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5 min readIn a segment from Asmongold TV, the host plays a 1996 floor speech by then-Representative Bernie Sanders warning about the U.S.-China trade relationship. Sanders’s core argument was that the arrangement was structurally rigged against American workers: China maintained a 35% average tariff on U.S. goods while the U.S. allowed Chinese goods in with minimal barriers; China forced technology transfers as a condition of market access; and the trade deficit had exploded from $3.5 billion to $34 billion in the years after Tiananmen Square. Asmongold and his co-host react with a mix of shock and rueful recognition—everything Sanders predicted, they say, came true, and the same dynamics are at the center of the 2025 tariff crisis that Trump has just escalated.
The 1996 Warning That Aged Perfectly
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What you'll learn
- 1 (02:00) **Opening: The Scale of the Problem** - Asmongold reacts to a clip of a Congresswoman arguing against normalized trade with China, using 1990s data to show a massive and growing trade deficit.
- 2 (07:21) **The Boeing Example & Technology Transfer** - The clip details how China forces US companies to open factories and transfer technology, using Boeing as a key case study.
- 3 (10:48) **The Shift Away from Class Politics** - Asmongold and co-host theorize why the Democratic Party abandoned its focus on working-class economics in favor of identity politics.
- 4 (13:22) **The 2008 Anti-Tariff Argument (Bernie Sanders)** - Asmongold plays a clip of Bernie Sanders from 2008, criticizing the idea of "unfettered free trade" as a policy that allows corporations to throw American workers out on the street.
- 5 (18:24) **Trump's Long-Standing Stance** - A clip shows a young Donald Trump being asked what he would do differently, to which he replies he would make allies pay their fair share.
- 6 (19:17) **Non-Tariff Barriers to Trade** - Asmongold and co-host discuss that many barriers to US exports are not explicit tariffs but systematic hurdles that function the same way.
- 7 (21:22) **The 2011 White House Correspondents' Dinner** - Asmongold plays the infamous clip of President Obama publicly humiliating Donald Trump at the 2011 White House Correspondents' Dinner.
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