Liu Xin Versus Trish Regan

Tam

Brigadier
Registered Member
Nobody won cus there was no debate. Nobody "wins" an interview. When Trish said, "Do you think we can have no tariffs both sides?" And Liu said, "Yeah, I think that would be great!" we just entered the realm of chit chat and banter.

But honestly, while it would have been instinct to do what I said and try to embarrass Trish on live air, it would have only exacerbated hate as people see a blonde American girl getting talked into a corner by an aggressive Chinese woman. What Xin did may have led some Americans on the fence to lighten their disdain for China.


There is always a winner, or winners, because this is view-bait. The spectacle reminds me of the WWE.
 

manqiangrexue

Brigadier
There is always a winner, or winners, because this is view-bait. The spectacle reminds me of the WWE.
Well, I mean, Trish tried to go on a mild offensive a few times but Xin routed her quickly. Xin never struck back but was friendly the entire time. On the one hand, some people can say Xin defended against Trish so Trish failed and Xin won but others may say Trish won because at least Trish went on the offensive while Xin was defensive the entire time.

So in my mind, nobody "won" because it wasn't a real match but Xin could have done so much damage if she wanted to.
 

siegecrossbow

General
Staff member
Super Moderator
Liu Xin was an unknown as of last week to Fox viewers. She won viewers over with her poise, intelligence and composure. Surely next time fox host goes on emotional rant, responsible viewers will say wait a minute, let me check what The Point with Liu Xin has to say.


Exactly. You don't want to come across as aggressive, arrogant, or rude if you want to sway people hostile to you and your opinions.
 
now I read this
Opinion 21:05, 30-May-2019
Could the impasse start to be broken by this dialogue?

Since U.S. President Trump's tweet to announce that the U.S. would raise tariffs from 10 to 25 percent on Chinese goods exported to the U.S. on the first weekend of May 2019, China-U.S. trade negotiations have descended into a virtual impasse.

An interview conducted by Fox Business Network Primetime news anchor Trish Regan with Liu Xin, a CGTN host of the program “The Point with Liu Xin,” took place on the morning of May 30, 2019, Beijing Time.

This "face-to-face" interview between the two news anchors was the first in the history of China-U.S. relations and seems to have cracked open a ray of light in the impasse of the China-U.S. trade talks for the global society, which is acutely aware of the unprecedented level of global interdependence among countries, particularly between China and the U.S., and believes that win-win dialogue and cooperation is the only solution for China-U.S. trade relations. Here is why.

A collaborative learning session

Though the exchanges between Liu Xin and Trish Regan before the debate on social media were mostly heated and mutually accusatory in tone, with Regan lodging groundless accusations against China and Liu Xin confronting Regan for her groundless bashing about China as a response, the original frame of a debate prompted by the exchange seems to have turned out to be more of a dialogue than a debate, or even a discussion.

During the 18-minute long conversation, the two anchors mostly performed a Q & A session as Regan asked a series of questions about China-U.S. trade relations. Though these pointed questions were raised with a clear agenda in mind in an accusatory undertone, to quite an extent, they reflect Regan's willingness and in extension perhaps Regan's fans to be informed and educated about China and China-U.S. trade war by her Chinese counterpart, Liu Xin.

Liu Xin, on the other hand, appeared to be informative in a professional, assertive and courteous manner. The interview concluded with the two affirming the necessity for remaining open and maintaining free trade for mutual prosperity.

A fresh case of dialogic journalism

The session sounded like more of a conversation than a debate, more of a dialogue than a monologue. Both used the tag question technique, a relational and inclusive skill of interpersonal communication.

Liu Xin even invited Trish to visit CGTN and Beijing in the future and offered to show her around at the close of the session. In retrospect, Regan demonstrated a conciliatory communication style, an obvious break from her sharply aggressive style, a kind of mudslinging which she had used in groundlessly bashing China in her earlier show.

It is this kind of mudslinging against China, which Liu had sharply criticized on social media, that grabbed the attention of Regan, who subsequently invited Liu to her show via satellite from Beijing. As reported by The New York Times right after the show, Liu accepted Regan's invitation with a condition that there would be no mudslinging by Regan when she appeared on the show.

Obviously, Regan not only accepted the condition but also followed it through. During most of the session, both Trish and Liu listened to each other, a very important skill which is often underused by American news anchors, particularly those from Fox News.

Implications for China-U.S. relations

For too long, too few such dialogues between Chinese and U.S. media have occurred despite the fact that the two countries have found each other increasingly interdependent.

The knowledge and information each people have about each other are far from compatible from the degree of mutual interdependence and are far from being enough to make both parties competent in making a correct judgment about each other and in effectively interacting with each other for mutual gain.

Not only is each ethnocentric, but also each nation's media tend to have fanned such ethnocentrism among its own people, particularly the American media exemplified by Fox Network. This may explain why Trish Regan was confronted by Liu Xin in the first place.

It is highly hoped that the Regan-Liu Dialogue will continue and multiply in many creative forms between China and the U.S. to not only narrow knowledge gaps of both the American and Chinese media professionals about each other's country, but better inform both countries' public and elites and the global society so that China-U.S. relations and global society would not drift apart.

Lessons to be learned

First of all, do not keep silent when one's counterpart has wronged oneself. Speak up and pick a fight with the right person at the right time in the right place in the right manner. This would result in mutual relational maintenance and realignment.

Do not wait till reaching the last straw, and face challenges. This is especially necessary for Chinese who tend to be concerned when interacting with big powers such as the U.S.

Besides, for the U.S. side, learning to be reflective and humble is very necessary as American culture is self-oriented and tends to view themselves as highly individualistic and goal-oriented superheroes so that they intend to consequentially ignore or downplay their counterparts' perspectives, concerns, needs and core interests.
 

It wasn't even a debate, more like an interview. Xin played softball; all she had to do was get a big list of companies suing US companies for IP infringement and another one with all the US companies being subsidized by the government, and watch Trish stutter like an idiot over how the US can hold China to standards that it doesn't hold itself to. But Xin didn't want to do that for some reason. Xin spent the whole time talking about how China's not perfect but coming along and never challenged Trish with any of America's behaviors.

I thought Fox Trish Regan wanted as many Chinese as possible to see the debate as possible? Why did Fox pull the video? Hope they do not do a Nancy Pelosi style edit and make Liu Xin slur.
 

Equation

Lieutenant General
What Xin did may have led some Americans on the fence to lighten their disdain for China.

I doubt it. Most of these Fox News followers are made up of religious conservative fanatics that believe they are "God's chosen children" to rule the Earth. Any one challenging that narrative are "evil" and are in the wrong no matter what history says otherwise.
 

Gatekeeper

Brigadier
Registered Member
I just watched it, thanks to Dolcevita.

Its not so much a match, as all the questions was one way.

I found both ladies conducted themselves well, polished, controlled and civil.

However, i did particularly like Xin correcting Trish for calling her a member of the CCP. (it just goes to show that most americans think all Chinese people is a member of the CCP)!
 
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