Rebooting China's Economy — Lessons from the 2008 Crisis
In the face of Donald Trump's tariffs, will China's plans to boost its domestic consumer economy succeed — or could the government in Beijing be tempted to introduce massive stimulus measures, as it d...
8 Touko 202539min
Taiwan's Controversial Budget Cuts — The KMT goes DOGE?
Taiwan is facing a range of challenges — from Donald Trump's threat of 32% tariffs on its crucial exports to the US, to massive Chinese military exercises off its coastline aimed at intimidating the i...
10 Huhti 202531min
Planning China's Future — Boosting Consumption, Enterprise and Defence
At this month’s legislative session China announced policies to maintain GDP growth at 5%, boost consumption and the private sector and promote AI and high tech industry, from quantum computing to the...
21 Maalis 202545min
Writing Shanghai, Writing China — A Tribute to Lynn Pan
In this episode we look at the life and work of Lynn Pan, one of the most imaginative of writers in English about modern China and particularly Shanghai, who died last year, and was commemorated at a ...
6 Maalis 202543min
China's Economic Challenges — Consumption Slump and Soaring Local Government Debt
With the US imposing new tariffs on Chinese exports, the state of the country’s domestic economy has become all the more crucial. Despite healthy export growth in recent years, at home consumer confid...
20 Helmi 202551min
China and Africa — An Intimate Portrait
Donald Trump's new tariffs on Chinese exports may only boost the trend for Chinese companies to seek new markets and manufacturing bases overseas — including in Africa, where China is now the biggest ...
6 Helmi 202544min
Trump and China — Deal or No Deal?
Donald Trump is promising to challenge China on everything from its exports to its global influence over the next four years, but what could this mean in practice? Professor Miles Yu of the Hudson Ins...
17 Tammi 202544min
China and the Climate Crisis — Good COP, Bad COP?
At the recent COP29 climate conference in Baku, Azerbaijan, China was seen as having played a part in getting an agreement — albeit a much criticised one — to increase funding to mitigate the climate ...
4 Joulu 202435min
