China and India: Pallavi Aiyar and Ananth Krishnan on mutual misperceptions

Sinica Podcast

Kaiser Kuo

Culture, China News, Hangzhou, Chinese, International Relations, Chongqing, Beijing, Sichuan, Currentaffairs, China, Politics, Chengdu, Shanghai, Guangzhou, China Economy, News, China Politics, Business, Film, Shenzhen

4.8 • 676 Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

This week on Sinica, we bring you a conversation with Pallavi Aiyar, a prolific writer and, until 2008, a Beijing-based journalist, and Ananth Krishnan, who reported from China for The Hindu and India Today until 2018. The two chatted with Kaiser and Jeremy as part of the Hong Kong International Literary Festival in November, covering subjects from popular Chinese misconceptions and stereotypes about India to India’s curiosity about — and sparse media coverage of — its powerful neighbor to the northeast.

5:49: Mutual cultural ignorance between China and India

11:06: Indian views on Chinese authoritarianism

32:03: Social mobility and classism

42:00: Comparing Chinese and Indian nationalism

52:23: 2020 as an inflection point in India-China relations

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0:00.0	Welcome to this special edition of the Cynica podcast recording live from the Hong Kong International Literary Festival.
0:19.2	The Cynica podcast is produced in partnership with SUPChina.
0:21.9	Visit SUPChina.com and subscribe to our access newsletter for a feast of business, political,
0:27.5	and cultural news about a nation that is reshaping the world.
0:30.9	I'm Kaiser Guo, and I'm joined, of course, by Jeremy Goldcorn, editor-in-chief of SUPChina,
0:35.4	and a man who's pretty sure he can still secure an appointment
0:38.3	with the Trump administration with just a couple of more firing.
0:42.8	Yeah, who knows.
0:44.0	He'll be in office for just a couple of weeks, but that's good enough, right?
0:47.2	Jeremy, beat to be, won't you?
0:49.6	Revolving more will still be there.
0:52.0	Kaisi, are still so confident that American democracy
0:54.6	is going to hold up,
0:55.6	you know?
0:57.4	Actually, I'm not.
0:59.4	Well, we're thrilled to be talking to two old
1:01.5	friends of ours from Beijing,
1:02.8	Paolo V.I.R. and Anandha
1:04.2	Krishna, both of whom spent much of their
1:06.1	professional lives reporting from Beijing
1:07.8	and are some of the most
1:09.7	astute observers of contemporary China who I know
	...

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