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Ep 86 - The weaknesses behind China's booming exports
Not a Master Plan: The Real History of China's Rare Earth Dominance, with Gloria Xiong and Jessica Chen Weiss- Ep 85 - China’s approach to AI in the Global South: selling the razor blades, not the razor
- Strategic Stalemate: Ryan Hass on How Beijing Sees America — and Trump
- Ep 84 - Nobody knows where the line is, and that’s the problem
- Ep 83 - Beijing's new directive to its tech firms: behave abroad
- Ep 82 - Another grim month for the Chinese economy
- Talking Past Each Other: Pallavi Aiyar on India, China, and the Case for Cognitive Empathy
- Ep 81 - The AI loophole Washington can’t afford to close
The Promise of China's Renewable Energy Market w/David Fishman- Ep 80 - The China chokepoints nobody's watching
- Ep 79 - Beijing stops playing coy
- The Future, Made in China: Evan Osnos on America's Reckoning
- When China Rules the World Book Review | Sinobabble Book Club
- Ep 78 - China's secret weapon isn't subsidies, it's pain tolerance
- Ep 77 - There’s no such thing as overcapacity, China says
- Ep 76 - China's economy is hurting, Beijing's answer is patience
- Ep 75 - DeepSeek Founder Goes Off Script in Leaked Investor Call
- Ep 74 - Kimi K3 Was So Good It Freaked Out Two Governments
- Ep 73 - China's Stock Market Rescue: How Big Is Beijing's Bet?
- Samm Sacks and Paul Triolo on WAIC 2026, Xi's AI Speech, and Kimi K3
- “It is a way for me to seek meaning in this absurd world": Digital vulnerability and the rise of spiritual scams in China
- Ep 72 - China is building a market for data. Why isn’t America?
- How to read China well w/Alexander Boyd
- Ep 71 - Is China quietly beginning to deleverage?
- The Platform State: Angela Zhang and Alex Yang on How China Really Governs Its Economy
- Violence as 'family dispute': culture and politics in China's domestic violence laws
- Agile Governance: Tsinghua's Xue Lan on How China Regulates What It Can't Fully Predict
- Tongueless by Lau Yee-Wa Review | Sinobabble Book Club
- China Shock 2.0: This Time It's Europe, with Adam Tooze
- Media influence as foreign policy: China’s journalist training in Africa w/Dr Emeka Umejei
- Ep 70 - China’s growth model hits another reality check
- "But China!": Robert Wright on the AI Race and Our Coming Cosmic Reckoning
- Ep 69 - Podcast | The “China Shock 2.0” fallacy
- The Party's Interests Come First Review | Sinobabble Book Club
- [Preview] How Chinamaxxing foreigners are performing nationalism on Chinese social media
- Ep 68 - Can asset revitalization save local government finances?
- The Texas Paradox: How the Most Anti-China State Is Building America's China Capacity
- Ep 67 - What exactly is US policy toward Taiwan?
- The View from Everywhere Else: Eric Olander on how the Global South is reading the Beijing summits
- From victim to victor: Xenophobia and anti-Japanism as nationalism in China
- Ep 66 - Jon Czin on Xi, Trump, and the US-China stalemate
- To Rule All Under Heaven: Andrew Meyer on His New Popular History of the Warring States
- "The China Debate We're Not Having" | Part 4: The AI Race Reconsidered
- "Constructive Strategic Stability": Ali Wyne of the International Crisis Group on the Trump-Xi Summit
- Nationalism with International Characteristics w/Nick Zeller
- Ep 65 - Xi-Trump vibes, meetings about meetings, and the PBoC’s next moves
- Can an outsider truly portray an ethnic group faithfully? | Last Quarter of the Moon Review (Sinobabble Book Club)
- Ep 64 - China sanctions pushback, macro resilience, and more Iran war fallout
- The Poetry of Zheng Xiaoqiong: A Conversation with Translator Eleanor Goodman