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Big Take Asia — 70 episodes

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1

Big Pharma Needs New Drugs. China Has Them

2

Is the US AI Reckoning an Opportunity for China?

3

How India Is Training the Robots of the Future

4

How Two-Minute Microdramas Became a Billion-Dollar Industry

5

The Chinese AI Model Rattling Silicon Valley and Washington

6

Introducing: Our Town

7

How India’s Cockroach Party Became a Political Force

8

Indonesia’s $15 Billion Free Lunch Experiment

9

Weekend Listen: Will the Xi-Trump Summit Be Over Before It Starts?

10

North Korea’s Nuclear Program Reaches Tipping Point for the US

11

How Hormuz Closure Could Squeeze Asia’s Staple Crop

12

BONUS: ユニクロ・柳井正氏を直撃、アメリカ内陸部への執念と後継者

13

Uniqlo Is Coming for Middle America

14

Meet OpenClaw: The AI Craze Sweeping China

15

BTS Leads Netflix’s Push for Growth in Asia

16

The Rise and Fall of an Alleged Scam Boss

17

The Sixth Bureau Episode 5: One Way In, One Way Out

18

Tariff Turmoil Hits China, India Again

19

Why the US-India Trade Deal Hinges on Russian Oil

20

Japan’s $2 Trillion ‘Dementia Money’ Cliff

21

Punishing Iran Could Alienate China and India — Again

22

Toymaker Battles Trump’s Tariffs in Stores and in Court

23

Xi’s Top Bargaining Chip Is a Trade War Game Changer

24

What’s Driving The Rush to Invest in Gold

25

Trump’s H-1B Visa Fee Dashes Indian Workers’ American Dreams

26

Trump Has a Shipbuilding Dream. Can South Korea Make It a Reality?

27

From the Gobi Desert to Wall Street: a Conversation With Weijian Shan

28

The Rebel Army Behind One of the World’s Major Rare-Earth Supplies

29

Bloomberg’s Interview With Malaysia’s Longest-Serving Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad

30

What the Israel-Iran Conflict Means for China

31

How China Is Building a Powerful Army of Hackers

32

The US and China’s High-Stakes Diplomacy

33

Wall Street Banks Are Battling for Japan’s Top Young Talent

34

The Dollar’s Dominance Is Unwinding in Asia

35

What It Takes to Negotiate With China

36

Who Is the Mysterious Founder of China’s DeepSeek?

37

Is the US-China Trade War Over?

38

How India and Pakistan Averted War

39

The Human Egg Trade: Episode 3 - The Journey

40

The Human Egg Trade: Episode 2 - The Theft

41

The Human Egg Trade: Episode 1 - The Lie

42

How a Chinese Toy Company Is Defying the Trade War

43

Who Will Blink First in the US-China Trade War?

44

As India’s Stock Market Surged, So Did Investment Scams

45

The World Is Paying for Trump’s China Tariffs

46

US-China Rivalry in the Trump Era: A Discussion

47

Can’t Get Enough Of Matcha? Too Bad – Japan Is Running Low

48

Xi’s Big Challenge Is Getting People to Spend, Spend, Spend

49

Xi Has Embraced China’s Tech Titans Once Again. Will It Last?

50

What Thailand's Same-Sex Marriage Victory Means for the Economy

51

Why Are Chinese Consumers So Keen on Gold?

52

Why Millions of Young Chinese Are Refusing to Make Pension Payments

53

The Coffee Shop That's Been Eating Starbucks' Lunch in China

54

The Most Powerful Families in South Korea Brace for the Next Revolt

55

The Six Hours of Martial Law That Stunned South Korea

56

Another Trump Term Is Coming. Is Asia Ready?

57

Pakistan Is Getting Too Expensive For Its Middle Class – So They’re Leaving

58

How an Infamous Vietnamese Businesswoman Engineered a $12 Billion Fraud

59

Inside the Succession Drama at a Hong Kong Property Dynasty

60

Tim Walz’s Deep China Ties Could Spell Trouble for Democrats

61

China’s Crackdowns Are Crushing the Dreams of a Generation

62

Indonesia Is Building a New Capital. It’s Not Going Well

63

Carry Trades, Explained

64

Inside Southeast Asia’s Most Notorious Crime Hub

65

$200 Billion, Four Heirs And One Mighty Indian Empire

66

Japan’s Small Businesses Have a Problem. They Don’t Know How to Raise Prices

67

K-Pop's Big Bet on Becoming Less Korean

68

Why This Nobel Prize Winner Faces Life Imprisonment in Bangladesh

69

Hong Kong: Five Years After Anti-China Protests

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