The US-China Podcast
253 episodes - English - Latest episode: 24 days ago - ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsThis series features brief discussions with leading China experts on a range of issues in the U.S.-China relationship, including domestic politics, foreign policy, economics, security, culture, the environment, and areas of global concern. For more interviews, videos, and links to events, visit our website: www.ncuscr.org.
The National Committee on U.S.-China Relations is the leading nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that encourages understanding of China and the United States among citizens of both countries.
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Spy Balloons, Crisis Management, and Implications for U.S.-China Relations
April 19, 2023 14:45 - 30 minutes - 41.8 MBThe unauthorized entry of a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon into American airspace has provided a unique opportunity to examine the ability of Washington and Beijing to handle diplomatic crises. The incident leaves us wondering how the United States can better understand Chinese bureaucratic structure and decision-making and thus more effectively modulate its responses to unforeseen events. How will the two countries deescalate tensions when something more serious than a rogue balloon...
Assignment China: An Oral History of American Correspondents in China
April 04, 2023 17:15 - 40 minutes - 55.3 MBReporting on China is challenging and important. Assignment China tells the stories of some of the American journalists who have covered China from the time of the civil war of the 1940s through the COVID-19 pandemic. Former China correspondent Mike Chinoy assembles personal accounts from eminent journalists who share their stories of reporting on historic moments such as President Richard Nixon’s groundbreaking visit in 1972, China’s opening up to the outside world and its emergence as a gl...
Seeking Truth from Fact: Key Indicators for China’s Economy in 2023
March 27, 2023 18:19 - 1 hour - 87.4 MBOn March 5, 2023, China set a GDP growth target of around five percent for 2023, which is lower than expected. What are the major challenges and risks for China’s economic growth in 2023 and beyond? Where do the strengths in China’s economy lie? Both the promise of continued export and consumption growth and the threat of rising debt and property sector instability raise critical questions. How will tariffs, trade imbalances, and geopolitics affect China’s economic prospects? In an intervi...
Two Sessions, Many Implications
March 23, 2023 16:40 - 34 minutes - 47.7 MBWhat are the implications of this year’s Two Sessions for President Xi Jinping and the latest roster of Party leaders, for those in the United States with a close eye on the U.S.-China relationship, and for the Chinese people? In an interview conducted on March 20, 2023, Dimitar Gueorguiev speaks with Rory Truex, and Ling Li about the 2023 Two Sessions in the context of China’s domestic and international policies. The annual meetings of the National People’s Congress (NPC) and Chinese Pe...
Improbable Diplomats: How Ping-Pong Players, Musicians, and Scientists Remade U.S.-China Relations
March 17, 2023 18:13 - 32 minutes - 44 MBOver the past few years, we have marked the 50th anniversaries of official visits to China by then National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger and President Richard Nixon. Historians have scrutinized the records of their conversations with Chinese leaders, but less attention has been given to people-to-people exchange that began with “ping-pong diplomacy.” Based on archival sources in China and the United States and numerous interviews, Pete Millwood argues in Improbable Diplomats that the sig...
Dictatorship and Information: Authoritarian Regime Resilience in Communist Europe and China
March 13, 2023 16:15 - 31 minutes - 42.8 MBIn Dictatorship and Information, Martin K. Dimitrov offers an approach to understanding possible solutions to the dictator’s dilemma (the balance between authoritarian governments’ use of information communication technology for economic development and the need to control the democratizing influences of this technology), which arises from the difficulty of calibrating repression and concessions due to distorted information about elite and popular discontent. Dr. Dimitrov argues that communi...
BONUS: How Concerned Should Americans Be About Chinese Espionage?
March 10, 2023 18:24 - 6 minutes - 8.36 MBEver since a balloon flew from China over the United States in February, concerns about surveillance have been at the forefront of U.S.-China relations. But the two countries have a long history of spying on each other. In this short explainer, John Delury contextualizes the current tensions and assesses just how worried Americans should be about Chinese espionage. If you missed it, listen to our interview from January with John Delury, Gina Tam, and Jerome Cohen on John's new book, Agent...
The Dragon Roars Back: Transformational Leaders and Dynamics of Chinese Foreign Policy
March 06, 2023 18:56 - 32 minutes - 44.9 MBWith Chinese President Xi Jinping’s political authority unmatched, his sense of mission to restore what he believes is China’s natural position as a great power drives the nation’s foreign policy. When China was weak, it was subordinated to others. Now China is strong, and wants others to fall in line, at least on the issues involving what it regards as core national interests. In The Dragon Roars Back, Suisheng Zhao weaves together complex events, processes, and players in an analysis of ...
Digital Financial Revolution: Blockchain in the PRC
March 01, 2023 18:22 - 32 minutes - 44.2 MBSince its advent in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, blockchain technology has taken the economic world by storm. Open-source blockchain transactions have increased the speed of, and trust in, cross-border financial transactions. Many in the United States see the technology as a new and improved medium to raise and exchange capital. In China, the technology, though much more tightly regulated, has likewise begun to proliferate and has even been identified as one of China’s seven “front...
Eyes on Ukraine Part III: The One-Year Anniversary of Russia’s Invasion
February 22, 2023 19:11 - 29 minutes - 40.2 MBIn the year since Russia invaded Ukraine, U.S.-China relations have continued to deteriorate; one factor is Beijing’s continued support of Moscow’s position and rhetoric. What does Beijing gain from its tacit backing of Russia? How successful have the U.S.-led sanctions been at stemming Russia’s war effort? As China reopens its economy and looks to rebuild its international business and diplomatic relationships after three years of Covid lockdowns, how does its relationship with Russia affec...
Guide to China’s Climate Policy 2022
February 10, 2023 17:17 - 27 minutes - 37.9 MBSummer 2022 was hot! On June 25, the temperature in Hebei province reached 111.6°, breaking an all-time record. A few weeks later, the temperature in Shanghai hit 105.6°, the highest ever recorded there. On July 19, weather stations in the United Kingdom recorded temperatures above 104° for the first time in history; in the United States, at least 43 locations broke or tied their records for the hottest July ever. The temperature in western Iran reached 128.5° on August 9, the highest August...
Agents of Subversion: The Fate of John T. Downey and the CIA’s Covert War in China
February 01, 2023 17:09 - 34 minutes - 46.7 MBAgents of Subversion reconstructs the story of a botched mission into Manchuria, placing it in the context of a wider CIA campaign against China. In the winter of 1952, the CIA flew a covert mission into China to pick up an agent. One of the Americans on the mission, a recent Yale graduate named John T. Downey, ended up a prisoner in China for the next twenty years. The U.S. government kept the public in the dark about decades of covert activity directed against China while Downey languishe...
War and Peace in the Taiwan Strait
January 18, 2023 19:52 - 34 minutes - 47.4 MBAs tensions continue to rise between the People’s Republic of China and Taiwan, analysts and officials warn of a growing risk of military conflict, which could potentially draw in the United States. How worried should we be about a war in the Taiwan Strait? Scott L. Kastner sheds new light on the prospects for cross-strait military conflict in his new book, War and Peace in the Taiwan Strait. He examines several key regional trends that have complex implications for stability, including d...
Material Contradictions in Mao’s China
January 03, 2023 22:02 - 33 minutes - 45.5 MBThe growth of markets and consumerism in China’s post-Mao era of political and economic reform is familiar. The Mao period (1949–1976), by contrast, a time of scarcity, appears to have had little material culture. In reality, people attributed great meaning to materials and objects, often precisely because they were rare, expensive, and difficult to obtain. Material Contradictions in Mao’s China, essays on art, cinema, culture, performance, and more, explores the paradox of material culture ...
Accidental Conflict: America, China, and the Clash of False Narratives
December 21, 2022 16:53 - 33 minutes - 46.5 MBStephen Roach’s new book, Accidental Conflict: America, China, and the Clash of False Narratives, examines the ominous trajectory of conflict escalation between the United States and China and offers suggestions for resolution. In just four years, two countries have entered a trade war, a tech war, and perhaps a new Cold War. This conflict between the world’s two most powerful nations would not have happened but for an unnecessary clash of false narratives. The United States falsely blames i...
CHINA Town Hall: Jon M. Huntsman Jr.
November 21, 2022 16:22 - 58 minutes - 80.1 MBFormer Ambassador to China, Russia, and Singapore Jon M. Huntsman Jr. was the featured speaker for CHINA Town Hall 2022, a national conversation on how the U.S.-China relationship affects our communities. From supply chains to national security, new technologies to climate change, the future of both countries will be determined by their relations with one another and the global community. The National Committee held a nationwide virtual conversation on Wednesday, November 16 at 7:00 p.m. E...
Climate (in)Action Amidst U.S.- China Tensions
November 09, 2022 20:09 - 37 minutes - 51.5 MBFor much of 2022, the entire planet has been struggling to cope with extreme weather events, ranging from brutal heatwaves and severe droughts in some regions to record rainfall and catastrophic flooding in others. Despite this, in early August, Beijing suspended ongoing U.S.-China talks on climate change in response to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan. While some climate experts have argued that what matters most in the fight to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is for the Unite...
Trafficking Data: How China is Winning the Battle for Digital Sovereignty
October 25, 2022 14:50 - 29 minutes - 40.9 MBIn Trafficking Data, Aynne Kokas examines how technology firms in the two largest economies in the world, the United States and China, exploit government policy (and the lack thereof) to gather information on citizens, putting American national security at risk. She argues that U.S. government leadership failures, Silicon Valley’s disruption preoccupation, and Wall Street’s addiction to growth have fueled China’s technological gold rush. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in the two countries an...
Texture on Taiwan: Deciphering Asia's Most Complex Hotspot | Jessica Drun, Lev Nachman, Sara Newland
October 20, 2022 18:29 - 30 minutes - 42.1 MBIn the wake of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s high profile visit to Taiwan in August, public focus on the island has reached a crescendo as Chinese military maneuvers and government rhetoric continue to escalate. How has Taiwan dealt with the increased volatility? How has the war in Ukraine affected China’s decision-making going forward? Are Taiwan’s global economic ties and critical role in technology supply chains strong enough to help deter a wider conflict? Most importantly, what does it a...
Overreach: How China Derailed its Peaceful Rise
October 17, 2022 20:06 - 34 minutes - 47.1 MBFor several decades after “reform and opening” began in 1978, China’s leaders adopted a restrained approach to foreign policy, assuring the world of its peaceful intentions. Then, as Susan Shirk argues in her latest book, Overreach: How China Derailed its Peaceful Rise, China went from fragile superpower to global heavyweight, threatening Taiwan and its neighbors in the South China Sea, tightening its grip on Hong Kong, and openly challenging the United States for preeminence economically, t...
Semiconductors and U.S.-China Relations
October 11, 2022 13:41 - 31 minutes - 43.9 MBSemiconductors have become a critical policy issue around the world, making news because of their importance for everything from cellphones to nuclear weapons, as supply chain bottlenecks and political confrontations drive up scarcity and price. Global companies like TSMC and Huawei face difficult operating landscapes as they seek greater regulatory harmonization and clarity. What role do semiconductors play in the relationships among the United States, China, and Taiwan? Technology policy...
The China Questions 2: Critical Insights into U.S.-China Relations
October 03, 2022 18:56 - 35 minutes - 49.2 MBFor decades Americans have described China as a rising power. That description no longer fits: China has already risen. What does this mean for the U.S.-China relationship, for the global economy, and for international security? Covering security, economics, military development, climate change, public health, science and technology, education, and Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Xinjiang, the essays in The China Questions 2 look at key sites of friction and potential areas for collaboration. In an...
Power and Restraint in China’s Rise
September 28, 2022 16:00 - 31 minutes - 43.8 MBHow does restraint in Chinese statecraft challenge the standard narrative about rising powers’ behavior? Conventional wisdom holds that China’s rise is disrupting the global balance of power in unpredictable ways. However, China has often deferred to the consensus of smaller neighboring countries on regional security. In Power and Restraint in China’s Rise (Columbia University Press), Chin-Hao Huang argues that China’s aspirations for legitimacy and acceptance provide a rationale for refrain...
China’s Next Act: How Sustainability and Technology are Reshaping China’s Rise and the World’s Future
September 22, 2022 18:18 - 30 minutes - 28.5 MBFollowing decades of growth and development, Chinese officials, businesses, and institutions now play a critical role in every major global issue. The challenges posed by climate change, pandemics, and emerging technologies make dealing with the Chinese state, its firms, and other institutions more complex and more critical than ever before. In China’s Next Act: How Sustainability and Technology are Reshaping China’s Rise and the World’s Future (Oxford University Press), Scott Moore argues ...
China’s Rise in the Global South: The Middle East, Africa, and Beijing’s Alternative World Order | Dawn Murphy, Lina Benabdallah
August 29, 2022 21:30 - 32 minutes - 45.1 MBAs China and the United States increasingly compete for power in key areas of U.S. influence, great power conflict looms. China’s Rise in the Global South examines China’s behavior as a rising power in two key global south regions: the Middle East and Sub-Saharan Africa. Dawn Murphy compares and analyzes thirty years of China’s interactions with these regions in several areas: politics, economics, foreign aid, and military. From the Belt and Road Initiative to the founding of new cooperatio...
Empires of Ideas: Creating the Modern University from Germany to America to China
August 25, 2022 17:54 - 36 minutes - 50 MBWill China become the global leader in higher education in the 21st century? The modern research university was born in 19th century Germany; during the 20th, the United States took the lead. In his book Empires of Ideas, William C. Kirby argues that Chinese universities are among the most innovative educational centers in the world. Professor Kirby examines the successes of several leading universities in Germany and the United States, and compares them to three Chinese universities aspirin...
Latin America, China, and the United States: A Triangular Relationship | Álvaro Méndez, Margaret Myers, Xiaoyu Pu
August 22, 2022 22:23 - 31 minutes - 42.9 MBChina’s engagement and influence in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) have grown with the expansion of the Belt and Road Initiative into the region. Increased American attention suggests changes in a complex triangular relationship. What is China's ambition in the region? What would LAC countries stand to gain from more robust partnerships with China? Will they feel pressure to choose between China and the United States? In a conversation moderated by Xiaoyu Pu on August 12, 2022, Álva...
Ten Years of China's Belt and Road: Reflections and Recent Developments | Min Ye, Ka Zeng
August 05, 2022 14:12 - 34 minutes - 47.6 MBChina’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) was first discussed ten years ago. What has happened over the past ten years? Due to the COVID-19 lockdown, BRI’s current state and future trajectories are more confusing and controversial than ever. Do China’s leading coalitions still support BRI? Min Ye discusses the current status and future directions of China’s Belt and Road Initiative in conversation with Ka Zeng. 0:00 Introduction 2:20 Who are the BRI actors? 7:48 Global and domestic impact...
Taiwan, China, and the United States - What is at Stake? | Ryan Hass
August 02, 2022 19:43 - 12 minutes - 17.1 MBTaiwan is a major flashpoint amid escalating tensions in U.S.-China relations. Ryan Hass, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, explains U.S. policy on Taiwan and China’s forceful reactions to perceived changes in the status quo. 0:48 — One China Principle vs Policy 3:11 — What is strategic ambiguity? 6:05 — Pelosi's Taiwan visit—why does China care so much? 10:32 — Future of U.S.-China relations About the speaker: https://ncuscr.org/events/taiwan-china-united-states Follow...
Daring to Struggle: China’s Global Ambitions Under Xi Jinping | Bates Gill
July 31, 2022 21:19 - 38 minutes - 52.5 MBIncreasingly powerful, prosperous, and authoritarian, China under the leadership of Xi Jinping has become an increasingly intense competitor across the globe economically, technologically, diplomatically, militarily, and in seeking to influence people’s hearts and minds. But what does China ultimately want in the world? In Daring to Struggle: China’s Global Ambitions Under Xi Jinping, Bates Gill explains the fundamental motivations driving the country’s dynamic, assertive, and risk-taking ...
Threat Inflation and the Chinese Military | Michael Swaine
July 18, 2022 18:12 - 29 minutes - 40.6 MBFind the link to Michael Swaine's report here: https://www.ncuscr.org/event/threat-inflation-chinese-military/ According to a recent report by Michael D. Swaine, framing the military challenge Beijing poses in alarmist, worst-case ways weakens the U.S. ability to determine the limits of Chinese threats. It also undermines voices within China that favor moderation, raises the danger of Sino-American crises and military conflict, and diverts U.S. resources away from desperately needed nonmil...
Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong | Louisa Lim
July 10, 2022 20:58 - 37 minutes - 51 MBWhat is Hong Kong? According to the British, a “barren rock” without meaningful history; to China, a part of Chinese soil from the beginning of time, finally returned to its rightful place in 1997. When protests erupted in 2019 and were met with escalating suppression, Louisa Lim, a journalist raised in Hong Kong who as an adult has covered the region for more than a decade, felt compelled to tell Hong Kong’s untold stories. In Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong, Dr. Lim...
China’s Economic Challenge: Unconventional Success | Albert Keidel
June 27, 2022 21:33 - 34 minutes - 47.4 MBIn China’s Economic Challenge: Unconventional Success, Albert Keidel examines the economic approaches responsible for China’s 40 years of rapid growth, suggesting how such strategies might be applied elsewhere. He discusses the government’s leadership role, success in poverty reduction, and international finance and trade experience. The book reviews why China’s success challenges the United States and the field of development economics. He describes how generous rural price and land-tenure ...
Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern | Jing Tsu
June 09, 2022 15:44 - 19 minutes - 15.2 MBLess than a century ago, China faced myriad challenges in catching up to a world that had passed it by technologically. In her new book, Kingdom of Charactes, Jing Tsu breaks down how the monumental and transformative task of bringing the Chinese language into the modern era also modernized China itself. Jing Tsu joined the National Committee on June 1, 2022 to discuss the visionaries, reformers, and revolutionaries whose linguistic innovations made China’s ascent to its global role today po...
China’s Zero-COVID Policies: Impact and Implications | Silvia Lindtner, Melinda Liu
June 01, 2022 16:27 - 36 minutes - 49.5 MBChina is under scrutiny as it attempts to quash its largest COVID-19 outbreak since the early days of the pandemic. The latest wave of infections is the most serious in the country since the disease first emerged in Wuhan two years ago and is putting the government under immense pressure as it sticks with its ‘dynamic zero-COVID strategy’. Shanghai has been in lockdown for over a month, causing serious disruption to its 25 million residents and the economy, with a potential lockdown in Beiji...
Americans' Negative Views on China: Latest Pew Survey Results | Laura Silver
May 17, 2022 18:48 - 27 minutes - 37.2 MBAccording to a Pew Research Center report released in April, Americans view China's partnership with Russia as a serious problem for the United States, amid concerns over China's growing superpower status and economic might. More than 60 percent of American adults believe the Russia-China relationship is a very serious problem, more people than say the same about other critical issues, including China's involvement in American politics, its human rights policies, and tensions between China a...
North Korea's Missile Tests: What Do They Mean? | Sue Mi Terry
May 11, 2022 16:03 - 31 minutes - 42.9 MBPresident Biden will visit Seoul in May for his first meeting with newly-elected South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol, as both countries face increasing mutual concerns, including North Korea's first intercontinental ballistic missile launch since 2017 in March, followed by the April test of a new tactical guided weapon to boost nuclear capability. How will these events influence Korea-China-U.S. Relations? What are the effects of Russia's invasion of Ukraine? What should we expect from Presi...
Avoidable War: Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict between the U.S. & Xi Jinping's China | Kevin Rudd
May 04, 2022 17:05 - 36 minutes - 50.2 MBA war between China and the United States would be catastrophic, but, unfortunately, is no longer unthinkable. In "The Avoidable War," Kevin Rudd demystifies the actions of both sides, describing how the countries can coexist without betraying their core interests. According to Mr. Rudd, a former Australian prime minister who has studied, lived in, and worked with China for more than forty years, the relationship between the United States and China is especially volatile. It sits atop cult...
U.S.-China Climate Finance Cooperation: Can We Avoid the Carbon Tsunami? | Kelly Sims Gallagher
April 26, 2022 15:56 - 28 minutes - 38.9 MBThe United States and China, as the world’s two largest economies and carbon emitters, have an opportunity to accelerate financing for low-carbon technologies, particularly in developing countries. One promising mechanism for action is climate finance; nevertheless, experts estimate an annual shortfall of $850 billion in climate-related financing in developing markets, which need it most. In an interview conducted on April 6, 2022, Kelly Sims Gallagher discusses the importance of U.S.-...
Chinese Media Coverage of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine | Xiaoyu Pu, Maria Repnikova
April 25, 2022 16:05 - 34 minutes - 47.7 MBSince the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, the Chinese government has tried to walk a fine line of neutrality. It has abstained on UN resolutions and not condemned the Russian invasion or the slaughter of civilians. On the other hand, it has restated its support of sovereignty, territorial integrity, and the UN Charter. State owned media and social media have often repeated Russia’s propaganda to the great concern of the U.S. and European governments. Xiaoyu Pu and Maria R...
Gang Chen’s Story and the End of the China Initiative
April 15, 2022 14:29 - 41 minutes - 57.7 MBOn January 20, 2022, a federal court in Boston dismissed charges against Massachusetts Institute of Technology engineering professor Gang Chen, who had been accused of concealing his affiliations with Chinese government institutions. The dropping of all charges against Dr. Chen was a major setback for the China Initiative, a U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) program meant to combat economic espionage and intellectual property theft conducted by the Chinese government. Some argue that the DOJ’...
Ping Pong Diplomacy’s 50-year Legacy: The Courtside View with Jan Berris
April 12, 2022 02:13 - 42 minutes - 58.6 MBOn April 12, 1972, the Chinese national ping pong team arrived in Detroit, the first unofficial visitors from the People’s Republic of China to the United States since the establishment of the PRC in 1949. One of the many excited people waiting on the tarmac to welcome the team was Jan Berris – at that time a program associate with the National Committee, now its vice president. Fifty years later, on April 12, 2022, Jan Berris shared stories of the historic process – from the funny to the ...
Americans in China: Encounters with the People’s Republic | Terry Lautz
March 19, 2022 23:09 - 32 minutes - 44.1 MB"Americans in China: Encounters with the People's Republic" tells the stories of a diverse assortment of men and women who have engaged with China as adversaries and emissaries, mediators and advocates, interpreters and reporters, soldiers, scientists, entrepreneurs, and scholars. For each of them, China was more than just another place: it was an idea, a cause, a revolution, a civilization. Their experiences provide unique insights and deeply human perspectives on issues that have shaped U....
Two Sessions at a Turning Point | Victor Shih
March 16, 2022 19:24 - 35 minutes - 26.3 MBThe annual meetings of the National People's Congress (NPC) and Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), colloquially known as the “Two Sessions” or “Lianghui,” feature the gathering of political leaders in Beijing each spring to announce plans and goals for the coming year. In 2022, amidst heightened global tensions, the continuing pandemic, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and the 20th Party Congress coming in the fall, China’s domestic political events may hold even gre...
Eyes on Ukraine Part II: Strategic Implications for China, Russia, and the United States | Yun Sun
March 11, 2022 20:16 - 31 minutes - 43.5 MBSince the February 24, 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, China’s position has come under scrutiny. Politically, for decades China has upheld the principles of territorial integrity and sovereignty; Beijing has continued to talk about these ideals over the past few weeks while also blaming the west for creating the conditions – specifically, the eastern expansion of NATO after the fall of the Soviet Union – that led to Russia’s actions. Economically, China has sharply opposed sanctions, claim...
The World According to China | Elizabeth Economy
March 10, 2022 18:53 - 30 minutes - 41.6 MBA populous superpower, China could transform the international system. Xi Jinping’s calls for China to “lead in the reform of the global governance system” suggest that he has precisely that ambition. The international community needs to understand and respond to the great risks, as well as potential rewards, of a world rebuilt by China. In an interview conducted on February 28, 2022, Elizabeth Economy describes China’s strategy to recover the country’s past glory and reshape the geostrate...
Interlocking Rings: Image and Identity at the 2022 Beijing Olympic Games | Amy Qin, Xu Guoqi
March 02, 2022 01:06 - 32 minutes - 44.1 MBRegardless of where they are held, nationalism and identity affect how the Olympic Games are portrayed and perceived. In an interview conducted on February 22, 2022, New York Times correspondent Amy Qin and University of Hong Kong history professor Guoqi Xu discuss issues of national and individual identity at Beijing Games.
Eyes on Ukraine: Strategic Implications for China, Russia, and the United States | Yun Sun
February 10, 2022 18:40 - 30 minutes - 42 MBAs global attention focuses on Russia's military buildup along its border with Ukraine, increasingly stronger ties between China and Russia raise concerns with the United States and its allies. At the Putin-Xi summit on the eve of the Winter Olympics, China explicitly backed Russia's security concerns over further NATO expansion in Eastern Europe, bringing this relationship to the geopolitical forefront. Although China-Russia cooperation has its limits, this strategic alignment could challen...
Is China a Communist Country? | Meg Rithmire
January 11, 2022 01:20 - 15 minutes - 21.8 MBMeg Rithmire (Harvard Business School) gives an updated summary of China's unique political and economic system, describing its changing relationship towards Chinese businesses, citizens, and even the United States.
The China Paradox: At the Front Line of Economic Transformation | Paul Clifford
January 04, 2022 18:29 - 37 minutes - 50.9 MBIn his recently updated book, The China Paradox: At the Front Line of Economic Transformation, Paul G. Clifford documents the twists and turns of China’s dramatic and surprising rise over the last four decades. New chapters explore tech giant Huawei and China’s frictions with the world fueled by perceptions that China’s technological progress threatens the global economic order. Is China under President Xi Jinping retreating from the economic reforms at the heart of China recent achievements...