‘Superpower Showdown’: A conversation with authors Bob Davis and Lingling Wei
Sinica Podcast
Kaiser Kuo
4.8 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2020
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
This week on Sinica, Kaiser and Jeremy talk to Wall Street Journal reporters Bob Davis and Lingling Wei about their great new book, Superpower Showdown: How the Battle Between Trump and Xi Threatens a New Cold War.
5:11: The increasingly insulated Chinese political elite
18:08: Chinese import competition and its effect on U.S. manufacturing employment
28:27: Líu Hè 刘鹤 and internal politics within Chinese trade negotiations
41:28: Chinese negotiators’ perceptions of their American counterparts
1:03:29: Huawei’s role in the trade war
Recommendations:
Jeremy: This Chinese-to-pinyin generation tool by 蛙蛙工具 (“Frog Tools”). Conversely, Jeremy does NOT recommend Quibi.
Lingling: The book Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China, by Joan Chang.
Bob: The new TV series Perry Mason, available on HBO, as well as the Australian TV series Rake.
Kaiser: The dark comedy TV series Search Party, available on HBO Max.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Cynica podcast, the weekly discussion of current affairs in China, produced in partnership with SUPChina. |
| 0:15.2 | SubChina is the best way to keep on top of all the latest news from China through our daily email |
| 0:19.8 | newsletter, our website, our app, and our growing range of videos and podcasts. |
| 0:24.7 | It's a feast of business, political, and cultural news |
| 0:27.3 | about a nation that is reshaping the world. |
| 0:30.7 | I'm Kaiser Gwill, coming to you today from Chapel Hill, North Carolina. |
| 0:33.4 | Joining me from storied Goldhorn Holler |
| 0:35.3 | is a man best known for his starring role as Covis in the Academy Award-winning short film Tube Girl, Mr. Jeremy Goldhorn. |
| 0:42.3 | Jeremy, it's been a while since we've seen you on the big screen. Are you really just picky about projects? Are you turning them? |
| 0:49.2 | Well, I'm pretty picky, but the agents haven't been calling recently. |
| 0:55.0 | I think it must be COVID-19. |
| 0:57.5 | That's what I'm blaming everything on. |
| 0:59.0 | Yes, everything. |
| 1:01.3 | Everything. |
| 1:01.8 | My whole career is on it. |
| 1:02.8 | Yeah, that's a good, good way. |
| 1:04.5 | Anyway, the U.S.-China trade war is something I've been blaming everything else on. |
| 1:09.0 | It's been one of the defining struggles of the Trump |
| 1:11.3 | presidency. Whether you see it as cause or effect, it's been one of the most conspicuous features |
| 1:16.6 | of a rapidly deteriorating relationship between these two countries. How the war came about, |
| 1:23.8 | the Casas Belai, the personalities involved, the actual course of the trade war itself |
| 1:28.8 | are all vital to understanding where we are today and where we're likely to go from here |
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