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Episode 42: China's Global Media Offensive
Apr 6, 2023
23m 11s
Episode 41: The Advent of President Xi's Third Term
Mar 23, 2023
29m 52s
Episode 40: The Outlook for China’s Economy
Mar 9, 2023
23m 04s
Episode 39: What Should We Make of Human Rights in China?
Feb 23, 2023
25m 57s
Episode 38: Cellular IoT Modules and Supply Chain Security
Feb 16, 2023
21m 51s
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| Date | Episode | Description | Length | ||||||
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| 4/6/23 | Episode 42: China's Global Media Offensive | This week on What China Wants, Sam and Stewart are joined by Josh Kurlantzick, Senior Fellow for Southeast Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations, to discuss Beijing's media influence. Josh sets out his analysis of China’s attempt in recent years to become a global media and information superpower, and we discuss whether these efforts are working. | 23m 11s | ||||||
| 3/23/23 | Episode 41: The Advent of President Xi's Third Term | In recent weeks, the "two sessions" have taken place in China, at which President Xi's third term was confirmed by the nearly 3,000 delegates that constitute the National People's Congress. Due to the relative opaqueness of decision-making in Chinese politics, these important events in the political calendar are relatively unknown outside China. To help listeners understand more about them, and what their significance might be globally, this week on What China Wants, Sam and Stewart are joine... | 29m 52s | ||||||
| 3/9/23 | Episode 40: The Outlook for China’s Economy | This week on What China Wants, co-host Stewart Paterson is interviewed by Sam Olsen about the outlook for the Chinese economy. We discuss the post-covid outlook as well as the key challenges facing the economy and the Party leadership looking forward. | 23m 04s | ||||||
| 2/23/23 | Episode 39: What Should We Make of Human Rights in China? | In this episode of What China Wants, Sam and Stewart discuss the issue of human rights in China. To do so, they are joined by Benedict Rogers, Co-Founder of Hong Kong Watch and one of Britain’s foremost and most knowledgeable campaigners on the subject. We discuss some of the key issues raised in his book, The China Nexus, including allegations of human rights abuses in Hong Kong and Xinjiang, organ-harvesting from prisoners of conscience, as well as some of the criticisms commonly leve... | 25m 57s | ||||||
| 2/16/23 | Episode 38: Cellular IoT Modules and Supply Chain Security | This week, Sam and Stewart are joined by Charles Parton OBE, a former diplomat who is presently a specialist adviser to the Foreign Affairs Committee at the UK Houses of Parliament and Associate Fellow of RUSI. Charlie spent 22 years of his 37 year diplomatic career working in or on China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. In this episode he discusses his latest paper on the importance of cellular Internet of Things (IoT) modules and the threat posed to UK supply chain security by the pervasiveness of Ch... | 21m 51s | ||||||
| 2/9/23 | Episode 37: China's Structural Influence in Southeast Asia | This week on What China Wants, Dr William Matthews, Director of Research at the Evenstar Institute, joins Sam and Stewart to discuss their latest research, "Southeast Asia's Emerging Geopolitical Order: China's Structural Influence and the Evolving Regional Balance of Power". The report quantifies and explains the evolution of China's Influence in Southeast Asia through the analysis of all ten ASEAN member states over the period 2011-2020. In this interview, William and Sam explain its key fi... | 25m 03s | ||||||
| 2/2/23 | Episode 36: Small is Beautiful - China's Approach to Overseas Development Finance | This week on What China Wants Sam and Stewart are joined by Rebecca Ray, Senior Academic Researcher at the Boston University Global Development Policy (GDP) Center to discuss their latest research. The GDP Centre has just published an update to their China Overseas Development Finance (CODF) Database. Having provided a staggering amount of finance for overseas development projects in the wake of the global financial crisis, Chinese overseas development finance has been on a general downward t... | 33m 46s | ||||||
| 1/26/23 | Episode 35: The Russia-China Relationship - Friendship Without Limits? | On this week's episode, Sam and Stewart are joined by Sarah Kirchberger, Head of Asia-Pacific Strategy and Security at the Institute for Security Policy at Kiel University, and one of Germany’s and Europe’s leading experts on the Moscow-Beijing relationship. Sarah is also one of the editors of the 2022 paper Russia-China Relations: Emerging Alliance or Eternal Rivals, which is available and free to download. We discuss the Russia-China relations past and present, the impact of the war in Ukra... | 31m 28s | ||||||
| 1/19/23 | Episode 34: About Chinese New Year | Join us as we get ready to say 新年快乐! (Happy New Year!) and welcome in the Year of the Rabbit, as Chinese New Year falls this coming Sunday, 22nd January. Despite it being perhaps the largest ceremony or festival in the world, it is really not very well known in the West, nor are its fascinating intricacies, practices and folklore. Sam and Stewart are delighted to be joined by Professor Jinghan Zeng of Lancaster University for this special edition of What China Wants. We discuss its orig... | 24m 44s | ||||||
| 1/12/23 | Episode 33: China and the World - A Review of 2022 and a Look Forward to 2023 | This week on What China Wants, Sam and Stewart review the past year. They discuss the key political and economic events for China in 2022, as well as debate the outlook ahead of us, looking forward into what 2023 might hold for China and the world. | 29m 14s | ||||||
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| 1/5/23 | Episode 32: The Culture and Passion of Chinese Food | Happy New Year, and welcome back to What China Wants. In today's episode we look at what is probably the first aspect of Chinese culture that most people around the world encounter: its food. To do so, we are delighted to be joined by Michelin-starred chef, anthropologist, and cultural observer Andrew Wong of the eponymous restaurant in London. China's cuisine is far more than its taste; it is also a window into the country's history and society, as we explore in this episode. | 25m 43s | ||||||
| 12/22/22 | Episode 31: How is Christmas Celebrated in China? | This week on What China Wants we are joined by a returning friend of the show, Andrew Methven of the Substack newsletter Slow Chinese, to discuss Christmas in China on this festive special. Andrew explains the main differences as well as some surprising similarities between how the festivities are celebrated in China compared to the West. | 20m 55s | ||||||
| 12/15/22 | Episode 30: Will a Western "NATO for Tech" Work? | In this week's episode, Stewart and Sam are talking to one of the leading thinkers on technology, Rob Atkinson, Founder and President of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF). Rob joins us to discuss the realties of a "NATO for tech", which British Prime Minister Rishi Sunk has recently called for as a means to counter Chinese influence. | 28m 51s | ||||||
| 12/8/22 | Episode 29: An Overlooked Risk | This week we are pleased to announce we have launched The Evenstar Institute, a non-partisan, not-for-profit think tank focused on measuring and understanding the evolving nature of national influence in the twenty first century. Sam and Stewart are joined by our Director of Research, Dr William Matthews, to discuss our latest paper, An Overlooked Risk: China's Indirect Influence on the UK's National Security Supply Chain. | 22m 17s | ||||||
| 12/1/22 | Episode 28: Is the Current Monetary Cycle Accelerating Bifurcation between China and the West? | Stewart and Sam are joined this week by Meyrick Chapman, a 40 year veteran of macro-investing and formerly of Elliott Management. We discuss Meyrick’s research of monetary policy which has shown up an interesting and potentially vital impact on China’s relationship with the world. | 24m 26s | ||||||
| 11/24/22 | Episode 27: The Great China-Australia Trade Spat | We have discussed the possibilities of economic sanctions between China and the West before on this podcast, but this week we unpick a particular example. Stewart and Sam are joined by Dr. Naoise McDonagh, a specialist from the University of Adelaide to discuss the Australian experience of China's economic sanctions, imposed since 2020. We discuss which industries were targeted, how the sanctions' impact have been deflected or even circumvented, as well as their overall impact on Australia an... | 31m 15s | ||||||
| 11/17/22 | Episode 26: Chip War | This week on What China Wants, Sam and Stewart are joined by Chris Miller, author of Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology, which was shortlisted for the FT's Business Book of the Year 2022. We discuss why microchips are so central to the world economy and how competition between the US and China for control over them has intensified. | 25m 13s | ||||||
| 11/10/22 | Episode 25: Is China Good for Africa? | This week Sam and Stewart are joined by Eric Olander, Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the China-Global South Project to explore China's engagement across the continent and if ChinThe China-Global South Project is a non-profit and non-partisan multimedia editorial initiative dedicated to exploring every facet of China's engagement in Africa. | 29m 50s | ||||||
| 11/3/22 | Episode 24: The Economic Outlook of the Party Congress | This episode of What China Wants is our final in a series of commentary on the 20th Party Congress. Sam and Stewart are joined by returning guest and friend of the podcast, George Magnus, to discuss the economic outlook of the Congress, both in reflecting on both China's recently published 3Q22 numbers and broader trends surrounding the change in personnel. | 22m 28s | ||||||
| 10/27/22 | Episode 23: What China's National Party Congress Means for the World | This week on What China Wants, we are joined by Joseph Torigian to unpack the 20th Party Congress, and what it means for the global political landscape. Worldwide attention on the National Congress might have focused on what happened to former leader Hu Jintao, but there was of course far more to it than that. | 24m 51s | ||||||
| 10/20/22 | Episode 22: The Most Powerful Man in the World | As the 20th Party Congress rumbles on and the world awaits Xi Jinping's expected consolidation of his position as general secretary, this week on What China Wants, we're speaking to the co-author of one of his most recent biographies. Sam and Stewart are pleased to be joined by Stefan Aust, former editor-in-chief of Der Spiegel. His 2021 book with co-author Adrian Geiges, Xi Jinping: The Most Powerful Man in the World is newly translated into English and available in all good bookstores. Lin... | 24m 37s | ||||||
| 10/13/22 | Episode 21: China's Upcoming National Congress | The five-yearly National Party Congress that begins on 16 October is the most important event in the Chinese Communist Party's calendar. To understand what we might expect, Stewart and Sam speak to a leading Chinese academic based in the UK, who has been studying the run up to the Party Congress. Jinghan Zeng is Professor of China and International Studies at Lancaster University, and a specialist on the politics and international relations of China. | 30m 27s | ||||||
| 10/6/22 | Episode 20: An Investor's Perspective | This week on What China Wants we are switching our attention back to economics. Sam and Stewart are joined by Anna Macdonald, a Fund Manager at Amati Global Investors to discuss the perceived opportunities and risks investors associate with China. Anna also shares her particular expertise on ESG investing and how investment in China fits around this broader trend. | 21m 11s | ||||||
| 9/29/22 | Episode 19: China Coups and Disinformation | With false rumours of a coup against Xi Jinping flying around social media and news outlets last weekend, this week we look at who could have been responsible for this disinformation, and dig into how China uses disinformation for its own purposes too. Sam and Stewart are joined by friend of the podcast, Alex Neill, a leading expert on Chinese influence abroad. | 24m 55s | ||||||
| 9/22/22 | Episode 18: Is China destroying Europe's Tech Companies? | Much has been written about IP theft allegedly perpetrated by Chinese actors, but it's not all about hacking - there is a whole range of ways that China plays hard-ball with its foreign competitors. In this episode, we look specifically at the impact on European firms. To do this Sam and Stewart are joined by Luke Patey, senior researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies, senior research fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, and author of How China Loses. Links... | 26m 15s | ||||||
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