Ep 89 - Inside China's two-decade campaign to win over Latin America
From ports to lithium mines to diplomatic battles over Taiwan, China has spent two decades persistently building influence across Latin America and the Caribbean – one contract, one relationship, one ...
2 Okt 57min
Ep 88 - The Xi-Trump risk nobody's pricing in
US President Donald Trump met Xi Jinping on the tarmac at Joint Base Andrews on Wednesday – a rare honor last extended to the Pope by Barack Obama. The atmospherics of the greeting and the rest of Xi’...
25 Sep 37min
Ep 87 - Joerg Wuttke: China told Europe exactly how it would beat us. We didn't listen.
Back in 2017, China’s former SASAC chairman told Joerg Wuttke, then president of the EU Chamber of Commerce in China, precisely which industries China’s overcapacity machine would roll through next: E...
23 Sep 51min
Ep 86 - The weaknesses behind China's booming exports
China’s manufacturing output just grew at the fastest pace in six months, but retail sales barely moved last month – and the gap between the two growth rates just hit its widest point in over three ye...
18 Sep 30min
Ep 85 - China’s approach to AI in the Global South: selling the razor blades, not the razor
Everyone keeps calling the US-China AI competition a race. But Eric Olander, co-founder of the China Global South Project, says that framing is wrong – because a race implies a finish line, and this c...
12 Sep 1h 20min
Ep 84 - Nobody knows where the line is, and that’s the problem
The US and China have been quietly testing each other’s limits all summer – and neither side actually knows where the breaking point is. To discuss the nature – and limits – of the fragile US-China ec...
4 Sep 52min
Ep 83 - Beijing's new directive to its tech firms: behave abroad
Chinese tech companies keep getting fined and blocked overseas – sometimes unfairly, and sometimes because they’re behaving exactly like they do at home. Beijing just released a plan to fix both probl...
28 Aug 27min
