FACE-OFF is an eight-episode podcast about how China and the United States, once friends, are now foes.
FACE-OFF is hosted by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist...
Trump has praised Xi Jinping in the past. He’s also slapped tariffs on China. What does the return of Trump mean for China? Economic rivalry for sure. Possible war over Taiwan? A battle over AI dominance and confrontation over China’s rapidly expanding military force, also for sure. How will Trump stop China from usurping America’s place on the global stage?
Guest: Minxin Pei, Claremont College professor and China commentator.
Book Recommendations:
The Red Emperor: Xi Jinping and His New China by Michael Sheridan.
Xi Jinping: The Backlash by Richard McGregor.
Sound design, original score, mixing and mastering by Rowhome Productions. Rowhome’s Creative Director is Alex Lewis. John Myers is Rowhome’s Executive Producer.
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Season 2 Trailer
Season 2 of Face-Off: US vs China begins Tuesday, February 11.
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The New Cold Wars: A Conversation with David Sanger
In this bonus episode, Jane Perlez sits down with New York Times national security and White House correspondent David Sanger. In this candid conversation, they talk about his new bestseller: New Cold Wars: China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West. Plus they discuss Sanger's views on where the US - China relationship is headed, how he worries about the friendship between China and Russia, and a party in New York City where talk turned to the subject of nuclear weapons. This conversation was recorded in August 2024 at a surf club in Sydney, Australia.
Follow David Sanger on Twitter at @SangerNYT.
Sound design, original score, mixing and mastering by Rowhome Productions.
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Taiwan
Will the United States and China go to war over an island of 24 million people nearly 6,500 miles from California? Why is this a possibility? What is the history and significance of Taiwan to America and China?
Guest: Lyle Goldstein, former professor US Naval College, now at Brown University. Taiwanese expert, Syaru Shirley Lin, founder of the think tank, Capri.
An essay by Lyle Goldstein on how Taiwan features in US foreign policy. In the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists.
https://home.watson.brown.edu/research/research-briefs/trouble-taiwan
About Shirley Lin’s CAPRI, a foundation that studies the Asia Pacific region.
https://caprifoundation.org/syaru-shirley-lin/
A controversial essay on how nuclear weapons could be used in a war over Taiwan by Matthew Kroenig, a professor at Georgetown University and senior director at The Atlantic Council. Mr. Kroenig’s article is considered an outlier on the subject https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-research-reports/report/deliberate-nuclear-use-in-a-war-over-taiwan-scenarios-and-considerations-for-the-united-states/
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China’s Fortunes
How the Chinese economic downturn is affecting all kinds of people. How real estate meltdown, with enough unfinished empty apartments to fill the population of Germany, is at the center of it all. How tech entrepreneurs are mysteriously disappearing, and how college graduates don’t want to work.
Guests: Keyu Jin, London School of Economics, author of New China Playbook; Elsie Chen, a member of China’s “lying down” generation, now a Nieman Fellow at Harvard.
Elsie Chen’s New York Times article about lying flat. She interviews Luo Huazhong, the factory worker, who quit his job, went back to his rural village. His post about his lifestyle decision went viral, and inspired a movement dedicated to opting out.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/03/world/asia/china-slackers-tangping.html
A roundtable discussion with Keyu Jin at the Fairbank Center at Harvard.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=357QIFs9FXc
Sound design, original score, mixing and mastering by Rowhome Productions.
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FACE-OFF is an eight-episode podcast about how China and the United States, once friends, are now foes.
FACE-OFF is hosted by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jane Perlez, former New York Times Beijing bureau chief and current fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center. In each episode Professor Rana Mitter, recently of the University of Oxford and now professor of modern China at the Harvard Kennedy School, chats with Jane on what’s at stake.
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