Bruno Maçães and Linda Yueh on the Chinese World Order

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🗓️ 28 December 2018

⏱️ 40 minutes

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In this episode of the Intelligence Squared podcast we were joined by Bruno Maçães, the former Europe minister of Portugal, in conversation with Oxford economist and broadcaster Linda Yueh. They talked about China's Belt and Road strategy, widely acknowledged to be the most ambitious geopolitical initiative of the age. Covering almost seventy countries by land and sea, it will affect every element of global society, from shipping to agriculture, digital economy to tourism, politics to culture. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/intelligencesquared. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:49.0	Hello and welcome to this week's Intelligence Squared podcast
0:53.0	This week Linda Yu and Bruno Massage speak about the Chinese World Order.
0:57.0	Daniel produced this podcast.
0:59.0	Daniel, tell us about what we're discussing today.
1:01.0	Well in the studio we had Bruno Massage, who a few years ago was the Europe minister in the
1:06.1	Portuguese government, and now he's become an expert on all things China.
1:10.8	So he lives in Beijing at the moment, and he's written a fantastic new book about the
1:14.8	belt and road initiative which is this fascinating initiative that the Chinese government
1:19.5	has undertaken to invest massively in infrastructure projects around the world as part of an effort to increase its geopolitical ambitions overseas.
1:29.0	And he was interviewed by Linda Yu, who's a fantastic economist and broadcaster, she's at Oxford University.
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1:40.1	Hello, I'm Linda Yu.
1:41.6	I'm an economist at the University of Oxford and London Business School.
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