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This Week in China’s History: The Battle of Lake Poyang
August 30, 1363
 • James Carter
Trivium China Weekly Recap | Washington’s China Policy: All Bluster, No Substance
More bark than bite, more rattle than snake, more smoke than fire – pick your idiom of choice, but what’s clear is that Washington has spent the past…
 • Andrew Polk
Trivium China Podcast | Beijing’s New Directive to its Tech Firms: Behave Abroad
Listen now | Chinese tech companies keep getting fined and blocked overseas – sometimes unfairly, and sometimes because they’re behaving exactly like…
 • Andrew Polk
27:46
Trivium China Weekly Recap | Beijing’s answer to weak demand?
If you’ve been waiting for Beijing to unveil a plan to fix China’s flagging consumption, we have an answer for you.
 • Andrew Polk
China’s BRI Is Bigger Than Ever. It Just Looks Very Different
After the pandemic, as Chinese state-backed lending to developing countries largely dried up, critics declared the Belt and Road Initiative effectively…
 • Eric Olander
34:54
"Handcrafted from scratch" — Phrase of the Week
A new budget indie movie becomes a hit… because it’s made by hand
 • Andrew Methven
Another Grim Month for the Chinese Economy
Listen now (38 mins) | China’s July macro data just landed, and the title of our monthly macro note says it all: “A Grim Picture.”
 • Andrew Polk
37:42
Talking Past Each Other: Pallavi Aiyar on India, China, and the Case for Cognitive Empathy
This week on Sinica, I sit down with the writer Pallavi Aiyar — at her own dining table in Beijing, where in recent months I’ve been the lucky…
 • Kaiser Y Kuo
1:19:52
Transcript | Talking Past Each Other: Pallavi Aiyar on India, China, and the Case for Cognitive Empathy
Transcript (courtesy of the fantastic CadreScripts) further down the page.
 • Kaiser Y Kuo
"The breeze cannot read, so why, then, does it riffle through my book" — Phrase of the Week
Huawei's war on a bamboo toy revives a Qing-era warning about abuse of power
 • Andrew Methven
The China Chokepoints Nobody's Watching
Listen now | When it comes to China’s key nodes of economic leverage, rare earths get all the attention — because they’re the cheapest, easiest lever…
 • Andrew Polk
1:03:39
Trivium China Podcast | Beijing Stops Playing Coy
Listen now | On August 5th, China dropped a new batch of retaliatory economic measures against various US entities.
 • Andrew Polk
33:37
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