China's Middle East Balancing Act — Peace plans, pragmatism and economic prospects
The war in the Middle East has affected China in many ways: as well as targeting Iran, a country with which Beijing has a comprehensive strategic partnership, it has disrupted exports, rattled consume...
6 Maj 35min
China's International Ambitions — A Global Opposition Party?
The presidency of Donald Trump has given China fresh opportunities to increase its influence on the international stage. China has long been seeking to expand its role in global governance, proposing ...
1 Apr 44min
Slower Growth, Hi-tech Self-reliance, and 'Ethnic Unity' — China plans the future
China's legislature this month set the nation's GDP growth target at 4.5 – 5%, the lowest since 1991, and also approved the country's new five year plan, which calls for higher quality growth with an ...
18 Mars 40min
China's Economic Plans — and Consumer Challenges
China’s legislature is meeting in March to approve the nation’s new Five Year Plan, which aims to promote higher quality growth, and make China increasingly self-sufficient in new technology of all ki...
3 Mars 43min
Xi Jinping and his Father — Power, purges, parenting
The run-up to the lunar year has been a busy one for China’s President Xi Jinping, with world leaders beating a path to Beijing to meet him; he also found time to purge two of the Chinese military’s t...
17 Feb 45min
China and Britain — Thawing ties, underlying tensions
Sir Keir Starmer described his recent trip to China as a chance to end the ‘ice age’ in the two countries’ ties and build a more ‘sophisticated’ relationship. But despite the announcement of visa free...
3 Feb 41min
Mistress Dispellers and Shanghai Girls — Two female film-makers on love, marriage and divorce in China
In this episode we look at love, marriage and divorce in contemporary China, from the perspective of two female filmmakers. These are topics with a political as well as personal significance — the Chi...
17 Dec 202542min
Japan-China Tensions — Taiwan, Tourism, Migration
Relations between China and Japan — never smooth, given the legacy of Japan's invasion of China in the 1930s — are currently at their tensest in years. This follows the new Japanese Prime Minister San...
1 Dec 202543min
