Second Breakfast: Xi-Trump, Taiwan Deterrence, Tibetan Buddhism, Antietam
ChinaTalk30 Okt 2025

Second Breakfast: Xi-Trump, Taiwan Deterrence, Tibetan Buddhism, Antietam

Featuring the Kirsten and Charlotte Asdal alongside Tony (https://www.breakingbeijing.com/) Eric Robinson, Justin (https://justinmc.substack.com/) and myself Chapters 02:55 US-China Relations: Punctuated Decoupling 05:52 Woo Trump didn't sell out Taiwan! But what if he did? 08:21 Xi Jinping's Confidence and Military Calculations 24:12 Blockades 28:54 Innovation vs. Production in Defense Technology 43:08 Book Recommendations and Cultural Reflections 44:57 Game of the Week: Historical Insights Outtro music: suno' s version of bad bunny singing about antietam. I promise I won't do this for every episode outtro until the AI gets better. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episoder(517)

The View from Chengdu: Freelance Reporting Outside First-Tier Cities

The View from Chengdu: Freelance Reporting Outside First-Tier Cities

On this episode of ChinaEconTalk, Jordan interviews Lauren Teixeira, a freelance reporter based in Chengdu, Sichuan Province. After what has been a jam-packed few months of China news, Lauren discusse...

21 Aug 201943min

Reform and Opening with Soviet Characteristics: Russian Perspectives on China’s Rise

Reform and Opening with Soviet Characteristics: Russian Perspectives on China’s Rise

This week on ChinaEconTalk, Jordan interviews Chris Miller, associate professor of international history at Tufts University and a specialist on Russian politics, economics, and foreign policy. Drawin...

15 Aug 20191h 3min

East Asian AI: Researching Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Tech in Canada

East Asian AI: Researching Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Tech in Canada

This week on ChinaEconTalk, Jordan speaks with Dongwoo Kim, a postgraduate research fellow at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada who specializes in AI. Dongwoo discusses his research on the progres...

9 Aug 201937min

The Party in Cyberspace: China’s Digital Ecosystem

The Party in Cyberspace: China’s Digital Ecosystem

This week, Jordan speaks with Graham Webster, a China digital economy fellow and coordinating editor of the DigiChina project at New America. He was previously a senior fellow and lecturer at Yale Law...

31 Jul 201952min

Little Red Book, Big Red Ideas: Part 2 of A Global History of Maoism

Little Red Book, Big Red Ideas: Part 2 of A Global History of Maoism

This week, in part 2 of a special two-part edition of ChinaEconTalk, Jordan interviews Professor Julia Lovell, author of the recently published book on Mao’s international legacy entitled Maoism: A Gl...

23 Jul 20191h 4min

Little Red Book, Big Red Ideas: Part 1 of A Global History of Maoism

Little Red Book, Big Red Ideas: Part 1 of A Global History of Maoism

This week, in part 1 of a special two-part edition of ChinaEconTalk, Jordan interviews Professor Julia Lovell, author of the recently published book on Mao’s international legacy entitled Maoism: A Gl...

17 Jul 20191h

Learning to listen: China's billion-dollar podcast industry

Learning to listen: China's billion-dollar podcast industry

While it may be a pipe dream for ChinaEconTalk to ever merit a billion-dollar price tag, in China, podcast “unicorns” are everywhere. Companies like Ximalaya and Yudao have multibillion-dollar valuati...

10 Jul 201949min

Of cell phones and seed prices: The Chinese legal system in theory and practice

Of cell phones and seed prices: The Chinese legal system in theory and practice

This week on ChinaEconTalk, Jordan speaks with Donald Clarke, a specialist in Chinese law and the David Weaver Research Professor at George Washington University. Following a thorough introduction to ...

21 Jun 201956min

Populært innen Politikk og nyheter

giver-og-gjengen-vg
aftenpodden
forklart
aftenpodden-usa
popradet
stopp-verden
lydartikler-fra-aftenposten
det-store-bildet
rss-gukild-johaug
nokon-ma-ga
dine-penger-pengeradet
fotballpodden-2
hanna-de-heldige
aftenbla-bla
rss-espen-lee-usensurert
rss-ness
rss-penger-polser-og-politikk
rss-dannet-uten-piano
frokostshowet-pa-p5
bt-dokumentar-2