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China and the US with Tobita Chow and Jake Werner

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Trade War

A closer look at the trump administration's demands reveals that the trade war is being waged not on behalf of al ricans, but to increase the power of us. How does this happen? That that us? Corporate interests are laundered through nationalism to appear in mystified form as worker interests? Are you saying that us, corporate interests are actually and intentionally pushing it? Or is it more trump managing and reconciling the affairs of the bourgeoisie in ways that bourgeoisie might not appreciate are in their interests? I think we should see that, we should see the state as operating in two ways that are different from the way that corporate leaders think.

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