HR McMaster on His Time as NSA, China, and History's Role in Policymaking
ChinaTalk22 Nov 2020

HR McMaster on His Time as NSA, China, and History's Role in Policymaking

HR McMaster was Trump's National Security Advisor and, it seems, a ChinaTalk superfan. We talk about his time in government, what the US missed about China and what to do about it, and which Seinfeld character would make the best NSA. Please consider supporting ChinaTalk at https://glow.fm/chinatalk/ Sign up for the weekly ChinaTalk newsletter at https://chinatalk.substack.com/ Get bonus content on Patreon See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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How Chinese Firms Succeed and Fail at Internationalizing (Featuring Bytedance)

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KFC, the Business of Propaganda, and the 'Toilet Revolution'

KFC, the Business of Propaganda, and the 'Toilet Revolution'

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Matt Sheehan on Google in China

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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 of artificial intelligence stack up agai...

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When Trade Wars Turned Bloody: The Opium War with Stephen Platt

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Tencent's History and Future with Matthew Brennan

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David Dollar on U.S.-China financial friction

David Dollar on U.S.-China financial friction

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China’s Grand AI Ambitions with Jeff Ding

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