Ranked #1
Bitter Medicine: China's New Pacific Frontier
Bitter Medicine: China's New Pacific Frontier
China’s aid and growing influence in the South Pacific is causing alarm with an Australian minister recently complaining... Read more
6 Feb 2018
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27mins
Ranked #2
Stranger than Fiction: China’s Espionage Industrial Complex
Stranger than Fiction: China’s Espionage Industrial Complex
“Use your spies for every kind of business.” This 2500 year-old stratagem from Sun Zi's Art of War still informs Beijing... Read more
4 Sep 2018
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55mins
Ranked #3
Muzzling the Academy: Policemen, Spooks and Vanishing Archives
Muzzling the Academy: Policemen, Spooks and Vanishing Archives
Beijing's failed attempt to force Cambridge University Press to censor its own catalogue is just one prong in an escalat... Read more
4 Oct 2017
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45mins
Ranked #4
Tiananmen's Final Secret
Tiananmen's Final Secret
Tuesday June 4 marks the 30th anniversary of the deadly crackdown ordered by Deng Xiaoping, which killed hundreds – mayb... Read more
3 Jun 2019
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42mins
Ranked #5
Big Bad China? The New Cold War
Big Bad China? The New Cold War
On the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, has CCP Chairman Xi Jinping overreached? He's... Read more
30 Sep 2019
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43mins
Ranked #6
Choose your own Dystopia Part One: Social Media and Surveillance Capitalism
Choose your own Dystopia Part One: Social Media and Surveillance Capitalism
With Chinese citizens’ lives increasingly coded into data streams, the question of who owns this data and how it gets us... Read more
6 May 2019
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42mins
Ranked #7
Power Projection: China’s Hollywood Dream
Power Projection: China’s Hollywood Dream
With cinema takings in the United States at a 22-year low, Hollywood moguls are looking to an unlikely saviour: China. W... Read more
13 Nov 2019
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34mins
Ranked #8
Class: the new dirty word
Class: the new dirty word
Chairman Mao urged the Chinese people to never forget class struggle. But they not only forgot, they stopped using the w... Read more
9 Jul 2017
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39mins
Ranked #9
Xi Jinping’s War on the Uighurs. Part 1: The Witnesses
Xi Jinping’s War on the Uighurs. Part 1: The Witnesses
‘We seem to be normal, but we are not.’ A United Nations human rights panel says it has credible reports that more than ... Read more
24 Sep 2018
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48mins
Ranked #10
Haters Gonna Hate: Nationalism on Demand in China and Japan
Haters Gonna Hate: Nationalism on Demand in China and Japan
Under Xi Jinping, history in China is a moving feast. This year, China’s Ministry of Education increased the length of t... Read more
5 Sep 2017
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44mins
Ranked #11
How To Make Friends And Influence People: Inside the Magic Weapon of the United Front
How To Make Friends And Influence People: Inside the Magic Weapon of the United Front
The Communist Party's shadowy United Front Work Department has emerged stronger than ever before after the most recent g... Read more
9 Apr 2018
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44mins
Ranked #12
Leveraged to the Limit: Power Shifts in Xi Jinping's China
Leveraged to the Limit: Power Shifts in Xi Jinping's China
The Chairman of Everything Xi Jinping has emerged from the annual parliamentary meetings facing a rough year ahead. Chi... Read more
25 Mar 2019
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45mins
Ranked #13
The Han-Opticon: Social Credit and AI in the Surveillance State
The Han-Opticon: Social Credit and AI in the Surveillance State
China today is Black Mirror through the Looking Glass. A national video surveillance network is promised in just two yea... Read more
7 Aug 2018
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47mins
Ranked #14
China's Little Emperors: Art Vs Science
China's Little Emperors: Art Vs Science
In this episode we visit a theatre, a prison and an analyst's chair to ask: are China's little emperors really spoiled a... Read more
20 Feb 2017
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34mins
Ranked #15
Hong Kong's Darkest Hour
Hong Kong's Darkest Hour
We bring you an emergency podcast from Hong Kong, one day after extraordinary police violence saw 79 people injured by b... Read more
13 Jun 2019
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45mins
Ranked #16
Ten Years Becomes Four as Life Imitates Art in Hong Kong
Ten Years Becomes Four as Life Imitates Art in Hong Kong
When the Hong Kong film Ten Years (Sap nin) came out in 2015, it was pulled from cinemas after Chinese state-run media d... Read more
3 Dec 2019
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41mins
Ranked #17
Hong Kong: the new Tibet?
Hong Kong: the new Tibet?
As Hong Kong gears up to mark the 20th anniversary of its return to Chinese sovereignty, the country's number 3 leader Z... Read more
11 Jun 2017
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34mins
Ranked #18
Control and Capture: Taming Overseas Chinese Media
Control and Capture: Taming Overseas Chinese Media
“China’s not trying to influence, it’s trying to change Australia.” This week we hear from insiders about the range of s... Read more
2 Nov 2016
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34mins
Ranked #19
To Be Demolished Is Glorious: China's Resettlement Industry
To Be Demolished Is Glorious: China's Resettlement Industry
China is a world leader in resettlement, having resettled 80 million people since 1949. Before 2020, a further 100 mill... Read more
14 Mar 2017
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29mins
Ranked #20
Come Dance with Xi: Who Can Resist the Belt and Road's Embrace?
Come Dance with Xi: Who Can Resist the Belt and Road's Embrace?
There’s no escaping China’s Belt and Road Initiative. It’s been written into China’s constitution, and more than 70 coun... Read more
11 Jul 2018
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58mins