Podcast Episodes

What Does US-China Corruption Really Look Like? Also, iFlyTek

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Mara Hvistendahl is a staff …

5 years, 4 months ago

China and the NBA

Why, aside from Yao, have Chinese players had no success in the NBA? Post-NBA, what has Yao done to reform and professionalize the Chinese Basketball…

5 years, 5 months ago

China's True Tech Ambitions

How does the Chinese government's S&T spending differ fundamentally from America's and what does that tell us about the nature of their industrial po…

5 years, 5 months ago

Liberalism: The Light That Failed

In his memoir The World as It Is, Ben Rhodes, Barack Obama’s closest national security aide, confides that, on the day Obama left the White House, t…

5 years, 5 months ago

TikTok, WeChat and Trump

It's been a wild few weeks with President Trump threatening to shut WeChat and TikTok out of the U.S. market and rip them out of the app stores. Ther…

5 years, 5 months ago

War in Taiwan

Why would Xi invade and is the Taiwanese military up to the challenge? Paul Huang, freelance journalist, Fletcher School grad and fellow at the Taiwa…

5 years, 5 months ago

Adam Tooze on World Order, Then and Now

Adam Tooze is my favorite economic historian. After writing a handful of books on the 1920s and Nazi economics, he's now turned his eye to the pres…

5 years, 5 months ago

The Mulan Debacle

Turning a beloved movie of female empowerment into a dull endorsement of the patriarchy, autocracy and mass forced labor is no easy feat, but Disney …

5 years, 6 months ago

Rise and Fall of a Suzhou Soft Serve Baron

Mister Softee, the famed northeastern American ice cream brand, in Suzhou, China? Yes, that was a thing. Turner Sparks, rising from humble beginning…

5 years, 6 months ago

Land Wars: China's Agrarian Revolution

In 1927, Mao wrote that "In a very short time...several hundred million peasants will rise like a mighty storm, like a hurricane, a force so swift a…

5 years, 6 months ago