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Chinese Whispers

The Spectator

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A fortnightly podcast from the Spectator on the latest in Chinese politics, society, and more. From Huawei to Hong Kong, Cindy Yu talks to experts, journalists, and long time China-watchers on what you need to know about China. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episodes (282)

New podcast: Quite right! with Michael Gove & Madeline Grant

Chinese Whispers

Sep 10, 202518:23pending

A compilation of Chinese Whispers: understanding China

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May 5, 20251:37:57pending

What does it take to be 'an old friend of the Chinese people'?

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Apr 7, 202537:44pending

From Chimerica to Cold War II: how US-China relations soured

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Mar 24, 202536:32pending

Rana Mitter on the legacy of Sun Yat-sen

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Mar 10, 202543:24pending

What China's planned mega-dam means for Asia

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Feb 24, 202528:30pending

Have America's chips controls backfired?

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Feb 10, 202557:06pending

What is China's 'United Front' agenda?

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Jan 27, 202533:31pending

Eva Dou on the 'House of Huawei'

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Jan 13, 202549:05pending

What’s in a name? Peter Hessler on what English names can reveal about China

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Dec 23, 202434:01pending

Xi Jinping's PLA purges

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Dec 9, 202435:07pending

What's behind the Chinese migrant surge at the Darien Gap?

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Nov 25, 202422:50pending

Why Beijing is wary of a Russo-North Korean alliance

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Nov 11, 202455:44pending

Battle of Ideas – is China in decline?

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Oct 28, 20241:35:28pending

Corruption, power and the truth about my wife’s disappearance – with Desmond Shu...

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Oct 14, 202443:28pending

Will AI be the next arms race?

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Sep 30, 202448:00pending

A father and son at the edge of the Chinese empire

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Sep 16, 202438:31pending

Investigating China's 'historic' claims in the South China Sea

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Sep 2, 202443:11pending

What would a second Trump presidency bring for China?

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Aug 19, 202430:23pending

How oil became the latest Chinese food scandal

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Aug 5, 202452:55pending

Why China loves Taylor Swift

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Jul 22, 202446:45pending

Shock To The System (II): How China's electric cars dominated the world

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Jul 8, 202434:00pending

Shock To The System (I): Can the EU fend off the threat of Chinese electric cars...

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Jun 24, 202429:56pending

How would Britain's Labour party change UK-China relations?

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Jun 10, 202433:56pending

Life in a changing China

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May 27, 202439:23pending

China's vendetta against Nato

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May 13, 202446:22pending

How China is quietly cutting out American tech

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Apr 29, 202432:16pending

Was Marco Polo a 'sexpat'?

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Apr 15, 202424:55pending

What Chinese hackers want

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Mar 28, 202426:30pending

Life on the margins pt II: Li Ziqi and the phenomenon of the rural influencer

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Mar 18, 202422:30pending

Life on the margins: how China's rural deprivation curbs its success

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Mar 4, 202441:13pending

What the Messi row reveals about Chinese football

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Feb 19, 202439:56pending

Why do people join the CCP?

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Feb 5, 202446:58pending

Was China's economic boom 'made in America'?

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Jan 22, 202453:16pending

What lies at the root of the India-China rivalry?

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Jan 8, 202445:06pending

Who will be Taiwan's next President?

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Dec 11, 202342:57pending

Dialect and identity: is Mandarin bad for China?

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Nov 28, 202343:49pending

Battling the official narrative – China's 'underground historians'

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Nov 13, 202335:25pending

Rethinking Chinese food with Fuchsia Dunlop

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Oct 30, 202350:22pending

'The mask has slipped' – Tuvia Gering on China, Israel and Hamas

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Oct 16, 202343:04pending

Does China care what Britain thinks?

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Oct 2, 20231:01:41pending

What we know about Beijing's spies

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Sep 18, 202331:58pending

Is China still a Confucian country?

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Sep 4, 202328:51pending

What Beidaihe reveals about the changing nature of Communist leadership

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Aug 21, 202325:58pending

Does China need a new economic playbook?

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Aug 7, 202341:22pending

Did some good come from the Qing’s dying century?

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Jul 24, 202336:47pending

Beijing and Prigozhin: what does China think of the Wagner uprising?

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Jun 30, 202336:05pending

How divided is Europe on China?

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Jun 19, 202338:51pending

Why China won't invade Taiwan

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Jun 5, 202340:47pending

How China's mail-order brides are taking back control

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May 15, 202335:56pending