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The Little Red Podcast

The Little Red Podcast: interviews and chat celebrating China beyond the Beijing beltway. Hosted by Graeme Smith, China studies academic at the Australian National University's Department of Pacific A... Read more

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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

27mins

Ranked #2

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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

55mins

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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

45mins

Ranked #4

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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

42mins

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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

43mins

Ranked #6

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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

42mins

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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

34mins

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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

39mins

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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

48mins

Ranked #10

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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

44mins

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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

44mins

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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

45mins

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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

47mins

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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

34mins

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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

45mins

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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

41mins

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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

34mins

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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

34mins

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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

29mins

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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

58mins

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