Sep 23, 2026 · 49 min · 12 segments
China did not just become powerful by accident - it was enabled by one of the biggest policy failures in modern history. Tiffany Marie Brannon and independent researcher Edouard Prisse break down how…
Tiffany Marie BrannonHostBecause you have said, and just to your audience, you said very clearly, China is awful, they kill children.
And still, the end of this conversation with you and me today will shift the onus and the stupidity of what's happening, not to China, even if they are cruel, if they are horrible, they are, But to us, because we have been so stupid to start free trade, to continue it, not stop it, and now it destroys our industry.
And then when they didn't do that well, all the professors in universities in America who teach macroeconomy should have said, ha-ha, this is wrong.
World Trade Organization in Geneva, who are meant to be the professionals on world level in trade, didn't do anything.
And then at the same time, my grandfather was a plastics injection mold maker.
He owned a very large and well-known corporation here in Arizona and And under the Clinton administration, and this is when it all kind of came into play for me as like a 10-year-old kid, they basically forced my grandfather and other American mold makers and tool and dye makers in the plastics injection industry to invite in Chinese nationals and members of the Chinese Communist Party... to steal their intellectual property, to steal their manufacturing.
And within seven years, 10 years, it went from over 900 toolmaking shops in the United States to under 10.
Because you have said, and just to your audience, you said very clearly, China is awful, they kill children.
And still, the end of this conversation with you and me today will shift the onus and the stupidity of what's happening, not to China, even if they are cruel, if they are horrible, they are, But to us, because we have been so stupid to start free trade, to continue it, not stop it, and now it destroys our industry.
And then when they didn't do that well, all the professors in universities in America who teach macroeconomy should have said, ha-ha, this is wrong.
World Trade Organization in Geneva, who are meant to be the professionals on world level in trade, didn't do anything.
And then at the same time, my grandfather was a plastics injection mold maker.
He owned a very large and well-known corporation here in Arizona and And under the Clinton administration, and this is when it all kind of came into play for me as like a 10-year-old kid, they basically forced my grandfather and other American mold makers and tool and dye makers in the plastics injection industry to invite in Chinese nationals and members of the Chinese Communist Party... to steal their intellectual property, to steal their manufacturing.
And within seven years, 10 years, it went from over 900 toolmaking shops in the United States to under 10.
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