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The Little Red Podcast, 100 episodes.

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1

Bank Balance: China Purges its Finances

2

The Rise of the Petroyuan: Who will win the Global Economic Order?

3

Money (That’s What I Want): China’s New Investment Regime

4

Out of Battery? China's EV Dreams Flicker

5

Lightning Strikes: China’s Robot Revolution

6

China Rules: Autocracy for sale

7

Little Red Podcast x Face Off

8

State Capture or Mind Capture? China's Spy Strategy on 3 Continents

9

Bad Apple? How the World’s Greatest Company Changed Chinese Tech

10

Education Nation: China’s Exam Fetish

11

The Lead Goose: China’s AI Embrace

12

Wolf Spirits and Wild Shamans: The Revival of Spirit Mediums

13

Man Up: The Rise and Rise of China’s Manosphere

14

Karma Chameleon: The CCP turns to Buddhism

15

The Garbage Time of History: Is China Still Marxist?

16

China on the Couch: Xi Jinping's Psy-boom

17

Let's Get Spiritual: State, Digital Spirituality and Feng Shui in China

18

Sisters doing it for themselves? Marriage Refusal and Little Milk Puppies

19

Give me Maw: China's Craze for the Cocaine of the Seas

20

The Centre of the Vortex: Survivors' Notes from Hong Kong Writers

21

Special Criminal Zones: China’s Pig Butchers Pivot to the West

22

Cognitive hazing: The Disinformation War on Taiwan?

23

The Pig Butcher’s Payroll: Inside a Romance Scam

24

Fraud Factories and Pig Butchery: Chinese Triads go Pacific

25

Here be Dragons: LRP turns 100

26

Hold my popcorn: Diplomatic war in the Pacific Theatre

27

The Feminists have Stood Up: Gender and Comedy in China

28

Full time children or half dead: China’s Gen Z goes to ground

29

Bombard the Past: Exhuming the Cultural Revolution

30

The Battle for the Future: The Mission of China's Underground Historians

31

Cat Years in Cat Country: Sci-Fi in China

32

Gone to ground: China’s rare earths strategy

33

China’s Best Mate: New Zealand’s Muddled China Ties

34

China Beyond the Ends of the Earth: Welcome to the Internet

35

China Beyond the Ends of the Earth: The Polar Express

36

China Beyond the Ends of the Earth: Rolling in the Deep

37

China Beyond the Ends of the Earth: Space

38

COVID infections: The New Bumper Harvest

39

The Death of Covid Zero?

40

Controlling the future: Inside China’s surveillance state

41

Spies, Lies and Peaceful Rise

42

Cambodia: China’s first client state?

43

Herbal Gold: Chinese medicine, COVID and the CCP

44

Cheongsams and Coppers:  Beijing's Stealth Infiltration of Hong Kong

45

Shanghaied: Living with Zero Covid

46

Gimme, gimme, gimme a Han after midnight: China’s masculinity crisis

47

Kevin Rudd: Is War With China Inevitable?

48

Ukraine: A Win-Win for China

49

Elite Capture: A CCP Primer in Making Friends and Influencing People

50

Caste Aside: The Future for China's Peasants

51

Shakeup or Shakedown?  China's New Red Economy

52

The Great Reconciler and the End of Chinese History

53

The CCP Goes Outback? The Century of Humiliation in Australia

54

The Endless Purge: Reassessing June 4 1989

55

Lone Wolves or Xi Wolves? The Evolution of China’s Nationalistic Diplomats

56

The Little Red Podcast Turns Five: Agony Aunt Edition

57

Jack be nimble: the Party-State Vs. the Tech Titans

58

Let's get this party started: China's global propaganda push

59

Out of their league? China’s online gaming conundrum

60

Remaking Hong Kong: Keep the Fishbowl, Change the Fish

61

Tibet: Colonialism with Chinese Characteristics?

62

Fandom Untamed: The Business of Boys’ Love

63

Inventing China: The Pick and Mix Approach

64

Xi Dada and Daddy: Power, the Party and the President

65

See the difference? CGTN in the dock

66

The New Compradors? Hong Kong's Taipans Face a New Era

67

Trump's F*** China Moment: An Attitude, Not a Strategy

68

Hong Kong No More: The National Security Law and the Dual State

69

Hong Kong: Anything We Say Could Be A Crime

70

Inside Job: How China is Changing Global Governance

71

Killing Me Softly: the Power Pandemic

72

Viral Disruption; The Pandemic That's Rewriting the Global Order

73

"Round Up All Those That Should Be Rounded Up": State Violence in China

74

High Noon for Xi Jinping: The President Vs The Virus

75

Seedy Business: The Future of China's Industrial Espionage

76

Freedom is Restraint: How Core Socialist Values are Changing Language and Remoulding Humans

77

Ten Years Becomes Four as Life Imitates Art in Hong Kong

78

Power Projection: China’s Hollywood Dream

79

Hong Kong Burning: The Rise of a Nation

80

Big Bad China? The New Cold War

81

Should I stay or should I go now? Inside the Solomons’ Big Switch

82

Be Water: Hong Kong vs China, with Denise Ho, Badiucao and Clive Hamilton

83

Desperate Hong Kong: The Movement Behind The Mask

84

Chose Your Own Dystopia Part Two: Cashing in on Social Credit

85

Hong Kong’s Dirty Little Secret: Is One Country Two Systems Dead?

86

Sing Hallelujah: The Miracle of Hong Kong’s March

87

Hong Kong's Darkest Hour

88

Tiananmen's Final Secret

89

Choose your own Dystopia Part One: Social Media and Surveillance Capitalism

90

Resignation Syndrome? Democracy and Jail in Post-Umbrella Hong Kong

91

Leveraged to the Limit: Power Shifts in Xi Jinping's China

92

Step Up or Be Overrun: China’s Challenge for the Pacific

93

Hotpot Wars: Tensions bubble in the battle for China’s Culinary Soul

94

#XiToo: Chinese Feminism and The Party’s Hyper-Masculine Reboot

95

Keeping the Faith? Xi's Deal with the Holy See

96

Xi Jinping’s War on Uighurs. Part 3: The Endgame

97

Xi Jinping’s War on Uighurs. Part 2: The New Frontier

98

Xi Jinping’s War on the Uighurs. Part 1: The Witnesses

99

Stranger than Fiction: China’s Espionage Industrial Complex

100

The Han-Opticon: Social Credit and AI in the Surveillance State