China's Shots Across the Bow, Nippon Steel Woes, and the H1-B Debate
On this week's episode of the Trade Guys, we look at recent Chinese export controls on critical minerals and entity listings of U.S. companies. We also weigh in on President Biden's blocking of the Ni...
14 Jan 202531min
Analysis: Syria’s Bid for Sanctions Relief
Just a month after Bashar al-Assad fell in Syria, the country is in the midst of a swirl of regional diplomacy. The new Syrian foreign minister is on another regional swing, and the foreign ministers ...
7 Jan 20258min
Beyond Competing: The Security Treadmill
Mike hosts Nadia Schadlow, former U.S. Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategy in the Trump administration and current Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute and Co-Chair of the Hamilton Commissi...
7 Jan 202541min
Overcoming the Emperor's Dilemma
In this episode of Pekingology which originally aired on June 17, 2021, Freeman Chair in China Studies Jude Blanchette is joined by Wang Yuhua, the Frederick S. Danziger Associate Professor of Governm...
3 Jan 202537min
Export Control Update, White House AI Czar, OpenAI-Anduril Team-up, and China’s Loyal Wingman
In this episode, we discuss the December 2nd semiconductor export control update (0:45), the Trump administration’s appointment of David Sacks as the White House AI czar (5:35), the OpenAI and Anduril...
19 Dec 202420min
The Philippines in the Asia Dojo
This week Mike hosts Richard Heydarian, Senior Lecturer at the University of the Philippines Asian Center and author of, among others, Asia’s New Battlefield (2015, Bloomsbury) & The Indo-Pacific: Tru...
19 Dec 202445min
Special: Syria's Post-Assad Scramble
This week on Babel, Jon Alterman speaks with Will Todman and Natasha Hall, senior fellows at the CSIS Middle East Program, for a special episode on the sudden collapse of the Assad regime and what wil...
17 Dec 202427min
The Fate of the WTO, Useful Data on China Sanctions, and Space Export Controls
On this week's episode of the Trade Guys, we discuss what the incoming U.S. administration will mean for the future of the World Trade Organization. We also dive into a new study on “The Rise of US Ec...
16 Dec 202432min
