Taiwan indie music 101, the Taipei underground and tankie rappers
Taipei-based DJ and New Bloom editor Brian Hioe (@brianhioe) takes us on a tour of the local indie music scene and explains what some of last year’s top tunes can tell us about Taiwanese politics and ...
31 Mar 202258min
Orgies, US Navy Corruption and The Fall of Fat Leonard
In the 2010s, US Navy officers took cash, prostitutes and more from a Malaysian defense contractor known as Fat Leonard. To tell a story that bears more than a hint of resemblance to the Jho Low 1MDB ...
22 Mar 202257min
UkraineTalk: The View from Berlin
Will Germany’s policy changes towards Russia have a knock-on effect on its attitude towards China? To get the view from Germany, I’m joined by Berlin-based Noah Barkin (@noahbarkin), the managing edit...
11 Mar 202233min
Xi-Putin Relations and the view from Riga
Una Aleksandra Bērziņa-Čerenkova, Head of Riga Stradins University China Studies Centre, Head of the Asia program at the Latvian Institute of International Affairs, and a member of the European Think ...
7 Mar 202229min
How Eastern Europe Sees China and The War in Ukraine
Matej Šimalčík, Executive Director of the Central European Institute of Asian Studies, joins from Bratislava to discuss: The reception of BRI in Eastern and Central Europe 10 years on How the war w...
7 Mar 202239min
Emergency Pod: Tooze and Klein on Nuclear War, The EU's Future, and What's Next
Adam Tooze and Matt Klein return to ChinaTalk to discuss the war in Ukraine. We get into Why Adam is as scared as he's ever been What caused the EU to rally together 'NATO for Trade' for sanctions ...
28 Feb 20221h 9min
Emergency Pod: The View From Prague + Future of the EU
Ivana Karásková, China Research Fellow and a Project Coordinator at the Association for International Affairs (AMO), shares her view from Central Europe. We discuss Why so many Europeans came out in...
27 Feb 202231min
Emergency Pod: What's Driving Putin, Sanctions, Drugs, Echoes from History, Xi, Chips
Chris Miller of Tufts joins to discuss Why Putin invaded Why he humiliated his security council If Putin is on drugs US public opinion and the politics of sanctions Sanctions' impact on the Russi...
26 Feb 202245min
