Ranked #1
From Beijing to Cairo: Peter Hessler on What Makes a Real Revolution
From Beijing to Cairo: Peter Hessler on What Makes a Real Revolution
This week on ChinaEconTalk, Jordan speaks with veteran journalist Peter Hessler. Peter spent seven years in China as a c... Read more
7 Jun 2019
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1hr 18mins
Ranked #2
Chasing the dragon: Fentanyl, China, and the opioid crisis
Chasing the dragon: Fentanyl, China, and the opioid crisis
Puzzled by rising drug deaths at raves in the United States, author and investigative journalist Ben Westhoff set out to... Read more
23 Oct 2019
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52mins
Ranked #3
Little Red Book, Big Red Ideas: Part 1 of A Global History of Maoism
Little Red Book, Big Red Ideas: Part 1 of A Global History of Maoism
This week, in part 1 of a special two-part edition of ChinaEconTalk, Jordan interviews Professor Julia Lovell, author of... Read more
17 Jul 2019
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1hr 1min
Ranked #4
Sinocism's Bill Bishop on the Politics of Coronavirus
Sinocism's Bill Bishop on the Politics of Coronavirus
Bill Bishop, author of the Sinocism newsletter, comes on the show to discuss the new low in US-China relations. We star... Read more
25 Mar 2020
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43mins
Ranked #5
Online discourse and censorship in China
Online discourse and censorship in China
Jane Li, a Chongqing native and a technology reporter for Quartz, talks through some of the differences between Twitter ... Read more
11 Dec 2019
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38mins
Ranked #6
AI Basic Research in China and the US
AI Basic Research in China and the US
Who's spending big? Does it matter? Zach Arnold and Ashwin Acharya join the show to discuss their reports on Chinese pu... Read more
22 May 2020
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30mins
Ranked #7
An Alternative Vision of U.S.-China Relations with Jake Sullivan
An Alternative Vision of U.S.-China Relations with Jake Sullivan
Jake Sullivan served in the Obama administration as National Security Advisor to Vice President Joe Biden and Director o... Read more
9 Oct 2019
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51mins
Ranked #8
Outraged by the outbreak: Citizen journalism and coronavirus censorship
Outraged by the outbreak: Citizen journalism and coronavirus censorship
Tony Lin is a producer at Quartz for the web series Because China and an avid observer of Chinese online communities, su... Read more
5 Feb 2020
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32mins
Ranked #9
How China Can Take Over Tech
How China Can Take Over Tech
Douglas Fuller is an associate professor in the Department of Asian and International Studies at the City University of ... Read more
4 Sep 2019
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56mins
Ranked #10
U.S. Foreign Policy in Asia
U.S. Foreign Policy in Asia
Mira Rapp-Hooper, senior fellow at the Council of Foreign Relations, provides an overview of the history of U.S. foreign... Read more
2 Oct 2019
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52mins
Ranked #11
Forging an Innovation Base Alliance
Forging an Innovation Base Alliance
America has allies with solid tech. But can the US leverage these relationships to help preserve its technological edge ... Read more
30 Apr 2020
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40mins
Ranked #12
How Chinese Governance Fundamentals Impact Health Care and National Security
How Chinese Governance Fundamentals Impact Health Care and National Security
How has the distinct nature of local-central relations in the Chinese system impacted its response to coronavirus? To di... Read more
13 Mar 2020
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1hr 27mins
Ranked #13
Reinterpreting Beijing and its history
Reinterpreting Beijing and its history
Jeremiah Jenne, history teacher, writer, and the man behind Beijing by Foot, is in the guest seat this week. He speaks w... Read more
13 Nov 2019
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49mins
Ranked #14
Health QR Codes and the rise of a 'Digital Leviathan'
Health QR Codes and the rise of a 'Digital Leviathan'
Dan Grover joins the show to discuss his recent piece on how Chinese tech firms have handled coronavirus, I read from a ... Read more
15 May 2020
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42mins
Ranked #15
China tech policy and competition, with Paul Triolo
China tech policy and competition, with Paul Triolo
Paul Triolo, practice head of geotechnology at the Eurasia Group, sat down with Jordan to address some of the questions ... Read more
20 Nov 2019
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58mins
Ranked #16
A walk down Chang’an Avenue, with Jonathan Chatwin
A walk down Chang’an Avenue, with Jonathan Chatwin
Can one street tell China’s story? Jonathan Chatwin, author of Long Peace Street: A Walk in Modern China, takes listener... Read more
27 Nov 2019
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1hr 9mins
Ranked #17
The Future of U.S.-China Economic Relations: The Case for Change
The Future of U.S.-China Economic Relations: The Case for Change
This week, ChinaEconTalk launches its “Future of U.S.-China Economic Relations” miniseries with an interview featuring M... Read more
22 May 2019
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55mins
Ranked #18
The Future of U.S.-China Relations: Is ‘Collective Pressure' the Answer?
The Future of U.S.-China Relations: Is ‘Collective Pressure' the Answer?
This week, in the second installment of the series “The Future of U.S.-China Relations” on ChinaEconTalk, Jordan speaks ... Read more
14 Jun 2019
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53mins
Ranked #19
Reform and Opening with Soviet Characteristics: Russian Perspectives on China’s Rise
Reform and Opening with Soviet Characteristics: Russian Perspectives on China’s Rise
This week on ChinaEconTalk, Jordan interviews Chris Miller, associate professor of international history at Tufts Univer... Read more
15 Aug 2019
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1hr 4mins