G7 hones in on China, Beijing scraps talks with Australia, and why EU’s Hungary has Beijing’s back
Is the G7 ganging up on China? This week, the team looks at how that perception may be pushing Beijing into a corner, causing it to double down. China’s suspension of economic talks with Australia may...
7 Maj 202140min
India snubs Covid aid from Beijing, and Biden raises China-US rivalry in first 100 days speech
China, according to US President Joe Biden, is “deadly earnest” about becoming the world’s most “consequential” nation. In this week’s podcast, the team analyses Biden’s first speech to a joint sessio...
30 Apr 202139min
The Biden climate summit, Wen Jiabao gets censored, and will China miss Merkel?
The talks were virtual, but the promises were not just hot air at this week’s climate summit organised by US President Joe Biden. Finbarr Bermingham joins Zhou Xin and John Carter from the SCMP Politi...
23 Apr 202124min
Taiwan tension, military stand-off and silicon chips; Europe confronts Beijing debt and influence
Taiwan has been in the headlines during a week that a delegation sent by US President Biden visited the self-ruled island, and when Beijing mounted what was seen as an aggressive show of force towards...
16 Apr 202143min
Biden’s Beijing Winter Games boycott bluff and China’s role in a global corporate tax plan
In a week that the US State Department openly flirted with – then pulled back from – the idea of a boycott of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, SCMP political economy editors Zhou Xin and John Carter ...
9 Apr 202120min
Xinjiang sanctions explained: China weaponises consumers vs the West
The fallout from a lightning blitz of sanctions between Western nations and China over alleged abuses in Xinjiang continues. China's stinging official retaliation raises huge questions about its inves...
2 Apr 202142min
Analysing the US-China Alaska meeting; EU to unleash sanctions on China over Xinjiang
Finbarr Bermingham and the SCMP political economy team delve beneath the opening bluster of the US-China meeting in Anchorage and analyse the bigger picture. What of the US opening gambit on Xinjiang,...
20 Mars 202134min
What China's NPC decided; the US-China Alaska meeting; will the Quad be Asia's NATO?
Finbarr Bermingham, Zhou Xin and John Carter look at the coming high-level meeting between the US and China in Alaska, and compare what each team of negotiators are looking to get from the occasion, w...
12 Mars 202135min
