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The Reorient! Podcast

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A podcast about international people and events from an Asian perspective.

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  1. E39/ Ni Hao, Mexico! Andrew Hupert explains why we should be looking at Mexico

    Welcome to the era of friend shoring and nearshoring. The breakdown of the supply chain during the pandemic highlighted the risk of concentrating your manufacturing base half way around the world. For many years now there have been growing headwinds for China-based exporters. Rising US-China...

  2. E38/ Cooperation, Competition and Conflict: Scott Moore on US-China relations and Cross-border Threats

    E 38 / Cooperation, Competition and Conflict: Scott Moore on US-China relations and Cross-border Threats The current state of US-China relations is poor to say the least. In addition to concerns over a potential conflict in Taiwan and opposing policies towards the war in Ukraine, we have…

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  3. E37/ William H. Overholt: US-China, Broken Promises, and the March of History

    Dr. William H. Overholt is a distinguished Asia Expert with five decades of experience in research, analysis, and advisory for leading investment banks, think tanks, government and educational institutions. He is a prolific author with a broad set of knowledge and experience he leverages to bring...

  4. E36/ Managing the Dragon: A conversation with Jack Perkowski

    Please sign up for our newsletter to get the link to the entire episode via the following linkL https://mailchi.mp/d6ef4e135f2f/reorient-newsletter-10165514 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  5. Sri Lanka's Political Upheaval: Analysis by Dr. Kumudu Gunasekera

    Sign up for our newsletter at https://www.reorientpodcast.com o receive a private RSS feed for full episodes! Dr. Kumudu Gunasekera is a management consultant and strategic advisor to private equity firms, public and privately held corporations, and Fortune 100 global organizations. Throughout…

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  6. William Hayton on China, SE Asia and Nationalism (Trailer)

    What is China? It is a simple question but one that cannot be properly without the help of reading Bill Hayton's book, 'The invention of China'. And, why is the conflict over sovereignty of the Spratly and Paracel islands and atolls so intractable? To understand this also requires reading another...

  7. Cold Realism: David Goldman on US-China Relations

    David P. Goldman is Deputy Editor of Asia Times, where he has written the "Spengler" column since 2000, and a Washington Fellow of the Claremont Institute. His books include How Civilizations Die (2011), It's Not the End of the World -- It's Just the End of You (2011), and You Will Be…

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  8. How to Prevent a Financial Cold War from Turning Hot

    James Fok, Author of Financial Cold War: A View of Sino-US Relations from the Financial Markets. "James Fok’s book highlights the explosive risks in the relationship between the US and China today. It also offers insights into fundamental driving forces of international frictions and is a call to...

  9. Ted Osius, US Ambassador to Vietnam: Nothing is Impossible

    A diplomat for nearly thirty years, Ted Osius served from 2014 to 2017 as U.S. ambassador to Vietnam, a country he has loved since serving there in the 1990s, when he helped open the U.S. Consulate General in Ho Chi Minh City and was one of the first U.S. diplomats at the U.S. Embassy in Hanoi....

  10. Daniel Szuc and Josephine Wong: Making work meaningful

    Published April 10, 2022 Josephine Wong is a co-founder and principal at Apogee and co-founder of Make Meaningful Work, as well as the co-founder of UX Hong Kong. Jo grew up in multicultural Hong Kong, with a Chinese-Burmese father and Chinese-Indonesian mother. She collaborates with global teams...

  11. Anthony Elson: The bear and bull case for the US dollar

    Published March 22, 2022 Anthony Elson is an international economist, writer and university lecturer based in Washington, DC. For a number of years, he was a senior staff member of the IMF with responsibilities for organizing and supervising the Fund's macroeconomic surveillance and financial...

  12. Mandar Apte: India's invaluable message of love

    Published March 7, 2022 In 2012, Mandar Apte influenced Shell’s CEO to start Shell’s GameChanger social innovation program, which would invest in innovative solutions to sustainability challenges (SDG’s) and create both social impact and business returns. Through the portfolio of investments that...

  13. Herald van der Linde: The smart investor's guide to investing in Asia

    Published February 21, 2022 Herald van der Linde is HSBC’s Chief Asia equity strategist, also known as “The Flying Dutchman” given his frequent travels around the region. He and his Indonesian wife are based in Hong Kong and Jakarta. He is trained as an economist and wrote his Master’s thesis in...

  14. Laszlo Montgomery: Bringing 5000 years of Chinese history to the masses

    Published February 5, 2022 Laszlo Montgomery is an LA-based businessman. He began studying Chinese at the University of Illinois in 1979. He moved to Hong Kong in 1989, and in the following decade worked at two different China manufacturers of light industrial consumer goods for the US mass…

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  15. Andrew Leung: What the West gets wrong about China

    Published 23 January, 2021 Andrew Leung is a prominent international and independent China Strategist, a second career after thirty eight years as a top Hong Kong bureaucrat. During his illustrious public service career, he held wide-ranging positions, including Assistant Financial Secretary,...

  16. Keiko Sydenham: Was Abenomics was a success?

    Published January 9, 2022 Keiko Sydenham is CEO and co-founder at LUCA Ltd., a digital platform for alternative Investments, private equity, real estate, infra and private credit. Prior to founding LUCA, she was a managing director at Blackstone Japan, where she handled investor relations and...

  17. Bryce Whitwam: the China Ad guru on why China has leapfrogged the world in digital marketing

    Published December 26, 2021 Shanghai-based Bryce Whitwam is an adjunct instructor of integrated marketing and communications at New York University. Prior to that he was the China CEO of MRM/ McCann, a leading data science, technology innovation and creatively-driven relationship marketing…

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  18. Noor Sweid: Making a difference via venture capital in the Middle East and Africa

    Published December 12, 2021 Noor Sweid is the founder of Global Ventures, a Dubai-based, growth-stage venture capital firm focusing on investing in emerging markets. Previously, Noor was the Chief Investment Officer at The Dubai Future Foundation, where she spent time developing the technology…

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  19. Kumudu Gunasekara: Why investing in Sri Lanka is a smart decision right now

    Published November 28, 2021 Dr. Kumudu Gunasekera is a Colombo, Sri Lanka-based management consultant and strategic advisor to private equity firms, public and privately held corporations, and Fortune 100 global organizations. He is currently the Joint Managing Director of Stax Inc (APAC region)…

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  20. Dev Roy: A reverse migrant entrepreneur returns home to India

    Published November 14, 2021 Dev Roy's career has seen more twists and turns than a whodunnit. It took him from India to the United States in the early 1990s, one of many in that country's brain drain, and from there to London, where he became the head of derivatives trading at Barclays up until...

  21. Robert Sawhney: Fitness culture in Asia

    Published October 31, 2021 Robert has had a varied career spanning health and fitness, consultancy, and academia. Currently he works in a regional director role for one of the largest fitness solutions providers in the world. He has a BSc in Sports Science and Management from Brunel University…

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  22. *UNLOCKED*Jeffrey B. Lilley: Journeys of loss and containment in the Cold War

    Published October 17, 2021 As a journalist in the 1990s based in Moscow, Jeff Lilley wrote about the collapse of the Soviet Union and the rise of 15 independent republics. He covered Russia's relations with Asia and reported from three Olympics Games. His first book, China Hands: Nine Decades of...

  23. Valerie Hansen: Why we should study Chinese history

    Published October 3, 2021 Valerie Hansen teaches Chinese and world history at Yale, where she is professor of history. She is the author, most recently, of The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World and Globalization Began. In the course of writing The Year 1000, she traveled to some…

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  24. Michael C. Horowitz: Is this the end of the American empire?

    Published 19 September, 2021 Michael C. Horowitz is Director of the Perry World House and Richard Perry Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of The Diffusion of Military Power: Causes and Consequences for International Politics (Princeton University Press, 2010) and Why...

  25. *UNLOCKED*Jonathan Medved: How Israel's dynamism in tech could be a game changer in the Middle East

    Published September 6, 2021 Jonathan Medved is a serial entrepreneur and according to the Washington Post (2007) "one of Israel's leading high-tech venture capitalists". In the 2008 NY Times Supplement "Israel at 60," Medved was named one of the top 10 most influential Americans who have impacted...

  26. Jeanne Lim: Sophia the robot and human-AI relationships

    Published August 25, 2021 Jeanne Lim is the Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of beingAI, a transmedia AI company creating AI beings™ that build long-term engagement and trust with digital-native consumers anywhere, anytime, on any device and media platform. Jeanne is an angel investor and...

  27. David Zweig: Understanding China's Post-Mao Leadership

    Published 22 August, 2021 David Zweig (Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1983) is Professor Emeritus, Division of Social Science, HKUST and Director, Transnational China Consulting Limited. He is an Adjunct Professor, School of Social Sciences and Humanities, National University of Defence…

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  28. Dori Yang: When the Red Gates Opened

    Published July 25, 2021 Author Dori Jones Yang is a former foreign correspondent in Asia. Dori grew up in Youngstown, Ohio, the daughter of a bookseller. At Princeton, she majored in history but spent most of her waking hours at the college newspaper, The Daily Princetonian. Eager to explore the...

  29. Dr. Hong Tang: New Frontiers in US-China biotech

    Dr. Hong Tang is the Chief Medical Officer and co-founder of OnQuality Pharmaceuticals, a targeted cancer supportive care company developing medications to address specific side effects and improve the quality of life for patients receiving anti-cancer medications, with operations in Seattle and...

  30. Makarand Paranjape: Towards a New Idea of India

    Professor Makarand Paranjape is an Indian novelist, poet and literary critic. He has been the Director of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, since August 2018. Professor Paranjape has been teaching undergraduate and postgraduate students for almost thirty years. His teaching career…

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  31. Nirgunan Tiruchelvam: Investing in the COVID era

    Nirgunan Tiruchelvam is an equities analyst with three decades of experience covering the Asian region. He currently works for Tellimer (formerly Exotix Partners), dividing his time between Dubai and Singapore. He has also worked for Standard Chartered, ABN Amro, and RBS. Nirgunan is a graduate…

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  32. Eliot Cohen: Keeping the Faith

    A giant of US foreign policy, Eliot A. Cohen is the Robert E. Osgood Professor of Strategic Studies and Dean of Johns Hopkins SAIS. After receiving his BA and PhD degrees from Harvard, he taught there and at the US Naval War College before coming to Johns Hopkins SAIS in 1990. His books include,...

  33. Jim Rickards: The New Great Depression

    Jim Rickards, an American lawyer, is the author of the national bestseller, Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis, and a partner in JAC Capital Advisors, a hedge fund based in New York. He is a counsellor and investment advisor and has held senior positions at Citibank, Long Term...

  34. Leonhard A. Weese: Austrian Economics in Cyberspace

    Leonhard A. Weese is a young Austrian economist who came to Hong Kong at the beginning of the last decade to study statistics, fell in love with the city’s freewheeling capitalism and never left. During that time Weese became involved with the city’s nascent Bitcoin scene, where he, along with a...

  35. Allan Zeman: The World’s Most Famous Canadian Chinese

    Allan Zeman, the father of Hong Kong’s famed Lan Kwai Fong nightlife district, has had the most extraordinary career: born in Germany and raised in Montreal, he made his first million in Hong Kong by the age of 20. Today, he is one of Hong Kong's most prominent businessmen. In 2008, he gave up…

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  36. *UNLOCKED* Furuzonfar Zehni Postscript/ Discussion & Analysis

    Notes from Utopia: the Tropicalist discusses the history of venture capital and finds a surprising link to Furuzonfar Zehni’s ancestors. Hosts Jesse and Madhavi discuss: the increasing ability to have a global career in finance without being a product of Western institutions the historic Sogdian...

  37. Furuzonfar Zehni: Echoes of History Along the Reimagined Silk Road

    Furuzonfar Zehni, a young venture capitalist, travels the world to meet with entrepreneurs, whose businesses his firm helps grow into tomorrow’s unicorns. His Tajik heritage finds new relevance in the new globalized, tech-driven economy. Full interview on Reorientpodcast.com. Show Notes 4:11 FZ…

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  38. Kevin Kwan: Crazy Wealth, Vanity and Inspiration

    The Crazy Rich Asians author spills the beans on Asia’s new money, that vaunted work ethic and the first thing he's going to do post COVID. Listen to the full interview at Reorientpodcast.com. Show Notes: 4:03 KK talks about his path to success and how he would advise young Asians wanting to…

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  39. *UNLOCKED*Michael Bruck Postscript/ Discussion & Analysis

    Notes From Utopia: The Tropicalist recounts the history of previous pivotal developments in information and communications technology and how civilizations that failed to grasp the importance of such developments eventually lost out Jesse and Madhavi discuss: 5G: hype vs reality the rollout of 5G...

  40. *UNLOCKED*Michael Bruck: The Arc of Technology Across Time and Geography

    Intel alum and Asian tech VC Michael Bruck on the little known history of tech in Asia and why Asia will dominate the next wave of innovation. Full interview available at Reorientpodcast.com. Show Notes: 04:00 In layman terms, MB charts the evolution of the semiconductor industry from punch cards...

  41. Ronnie Chan: The Impact of Culture on the US-China Relationship

    Episode 01: Ronnie Chan, the Hong Kong-based billionaire philanthropist and chairman of the Hang Lung Group shares his thoughts on the US-China relationship. Full episode at Reorientpodcast.com. Show Notes: 02:25 How cultural differences between the two civilizations have determined the course of...

  42. *INTRO* NEW ORIENTATIONS

    Is the MSM missing out on the biggest story of our time? In this brief introduction, hosts Jesse and Madhavi talk about their motivations for launching the Reorient! podcast and what they hope to achieve. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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