#28 | Reflecting on Blinken in Beijing, a PRC-ROK Diplomatic Spat, and China’s Low Marriage Rates
This week, Shane Leary joins Miles Yu to reflect on the outcome of Secretary of State Antony Blinken's long-awaited visit to Beijing. They then discuss the recent diplomatic spat between China and Sou...
20 Jun 202324min
#27 | China’s College Entrance Exam (Gaokao), A PRC “Spy base” in Cuba, and Blinken to Beijing
This week, China Center Program Manager Shane Leary joins Miles Yu to discuss gaokao, the annual college entrance exams in China, which are reopening for the first time since the Zero-covid lockdowns....
13 Jun 202322min
#26 | The 34th Anniversary of Tiananmen, the Significance of AUKUS, and the PLAN’s Taiwan Strait Brinkmanship
This week, China Center Program Manager Shane Leary joins China Center Director Miles Yu to discuss the 34th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre and this tragic event's enduring historic...
6 Jun 202330min
#25 | Henry Kissinger's China Legacy, Taiwan's Defense, and the Past, Present, and Future of Chinese Freedom
For host Wilson Shirley's final episode, he talks with Miles Yu about former National Security Advisor and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger turning 100 years old and evaluates Kissinger's legacy on ...
30 Mai 202337min
#24 | G7 Summit, China-Central Asia Meeting, and Taiwan's Presidential Election
Last week was a tale of two summits, with the G7 leaders and their international partners gathering in Hiroshima, Japan, while China played host to the leaders from five Central Asian nations in Xian....
23 Mai 202320min
#23 | The PRC’s New Man in Europe, Sino-Nordic Relations, and Accusations of Genetic Warfare
Hosts Miles Yu and Wilson Shirley discuss the appointment of Li Hui as the People's Republic of China's new special representative for Eurasian affairs and his European tour this week, Sino-Nordic rel...
16 Mai 202322min
#22 | Agricultural Police Target Crops, the State of Press Freedom, and the PRC’s Diplomacy in India and the UK
Hosts Miles Yu and Wilson Shirley discuss a new cadre of "agricultural management officers" targeting Chinese farmers, what a recent report from Reporters Without Borders says about the state of press...
9 Mai 202322min
#21 | China’s Anti-Espionage Law, Chinese Migrants at US Southern Border, and President Yoon in Washington
Hosts Miles Yu and Wilson Shirley discuss what an update to China's anti-espionage law means for foreign businesses operating in the People's Republic of China, what a wave of Chinese migrants at Amer...
2 Mai 202326min
