Episode 30: Opium War, US-China Trade War, and Modern Global Trade
Trade has often been ascribed as one of the core building blocks of a successful and healthy society. This remains true today, as there are a plethora of trade relations branching all around different...
7 Aug 202010min
Episode 29: Intro to Opium War, US-China Trade War, and Modern Global Trade
In 2018, President Trump pulled out of the TPP. The Trump Administration promoted protectionism and it no longer wanted to negotiate trade, among small groups of multiple countries, rather insisting o...
5 Aug 20206min
Episode 28: The Rape of Nanking, Controversy and Coverups
As the name itself implies, The Rape of Nanking is no light subject. It is one of many of Japan’s extended list of war crimes committed by commanders and their troops during World War II. Throughout t...
3 Aug 20208min
Episode 27: Colonization in China - How it Affected Trade in the Modern World
The colonization of China was a long campaign involving the exploitation of the Chinese economy by the western powers, but mainly of Britain, France, and the U.S. Before this, China was at the center ...
31 Juli 20207min
Episode 26 Bonus: Pinay Guerrilleras: The Unsung Heroics of Filipina Resistance Fighters
December 8th, 1941 marked the start of the full-scale invasion of the Philippines. With the surrender of the Bataan Peninsula and the fortified island Corregidor in the Spring of 1942, all hope seemed...
29 Juli 20203min
Episode 26: Malabar Famine Under British Occupation
William Logan, in his book, Malabar, has explored the famine repeatedly faced by this district and chronicled the history and culture of Malabar. Famine related epidemics and large scale mortalities w...
27 Juli 20206min
Episode 25: Why Did Japan Attacked So Many Southeast Asia Countries in WW2
Japan’s “Meiji Restoration”—which spelled the end of the country’s isolation from the West during the reign of the Tokugawa Shoguns--allowed it to embark upon a campaign of modernization and westerniz...
24 Juli 20205min
Episode 24: War Memory of the Chinese Expeditionary Force
After Communists won the Civil War and founded the People’s Republic of China in 1949, the history of the Chinese Expeditionary Force (CEF) was excluded from the public discourse for a long time due t...
23 Juli 20206min
