China Watch Radio
Pealing back a layer in geopolitics, searching through the lessons of history, comparing and contrasting culture, and reading between the lines of "great power competition", China Watch Radio delves into the past, present and future of US/China relations while balancing a critical eye for humanitarian abuses and authoritarian structures with a genuine hope for our shared humanity.
Episodes
As Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin meet on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in Uzbekistan, questions about the economic and military relationship between China and Russia abound. With Xi's likely re-election in October approaching, what are the knock-on effects of his particular brand of authoritarianism, extreme even by the CCP's standards. When two concerned citizens and election researchers discovered...
As the Solomon Islands recently denied a port call to US warships, Cambodia seems to be joining the Belt and Road initiative and Nicaragua has seized the Taiwanese Embassy and handed it to Mainland China. In this context, our team of China Watchers discusses what strategic acquisitions China needs most to assert its growing hegemony.
Join us as our team of China Watchers digs into the details of political tensions in the South China Sea and the South Pacific. Guam's significantly increasing its US military presence, the Solomon Islands are diverting away US warships, while Russia sells natural gas to China, that China then sells to Europe for a huge markup.
Joe Biden is now condemning a CCP organization his son once lobbied for. What has changed in Washington? Youth employment in China has risen to 19.9%. Is this a signal of impending demographic collapse? Is Taiwan prepared for a blockade? In 1904 Sir Halford John Mackinder wrote "The Geographical Pivot of History" for the Royal Geographical Society, predicting that an alliance centered in the Asian land mass would dominate g...
Why is the US National Institute of Health still funding the Wuhan Institute of Virology? Would a Western intervention be justified if the Solomon Islands start becoming a Chinese military base? Did Sri Lanka build China a de facto military base? What would the economic costs be to Taiwan and Mainland China if sanctions increase or if a war breaks out? How does the US and China compare with regards to population decline? Is a great...
As the team debates the various competing claims to the ownership of Taiwan, Amy Hao joins in to add her unique perspective.
It's easy to get caught up in the theater of contemporary geopolitical brinkmanship. Join our team of China Watchers as we go beyond the headlines to ascertain the medium and long term economic and military effects of Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan. While China's economy looks to be in worse shape than the US, the underlying question is "how close to losing faith are the Chinese people?" It seems Anthony Fauci ...
Senior Australian Accounting Venture Capitalist William Ricketts joined us to dig deep into Australia/China relations as well as help us understand the nature of the Chinese banking system. He also described the situation in the Solomon Islands with regards to recent inroads made with a Chinese offer to train and augment local security forces. With regards to the Chinese banking system, it sounds like a house of cards primarily sup...
* Tiananmen Square Black Swan Event
* “Tanks to the Banks”. China deploys army tanks to guard it’s Banks from cash withdrawals
* Broader consequences of the housing pricing collapse in China. Is the cure worse than the disease?
* Compare Chinese TikTok to Western TikTok we see in the USA
Special Guest: Joseph Hanneman, Lead investigator of Jan. 6 and Senior reporter at The Epoch Times
How reliant are we on Chinese Antibiotics? Why are we still investing in China? A huge data breach of Chinese citizens is already having a dramatic effect on what we know about the real Chinese economy and demography. As Sri-Lanka goes belly up, should we point the finger at Belt & Road loans, ESG policies or both? As Shinzo Abe's assassination shocked the world, many Chines saw cause for celebration. Who was Shinzo Abe and...
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