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Back to SearchEp 72 - China is building a market for data. Why isn’t America?
Data has become one of the most important inputs in the modern economy, especially as access to high-quality information increasingly shapes the glob…
13 hours ago
Ep 71 - Is China quietly beginning to deleverage?
China’s economy has lost momentum after a surprisingly strong start to the year.
But while many analysts are asking why Beijing isn’t doing more to st…1 week ago
Ep 70 - China’s growth model hits another reality check
China’s economy started 2026 with surprising momentum – but the latest monthly macro data underscores that many of the country’s underlying challenge…
4 weeks, 1 day ago
Ep 69 - Podcast | The “China Shock 2.0” fallacy
It’s been a busy few weeks for Chinese diplomacy, with Xi Jinping making a rare trip to North Korea while tensions between Beijing and Brussels conti…
1 month ago
Ep 68 - Can asset revitalization save local government finances?
China’s local governments have spent the past four years grappling with the fallout from the property market collapse. Land sales have dried up, fisc…
1 month, 1 week ago
Ep 67 - What exactly is US policy toward Taiwan?
This week on the Trivium China Podcast, host Andrew Polk is joined by Trivium’s Head of Geopolitical Analysis Joe Mazur to unpack one of the most con…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Ep 66 - Jon Czin on Xi, Trump, and the US-China stalemate
It’s been a consequential week for US-China relations, as Xi Jinping and Donald Trump finally held their long-awaited summit in Beijing amid ongoing …
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Ep 65 - Xi-Trump vibes, meetings about meetings, and the PBoC’s next moves
The long-awaited Xi Jinping–Donald Trump meeting has finally happened – but what, exactly, came out of it?
On the first part of this week’s Trivium Ch…
2 months ago
Ep 64 - China sanctions pushback, macro resilience, and more Iran war fallout
It’s been another consequential week for China’s economy and foreign policy – with Beijing deploying its blocking rules for the first time ever in re…
2 months, 1 week ago
Ep 63 - Beijing unwinds the Meta-Manus deal
What happens when a Chinese AI startup tries to sell itself to a major US tech company, but Beijing decides it doesn’t like the deal?
In this week’s e…
2 months, 2 weeks ago