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    China: Before and After Election Day

    Television commercials featuring Chinese music, pictorial characters and gongs suggest that China has morphed from a "Communist threat" to an economic menace. While Democrats claim free trade pushed American jobs to a foreign country, Republicans say "green" stimulus money is being used to buy Chinese products.

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    By Warren Olney • May 12, 2014 • 1 min read

    Television commercials featuring Chinese music, pictorial characters and gongs suggest that China has morphed from a "Communist threat" to an economic menace. While Democrats claim free trade pushed American jobs to a foreign country, Republicans say "green" stimulus money is being used to buy Chinese products. Have both parties found the same scapegoat to blame for America's problems? Will policies change once the voting is over, or have US consumerism and profit-making combined to create an economic knot that can't easily be untied?

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      Warren Olney

      former KCRW broadcaster

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      Andrea Brody

      Senior Producer, KCRW's Life Examined and To the Point podcast

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      Karen Radziner

      Managing Producer, To the Point & Which Way LA?

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      David Chen

      sports reporter at The New York Times

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      Harold Meyerson

      Editor, The American Prospect; and Columnist

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      Zachary Karabell

      President, River Twice Research

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    The full episode

    2 of 3
    America's Anti-China Syndrome
    1. 0:00Protests Heat Up in France over Pension Reform
    2. 7:46China: Before and After Election DayYou’re reading this
    3. 44:17Trauma of Chilean Miners after Being Trapped 69 Days
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