The U.S.-China Nexus podcast features conversations with a scholar or policy expert on dynamics in China and Sino-American relations. This is an excerpt from our first episode.

Yang Guohua

Aug 17th, 2020 40m 9s

Former Chinese Commerce Ministry official Yang Guohua talks with host James Green about intellectual property rights protections in China and as a point of friction in trade negotiations with the United States.

Gao Xiqing

Aug 10th, 2020 47m 59s

Former China Investment Corporation president and securities regulator Gao Xiqing talks with host James Green about his journey from railroad construction worker to Duke Law School to Hong Kong and beyond.

Zhou Wenzhong

Aug 3rd, 2020 35m 19s

Zhou Wenzhong, former Chinese ambassador to the United States and former vice minister of foreign affairs, explains Beijing's positions on establishing and maintaining U.S.-China relations over four decades.

Robert Zoellick

Jul 29th, 2020 1h 5m

Former United States trade representative and deputy secretary of state Robert Zoellick tells U.S.-China Dialogue Podcast host James Green about overseeing China's entry into the World Trade Organization in 2001 and coining the phrase "responsi

Paul Haenle

Jul 15th, 2020 57m 42s

Former U.S. Army officer and National Security Council director Paul Haenle addresses North Korea's nuclear program in the Six Party Talks and China's military modernization with host James Green.

Ira Kasoff

Jul 8th, 2020 57m 15s

Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce Ira Kasoff talks with host James Green about changes in China over the last four decades, commercial diplomacy, and comparisons between the Japanese economy of the 1980s and China today.

Robert Suettinger

May 11th, 2020 1h

Former senior intelligence analyst and National Security Council staffer Bob Suettinger discusses Taiwan, human rights, leadership struggles, and the role of the intelligence community with U.S.-China Dialogue Podcast host James Green.

Madeleine Albright

Apr 27th, 2020 49m 47s

Madeleine Albright tells U.S.-China Dialogue Podcast host James Green about her decades working on China, including how building a working relationship at the UN with her Chinese counterpart was key to diffusing tensions when in 1999 U.S. missi

Dennis Wilder

Feb 26th, 2020 1h 20m

Dennis Wilder explains to U.S.-China Dialogue Podcast host James Green watching the growth of the People's Liberation Army, analyzing Beijing policies from Hong Kong to Taiwan for the CIA, and handling presidential visits as the senior director

David Shear

Feb 5th, 2020 51m 49s

Ambassador David Shear explains to U.S.-China Dialogue Podcast host James Green the U.S. military's response to Chinese assertiveness in the South China Sea, and his diplomatic career handling China.

Charlene Barshefsky

Jan 29th, 2020 54m 58s

Former USTR Ambassador Charlene Barshefsky explains the WTO negotiation history to U.S.-China Dialogue Podcast host James Green as well as when China moved off the liberalization and reform track in 2006 and 2007.

Joseph DeTrani

Jan 10th, 2020 49m 59s

Former senior CIA officer Joe DeTrani talks with host James Green about Chinese diplomacy in the six party talks and negotiating with North Korea on its dangerous nuclear weapons program.

Jim Keith

Nov 25th, 2019 1h 28m

Ambassador Jim Keith discusses with U.S.-China Dialogue Podcast host James Green the inherent contradictions of Hong Kong as a separate territory, the importance of human rights in U.S. policy, and why China's place in the world remains unresol

Charles Freeman III

Nov 12th, 2019 43m 50s

Charles Freeman III explains to U.S.-China Dialogue Podcast host James Green challenges within the Chinese system that drove trade negotiations during his time as assistant United States trade representative (USTR) for China in the early 2000s.

Winston Lord

Oct 23rd, 2019 1h 20m

Ambassador Winston Lord explains to U.S.-China Dialogue Podcast host James Green his unique experience negotiating with China: from secret negotiations in the 1970s to the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown to the link between trade and human rights in t

Richard Bush

Oct 4th, 2019 1h 7m

Richard Bush talks to U.S.-China Dialogue Podcast host James Green about the democratization process on Taiwan, the high-profile murder of a Taiwanese dissident on U.S. soil, and the effect on U.S. policy towards the People's Republic of China.

Gary Locke

Sep 20th, 2019 1h 1m

Governor Gary Locke explains to U.S.-China Dialogue Podcast host James Green about dealing with Chinese officials high and low on pollution, market barriers, and human dignity as commerce secretary, then as U.S. ambassador.

Roy Kamphausen

Sep 10th, 2019 54m

Retired Lt. Col. Roy Kamphausen explains to host James Green how the U.S. military has interacted with the Chinese People’s Liberation Army over the last three decades, including the accidental 1999 bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade.

Todd Stern

Aug 26th, 2019 1h 5m

Climate Special Envoy Todd Stern explains to U.S.-China Dialogue Podcast host James Green how an initially reluctant Chinese leadership began to engage the United States and change policies to limit emissions and pervasive pollution.

Susan Shirk

Jul 26th, 2019 56m 57s

Professor Susan Shirk talks with U.S.-China Dialogue Podcast host James Green about her breakthrough meeting with Premier Zhou Enlai in 1971, her participation in President Jiang Zemin’s 1997 U.S. visit, and all the history in between and since

Robert Einhorn

Jul 18th, 2019 59m 21s

Arms control expert Bob Einhorn explains to host James Green how over the course of the 1990s, Chinese policies shifted to control dangerous technologies that threatened regional peace and stability.

Jeffrey Bader: Part Two

Jun 20th, 2019 1h 6m

Longtime U.S. official Jeffrey Bader discusses with host James Green the real benefits to the United States of China's 2001 WTO accession, the strategy behind President Barack Obama's Asia policy, and how public messaging is critical to handlin