Jiang argues that in the 1980s America shifted technology, wealth, and expertise into China in order to exploit cheap Chinese labor for manufacturing goods for the American market, which made Chinese industrialization a process of mental and economic colonization rather than sovereign development.
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Offshoring
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Jiang argues that when America offshored manufacturing to China it knowingly externalized not just labor exploitation but also environmental destruction, expecting China to accept dirty production in exchange for integration into the American-led system.
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"that's a great question and this is my understanding in the West industrialization was a all society movement and it profound it brought tremendous..."
"much yeah so um when America offshored its manufacturing of China um did so knowing that uh China would um basically exploit its cheap..."
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The host begins by asking how Jiang became a public analyst and ends by asking how history itself gets rewritten.
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