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Speaker 1: This is Bloomberg Business Week with Carol Messer and Bloomberg

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Speaker 1: Quick takes Tim Stinovic on Bloomberg Radio DATDS and go

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Speaker 1: by without obviously significant headlines out of China. We're watching

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Speaker 1: their economy, which we know is seeing pressures. We also

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Speaker 1: think what's interesting, Tim, this is all against a longer

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Speaker 1: term backdrop of China's made in China statelet industrial policy

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Speaker 1: to really change to make China so dominant in global

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Speaker 1: high tech manufacturing. They want to be the world's dominant

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Speaker 1: power on so many different levels. They certainly do. And

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Speaker 1: we're really lucky to have joining us Robert Spalding, retired

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Speaker 1: the author of War Without Rules, China's playbook for global domination.

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Speaker 1: He joins us via zoom from Washington, d C. General,

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Speaker 1: how are you, thank you, hey, It's good to have

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Speaker 1: you with us. I just want to start with with

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Speaker 1: what's happening in China right now. Uh, we see supply

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Speaker 1: one the biggest lockdown in Shanghai. And I'm wondering if

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Speaker 1: that is a weak point for China right now, because

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Speaker 1: you do argue that China has thrown out the old

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Speaker 1: rules of war. Well, I don't know if it's a

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Speaker 1: through the supply chain shortages that are leading to increase

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Speaker 1: inflation in our own economy. So it's not just a

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Speaker 1: you know, the type of goods that you know is

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Speaker 1: adding to this increasing inflation that is really you know,

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Speaker 1: gnarling our our own society. So there's a there's, you know,

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Speaker 1: a given take here that we have to be aware of.

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Speaker 1: You are a former China strategist for the Chairman of

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Speaker 1: A to China. I mean, you understand this country. You

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Speaker 1: of globalization, but we're definitely seeing a different China play out.

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Speaker 1: Why did you want to write this book? Well, I

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Speaker 1: And one of the real crucial documents that I relied

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Speaker 1: really understand the way the Chinese think. And I think

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Speaker 1: that's what war without rules is. It's it's allowing people

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Speaker 1: to understand how the Chinese communist parties thinks in terms

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Speaker 1: the alien to the way we think about war and

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Speaker 1: really doesn't involve weapons at all, and just bring that

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Speaker 1: our audience need to understand? What does our investor audience

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Speaker 1: need to understand when when thinking about China's push for

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Speaker 1: for global domination your words China's playbook for global domination. Well,

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Speaker 1: strict capital controls. You know, once you've gotten assets there

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Speaker 1: that's a problem. And ultimately, if you have a relationship

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Speaker 1: Without Rulers, China's Playbook for Global domination. He's a former

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Speaker 1: go ahead, Carol, Is there the political will to do that?

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Speaker 1: you could. Yeah, you know, I think that we did

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Speaker 1: War again. I think we can must do that. So yes,

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Speaker 1: Really enjoy this. Uh retired brigadier don't know the US

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Speaker 1: Air Force. Robert Spaulding his book War Without Rules, China's

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