China Unraveled

China has been gaining ground. After decades of expansion its economy, technology, and military are formidable. Everyone wonders if and when it will grow more powerful than the United States. Many think a global power transition is inevitable, one where America exits stage left and China enters stage right. But will China actually run the world?
Can China run the world? The US certainly seems to. Maybe all China has to do is take its place? Maybe it is as easy as sitting on an empty throne
Maybe not.
Tune in to hear what it takes to run the world and where China’s global ambitions will take it.

As the world’s most populous country was put in lockdown the world’s greatest propaganda machine went into overdrive. What really happened behind China’s quarantine? What were the real motivations for putting it in place? Did it work? China’s government is not telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. Listen in to hear what the Chinese government does not want you to know.

This episode moves beyond partisan bickering to look at the roots of modern global trade. The last 75 years were a singular moment in world history. No other era had a non-imperial global trading system and for good reason. How and why did our current system come about? And how did China secure itself such a prominent role? Can China’s role last? What about the system as a whole? Tune in to learn how and why this system was built and whether it can withstand the challenges of the 2020’s.

A new and uncompromising look at China.

What is China's true potential?
Evaluating a country's prospects can be hard because globalization briefly altered the basic mechanics of economic development. For decades capital, resources, and technologies flowed to every corner of the world. Anything seemed possible. Regions that had never developed came online for the first time. In this context how much of China's success was a result of the unique circumstances of the last few decades? And was China's ancient wealth and power really what we imagine it to be? Tune in to hear what China looks like when fact is separated from fiction.