Uncommon Knowledge | 1 May 2023 | 1h 01m | Listen Later 
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Interview with Niall Ferguson about the conflict over Taiwan: why it’s a cold war, when it started, how to avoid allowing it to become a hot war, and how to de-escalate and even win it. Along the way, discusses the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the role of the United States and Western Europe in both conflicts, and how we can avoid once again living under the threat of nuclear war as we did in Cold War I.
Tag: China
False Narratives – A Path to a World of Conflict ft. Stephen Roach
Top Traders Unplugged | 19 April 2023 | 1h 01m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
Interview with Stephen Roach about his book Accidental Conflict: America, China and the Clash of False Narratives. Delves into the deteriorating relationship between China and the US, offering insight into the complexity of the relationship and how it can be mended. Unravels the narratives that led to this new Cold War and suggests a path towards interdependency and healthier economies.
Three Years, Three Very Different Lenses on China
The Ezra Klein Show | 14 March 2023 | 1h 26m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
Interview with Dan Wang. Discusses the changing narrative about China, drawing from his annual letters. Covers Xi Jinping, covid, China-America relations, Chinese success in solar versus American policy failure in solar, China’s pragmatic approach to economic growth, steering where talent flows, foreign business losing trust in China, semiconductors, Taiwan, and more.
Tarun Khanna & Michael Szonyi on Making Meritocracy
Asian Review of Books | 29 December 2022 | 0h 42m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
Interview with Tarun Khanna and Michael Szonyi about their edited volume Making Meritocracy: Lessons from China and India, from Antiquity to the Present. Compares and contrasts the history and practices of identifying and promoting talent in China and India, drawing lessons for meritocracy elsewhere more generally.
Tania Branigan: Red Memory
The Book Club | 1 February 2023 | 0h 56m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
Interview with Tania Branigan about her book Red Memory: The Afterlives of China’s Cultural Revolution. Argues the trauma of the Cultural Revolution is the story behind the story that makes sense of modern China. Explores how the memory of that bloody decade, and the drive to forget or ignore it, shapes the high politics and daily lives of the Chinese nation. Explains why official amnesia on the subject is a surprisingly recent development, how 1989’s Tiananmen Square protests changed the course of the country, and why so many ordinary Chinese people still pine for the days of Mao.
Tyler Cowen on AI and China
ChinaTalk | 9 January 2023 | 1h 21m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
Interview with Tyler Cowen discussing how AI is going to change art, education, politics and human relationships; why he tried to write a book to explain America to the PRC; how babies born in 2023 will see their educations changed by AI; playing chess against the computer and creativity in the AI era; religion, American antisemitism, and the movie Her; writing a book about America for Chinese people; and why China is one of the hardest countries to predict.
Frank Dikötter on the History of China After Mao
Democracy Paradox | 11 October 2022 | 0h 41m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
Interview with Frank Dikötter about his book China After Mao: The Rise of a Superpower. Backgrounds the efforts of the Chinese Communist Party to maintain its grip on power and argues that China’s economic progress is almost entirely due to it joining the WTO, with China having undertaken little in the way of economic reform.
Frank Dikötter on Mao’s Great Famine
EconTalk | 6 August 2018 | 1h 12m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
Interview with Frank Dikötter about his book Mao’s Great Famine: The History of China’s Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958–1962. Chronicles the strategies Mao and the Chinese leadership implemented to increase grain and steel production in the late 1950s leading to a collapse in agricultural output and the deaths of millions by starvation.
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