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This week on CounterSpin:
New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman’s December 17 piece, headlined “How Elon Musk and Taylor Swift Can Resolve U.S.-China Relations,” contained some choice Friedmanisms, like: “More Americans might get a better feel for what is going on there if they simply went and ordered room service at their hotel.”
We’ll talk about China trade policy with Dean Baker, co-founder and senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research.
Plus Janine Jackson takes a quick look back at press coverage of Luigi Mangione.
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