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Live from New York: China and the Global South, with Maria Repnikova and Eric Olander

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In Memoriam: Jeffrey A. Bader, from February 2022

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Live from Chicago: Decoding China — China’s economic miracle interrupted?

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Robert Daly of the Kissinger Institute on the morality of U.S. China policy

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China Tobacco: How China's tobacco monopoly also has ensured that China keeps smoking

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The Philadelphia Orchestra commemorates the 50th anniversary of its groundbreaking China tour

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Ian Johnson on his new book on China's underground historians

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Rep. Rick Larsen (D-WA) on his new U.S.-China policy white paper

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The case for the U.S.-China Science and Technology Agreement

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The Rise and Fall of the EAST: MIT's Yasheng Huang on his new book

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China Stories summer special: the best of This Week in China's History

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Wargaming a Taiwan invasion scenario: Lyle Goldstein on the CSIS wargame “The First Battle of the Next War"

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The state of play of generative AI in China, with Paul Triolo

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Is the Biden administration resetting U.S.-China Relations?

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The CFR Taiwan task force report, with Maggie Lewis and Paul Heer

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Transnational repression and China's "overseas police stations," with Jeremy Daum of Yale's Paul Tsai China Law Center

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China after COVID: UPenn's Neysun Mahboubi reports on scholarly exchange in a tightening political space

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China's Military-Civil Fusion program: CNAS fellow Elsa Kania on the myths and realities

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Mr. Blinken goes to Beijing, with former NSC China Director Dennis Wilder

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Economist Keyu Jin on her new book, "The New China Playbook"

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David Ownby of ReadingtheChinaDream.com on the intellectual mood in China

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Curtain-raiser on the Shangri-La Dialogue, with the man who runs the show: James Crabtree of IISS

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Harvard's William Kirby on China's higher education system and his book "Empires of Ideas"

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Does the Capvision raid signal a crackdown on consultancies in China? The China Project's CEO Bob Guterma, formerly of Capvision, weighs in

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China's draft regulations on generative AI, with Kendra Schaefer and Jeremy Daum

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Xiong'an: Techno-natural utopia or authoritarian folly?

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Earth Day episode: How can the U.S. and China cooperate on climate in this era of competition?

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Legendary CNN reporter Mike Chinoy on his book and documentary series "Assignment China"

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As the U.S. and China part ways, the Global South finds its own path, with Kishore Mahbubani

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What are the qualities of a good China analyst? A talk by Kaiser given in Madison, WI last week

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Sinica at the Association for Asian Studies conference, Boston 2023: Capsule interviews

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The Maoist legacy in Chinese private enterprise, with Chris Marquis

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The Xi-Putin meetings, with Maria Repnikova

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Beijing brokers a Saudi-Iranian rapprochement

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The expansion of China's administrative state during COVID, with Yale Law's Taisu Zhang

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Jude Blanchette on the Select Committee and the American moral panic over China

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Inside Tencent, with Bloomberg's Lulu Chen

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China and the electric vehicle battery supply chain, with Henry Sanderson

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China and the Ukraine War one year after the invasion, with Evan Feigenbaum and Alexander Gabuev

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Sinostan: Rafaello Pantucci on China's "inadvertent empire" in Central Asia

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CSIS analyst Gerard DiPippo deflates the balloon hype and brings the discussion back to earth

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Live in New York City with veteran China journalist Ian Johnson

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Is China's demography China's destiny? A chat with former World Bank economist Bert Hofman

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A firsthand view of China's chaotic COVID re-opening, with Deborah Seligsohn

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Talking China on TikTok with The China Project's Susan St. Denis

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Strangers in China, Season 3 ep 1- The lockdown part 1: A day in the life

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No Stranger to China: A conversation with "Strangers in China" creator Clay Baldo

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Author Rebecca Kuang on her novel Babel, or on the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators Revolution

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The best solution for Taiwan is no solution: Jude Blanchette and Ryan Hass on why we must kick the can

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China's push for RMB internationalization

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A familiar drumbeat: Michael Mazarr on the run-up to the Iraq invasion and parallels with China

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Financial Times reporter Yuan Yang on China-Europe relations

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Evan Feigenbaum on the U.S. in the Indo-Pacific region

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New America President Anne-Marie Slaughter on balancing China competition and global imperatives

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The 20th Party Congress postgame show with Damien Ma and Lizzi Lee

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The 20th Party Congess rundown, live from the Chicago Council of Global Affairs with Lizzi Lee and Damien Ma

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Grifter, chaos agent, or CCP spy? The New Yorker's Evan Osnos on Guo Wengui

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Susan Shirk on her new book, "Overreach: How China Derailed its Peaceful Rise"

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Podcasting The Prince: Sue-Lin Wong of The Economist on her Xi Jinping podcast

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Legendary BBC presenter and China editor Carrie Gracie, live in London

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A conversation with Minister Xu Xueyuan, Deputy Chief of Mission of the Embassy of the People's Republic of China in Washington

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China in the Global South, with Eric Olander and Cobus van Staden

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Surveillance State: Authors Josh Chin and Liza Lin on their new book on China's tech-enhanced social controls

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Yuen Yuen Ang on Xi Jinping, the CCP, and authoritarian resilience

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Avoiding the China trap, with Jessica Chen Weiss

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Is China's bubble finally about to pop? A conversation with Bloomberg Chief Economist Tom Orlik

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China's space program, with NASA astronaut Leroy Chiao

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China and America's "great power opportunity," with Ali Wyne

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Another Taiwan Straits Crisis? CIA veteran John Culver weighs in

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The Sinica Network presents the Café & Seda (Coffee & Silk) Podcast

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Prototype Nation: Silvia Lindtner on what drives Chinese tech innovation, and how tech drives Chinese statecraft

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Semiconductors and the unspoken U.S. tech policy on China, with Paul Triolo

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Historian Andrew Liu on COVID origins: Orientalism and the "Asiatic racial form"

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Jing Tsu on the characters who modernized Chinese characters

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Taiwan: Saber rattling, salami slicing, and strategic ambiguity, with Shelley Rigger and Simona Grano

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James Carter's "This Week in China's History" column marks two years!

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Mental health under lockdown: A clinical psychologist in Shanghai

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Covering the U.S.-China relations beat with the FT's Demetri Sevastopulo

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Too much of a good thing? Connectivity and the age of "unpeace," with the ECFR's Mark Leonard

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The rise and fall of U.S.-China scientific collaboration, with Deborah Seligsohn

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Chinese public opinion on the Russo-Ukrainian War, with Yawei Liu and Danielle Goldfarb

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China and India share an uncomfortable neutrality in the Ukraine War — but not much else

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China, Europe, and the Russo-Ukrainian War, with Marina Rudyak

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Inside the Shanghai lockdown, with SupChina's own Chang Che

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China's optimal post-war scenarios, with Yun Sun and Paul Heer

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Susan Thornton on the urgent need for diplomacy in the present crisis

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Chinese international relations scholar Dingding Chen on Beijing's position in the Russo-Ukrainian War

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China's soft power collides with the hard realities of the Russo-Ukrainian War: A conversation with Maria Repnikova

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China's Ukraine conundrum, with Evan Feigenbaum

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Biden's China policy needs to be more than "Trump lite:" A conversation with Jeff Bader

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Veteran diplomat Bill Klein recalls the turbulent Trump years at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing

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What China is reading and why it matters: A conversation with author Megan Walsh

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China's ideological landscape, with Jason Wu

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Why the law matters in China, with Jeremy Daum of Yale's Paul Tsai China Law Center

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Personality and political discontent in China, with Rory Truex

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Dan Wang on China in 2021: "Common prosperity," cultural stunting, and shortcomings of the "modal China story"

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Mental models for understanding complexity, with Anthea Roberts and Nicolas Lamp

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The sociologist watching the China-watchers: A conversation with David McCourt

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Damien Ma of MacroPolo on China's economic and political outlook

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The investigative team from MIT Technology Review that found major flaws with the DoJ's China Initiative