The segment was live at 8pm and rebroadcast at 11pm ET on the Fox Business Channel (FBS).
Thursday, May 30, 2019 · 12:38:34 AM +00:00 · annieli
Regan frames the exchange as with the Chinese Communist party, mentioning it three times in the open. If you watch CGTN regularly, it’s rarely mentioned.
They talk over each other, as the response time lags are obvious.
Liu Xin states that she’s a journalist and not a member of the CCP.
Intellectual property is discussed Liu agrees that IP theft issues need to be discussed. Huawei is mentioned in terms of technology sharing.
Regan asks about China’s developing nation status and borrowing from the World Bank. Liu then mentions relative GDP sizes.
Tariffs are then discussed, where Regan doesn’t know the difference between bilateral and multilateral tariff rules.
Regan wanted Liu to define state capitalism, revealing her ignorance of state-owned enterprises. Liu discusses “socialism with Chinese characteristics”, and states that 80% of the economy is privatized.
segment ends
It turned out not to be as serious as it was portrayed, with FBS relegating it to a single segment and not even in the A block.
Sadly unmentioned were soybeans, HuaWei, rare earth exports, and the irony of Fox holding on to its rights to the broadcast get mentioned during the debate.
Liu Xin of China’s CGTN and Fox Business anchor Trish Regan will have a television debate on the long-running trade dispute between China and the US
Liu and Regan have been in a public back-and-forth on Twitter for about a week. The dispute started with Liu suggesting that the Fox presenter needed “a better research team” after Regan claimed that China stole $600 billion worth of intellectual property a year from the US. Regan eventually invited Liu to debate the topic, and Liu accepted on the condition there would be no “mud throwing.” “Don’t worry—I don’t sling mud, I sling facts,” Regan responded.
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The debate will be broadcast on the Trish Regan Primetime show, which airs on the Fox Business Network, at 8pm US eastern time tonight (May 29)—8am the following day (May 30) in Beijing. Liu will attend via satellite link from Beijing. She has tweeted that CGTN can’t air the debate live due to “rights issues,” but that that the outlet will follow and report on it closely, including posting updates on its Twitter account.
Chinese viewers will have a trickier time watching the event. Foreign news channels are not common outside luxury hotels(paywall) catered to international visitors. They can watch a livestream of the debate on Fox News Go, but will need a VPN to do so.
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Following the two anchors' primetime discussion, CGTN's Guangzhou Bureau will hold a reaction roundtable discussion on which side was able to prove their point and deliver a more convincing argument. Join CGTN's Omar Khan alongside a panel of three guests as they analyze this media discussion and how dialogue is being facilitated surrounding the China-U.S. trade war.
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