Who Is Xi Jinping And What Does He Want? Joseph Torigian, Author, The Party's Interests Come First
What do we really know about Xi Jinping, China's most powerful leader since Chairman Mao? Answer: Incredibly little. Xi is the embodiment of inscrutability, the ultimate poker face. And second, the ...
30 Jan 47min
Why It's So Hard to Fix China's Overcapacity and Brutal Price Wars. Lizzi Lee, Fellow, Asia Society Policy Institute
Our guest today, Lizzi Lee, is smart, daring and unconventional. After earning a PhD in economics from MIT, Lizzi Lee took a bold right turn and dove into research and writing. A few weeks ago, Lizzi ...
11 Dec 202552min
Chinese Automakers Are Pouring Into Mexico. Luis Lozano, Former CEO, Toyota de Mexico.
Earlier this year, I enjoyed a delicious lunch in Mexico City with Luis Lozano, the former CEO of Toyota de Mexico. Luis immediately impressed me with his knowledge of the Mexican car market, the sho...
7 Dec 202532min
Trade Truce: The Calm Before Bigger U.S-China Storms. Jorge Guajardo, former Ambassador of Mexico to China and partner at DGA Global
President Trump and President Xi, the two most powerful men in the world, met last week in Korea to try to, basically, calm things down. China had just flexed its muscles, threatening to limit the e...
6 Nov 202552min
How China Captured Apple. Patrick McGee, Author, Apple in China
Here's a question I get a lot. How did China get so good so fast. People with front line experience in the People's Republic talk about something called the China arc. Chinese leaders identify your c...
28 Aug 202556min
What Western Business Leaders Misunderstand About China – Insights from Mitchell Presnick, Visiting Fellow, Harvard Fairbank Center
Dazed, bruised and confused. That's how leaders of global automakers and suppliers operating in China feel these days. Since 2020, they have seen their once formidable China sales and profit machines ...
21 Aug 202555min
How Safe and Secure Are Robocars? John Wall, Chief Operating Officer, QNX
In the good old days of driving, we needed to make sure the mechanical things worked: Things like the engine, of course, the steering and the brakes. We were in charge of driving the car. Now, for be...
19 Juni 202536min
