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ChinaTalk
Conversations exploring China, technology, and US-China relations. Guests include a wide range of analysts, policymakers, and academics. Hosted by Jordan Schneider. Check out the newsletter at https://www.chinatalk.media/
Episodes
ChinaTalkOne hour, Two Sessions
One hour, Two Sessions China’s Two Sessions, the national annual gathering of the leadership of the People’s Republic of China, will soon be coming to a close…
ChinaTalkChinaEconTalk with special guest Russ Roberts
This week's guest is Russ Roberts. He's a research fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution and the host of the EconTalk podcast, a weekly interview-based show…
ChinaTalkRubber ducks and semiconductors: Navigating China’s legal system
“The champagne days are over,” writes Dan Harris, reflecting on how the tone of his China Law Blog has evolved since its creation in 2006. As the founder of…
ChinaTalkDiplomatic bookkeeping with Ryan Hass
This week’s guest on ChinaEconTalk is Ryan Hass, a David M. Rubenstein Fellow in the Brookings Institution’s Foreign Policy program, who is jointly appointed…
ChinaTalkChina’s foothold in India’s tech ecosystem
Today, nearly half of the top 100 apps in India's Google Play store are made by Chinese companies. After past failures to enter the Indian tech market, what's…
ChinaTalkThe Obama era of U.S.-China economic relations
How did the U.S.-China economic relationship evolve during the Obama administration? Are the economic tensions we see today between the two countries a product…
ChinaTalkA ‘Qianlong’ look back at China’s economic history
How does autocratic repression impact societies? Can the legacy of political repression ripple out across centuries, creating a vicious autocratic cycle?…
ChinaTalkChanging tides in 2019, with Gordon Orr
“The U.S.-China equilibrium of the past 20 years has gone,” declares Gordon Orr in his recent piece on what to expect in China in 2019. So what will replace…
ChinaTalkThe world’s largest video game industry
China’s video game market is the world’s largest. Over 600 million people play video games in China, and collectively, they spend over $40 billion a year on…
ChinaTalkChinese Policymaking Made Easy with Trivium China
Chinese politics is boring and confusing. Or is it? This week Jordan speaks with Andrew Polk and Trey McArver, economics and politics specialists at Trivium…
ChinaTalkThe Chinese Financial Crisis That Never Came, with Logan Wright
Foreign investors have lost billions expecting a Chinese financial crisis that hasn't come yet. So what gives? According to the Rhodium Group's Logan Wright…
ChinaTalkDaniel Kurtz-Phelan on George Marshall’s China Mission
Daniel Kurtz-Phelan, the executive editor of Foreign Affairs, is the author of the recent book The China Mission: George Marshall's Unfinished War, 1945–1947…
ChinaTalkChina's Domestic Sports Market With Mark Dreyer
China's government aims to create a $500 billion sports industry by 2020. But how are those ambitions playing out on the ground in the Chinese basketball and…
ChinaTalkHow Chinese Firms Succeed and Fail at Internationalizing (Featuring Bytedance)
What is Bytedance and how does it make its money? How do politics and culture get in the way of Chinese firms' internationalization efforts? What can Chinese…
ChinaTalkKFC, the Business of Propaganda, and the 'Toilet Revolution'
Why is KFC so big in China? What is the “Toilet Revolution” and why does it matter? How does Chinese propaganda work? How have bicycles’ role in Chinese…
ChinaTalkMatt Sheehan on Google in China
What is the history of Google in China? Does the company have any hope of bringing its search engine back into the Chinese market? How does China’s development…
ChinaTalkWhen Trade Wars Turned Bloody: The Opium War with Stephen Platt
When it came to trade wars, the British didn't mess around. Four steam-powered battleships sent by the English to force China to change its trade policy in the…
ChinaTalkTencent's History and Future with Matthew Brennan
Matt Brennan, professional speaker and co-host of China Tech Talk, comes on the show to discuss the history and evolution of China's most popular app, WeChat…
ChinaTalkDavid Dollar on U.S.-China financial friction
David Dollar is a senior fellow at the John L. Thornton China Center at the Brookings Institution. He has previously served as the U.S. Treasury Department…
ChinaTalkChina’s Grand AI Ambitions with Jeff Ding
Rhodes Scholar Jeff Ding breaks down how China stacks up to the rest of the world in the race to develop AI. He delves into the connections between Chinese…
ChinaTalkTrade War Tale of the Tape with Chad Bown
Chad Bown is a fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, DC and cohost of the excellent Trade Talks, a weekly podcast on the…
ChinaTalkData Policy with Samm Sacks
Guest Samm Sacks Senior Fellow, Technology Policy, Center for Strategic and International Studies @CSIS Samm Sacks | Center for Strategic and International…
ChinaTalkWhat China Thinks of the Trade War with Chublicopinion's Ma Tianjie
Ma Tianjie, founder of the long-running blog Chublicopinion is perhaps the leading English-language chronicler of Chinese public opinion. In this episode, he…
ChinaTalkTrump's Trade War Tactics with Chris Balding
(The audio stops beeping after 1 minute I promise!) Chris Balding as a Bloomberg Views contributor and professor based in Shenzhen. In this interview, we…
ChinaTalkMade in China 2025 and Bytedance with Lorand Laskai
Lorand Laskai is a researcher at a prominent American think tank who recently wrote a piece on the Trump administration's animosity to Xi's Made in China 2025…
ChinaTalkHow China Learned to WTO with Henry Cao
Guest henry gao henry gao (@henrysgao) | Twitter Prof. Henry Gao is Associate Professor of law (tenured) at Singapore Management University and Dongfang…
ChinaTalkGaming in China with Charlie Moseley and Chang Jung-Erh
Guest Charlie Moseley Washingtonian in Asia. Predisposed to wanderlust. Charlie Moseley's Personal Website charlie (@justcharlie) | Twitter China's over 600…
ChinaTalkInternet Finance with Martin Chorzempa
Guest Martin Chorzempa Research Fellow, @PIIE. China Econ/Finance, FinTech, Financial Development Martin Chorzempa | PIIE Martin Chorzempa (@ChorzempaMartin) |…
ChinaTalkNick Consonery on China's Economic Reform Trajectory
Guest Nick Consonery Director of China Macroeconomic & Policy research @rhodium_group Rhodium Group Nick Consonery (@nconsonery) | Twitter Nick Consonery of…
ChinaTalkThe Chinese Rustbelt with Song Houze
China's northeast, a region that in the 1970s comprised over 10% of national GDP, now only makes up 3%. In this interview, Song Houze walks listeners through…
ChinaTalkOona Hathaway and Scott Shapiro on How the World Order Evolves
Guests Oona Hathaway Professor @YaleLawSch, Director @YaleLawGLC, Editor @just_security, fmr Special Counsel @DeptofDefense, co-author of The Internationalists…
ChinaTalkBarry Eichengreen on the Rise and Fall of Global Currencies
Barry Eichengreen, Professor of Economics and Political Science at Berkeley (not to mention one of my favorite authors of accessible yet profound global…
ChinaTalkEx-Head of Mobile at Mobike Max Zhou on Dockless Bikeshares in China
Max Zhou 周喆吾 is an Uber alum who until November of 2017 was the head of Mobile at Mobike. He is currently working as the co-founder of Meta App. Max talks…
ChinaTalkKeller Easterling on Free Zones and the Origins and Global Impact of SEZs
Keller Easterling, architect and professor at Yale, discusses her research on free zones (aka Special Economic Zones). We start by discussing the history of…
ChinaTalkPeter Lorentzen on the Politics of Protest in China
Peter Lorentzen, professor of economics at the University of San Francisco, talks protests and provincial politics. We start by discussing 'Designing…
ChinaTalkMatt Sheehan on 'Chinafornia'
Matt Sheehan is a fellow at the Paulson Institute and writes his own newsletter, "Chinafornia". We discussed the evolving relationship between China and…
ChinaTalkJonathan Woetzel on China's Digital Economy
Dr. Jonathan Woetzel, Mckinsey Global Institute Director and Senior Partner in the Shanghai office, recently co-authored a report entitled China's Digital…
ChinaTalkJulian Gewirtz on Unlikely Partners: Western Economists and Reform and Opening
Julian Gewirtz is currently a Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School and author of Unlikely Partners: Chinese Reformers, Western Economists, and the Making of…
ChinaTalkThe Book of Swindles: Cons from the Late Ming Dynasty
In Zhang Yingyu’s work from the late Ming Dynasty, you’ll encounter swindling concubines, clever commoners, and even eunuch cannibals trying to regrow their…
ChinaTalkCynthia Estlund on Labor in China
China’s massive labor surplus has been vital to its rapid economic development. For decades, China’s rural population has been migrating to take up low-wage…
ChinaTalkAndrew Polk on the 19th Party Congress
Andrew Polk on the 19th Party Congress by Jordan Schneider Get bonus content on Patreon See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more…
ChinaTalkScott Kennedy on Innovation in China
Scott Kennedy on Innovation in China by Jordan Schneider Get bonus content on Patreon See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more…