Adam Tooze on the geopolitics of the pandemic
Sinica Podcast
Kaiser Kuo
4.8 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2020
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
This week, Kaiser and Jeremy chat with Adam Tooze, professor of history at Columbia University and author of Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World, about the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the U.S. and China, and how it has affected their position in the emerging geopolitical contest.
6:45: American power and political authority
14:01: China’s power during the pandemic
20:27: Trump’s deliberate strategy of “stress testing”
33:24: The Trump administration’s full-court press against the CCP
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Jeremy: Wu Fei’s Music Daily: an email newsletter with an original piece of music every day of the week by a composer and guzheng virtuoso. (Disclosure: She is his wife.)
Adam: The Feast of the Goat: A Novel, written by Mario Vargas Llosa and translated by Edith Grossman.
Kaiser: The Hunt for Vulcan: ...And How Albert Einstein Destroyed a Planet, Discovered Relativity, and Deciphered the Universe, by Thomas Levenson.
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| 1:19.9 | that is reshaping the world. I'm Kaiser Guo coming to today from Chapel Hill, North Carolina. |
| 1:25.3 | Joining me from the bucolic splendor, whose is sprawling woodland estate in Nashville, Tennessee, |
| 1:29.7 | is gentleman Jeremy Goldcorn, a man, |
| 1:32.0 | and I swear to God, I'm not kidding this time, |
| 1:34.1 | who was named Beijing's most eligible bachelor in the year 2000. |
| 1:40.5 | Look at him now, and it's hard to imagine. |
| 1:43.1 | No, I was one of several reprobates put on the cover of some expat rag. |
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| 1:51.8 | Yeah, tell her, please. |
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