China policy and the American presidency
Sinica Podcast
Kaiser Kuo
4.8 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2020
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
With the United States now in a presidential election year, how should an incoming administration — whether a Democratic presidency or a second Trump administration — approach China policy? This week, Kaiser chats with eminent scholars Susan Shirk and Barry Naughton of the University of California, San Diego’s School of Global Policy and Strategy, and asks them how they would advise the future occupant of the Oval Office.
This episode is part of the California series, produced with the assistance of the Serica Initiative, SupChina’s nonprofit program.
23:18: Relitigating the case for engagement
26:44: The biggest economic hurdles for the U.S. and China
39:33: Addressing technological concerns with the P.R.C.
44:54: Shaping China policy for the future: Rebuild as it was, or begin anew?
Recommendations:
Barry: Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century, by George Packer.
Susan: Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China, by Ezra F. Vogel.
Kaiser: The New China Scare, in the January/February edition of Foreign Affairs, by Fareed Zakaria.
This podcast was edited and produced by Kaiser Kuo and Jason MacRonald.
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| 0:00.0 | This series of California-based podcasts is brought to you in partnership with the Serraka Initiative, our nonprofit program. |
| 0:08.0 | The mission of the Serraka Initiative is to produce independent educational and public awareness programming |
| 0:13.0 | to make the U.S. and global public better informed about China. |
| 0:30.8 | Welcome to the cynical podcast, a weekly discussion of current affairs in China, produced in partnership with SubChina. |
| 0:32.5 | SubChina is simply the best way there is to keep on top of all the important news coming |
| 0:35.8 | out of China. |
| 0:36.7 | Our indispensable daily newsletter features are roundup of the news from hundreds of sources, |
| 0:40.5 | plus links to the original writing on our website. |
| 0:43.6 | Sign up for Sub-China Access, and you get all that and much more, |
| 0:46.5 | with stories on everything from the Belt and Road to local entrepreneurship and innovation in China, |
| 0:50.4 | from the travails of ethnically Chinese researchers in the U.S. in this age of creeping McCarthyism |
| 0:54.9 | to China's ongoing extralegal internment of hundreds of thousands or by some estimates |
| 0:59.7 | over a million Uyghurs and other Muslims in China's Xinjiang region. |
| 1:04.3 | We're sure you'll agree it's a feast of business, political, and cultural news |
| 1:07.8 | about a nation that is reshaping the world. |
| 1:10.5 | I'm Kaiser Guo coming you today from UC San Diego at the School of Global Policy and Strategy. |
| 1:15.4 | First stop on Seneca's Winter 2019 California Tour. |
| 1:19.5 | An election year is upon us here in the United States. |
| 1:22.4 | For those of us here in the U.S. who work on China, |
| 1:24.5 | it's hard not to think of the race and the possibility of a different administration as an opportunity to advance our ideas about what policy ought to be toward |
| 1:32.7 | China. So, if we were to have the ear of a President Biden or President Warren or Buttigieg |
| 1:37.9 | or a President Pence or, as remains a distinct possibility, another President Trump. |
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