Entangled Combat: The Chinese Style of Competition Washington Should Understand
Most Westerners in business operate on the baseline assumption that hard work leads to success and beating the competition.With business in communist China, that doesn’t hold. Hard work is a must, but...
11 Touko 22min
On Shadow Fleets, ‘Teapots,’ and Layered Approaches to Avoiding Sanctions
Teapots, gas stations, and shadow fleets sound like a grab bag of unconnected things, but they’re all part of a complex system keeping a terrorist regime in power and rendering international sanctions...
4 Touko 28min
Why a Once-Taboo Topic on China Is Now a US Bestseller
Forced organ harvesting in China was once a taboo topic, in both China and the United States. But now, a book about it, “Killed to Order,” has made it to The New York Times non-fiction bestsellers lis...
27 Huhti 45min
The Battlefield Vulture—China’s Postwar Build-Back Playbook
Beijing avoids the battlefield, then shows up for the rebuild. Precedents include Iraq and Afghanistan. The Chinese regime moved quickly to secure oil, minerals, and influence.In this way, the regime ...
20 Huhti 22min
Learning Machines or Machine Learning? How Education Shapes the U.S.–China Tech Race
How much could concepts such as high school education and high-tech development overlap? Terri says a lot.Hear in this week’s episode, along with producer Daniel, how China’s education system builds p...
13 Huhti 37min
Beijing Is Facing the Biggest Challenge to Its Soft Power
For decades, a core assumption about China has gone largely unchallenged: That the Chinese Communist Party can legitimately represent Chinese culture—or is inseparable from it.Then came Shen Yun.For 2...
6 Huhti 25min
When China’s Growth Deflates to Zero—What It Means for the US
China has set its lowest growth target since 1991, reinforcing concerns that its economy faces structural challenges that may be difficult to reverse.Some analysts have taken it further, asking the fu...
30 Maalis 21min
The Villain’s Dilemma—The Trouble of Soft Power With No Support System
When an ally, even a business partner, is in dire straits, one would think that others would come to their aid. It would be unwise to make this assumption about a partner such as China.As the war in I...
23 Maalis 14min
