplomatic pressure to the United States geopolitical foe, 425 00:26:46,359 --> 00:26:51,080 Speaker 1: the Soviet Union. Nixon's National Security advisor, Henry Kissinger, made 426 00:26:51,119 --> 00:26:53,879 Speaker 1: a secret trip to China a few months after the 427 00:26:53,920 --> 00:26:57,320 Speaker 1: Ping Pong exhibition. He also made a second trip, this 428 00:26:57,400 --> 00:27:01,120 Speaker 1: time publicly, in October nineteen seventy one, and these meetings 429 00:27:01,160 --> 00:27:07,240 Speaker 1: cleared the way for an unprecedented trip. On February seventeen, 430 00:27:07,359 --> 00:27:10,440 Speaker 1: nineteen seventy two, Nixon embarked on a trip to Beijing 431 00:27:10,520 --> 00:27:14,600 Speaker 1: with his wife Henry Kissinger, his Secretary of State William Rogers, 432 00:27:14,880 --> 00:27:17,720 Speaker 1: in an entourage of staff and American press. A. 433 00:27:17,840 --> 00:27:22,359 Speaker 15: Mister Vice President, Mister Speaker, members of the Congress, and 434 00:27:22,480 --> 00:27:25,680 Speaker 15: members of the Cabinet. I want to express my very 435 00:27:25,680 --> 00:27:28,720 Speaker 15: deep appreciation to all of you who have come here 436 00:27:28,760 --> 00:27:31,479 Speaker 15: to send us off on this historic mission, and I 437 00:27:31,520 --> 00:27:35,879 Speaker 15: particularly want to express appreciation to the bipartisan leadership of 438 00:27:35,920 --> 00:27:39,200 Speaker 15: the House and Senate who are here. We, of course, 439 00:27:39,240 --> 00:27:42,760 Speaker 15: are under no illusions that twenty years of hostility between 440 00:27:42,760 --> 00:27:44,840 Speaker 15: the People's Republic of China and the United States of 441 00:27:44,840 --> 00:27:47,480 Speaker 15: America are going to be swept away by one week 442 00:27:47,520 --> 00:27:49,840 Speaker 15: of talks that we will have there. 443 00:27:50,720 --> 00:27:52,440 Speaker 7: We must recognize that. 444 00:27:52,480 --> 00:27:54,399 Speaker 15: The government of the People's Republic of China and the 445 00:27:54,400 --> 00:27:58,879 Speaker 15: government of the United States have had great differences, We 446 00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:00,760 Speaker 15: will have differences in the future. 447 00:28:01,359 --> 00:28:03,520 Speaker 7: But what we must do is. 448 00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:07,000 Speaker 15: To find a way to see that we can have 449 00:28:07,080 --> 00:28:12,800 Speaker 15: differences without being enemies in war. If we can make 450 00:28:12,840 --> 00:28:17,040 Speaker 15: progress toward that goal on this trip, the world will 451 00:28:17,040 --> 00:28:20,159 Speaker 15: be a much safer world, and the chance, particularly for 452 00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:23,240 Speaker 15: all of those young children over there, to grow up 453 00:28:23,280 --> 00:28:26,359 Speaker 15: in a world of peace will be infinitely greater. I 454 00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:29,359 Speaker 15: would simply say in conclusion that if there was a 455 00:28:29,400 --> 00:28:33,560 Speaker 15: postcript that I hope might be written with regard to 456 00:28:33,640 --> 00:28:35,400 Speaker 15: this trip, it would. 457 00:28:35,240 --> 00:28:39,440 Speaker 7: Be the words on the plaque which was left on the. 458 00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:43,760 Speaker 15: Moon by our first astronauts when they landed there. We 459 00:28:43,840 --> 00:28:49,960 Speaker 15: came in peace for all mankind, Thank you, and goodbye. 460 00:28:58,320 --> 00:29:01,880 Speaker 1: After brief stops in Hawaii and Guam, the President touched 461 00:29:01,880 --> 00:29:04,520 Speaker 1: down in Paking, China on February twenty. 462 00:29:04,240 --> 00:29:08,080 Speaker 4: First Christen the Spirit of seventy six taxis to a 463 00:29:08,160 --> 00:29:13,040 Speaker 4: stop on the runway of the Peking Airport, and Premier 464 00:29:13,120 --> 00:29:17,000 Speaker 4: Joan ly moves forward to greet the first American president 465 00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:22,600 Speaker 4: to set foot on Chinese soil. East meets West as 466 00:29:22,640 --> 00:29:26,880 Speaker 4: a handshake bridges sixteen thousand miles and twenty two years 467 00:29:26,960 --> 00:29:33,400 Speaker 4: of hostility. There are no welcoming speeches, no formal ceremonies, 468 00:29:34,240 --> 00:29:37,280 Speaker 4: just a receiving line made up of Communist Party officials 469 00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:40,640 Speaker 4: and the military band playing the Star Spangled banner. 470 00:29:44,600 --> 00:29:48,480 Speaker 1: Shortly after Nixon's arrival, he received an unexpected invitation. 471 00:29:48,920 --> 00:29:54,280 Speaker 16: About thirty or maybe a little bit before, apparently Joe 472 00:29:54,320 --> 00:29:57,760 Speaker 16: and Lye appeared at the guest pass unannounced, got ahold 473 00:29:57,800 --> 00:30:02,120 Speaker 16: of Henry and said that Joan, I would like to 474 00:30:02,160 --> 00:30:06,400 Speaker 16: see the President, he would come over. Henry rushed upstairs 475 00:30:06,920 --> 00:30:07,360 Speaker 16: till the. 476 00:30:07,320 --> 00:30:11,200 Speaker 14: President he stopped on his coat too, when I've grabbed 477 00:30:11,200 --> 00:30:16,400 Speaker 14: bat terror on the way and took off for his 478 00:30:16,480 --> 00:30:18,600 Speaker 14: residence and denounced to anybody else. 479 00:30:19,080 --> 00:30:22,120 Speaker 1: Invited to the meeting were Nixon, Henry Kissinger, and one 480 00:30:22,200 --> 00:30:26,040 Speaker 1: note taker. The Secretary of State, William Rogers, was not invited. 481 00:30:26,440 --> 00:30:30,320 Speaker 4: For President Nixon a sudden change and schedule a surprise 482 00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:34,520 Speaker 4: meeting with Martetong, an honor last bestowed during the first 483 00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:38,360 Speaker 4: day of a state visit on former Premier Nikita christ Chock. 484 00:30:39,640 --> 00:30:42,479 Speaker 4: Doctor Henry Kissinger sits in on the talks that are 485 00:30:42,480 --> 00:30:46,960 Speaker 4: animated constructive and Frank at the summit, face to face 486 00:30:47,440 --> 00:30:49,920 Speaker 4: two leaders who direct the destiny of one out of 487 00:30:49,960 --> 00:30:51,360 Speaker 4: three persons on the Earth. 488 00:30:52,280 --> 00:30:53,720 Speaker 7: The gate to friendly. 489 00:30:53,400 --> 00:30:56,760 Speaker 4: Contact, says Joe and Laie has finally been opened. 490 00:30:58,520 --> 00:31:01,920 Speaker 1: An internal power struggle between Kissinger and the Secretary of 491 00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:05,240 Speaker 1: State over who would control the president's foreign policy was 492 00:31:05,280 --> 00:31:10,040 Speaker 1: reaching ahead. Kissinger was winning. Later that day, Nixon attended 493 00:31:10,040 --> 00:31:12,840 Speaker 1: a welcoming banquet hosted by the Chinese Premier. 494 00:31:12,920 --> 00:31:16,840 Speaker 17: Job Weijingu and the Javaid does a. 495 00:31:18,360 --> 00:31:21,080 Speaker 1: This was the Premier's statement as read by his translator. 496 00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:25,400 Speaker 18: President Nixon's visit to our country at the invitation of 497 00:31:25,440 --> 00:31:29,400 Speaker 18: the Chinese government provides the leaders of the two countries 498 00:31:29,960 --> 00:31:33,880 Speaker 18: with an opportunity of meeting in person to seek the 499 00:31:33,920 --> 00:31:38,720 Speaker 18: normalization of relations between the two countries, and also to 500 00:31:38,840 --> 00:31:43,120 Speaker 18: exchange views on questions of concern to the two sides. 501 00:31:44,120 --> 00:31:48,480 Speaker 18: This is a positive move in conformity with the desire 502 00:31:48,640 --> 00:31:53,360 Speaker 18: of the Chinese and American peoples, and an event unprecedented 503 00:31:53,760 --> 00:31:56,800 Speaker 18: in the history of the relations between China and the 504 00:31:56,920 --> 00:31:57,680 Speaker 18: United States. 505 00:31:58,280 --> 00:32:03,200 Speaker 9: The American people are a great people. The Chinese people 506 00:32:03,680 --> 00:32:07,640 Speaker 9: are a great people. The peoples of our two countries 507 00:32:08,120 --> 00:32:12,040 Speaker 9: have always been friendly to each other, but owing to 508 00:32:12,120 --> 00:32:17,000 Speaker 9: reasons known to all, contacts between the two peoples. 509 00:32:16,840 --> 00:32:22,200 Speaker 18: Were suspended for over twenty years. Now, through the common 510 00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:25,920 Speaker 18: efforts of China and the United States, the gate to 511 00:32:26,120 --> 00:32:32,120 Speaker 18: friendly contacts has finally been opened. In conclusion, I propose 512 00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:37,120 Speaker 18: a toast to the health of President Nixon and Missus Nixon, 513 00:32:37,800 --> 00:32:41,080 Speaker 18: to the health of our other American guests, to the 514 00:32:41,120 --> 00:32:44,880 Speaker 18: health of all our friends and comrades present, and to 515 00:32:44,920 --> 00:32:48,160 Speaker 18: the friendship between the Chinese and American peoples. 516 00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:52,120 Speaker 1: President Nixon and his entourage spent the next six days 517 00:32:52,160 --> 00:32:56,280 Speaker 1: touring the country its cultural and agricultural sites, its schools 518 00:32:56,320 --> 00:32:58,880 Speaker 1: and hospitals, and its factories and monuments. 519 00:32:59,560 --> 00:33:02,920 Speaker 4: A visit to the Great Wall, once designed to keep 520 00:33:03,120 --> 00:33:07,560 Speaker 4: Mongolian warriors from overrunning the frontiers of ancient China. The 521 00:33:07,640 --> 00:33:11,840 Speaker 4: wall snakes across the countryside for sixteen hundred and eighty 522 00:33:11,840 --> 00:33:13,400 Speaker 4: four miles. 523 00:33:15,160 --> 00:33:17,560 Speaker 7: Before that it sees all ex vacations. 524 00:33:18,960 --> 00:33:23,920 Speaker 19: When one stands there sees the wall going to the 525 00:33:23,920 --> 00:33:29,560 Speaker 19: peak of this mountain and realizes that it runs hundreds 526 00:33:29,600 --> 00:33:31,840 Speaker 19: of miles, as a matter of fact, thousands of miles 527 00:33:31,960 --> 00:33:33,160 Speaker 19: over the mountains and through the. 528 00:33:33,200 --> 00:33:37,960 Speaker 7: Valleys of this country. That it was built over two. 529 00:33:37,800 --> 00:33:42,600 Speaker 19: Thousand years ago, I think that you would have to 530 00:33:42,640 --> 00:33:45,920 Speaker 19: conclude that this is a great wall, and that it 531 00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:50,240 Speaker 19: had to be built by a great people. Many lives, 532 00:33:50,280 --> 00:33:53,160 Speaker 19: of course, were lost in building it because there was 533 00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:55,280 Speaker 19: no machinery or equipment at the time. 534 00:33:55,360 --> 00:33:56,800 Speaker 7: It had to all be done by hand. 535 00:33:58,120 --> 00:34:05,280 Speaker 19: But under the circumstances, it is a certainly symbol of 536 00:34:05,320 --> 00:34:09,800 Speaker 19: what China in the past has been and what China 537 00:34:09,880 --> 00:34:11,120 Speaker 19: in the future can become. 538 00:34:11,840 --> 00:34:13,799 Speaker 7: Of people that could build a wall like this. 539 00:34:15,520 --> 00:34:20,239 Speaker 19: Certainly have a great past to be proud of, and 540 00:34:21,520 --> 00:34:26,440 Speaker 19: a people who have this kind of a past must also. 541 00:34:26,960 --> 00:34:27,840 Speaker 7: Have a great future. 542 00:34:29,200 --> 00:34:33,120 Speaker 19: My hope is that in the future, perhaps as a 543 00:34:33,160 --> 00:34:37,440 Speaker 19: result of the beginning that we have made on this journey, 544 00:34:37,440 --> 00:34:42,840 Speaker 19: that many, many Americans, particularly the young Americans who like 545 00:34:42,920 --> 00:34:45,759 Speaker 19: to travel so much, will have an opportunity to come 546 00:34:45,800 --> 00:34:48,040 Speaker 19: here as I have come here today with Missus Nixon 547 00:34:48,040 --> 00:34:50,319 Speaker 19: and the others in our party, that they will be 548 00:34:50,360 --> 00:34:53,279 Speaker 19: able to see this wall, that they will think back 549 00:34:53,320 --> 00:34:55,880 Speaker 19: as I think back to the history of this great people, 550 00:34:56,960 --> 00:34:59,360 Speaker 19: and that they will have an opportunity, as we have 551 00:34:59,360 --> 00:35:01,799 Speaker 19: had an opportunity to know the Chinese people and know 552 00:35:01,840 --> 00:35:02,279 Speaker 19: them better. 553 00:35:04,239 --> 00:35:07,000 Speaker 1: As the visit came to a close, the magnitude of 554 00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:08,600 Speaker 1: the meeting was reaching an apex. 555 00:35:09,239 --> 00:35:11,640 Speaker 20: We are now in the final hours of the President's 556 00:35:11,640 --> 00:35:15,480 Speaker 20: momentous visit. This is the farewell banquet in Shanghai, a 557 00:35:15,520 --> 00:35:20,000 Speaker 20: few hours before the President ends as unprecedented pilgrimage to 558 00:35:20,040 --> 00:35:21,960 Speaker 20: peace and flies back to Washington. 559 00:35:25,360 --> 00:35:30,520 Speaker 15: Mister Prime Minister, Chairman John and our Chinese and American friends. 560 00:35:32,320 --> 00:35:37,759 Speaker 15: This magnificent banquet marks the end of our stay and 561 00:35:37,800 --> 00:35:39,080 Speaker 15: the People's Republic of China. 562 00:35:40,920 --> 00:35:42,000 Speaker 7: We have been here a week. 563 00:35:43,400 --> 00:35:45,880 Speaker 11: This was the week that changed the world. 564 00:35:46,360 --> 00:35:52,120 Speaker 15: Mister Prime Minister, our two peoples the night hold the 565 00:35:52,120 --> 00:35:58,560 Speaker 15: future of the world in our hair. And as we 566 00:35:58,600 --> 00:36:02,840 Speaker 15: think of that future, we are dedicated to the. 567 00:36:04,960 --> 00:36:06,360 Speaker 7: That we can build a new world. 568 00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:11,520 Speaker 15: And if we succeed in working together, where we can 569 00:36:11,600 --> 00:36:15,840 Speaker 15: find common ground, if we can find the common ground 570 00:36:16,920 --> 00:36:18,279 Speaker 15: on which we can both. 571 00:36:18,040 --> 00:36:22,000 Speaker 7: Stand, where we can. 572 00:36:21,840 --> 00:36:25,880 Speaker 15: Build the bridge between us and build a new world. 573 00:36:26,760 --> 00:36:32,200 Speaker 15: Generations in the years ahead look back and thank us 574 00:36:32,800 --> 00:36:34,880 Speaker 15: for this meeting that we have held. 575 00:36:34,600 --> 00:36:35,439 Speaker 7: In this past week. 576 00:36:35,920 --> 00:36:39,600 Speaker 1: Nixon's unprecedented tour in China was thought unanimously to be 577 00:36:39,640 --> 00:36:42,719 Speaker 1: a success, but in just a few years, the well 578 00:36:42,760 --> 00:36:58,480 Speaker 1: intentioned trip would change American manufacturing forever. Get fifty percent 579 00:36:58,600 --> 00:37:02,040 Speaker 1: off an RPA baseball cap Today we have several baseball 580 00:37:02,080 --> 00:37:04,279 Speaker 1: caps to choose from, plus a trucker cap. 581 00:37:04,680 --> 00:37:07,239 Speaker 2: Just visit Redpilled America dot com and click shop in 582 00:37:07,280 --> 00:37:12,040 Speaker 2: the top menu. That's red Pilled America dot com and 583 00:37:12,080 --> 00:37:13,400 Speaker 2: click shop in the top menu. 584 00:37:13,760 --> 00:37:16,920 Speaker 1: The sale lasts through the end of the month. Support 585 00:37:16,920 --> 00:37:29,759 Speaker 1: what you love or it goes away. Welcome back to 586 00:37:29,840 --> 00:37:34,360 Speaker 1: red pilled America. So Nixon's unprecedented tour of China was 587 00:37:34,400 --> 00:37:38,240 Speaker 1: broadcast throughout America and the world. The two countries issued 588 00:37:38,239 --> 00:37:41,759 Speaker 1: a joint communicate declaring the success of the trip and 589 00:37:41,800 --> 00:37:44,400 Speaker 1: conveying that they would increase trade and travel between the 590 00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:49,839 Speaker 1: two nations. Nixon had opened the door again, greg Auti. 591 00:37:49,960 --> 00:37:52,840 Speaker 8: So thanking nice with China was the strategy that he 592 00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:57,560 Speaker 8: and Kissinger formulated to triangulate against the Soviet Union and 593 00:37:57,640 --> 00:37:59,400 Speaker 8: geopolitically and militarily. 594 00:37:59,480 --> 00:38:00,400 Speaker 7: That was brilliant. 595 00:38:00,920 --> 00:38:04,160 Speaker 8: The problem is that we kind of took the ball 596 00:38:04,239 --> 00:38:05,399 Speaker 8: after we opened the door. 597 00:38:05,760 --> 00:38:08,320 Speaker 1: The efforts of Nixon in bringing the two countries together 598 00:38:08,440 --> 00:38:12,040 Speaker 1: was rightfully celebrated, but in the years that followed, his 599 00:38:12,160 --> 00:38:15,560 Speaker 1: predecessors would turn the diplomatic victory into a stunning loss 600 00:38:15,600 --> 00:38:19,360 Speaker 1: for American workers. In nineteen seventy eight, China announced a 601 00:38:19,440 --> 00:38:22,760 Speaker 1: reformation to become more open to the world. They began 602 00:38:22,880 --> 00:38:27,680 Speaker 1: implementing capitalistic ideas and established special economic zones designed to 603 00:38:27,719 --> 00:38:30,080 Speaker 1: be free market oriented areas of commerce. 604 00:38:30,440 --> 00:38:33,440 Speaker 8: Late nineteen seventies, we began to import things that China 605 00:38:33,480 --> 00:38:37,440 Speaker 8: was capable of manufacturing. Then you know, This was primarily 606 00:38:37,840 --> 00:38:41,080 Speaker 8: Chinese crafts, silk and tea and things like that. 607 00:38:41,280 --> 00:38:44,239 Speaker 1: By nineteen eighty five, the baseball cap was making its 608 00:38:44,320 --> 00:38:47,800 Speaker 1: leap from off the baseball field and into popular culture. 609 00:38:48,200 --> 00:38:51,600 Speaker 1: Tom Selk's character in the wildly popular TV show Magnum 610 00:38:51,640 --> 00:38:55,000 Speaker 1: p I wore a Detroit tiger's cap, helping make it 611 00:38:55,080 --> 00:38:57,520 Speaker 1: cool to wear a lid off of the playing field. 612 00:38:58,160 --> 00:39:01,120 Speaker 1: The baseball cap was about to become a major American 613 00:39:01,160 --> 00:39:04,120 Speaker 1: fashion trend. That same year, our trade with China was 614 00:39:04,160 --> 00:39:07,840 Speaker 1: practically equal, with a negligible six million dollar trade deficit 615 00:39:07,960 --> 00:39:13,200 Speaker 1: in China's favor, but just a year later, the trade 616 00:39:13,200 --> 00:39:17,560 Speaker 1: deficit ballooned to one point seven billion dollars. The United 617 00:39:17,560 --> 00:39:21,240 Speaker 1: States had quotas on textile imports to protect American manufacturers, 618 00:39:21,480 --> 00:39:25,600 Speaker 1: but Washington DC systematically began removing these barriers from countries 619 00:39:25,640 --> 00:39:26,440 Speaker 1: like China. 620 00:39:26,600 --> 00:39:31,560 Speaker 3: You'll find again Senator Hollings talking about this in nineteen 621 00:39:31,640 --> 00:39:36,359 Speaker 3: eighty seven, talking about the dramatic increase in imported textiles 622 00:39:36,760 --> 00:39:41,040 Speaker 3: in the nineteen eighties eighteen percent increase year over year, 623 00:39:41,520 --> 00:39:44,120 Speaker 3: and this was having a devastating effect on the American 624 00:39:44,160 --> 00:39:52,120 Speaker 3: textile industry. At the time, the free trade theoreticians were saying, well, 625 00:39:52,239 --> 00:39:56,239 Speaker 3: textiles is an industry of the past, and we don't 626 00:39:56,280 --> 00:39:58,920 Speaker 3: need that anymore, so they called it a sunset industry. 627 00:39:59,239 --> 00:40:02,440 Speaker 1: By nineteen eighty eight, the trade deficit with China rose 628 00:40:02,480 --> 00:40:05,720 Speaker 1: further to three point five billion dollars. Then in nineteen 629 00:40:05,760 --> 00:40:09,640 Speaker 1: eighty nine, a horrific event seemed destined to slow Chinese 630 00:40:09,719 --> 00:40:10,760 Speaker 1: imports to America. 631 00:40:11,280 --> 00:40:13,880 Speaker 21: At this hour, there are hundreds of thousands of people 632 00:40:13,920 --> 00:40:16,759 Speaker 21: here in Tin on Men Square, perhaps as many as 633 00:40:16,800 --> 00:40:19,920 Speaker 21: a half a million even more. In the history of 634 00:40:19,960 --> 00:40:23,279 Speaker 21: communist China, there has never been anything like this. 635 00:40:34,960 --> 00:40:38,240 Speaker 22: The latest from China, where the Chinese Red Cross estimates 636 00:40:38,239 --> 00:40:41,400 Speaker 22: that between two thousand and twenty five hundred people have 637 00:40:41,440 --> 00:40:44,200 Speaker 22: been killed this weekend as the army moved in to 638 00:40:44,239 --> 00:40:48,120 Speaker 22: suppress the student demonstrations. Still the army has not gained 639 00:40:48,120 --> 00:40:52,359 Speaker 22: complete control. Gary Shepherd reports on this weekend's bloody action 640 00:40:52,640 --> 00:40:53,240 Speaker 22: in Beijing. 641 00:40:54,160 --> 00:40:57,200 Speaker 6: It was the swift and terrible ending to the Beijing 642 00:40:57,320 --> 00:41:01,520 Speaker 6: Spring of nineteen eighty nine. Hundreds of thousands of students 643 00:41:01,520 --> 00:41:05,200 Speaker 6: and workers and other hope Chinese citizens, who, through their 644 00:41:05,280 --> 00:41:09,600 Speaker 6: long demonstration for democracy, had been seeking a peaceful dialogue 645 00:41:09,600 --> 00:41:13,200 Speaker 6: with the leaders of this vast nation received instead the 646 00:41:13,239 --> 00:41:17,120 Speaker 6: harshest of responses to their demands for reform and freedom. 647 00:41:17,840 --> 00:41:21,920 Speaker 6: Last night, an estimated thirty thousand Chinese Army troops were 648 00:41:21,960 --> 00:41:25,200 Speaker 6: sent into the capital to crush what the government called 649 00:41:25,400 --> 00:41:29,960 Speaker 6: a small band of hooligans and gangsters. Counter revolutionaries, the 650 00:41:30,000 --> 00:41:33,680 Speaker 6: government called them, who were attempting to overthrow the communist 651 00:41:33,719 --> 00:41:37,160 Speaker 6: regime that has ruled this country for the past forty years. 652 00:41:37,800 --> 00:41:40,680 Speaker 6: It is difficult not to use the word massacre to 653 00:41:40,760 --> 00:41:49,640 Speaker 6: describe what happened. They fired automatic weapons into crowds of 654 00:41:49,680 --> 00:41:52,680 Speaker 6: citizens who, for the most part, could fight back with 655 00:41:52,760 --> 00:41:56,600 Speaker 6: nothing more than rocks and bottles. They fired their weapons 656 00:41:56,640 --> 00:41:59,440 Speaker 6: even as the mobs were chanting slogans like you are 657 00:41:59,520 --> 00:42:03,400 Speaker 6: the People's Liberation Army and we are the people. They 658 00:42:03,480 --> 00:42:06,880 Speaker 6: fired their weapons into groups of demonstrators that sometimes numbered 659 00:42:06,920 --> 00:42:10,239 Speaker 6: in the tens of thousands. Some lost their lives when 660 00:42:10,360 --> 00:42:13,959 Speaker 6: armored personnel carriers and troop trucks simply ran over them. 661 00:42:14,480 --> 00:42:17,279 Speaker 6: Others were gunned down as they tried to resist the 662 00:42:17,400 --> 00:42:18,680 Speaker 6: savage show of force. 663 00:42:24,680 --> 00:42:28,120 Speaker 8: In June of nineteen eighty nine, the Tieneman Square protesters, 664 00:42:28,719 --> 00:42:31,960 Speaker 8: you know, one hundred thousand students lined up in Beijing 665 00:42:32,040 --> 00:42:37,200 Speaker 8: to demand democracy along with a little bit of capitalism 666 00:42:37,360 --> 00:42:41,120 Speaker 8: that the Chinese government was allowing them. The Chinese government 667 00:42:41,200 --> 00:42:45,160 Speaker 8: wanted the capitalism because it would enrich their country and 668 00:42:45,280 --> 00:42:49,200 Speaker 8: allow their leadership to to spend more in the things 669 00:42:49,239 --> 00:42:51,600 Speaker 8: they wanted, but they didn't want democracy where they would 670 00:42:51,640 --> 00:42:55,480 Speaker 8: allow the people to have any saying how that new 671 00:42:55,480 --> 00:42:58,719 Speaker 8: wealth would be allocated. And so of course they ended 672 00:42:58,760 --> 00:43:02,279 Speaker 8: up crashing those protesters who had built a replica of 673 00:43:02,320 --> 00:43:05,520 Speaker 8: the Statue of Cebrity among them, And we just sat 674 00:43:05,560 --> 00:43:08,080 Speaker 8: there and watched the tanks roll over them and watched 675 00:43:08,080 --> 00:43:11,719 Speaker 8: the Chinese military gun them down. So I really think 676 00:43:11,840 --> 00:43:14,959 Speaker 8: that was the specific moment where everything went wrong. Bush 677 00:43:15,040 --> 00:43:18,080 Speaker 8: did nothing about it. Kissinger famously counseled him to let 678 00:43:18,160 --> 00:43:20,560 Speaker 8: the Chinese Communist Party have their way. In in fact, 679 00:43:20,760 --> 00:43:24,480 Speaker 8: Kissinger had become very very tight with the party. He 680 00:43:24,600 --> 00:43:29,120 Speaker 8: was running and consulting businesses connecting American manufacturers with the 681 00:43:29,200 --> 00:43:32,880 Speaker 8: Chinese and collecting money helping them move jobs and factories 682 00:43:32,920 --> 00:43:35,920 Speaker 8: over to China, and he didn't want to mess with 683 00:43:35,920 --> 00:43:38,560 Speaker 8: with the profit boat that was going on by simply 684 00:43:38,600 --> 00:43:42,680 Speaker 8: reducing the cost of labor and ignoring environmental regulations and 685 00:43:42,719 --> 00:43:44,920 Speaker 8: other pesky things we have in the United States. 686 00:43:45,080 --> 00:43:48,440 Speaker 1: The same year as the Tianeman Square tragedy, America's trade 687 00:43:48,440 --> 00:43:52,160 Speaker 1: deficit with China almost doubled to six point two billion dollars. 688 00:43:52,640 --> 00:43:55,959 Speaker 1: The communist country paid no economic price for their human 689 00:43:56,040 --> 00:44:00,200 Speaker 1: rights violation. By nineteen ninety, there were roughly two hundred 690 00:44:00,239 --> 00:44:03,200 Speaker 1: and fifty to three hundred million baseball caps made in America. 691 00:44:03,719 --> 00:44:07,640 Speaker 1: That same year, importers like China, Taiwan, and South Korea 692 00:44:07,920 --> 00:44:10,920 Speaker 1: were estimated to have matched that number of caps imported 693 00:44:10,960 --> 00:44:14,800 Speaker 1: to the United States, with China overwhelmingly dominating the field. 694 00:44:15,360 --> 00:44:18,520 Speaker 1: And it shouldn't have been surprising to anyone, with Kissinger 695 00:44:18,560 --> 00:44:21,880 Speaker 1: helping grease the business relationships and China paying its workers 696 00:44:21,920 --> 00:44:24,160 Speaker 1: as little as twenty five cents an hour with no 697 00:44:24,280 --> 00:44:27,960 Speaker 1: benefits or safety regulations. According to the industry experts at 698 00:44:27,960 --> 00:44:31,600 Speaker 1: the time, American manufacturing was holding on by a thread. 699 00:44:32,280 --> 00:44:35,919 Speaker 1: But then something happened that sealed their fate. Washington, DC 700 00:44:36,120 --> 00:44:39,200 Speaker 1: began changing their policy on import quotas. 701 00:44:39,080 --> 00:44:42,960 Speaker 3: And by the nineteen nineties these numerical limits and quotas 702 00:44:42,960 --> 00:44:47,759 Speaker 3: were scrapped altogether, and that's when Chinese imports began to 703 00:44:48,600 --> 00:44:50,280 Speaker 3: completely flooded. Our market. 704 00:44:55,880 --> 00:44:59,280 Speaker 1: By the end of the Clinton administration, America's trade deficit 705 00:44:59,320 --> 00:45:03,120 Speaker 1: with China skyrocketed to a whopping eighty three point eight 706 00:45:03,160 --> 00:45:06,640 Speaker 1: billion dollars a year, and despite the successes he claimed 707 00:45:06,880 --> 00:45:09,920 Speaker 1: on President Trump's watch, our trade and balance with China 708 00:45:10,040 --> 00:45:13,280 Speaker 1: only continued to grow. When Trump entered the White House, 709 00:45:13,360 --> 00:45:16,000 Speaker 1: our trade deficit with China was three hundred and forty 710 00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:19,279 Speaker 1: seven billion dollars. After his first year in office, it 711 00:45:19,320 --> 00:45:22,000 Speaker 1: grew to three hundred and seventy five point two billion. 712 00:45:22,440 --> 00:45:25,520 Speaker 1: In twenty nineteen, our trade and balance with China was 713 00:45:25,560 --> 00:45:29,200 Speaker 1: a record four hundred and nineteen point two billion dollars. 714 00:45:30,120 --> 00:45:33,960 Speaker 1: The manufacturing of the baseball cap, the American icon has 715 00:45:34,000 --> 00:45:37,719 Speaker 1: almost entirely left the United States and has been offshore 716 00:45:37,760 --> 00:45:41,919 Speaker 1: to China, Bangladesh, and other foreign lands. The baseball cap 717 00:45:42,000 --> 00:45:46,239 Speaker 1: is now almost exclusively a foreign product. The American icon 718 00:45:46,480 --> 00:45:50,680 Speaker 1: is no longer American. Washington d C sold the publican 719 00:45:50,800 --> 00:45:54,920 Speaker 1: idea that their trade policies were good for Americans. Products 720 00:45:54,960 --> 00:45:57,680 Speaker 1: were now cheaper, and families could use the savings to 721 00:45:57,719 --> 00:46:01,520 Speaker 1: purchase even more products. America was entering a new age. 722 00:46:01,560 --> 00:46:05,040 Speaker 1: We were told that the dirty work of manufacturing should 723 00:46:05,040 --> 00:46:09,360 Speaker 1: be left to someone else. America was becoming a service economy. 724 00:46:09,680 --> 00:46:12,160 Speaker 1: We no longer needed to make things, was the message 725 00:46:12,200 --> 00:46:15,040 Speaker 1: economists and the media were peddling. And if your jobs 726 00:46:15,080 --> 00:46:18,440 Speaker 1: were lost in this unfortunate shift, not to worry. You 727 00:46:18,520 --> 00:46:21,520 Speaker 1: can simply learn to code. But with these cheaper foreign 728 00:46:21,560 --> 00:46:25,960 Speaker 1: made products came another price, a hefty cost. Americans are 729 00:46:26,120 --> 00:46:27,719 Speaker 1: just beginning to understand. 730 00:46:28,160 --> 00:46:31,600 Speaker 23: Washington Nationals pitcher Sean Doolittle keeps the same hat all year, 731 00:46:32,080 --> 00:46:34,640 Speaker 23: this hat made at the new Era plant in Derby, 732 00:46:34,640 --> 00:46:35,080 Speaker 23: New York. 733 00:46:35,239 --> 00:46:37,239 Speaker 13: I'm proud to wear these hats. I'm proud to have 734 00:46:37,280 --> 00:46:38,799 Speaker 13: the opportunity to play in the major leagues. 735 00:46:38,880 --> 00:46:41,120 Speaker 23: So when he learned that new eras closing the Derby 736 00:46:41,120 --> 00:46:44,160 Speaker 23: plant and with it eliminating two hundred and sixteen jobs, 737 00:46:44,200 --> 00:46:45,160 Speaker 23: he had to speak up. 738 00:46:45,480 --> 00:46:48,640 Speaker 13: Our Players Association. The guys in the major leagues are 739 00:46:48,719 --> 00:46:50,880 Speaker 13: proud to staying with the people that have made our 740 00:46:50,880 --> 00:46:53,319 Speaker 13: hats for shoot over fifty years. 741 00:46:56,360 --> 00:46:58,120 Speaker 1: Coming up on red pill of America. 742 00:46:58,160 --> 00:47:00,040 Speaker 17: And when I was entering, I said, like, you know, 743 00:47:00,360 --> 00:47:03,799 Speaker 17: one after another, like bodies are coming up out. The 744 00:47:04,320 --> 00:47:06,840 Speaker 17: factories in Asia kind of caught up with the ability 745 00:47:06,880 --> 00:47:10,719 Speaker 17: to make baseball hats, and within a year or two, 746 00:47:10,840 --> 00:47:13,279 Speaker 17: all those companies that I had started making hats overseas 747 00:47:13,320 --> 00:47:15,520 Speaker 17: and we were left with very little business. 748 00:47:15,880 --> 00:47:19,399 Speaker 2: Red Pilled America's an iHeartRadio original podcast. 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