This week, Kaiser and Jeremy chat with Adam Tooze, professor of history at Columbia University and author of Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World, about the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the U.S. and China, and how it has affected their position in the emerging geopolitical contest.
6:45: American power and political authority
14:01: China’s power during the pandemic
20:27: Trump’s deliberate strategy of “stress testing”
33:24: The Trump administration’s full-court press against the CCP
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Jeremy: Wu Fei’s Music Daily: an email newsletter with an original piece of music every day of the week by a composer and guzheng virtuoso. (Disclosure: She is his wife.)
Adam: The Feast of the Goat: A Novel, written by Mario Vargas Llosa and translated by Edith Grossman.
Kaiser: The Hunt for Vulcan: ...And How Albert Einstein Destroyed a Planet, Discovered Relativity, and Deciphered the Universe, by Thomas Levenson.
China's population conundrum, with UNC demographer Yong Cai
COVID-19 origins revisited, with Deborah Seligsohn
Journalist Andrew Jones on China's space program
Chinese college students in the U.S., with Yingyi Ma
China, Russia, and the U.S.: Does the 'strategic triangle' still matter?
Orville Schell on his novel, My Old Home: A Novel of Exile
Margaret Lewis on ethnic profiling in the DOJ's China Initiative
China’s Heart of Darkness
U.S.-China climate cooperation in a competitive age
Searching for the six Chinese survivors of the ‘Titanic’
Beethoven in Beijing
China's new youth, with Alec Ash and Stephanie Studer
China's COVID-19 response and the virus's origins, with Deborah Seligsohn
Ryan Hass on his new book, ‘Stronger’
The parallel world of Chinese tech, with Lillian Li
Cheng Lei: The detention and arrest of an Australian CGTN reporter
Getting Chinese politics wrong, with Jude Blanchette
Julie Klinger on China's rare earth frontiers
Journalist Te-Ping Chen on her short fiction collection, Land of Big Numbers
The Xinjiang camps on Clubhouse
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