Is America cooked? We check in on what clarity the past three months have given us on the long term dynamic between the US and China.
Guests include:
Peter Harrell, former Biden official who hosts the Security Economics podcast (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/security-economics/id1794022711)
Matt Klein of the https://theovershoot.co/ substack
Kevin Xu of the https://interconnect.substack.com/ subsctack
Outtro music: Emitt Rhodes, Textile Factory, 1970 https://open.spotify.com/track/1JO2jo0Cyg75mmCFlSW2bB?si=1706c809e80b4bd4
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Dylan, Doug, Jon on AI Mandate of Heaven + Ezra Beef
Two weeks in a row what has gotten into us.
Jordan tries to save the NSF and immigrant visas with an AI researcher letter
Our quarterly AI mandate of heaven update (there's been alot of movement!)
Dylan makes bad slop jokes
The Ezra Klein/Dylan Patel beef begins
We recommend the amazing book Mitsui: Three Centuries of Japanese Business
Outtro music: באמפרים” (pronounced Bam-pe-rim, roughly “Bumpers”) by the Israeli hip-hop duo Ness & Stilla, 2024 https://open.spotify.com/track/3FihyZ7YA7vrNiSUfWww10?si=9817a9122faf4b08
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Doug, Dylan and Jon on Nvidia + Saudi/UAE
Dylan bonds with Nvidia's CFO and I try to keep the GPUs in actual democracies.
Outtro Music: FaceTime, Karencici, 2018. https://open.spotify.com/track/2PNDZp0ultOJrQL4AVENPO?si=46cdf72cdffb40a3
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MAGA-Mao Connections with Orville Schell
What can Mao Zedong teach us about Donald Trump?
To find out, ChinaTalk interviewed the legendary sinologist Orville Schell, who visited China during the Cultural Revolution and is currently at the Asia Society.
We discuss…
Mao Zedong’s psychology and political style,
Similarities and differences between Mao and Trump,
How Mao-era traumas reverberate in modern China, including how the Cultural Revolution has influenced the Xi family,
How Zhou Enlai and Deng Xiaoping survived the Cultural Revolution, and which of their tactics could be useful in modern America,
What civil society can do to defend democracy over the next four years.
Co-hosting is Alexander Boyd, associate editor at China Books Review and former ChinaTalk intern.
Read Orville's article, "Trump's Cultural Revolution," here.
Read the Asia Society piece on religion and political power here.
Orville's crazy Asia Society event, From Pontius Pilate to Chairman Mao: Religion and Politics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opw9vqpPBqQ&ab_channel=AsiaSociety
Book recommendations:
Joseph Torigian - The Party's Interests Come First: The Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping
Perry Link - The Anaconda in the Chandelier - excerpt from ChinaFile
William Shirer - The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
Victor Klemperer - I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years, 1933-1941
Outro music:
Bach's Partita No. 1 for Solo Violin in B Minor, BWV 1002: VIII. Double, Gidon Kremer
https://open.spotify.com/track/3x1Rdpgy6QGSlW9tItHYdm?si=20fa2051dc5d4f91
Aria from J.S. Bach Cantata 'Schwingt freudig euch empor'
https://open.spotify.com/track/5pIy4Gll1YywqKX25EbbOb?si=520327db35f54201
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A BREATHER: Making Clothes in China
This is a show about globalization, fashion design, and the future of manufacturing-based economic growth.
For a breather from the election chaos, ChinaTalk interviewed Will Lasry, Montreal-based designer, manufacturing specialist, and founder of Glass Factory. Will and his team are on a mission to make manufacturing transparent. They fly all around the world making documentaries on clothing factories and playing matchmaker between designers and producers. Check out his Youtube channel here.
We discuss:
How clothes are made, including the complicated processes behind distressed denim and other trends;
What makes a country an ideal destination for manufacturing clothing, and whether rising labor costs will drive the industry out of China entirely;
Xinjiang cotton, environmental destruction, and other unethical practices hanging over the fashion industry;
Why Gucci and other high-end designers are betting that “Made in India” will soon be even more chic than “Made in Italy.”
Co-hosting today is longtime ChinaTalk editor Irene Zhang.
Outtro music: Vinida Weng - WAIYA! (Youtube Link)
Thumbnail image: Link.
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