Financial Times reporter Yuan Yang on China-Europe relations
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English - November 23, 2022 19:00 - 54 minutes - 49.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsBusiness Society & Culture china news international relations china economy china politics sichuan shenzhen shanghai politics news hangzhou Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
This week on Sinica, Kaiser & Jeremy welcome Yuan Yang, a reporter for the Financial Times who was until recently covering technology in Beijing. Now based in London, her beat is China-Europe relations, and on this episode she discusses German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's recent trip to China, and how Europe and European countries are navigating the fraught U.S.-China relationship.
6:09 – Providing a balanced account of China’s tech ecosystem
9:38 – German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's recent trip to Beijing
16:00 – The strategic autonomy of European foreign policy
18:41 – European countries’ fractured response to US tech restrictions on China
21:58 – EU policies towards Xinjiang
24:31 – The impact of tech restrictions on European supply chains
27:39 – The efficacy of sanctions
30:12 – How China’s position on Russia damaged its reputation in Europe
33:48 – European reaction to Biden-Xi meeting
35:57 – How a change in the American presidency could disrupt the Transatlantic alliance system
40:55 – The formulation of Sunak’s China policy
43:50 – Yuan’s new forthcoming book Private Revolutions
A complete transcript of this podcast is available at TheChinaProject.com
Jeremy: Jewish comedian Ari Shaffir
Yuan: The Emily Wells album Regards to the End; The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin
Kaiser: mongulai.com, an e-commerce website specializing in Mongolian artisanal crafts; the Netflix show Barbarians
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