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Akio Takahara: “Xi Jinping is an action-oriented person“
MERICS China Podcast
English - December 11, 2017 00:00 - 13 minutes - 9.16 MB - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsNews china europe economy politics society digital investment geopolitics security chinese Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: #46 David Shambaugh & Willy Lam on the 19th Party Congress and China under Xi Jinping
Next Episode: #48 Ian Johnson über Religion und Werte in China
December 14, 2017At the 19th Communist Party Congress in October, Chinese president and party leader Xi Jinping proclaimed a “new era”. China was ready to become a global power and move to center stage, he said. What lies behind such claims? Has China taken advantage of the global leadership vacuum left by US president Trump? “Xi Jinping is an action-oriented person”, but his foreign policy record is mixed, says Akio Takahara of Tokyo University. Listen to Akio Takahara as he talks about Xi Jinping, rivalries in the Asia Pacific and why China would not abandon North Korea.