ECONOMY FORUM: Earlier this year, as what would become known as Covid-19 struck Wuhan, there was some discussion about how China’s GDP might temporarily fall and what impact that fall might have on the world economy. There was little sense that the disease might become a pandemic and affect the whole world. Now, with most Western countries facing unprecedented falls in economic output, China appears to have ridden the storm remarkably well. Like it or not, the UK, EU and US are remarkably dependent upon on China – and not just for PPE. Beyond the tempers on all sides, what real cleavages – China vs the West, China vs its neighbours, and among Western allies over tactics toward Beijing – can we expect to develop in 2020-21? Austin Williams and James Woudhuysen discuss.
#BattleCry: Professor Tim Ingold on evolutionary psychology
#BattleCry: Cathy Young on the rise of the alt-right
#BattleFest2015: From Islamic State to Oxford - a monumental war on the past?
#PodcastOfIdeas: Scaramucci, gender identity and the Brexit transitional phase
#PodcastOfIdeas: public-sector pay, Donald Trump and Emmanuel Macron
#PodcastOfIdeas: the Grenfell tragedy, the Finsbury Park attack and the DUP
#PodcastOfIdeas: further reflections on Election 2017
#PodcastOfIdeas: the morning after Election 2017
#PodcastOfIdeas: UK general election - episode 4
#PodcastOfIdeas: UK general election - episode 3
#PodcastOfIdeas: UK general election - episode 2
#PodcastOfIdeas: UK general election - episode 1
Book Launch: Phil Mullan’s Creative Destruction - how to start an economic renaissance
#BattleFest2016: Cosmopolitanism and sovereignty - what next for Europe?
#PodcastOfIdeas: What next for Brexit?
#BattleFest2016: Tax wars and inequality
#BattleFest2016: Who are we? Identity politics dissected
#BattleFest2016: Immigration - what is the future of free movement?
#PodcastOfIdeas: Does Britain need an industrial strategy?
#PodcastOfIdeas: John Bercow’s snub, protests on campus and Living Freedom
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free