Chad Bown is a fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, DC and cohost of the excellent Trade Talks, a weekly podcast on the economics of international trade policy. In this episode, we discuss the competing gr

Data Policy with Samm Sacks

Aug 16th, 2018 29m 14s

GuestSamm SacksSenior Fellow, Technology Policy, Center for Strategic and International Studies @CSISSamm Sacks | Center for Strategic and International StudiesSamm Sacks (@SammSacks) | TwitterSamm Sacks, Senior Fellow at CSIS, is perhaps Ameri

What China Thinks of the Trade War with Chublicopinion's Ma Tianjie

May 13th, 2018 51m 36s

Ma Tianjie, founder of the long-running blog Chublicopinion is perhaps the leading English-language chronicler of Chinese public opinion. In this episode, he discusses the official and popular respones to the trade war, ranging from hard right

Trump's Trade War Tactics with Chris Balding

May 9th, 2018 1h 9m

(The audio stops beeping after 1 minute I promise!)Chris Balding as a Bloomberg Views contributor and professor based in Shenzhen. In this interview, we discuss two recent posts on his blog Baldingsworld which both make the case for America's

Made in China 2025 and Bytedance with Lorand Laskai

Apr 23rd, 2018 1h

Lorand Laskai is a researcher at a prominent American think tank who recently wrote a piece on the Trump administration's animosity to Xi's Made in China 2025 program. In this episode, we discuss what exactly ticks American policymakers off abo

How China Learned to WTO with Henry Cao

Apr 12th, 2018 39m 51s

Guesthenry gaohenry gao (@henrysgao) | TwitterProf. Henry Gao is Associate Professor of law (tenured) at Singapore Management University and Dongfang Scholar Chair Professor at Shanghai Institute of Foreign Trade. And co-author alongside Gregor

Gaming in China with Charlie Moseley and Chang Jung-Erh

Mar 19th, 2018 58m 36s

GuestCharlie MoseleyWashingtonian in Asia. Predisposed to wanderlust.Charlie Moseley's Personal Websitecharlie (@justcharlie) | TwitterChina's over 600 million gamers contribute to a gaming market that generated $30 billion in 2017. ChinaE

Internet Finance with Martin Chorzempa

Mar 6th, 2018 51m 38s

GuestMartin ChorzempaResearch Fellow, @PIIE. China Econ/Finance, FinTech, Financial DevelopmentMartin Chorzempa | PIIEMartin Chorzempa (@ChorzempaMartin) | TwitterMartin Chorzempa of the Peterson Institute is over traditional finance. Instead,

Nick Consonery on China's Economic Reform Trajectory

Feb 25th, 2018 47m 16s

GuestNick ConsoneryDirector of China Macroeconomic & Policy research @rhodium_groupRhodium Group Nick Consonery (@nconsonery) | TwitterNick Consonery of the Rhodium Group with support from the Asia Society recently published The China Dashboard

The Chinese Rustbelt with Song Houze

Jan 23rd, 2018 50m 39s

China's northeast, a region that in the 1970s comprised over 10% of national GDP, now only makes up 3%. In this interview, Song Houze walks listeners through the policy challenges facing the rustbest. He also provides some context behind two de

Oona Hathaway and Scott Shapiro on How the World Order Evolves

Jan 18th, 2018 1h 5m

GuestsOona HathawayProfessor @YaleLawSch, Director @YaleLawGLC, Editor @just_security, fmr Special Counsel @DeptofDefense, co-author of The InternationalistsOona A. Hathaway - Yale Law SchoolOona Hathaway (@oonahathaway) on TwitterScott Shapiro

Barry Eichengreen on the Rise and Fall of Global Currencies

Jan 14th, 2018 25m 47s

Barry Eichengreen, Professor of Economics and Political Science at Berkeley (not to mention one of my favorite authors of accessible yet profound global economics books) recently published his How Global Currencies Work: Past, Present, and Futu

Ex-Head of Mobile at Mobike Max Zhou on Dockless Bikeshares in China

Dec 22nd, 2017 37m 14s

Max Zhou 周喆吾 is an Uber alum who until November of 2017 was the head of Mobile at Mobike. He is currently working as the co-founder of Meta App.Max talks about his story coming to the US for an advanced degree, his experience at Uber, why Travi

Keller Easterling on Free Zones and the Origins and Global Impact of SEZs

Dec 19th, 2017 40m 51s

Keller Easterling, architect and professor at Yale, discusses her research on free zones (aka Special Economic Zones). We start by discussing the history of free zones and whether the Chinese success stories of SEZs such as Shenzhen drove their

Peter Lorentzen on the Politics of Protest in China

Dec 10th, 2017 47m 44s

Peter Lorentzen, professor of economics at the University of San Francisco, talks protests and provincial politics. We start by discussing 'Designing Contentious Politics in Post-1989 China,' which uses game theory to analyze and explain how th

Matt Sheehan on 'Chinafornia'

Nov 30th, 2017 36m 45s

Matt Sheehan is a fellow at the Paulson Institute and writes his own newsletter, 'Chinafornia'. We discussed the evolving relationship between China and Silicon Valley, their cultural differences and commonalities and, of course, the state of C

Jonathan Woetzel on China's Digital Economy

Nov 26th, 2017 22m 9s

Dr. Jonathan Woetzel, Mckinsey Global Institute Director and Senior Partner in the Shanghai office, recently co-authored a report entitled China's Digital Economy. In this podcast, he discusses the impact of BAT (Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent) on

Julian Gewirtz on Unlikely Partners: Western Economists and Reform and Opening

Oct 31st, 2017 32m 13s

Julian Gewritz is currently a Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School and author of "Unlikely Partners: Chinese Reformers, Western Economists, and the Making of Global China." In it, he argues that "western economists played a crucial role in shap

The Book of Swindles: Cons from the Late Ming Dynasty

Oct 27th, 2017 42m 37s

In Zhang Yingyu’s work from the late Ming Dynasty, you’ll encounter swindling concubines, clever commoners, and even eunuch cannibals trying to regrow their members.“We live in an age of deception. Words and appearances mislead. Con artists pre

Cynthia Estlund on Labor in China

Oct 26th, 2017 47m 16s

China’s massive labor surplus has been vital to its rapid economic development. For decades, China’s rural population has been migrating to take up low-wage jobs in the coastal regions, often in dire conditions. The exploitation of cheap labor