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The Spectator

Government & Organizations, News & Politics

A fortnightly podcast from the Spectator on the latest in Chinese politics, society, and more. From Huawei to Hong Kong, Cindy Yu talks to experts, journalists, and long time China-watchers on what you need to know about China.

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97 - How China is quietly cutting out American tech
Mon, 29 Apr 2024
96 - Was Marco Polo a 'sexpat'?
Mon, 15 Apr 2024
95 - What Chinese hackers want
Thu, 28 Mar 2024
94 - Life on the margins pt II: Li Ziqi and the phenomenon of the rural influencer
Mon, 18 Mar 2024
93 - Life on the margins: how China's rural deprivation curbs its success
Mon, 04 Mar 2024
92 - What the Messi row reveals about Chinese football
Mon, 19 Feb 2024
91 - Why do people join the CCP?
Mon, 05 Feb 2024
90 - Was China's economic boom 'made in America'?
Mon, 22 Jan 2024
89 - What lies at the root of the India-China rivalry?
Mon, 08 Jan 2024
88 - Who will be Taiwan's next President?
Mon, 11 Dec 2023
87 - Dialect and identity: is Mandarin bad for China?
Tue, 28 Nov 2023
86 - Battling the official narrative – China's 'underground historians'
Mon, 13 Nov 2023
85 - Rethinking Chinese food with Fuchsia Dunlop
Mon, 30 Oct 2023
84 - 'The mask has slipped' – Tuvia Gering on China, Israel and Hamas
Mon, 16 Oct 2023
83 - Does China care what Britain thinks?
Mon, 02 Oct 2023
82 - What we know about Beijing's spies
Mon, 18 Sep 2023
81 - Is China still a Confucian country?
Mon, 04 Sep 2023
80 - What Beidaihe reveals about the changing nature of Communist leadership
Mon, 21 Aug 2023
79 - Does China need a new economic playbook?
Mon, 07 Aug 2023
78 - Did some good come from the Qing’s dying century?
Mon, 24 Jul 2023
77 - Beijing and Prigozhin: what does China think of the Wagner uprising?
Fri, 30 Jun 2023
76 - How divided is Europe on China?
Mon, 19 Jun 2023
75 - Why China won't invade Taiwan
Mon, 05 Jun 2023
74 - How China's mail-order brides are taking back control
Mon, 15 May 2023
73 - Young and jobless: Is the government letting down China's Generation Z?
Mon, 01 May 2023
72 - Japan's role in the making of modern China
Mon, 17 Apr 2023
71 - Hollywood and China: happily ever after?
Mon, 03 Apr 2023
70 - What Beijing wants out of the Russian invasion
Mon, 20 Mar 2023
69 - Spy planes and infiltrators: a history of the CIA in China
Mon, 06 Mar 2023
68 - Tiananmen and the Tang: the rise of rock in China
Mon, 20 Feb 2023
67 - Have Xinjiang's camps been closed?
Mon, 06 Feb 2023
66 - Covid's legacy: how will China remember the pandemic?
Mon, 23 Jan 2023
65 - Should Britain's Confucius Institutes be shut down?
Mon, 09 Jan 2023
64 - Strangers in a strange land: being foreign in China
Mon, 12 Dec 2022
63 - Echoes of 1989: where the protests go next
Tue, 29 Nov 2022
62 - Second class citizens: the lives of China's internal migrants
Mon, 14 Nov 2022
61 - Reflections on the 20th Party Congress: how Xi took complete control
Fri, 28 Oct 2022
60 - Censorship and sexuality: being gay in China
Mon, 17 Oct 2022
59 - Succession and power: a look ahead to the 20th Party Congress
Mon, 03 Oct 2022
58 - History and belonging: life in a Chinese mega-city
Tue, 20 Sep 2022
57 - Will Liz Truss declare a genocide in Xinjiang?
Mon, 05 Sep 2022
56 - The new great game: how China replaced Russia in Kazakhstan and beyond
Mon, 22 Aug 2022
55 - Pelosi's swansong: the Taiwanese view on her fleeting visit
Fri, 05 Aug 2022
54 - Is China's property market about to go bust?
Mon, 25 Jul 2022
53 - Semiconductors: the next technological arms race
Mon, 11 Jul 2022
52 - The radical age of Chinese cinema
Mon, 27 Jun 2022
51 - Mythbusting the social credit system
Mon, 13 Jun 2022
50 - How the Cultural Revolution shaped China's leaders today
Mon, 30 May 2022
49 - How powerful is the People's Liberation Army?
Mon, 16 May 2022
48 - Does China want to change the international rules-based order?
Mon, 02 May 2022
47 - Algorithms and lockdowns: how China's gig economy works
Mon, 18 Apr 2022
46 - Reinventing the Chinese language
Mon, 04 Apr 2022
45 - The Taiwanese view on Ukraine
Mon, 21 Mar 2022
44 - Freud and China: a love affair
Mon, 07 Mar 2022
43 - Baby bust: what happens when China's population shrinks?
Mon, 21 Feb 2022
42 - The Xi-Putin alliance: how China and Russia are getting ever closer
Mon, 07 Feb 2022
41 - Politics and language: decoding the CCP
Mon, 24 Jan 2022
40 - Why does China care about the Olympics?
Mon, 10 Jan 2022
39 - The power of Weibo
Mon, 13 Dec 2021
38 - What is it to be 'Chinese'?
Mon, 29 Nov 2021
37 - Is 'common prosperity' the road to common poverty?
Mon, 15 Nov 2021
35 - Healing the 'cancer' of the Cultural Revolution
Mon, 01 Nov 2021
34 - Will Xi invade Taiwan?
Mon, 18 Oct 2021
33 - The Chinese love of drinking
Mon, 04 Oct 2021
32 - Has China got over the Japanese invasion?
Mon, 20 Sep 2021
31 - Ancestors and demons: a brief history of Chinese religion
Mon, 06 Sep 2021
30 - Will China become Afghanistan's new sponsor?
Fri, 20 Aug 2021
29 - Ketamine in China: has the country got over the opium wars?
Mon, 09 Aug 2021
28 - Black cat or white cat? Reconciling the two Deng Xiaopings
Mon, 26 Jul 2021
27 - China's 'snowflake generation'
Mon, 12 Jul 2021
26 - Hong Kong's National Security Law, one year on
Mon, 28 Jun 2021
25 - Has economic engagement with China failed?
Mon, 14 Jun 2021
24 - Journalism in China: what can and can't you say?
Mon, 31 May 2021
23 - The fightback against facial recognition
Mon, 17 May 2021
22 - Respect your elders: how the Chinese see family life
Mon, 03 May 2021
21 - Do China's intellectual elite support the government?
Mon, 19 Apr 2021
20 - Why does China care about Taiwan?
Mon, 05 Apr 2021
19 - Is anyone still communist in the Chinese Communist Party?
Mon, 22 Mar 2021
18 - The sacrifices and rewards of a Chinese-style education
Mon, 08 Mar 2021
17 - Is China 'eating America's lunch'?
Mon, 22 Feb 2021
16 - How Hong Kong became what it is today
Mon, 08 Feb 2021
15 - The Chinese backlash against Big Tech
Mon, 25 Jan 2021
14 - What's behind Beijing's treatment of the Uyghurs?
Mon, 11 Jan 2021
13 - Is China turning away from the world?
Mon, 21 Dec 2020
12 - China's long history of student protests
Mon, 07 Dec 2020
11 - Has China really beaten Covid?
Mon, 23 Nov 2020
10 - How China's richest man flew too close to the sun
Mon, 09 Nov 2020
9 - Who are the Chinese-Americans voting for Trump?
Mon, 26 Oct 2020
8 - Half the sky: the woman's place in Chinese society
Mon, 12 Oct 2020
7 - How green is China?
Mon, 28 Sep 2020
6 - The real housewives of Beijing: why the Chinese love luxury goods
Mon, 14 Sep 2020
5 - What tickles China's political elite?
Mon, 31 Aug 2020
4 - Trump's Great Firewall
Mon, 17 Aug 2020
3 - What do the 'wolf warrior' diplomats want?
Mon, 03 Aug 2020
2 - Are Chinese companies arms of the state?
Mon, 20 Jul 2020
1 - What does Beijing want with Hong Kong?
Mon, 06 Jul 2020

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