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China Now

China Now: Friend or Foe? War or Peace News and Opinion from The Gang of Three: Michael Olson, Nan Su, David Welch Listen to China Now live every Thursday from 3:00pm to 5:00pm PT on https://santacruzvoice.com

Episodes

June 6, 2025 54 mins

China Now Gang of Two Michael Olson & Nan Su Week of 25.6.1

  • Trump and Xi finally make the call?
  • Will Trump play hardball with the CCP?
  • What did the new CCP security white paper say about trouble ahead?
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Gang of Two:  Nan Su & Michael Olson week of 25.6.1

HOUR ONE:  Current News

  • 36th Anniversary of the Tian An Men Square massacre
  • Why is the CCP smuggling a crop-killing fungus into the U.S.?
  • How did Harvard University become the CCP Party school?
  • Why did the Governor of Arizona veto legislation that would have banned the CCP from owning land in her state?
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May 29, 2025 53 mins

*  Why did Trump say, "Putin is playing with fire" and is "Absolutely crazy?"

*  How will the world's 75 poorest nations pay the $20 Billion they owe the CCP this year? 

*  Has the CCP co-opted the green energy movement?

 

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May 29, 2025 54 mins

Gang of Two - Nan Su & Michael Olson * Chinese rioting for pay and against government fees

*. Is China unraveling faster than expected?

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May 22, 2025 54 mins

China Now Hour Two Gang of Two Nan Su and Michael Olson

Update of Trump’s Tariff War with the Xi Jinping and the CCP

Is this the trade war Xi Jinping and the CCP have been planning and laying in wait for?     

  • If so, what is the CCP’s plan to win the trade war?
  • If the CCP does not win the trade war, what will it do to survive?
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May 22, 2025 54 mins

China Now Hour One with Gang of Two Nan Su and Michael Olson

  • CCP embedded communication control devices in USA solar systems
  • Pentagon pivots to the Indo Pacific
  • Parents rebel against CCP private school closings
  • China’s Municipal Bonds turn into worthless pape
  • CCP State Department lists domestic threats 
  • CCP monitoring 70 million Instagram users
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China Now Gang of Two Nan Su & Michael Olson Trump & Xi Agree to a Tariff Cease Fire

USA and China made a cease fire deal on tariffs.  According to many in the mainstream press, and the CCP press, Trump caved in the tariff negotiations and let the CCP off the hook…. and so we ask:

Did President Donald J. Trump let Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party off the tariff hook?  

  • If he did, why did he?
  • If he didn’t, ...
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Gang of Two - Nan Su & Michael Olson News of the Week

  • CCP goes to school at Stanford
  • Xi tells Putin to “Resist” external pressures
  • Chinese exporters
  • China removes ban on Boeing aircraft
  • CCP tries to buy Latin & South American influence
  • CCP says fentanyl is "America's problem"
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China Hour: Friend or Foe - War or Peace?  with Gang of Two - Nan Su & Michael Olson  

 

Beijing not going to kneel down to USA

Tough Talk on Tariffs opening the door to talks?

Despite the denials, China is losing the tariff war!

Bessent to Switzerland for talks to dial it down...

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May 8, 2025 54 mins

China Now: Friend or Foe with Michael Olson & Nan Su News of the Week

Xi Jinping to Moscow for Victory Day

Project Zero: CCP's USA Fentanyl Campaign 

House passes Falun Gong Protection Act

CCP is disappearing  Russia & China's moon base

Bessent to Switzerland for talks to dial it down

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Gang of Two Nan Su and Michael Olson 

Hour One:

*  Teenage Girl “Opens the Boxes” of the CCP’s Private Information marketplac

*.  China copies Russian military gear, sells the fakes back to Russia

*.  China and Egypt conduct war games  Hour Two:

*  Trump's Tariff Tantrum

 

 

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* A look at China's history from Mao to Xi * How the U.S. fell into "Panda Love" with China * China joins the WTO, and begins taking control of world trade * Xi Jinping becomes a "Wolf Warrior"  * Trump launches a tariff war on Xi * Who will win the tariff war? 

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April 5, 2025 102 mins

Gang of Two Nan Su & Michael Olson 

In Hour One News of the Week: 

  • Resolving 3 rumors
  • Xi attempts to scuttle Li Ka-shing’s Port deal
  • China’s Tofu dreg belt and road

In Hour Two Focus Issue:  President Donald Trump changes the name of the People's Republic of China.

 

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China Now Gang of Two Nan Su and Michael Olson with special guest James Gorrie, author, China Crisis. Three rumours: * Has Xi Jinping's #3 been disappeared?

* Did Xi say he was thinking about retiring?

* Were the reports of cannon fire phoned in from Bejing correct?

One Question: Who has the best hand to play in the winner-take-all game of diplomatic poker:  Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin or Xi Jinping?  

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March 27, 2025 93 mins

China Now – Friend or Foe?  War or Peace?

Gang of Two: Nan Su & Michael Olson

Hour One:  * Taiwan President Lai Ching-Te declares the CCP to be a "Foreign Hostile Force" 

* Xi Jinping purge of the top military leaders continues

* CIA wakes up to Covid's origins

Hour Two: The phone calls Trump made and did not make 

 

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March 13, 2025 102 mins

China Now with Gang of Two Nan Su & Michael Olson Hour One: News of the Week

* China's Spring of Infectious Diseases

* PLA Navy's Running and Gunning Circumnavigation of Australia

* China, Russia & Iran hold Nuclear Talks in Beijing

* China, Russian & Iran hold joint Naval Exercises in the Gulf of Oman

 

Hour Two: Trump the Terrible Tariff Madman

* Trump Lays out his Tariff Strategy to Congress

* Trump confronts China'...

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Hour One: News of the Week

* Chinese Navy "Running and Gunning" past Japan and the Philippines and around Australia

*. CCP to stop cooperating with U.S. on fentanyl

* CCP poised to take over Organization of American States

Hour Two:  Russia, China & U.S. jockey for position over The Ukraine

 

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February 28, 2025 108 mins

Michael Olson w/ Charles Freedman in Hour Two Hour One -  News of the Week: * New Corona Virus discovered by researchers at the Wuhan Virology Institute

* China hospitals and crematoriums experience surge in "White Lunge" disease.

* CCP Naval task force runs and guns around Australia

* Sec State Marco Rubio says big story of 21rst Century will be China V. USA

Hour Two – General Chih Haotian's retirement speech of 2003:  "One mount...

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When the fruit and nut trees in California’s Central Valley explode into mile upon mile of blossoms, the bees simply must be there!  That leads us to ask: 

How do bees get to bee-ing there for all those blossoms? 

The Food Chain Radio Show - Podcast with Michael Olson hosts Jason Miller, Apiarist, Miller Honey Farms, Newcastle, CA, for a conversation about pollinating the West's fruit and nut trees. 

Topics include the annual migra...

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China Now with Nan Su & Michael Olson Hour One: 

* Xi welcomes back private business

* US drops "Not supporting Taiwan Independence"

* China's show of force off Sydnet Hour Two:  Putin, Trump & Xi - A Strategic Realignment?

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