U.S.-China Nexus Podcast: Recent Episodes
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In 2022, Georgetown University’s Initiative for U.S.-China Dialogue on Global Issues launched the U.S.-China Nexus, a new podcast featuring conversations with scholars and policy experts on the dynamics in China and Sino-American relations. The show’s guests share the development of their careers and insights about the current state of bilateral ties. It also looks forward, providing reflections on how to manage this complex relationship as elements of strategic competition become more pronounced. Each episode features a conversation with host Eleanor M. Albert. The show takes on critical global issues, including climate change, global health, peace and security, e-commerce and technology, culture and society, women and society, and cosmopolitanism.
Students share their experiences and highlights from the Initiative’s student-to-student dialogue exchange program.
Jennifer Bouey looks back on the lessons learned and benefits from U.S.-China cooperation on HIV.
Kendra Schaefer explains China’s conceptualization of digital sovereignty and its distinct approach to domestic and international data and internet governance.
Jing Qian joins the U.S.-China Nexus to take stock of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank.
Gedaliah Afterman and Dawn Murphy discuss the evolution and motivations behind China’s position as a potential conflict mediator.
James Gethyn Evans and Emily Matson discuss how the history of the People’s Republic of China and the Chinese Communist Party have grown more intertwined.
Chi Zhang sheds light on China’s ideological conception of terrorism and how Chinese leaders craft the country’s counterterrorism practices.
William Piekos talks us through how to assess potential vulnerabilities to Chinese economic coercion.
Dennis Wilder and Ja-Ian Chong trace the language and behavior behind China’s renewed focus on national security.
Sheena Chestnut Greitens and Paul Nantulya examine the motivations and implications of China’s overseas security partnerships with the U.S.-China Nexus.
Lev Nachman and Christina Lai join the U.S.-China Nexus to discuss Taiwan’s role in the world.
Min Ye shares the origins and evolution of China’s Belt and Road Initiative with the U.S.-China Nexus.
Kenton Thibaut joins the U.S.-China Nexus to unpack the tools and strategies of China’s overseas influence operations.
Joanna Lewis joins the U.S.-China Nexus to discuss her new book examining different modes of international clean energy cooperation with China.
Isabel Bernhard and Pepe Zhang join the U.S.-China Nexus to shed light on the diverse approaches Latin American and Caribbean states employ to engage with China.
Francesca Ghiretti and Alicja Bachulska assess variation between the dominant actors of Western Europe and other European countries more to the center and east of the region vis-à-vis China.
Yuan Wang joins the U.S.-China Nexus to delve into China’s development ties to the African continent.
Paul Haenle, Faryar Shirzad, and Dennis Wilder look back at China policy during the George W. Bush administration and weigh in on lessons learned.
Yun Sun and Prashanth Parameswaran highlight the gravitational pull of China in Southeast Asia.
Manoj Kewalramani joins the show to explore China’s engagement with South Asia and the strategies that regional states employ to hedge and balance the influence of great powers
Raffaello Pantucci and Niva Yau share their insights into China’s geographic, human, and economic links to Central Asia.
Andrea Ghiselli and Iain MacGillivray unpack the nuances of how China is perceived across the Middle Eastern and dispel the notion that China might displace the regional security role played by the United States.
Mark Watson of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute joins the U.S.-China Nexus to trace the peaks and valleys in Beijing-Canberra relations.
Darcie Draudt, Ankit Panda, and Ayumi Teraoka join the show to explore the complex economic and security dynamics between China and its neighbors in Northeast Asia, Japan, North Korea, and South Korea.
This season of the U.S.-China Nexus looks at China’s expanding global footprint and the country’s outlook vis-à-vis different parts of the world.
Joanna Lewis discusses the opportunities and challenges in U.S.-China cooperation on climate change and how this dimension of bilateral engagement has changed over time.
Evan Medeiros joins the U.S.-China Nexus to discuss how high school and college debating led him to study Chinese foreign policy and urges careful management of the competitive coexistence at root in the U.S.-China relationship.
Derek Goldman joins the U.S.-China Nexus to discuss his early ties forged with faculty and theater-makers in China and his application of his In Your Shoes methodology to the macro-setting of U.S.-China relations.
Wu Xinbo joins the U.S.-China Nexus to diagnose the state of bilateral relations between Beijing and Washington and the shifts in Chinese elite perceptions of the United States.
Jennifer Huang Bouey joins the U.S.-China Nexus sharing how she came to study epidemiology and her hopes for the future of global public health exchanges.
Becky Yang Hsu speaks with the U.S.-China Nexus about conceptions of happiness and religion in China.
Liu Meng speaks with the U.S.-China Nexus about women’s empowerment and raising awareness about domestic violence in China.
Douglas Fuller joins the U.S.-China Nexus to discuss the tech dimensions of the U.S.-China relationship.
Philip Ivanhoe joins the U.S.-China Nexus to share how he started his career-long study of Chinese philosophy and why studying different cultures is important, especially when political ties are stalled.
Dennis Wilder joins the U.S.-China Nexus to share how he came to build a career around the study of China’s security apparatus and the emergence of China’s military footprint.
The U.S.-China Nexus podcast features conversations with a scholar or policy expert on dynamics in China and Sino-American relations. This is an excerpt from our first episode.