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"Impossible to get a Labubu" — Phrase of the Week
The toy that everyone wants
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Andrew Methven
WEF Work | How China Got Rich: a Deep Dive into China’s 40-Year History of Economic Transformation
Originally published for the World Economic Forum
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Kaiser Y Kuo
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Transcript | Carnegie's Tong Zhao on the Expansion of China's Nuclear Arsenal
Below is a complete transcript of the episode.
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Kaiser Y Kuo
1:10:21
Carnegie's Zhao Tong on the Expansion of China's Nuclear Arsenal
This week on Sinica, in a show taped in early June in Washington, Kaiser chats with Tong Zhao (赵通) of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a…
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Kaiser Y Kuo
Will China’s Trade Strategy in Africa Succeed Where Europe’s Didn’t?
By Christian-Géraud Neema Byamungu
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China-Global South Project
"Bureaucratic overreach" — Phrase of the Week
New drinking bans go too far
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Andrew Methven
37:35
Consumer upswings + geopolitical downswings
In this week’s Trivium China podcast, host Andrew Polk is joined by colleagues Ether Yin (Trivium’s head of policy research) and Joe Mazur (Trivium’s…
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Andrew Polk
56:59
China's Africa Security Strategy: Training, Arms, and Political Influence
Over the past 25 years, China’s military engagement with Africa has grown dramatically.
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Eric Olander
The Wasting Disease
Are we misdiagnosing the spot on the Chinese lung?
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Kaiser Y Kuo
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