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The Story: What China Tariffs Really Signal

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Technology, News, Tech News

4.31.9K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

This week, we’re joined by tech analyst and researcher, Dan Wang, to help analyze the evolving relationship between the US and China. In Dan’s new book, Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future, he introduces a new framework, comparing and contrasting China's “engineering state” to the US’s “lawyerly society”. We also hear Dan’s take on China’s rise as a production superpower, what lessons America can learn from the country and how the current administration's tariff policies (and its ties to tech billionaires like Elon Musk) have shifted the dynamics between these global heavyweights.

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0:00.0

This is an IHeart podcast.

0:04.0

When news broke earlier this year that baby KJ, a newborn in Philadelphia,

0:08.1

had successfully received the world's first personalized gene editing treatment,

0:11.9

it represented a milestone for both researchers and patients.

0:15.3

But there's a gripping tale of discovery behind this accomplishment and its creators.

0:19.4

I'm Evan Ratliff, and together with biographer Walter Isaacson,

0:22.2

we're delving into the story of Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Dowdna,

0:25.2

the woman who's helped change the trajectory of humanity.

0:28.4

Listen to Aunt CRISPR, the story of Jennifer Dowdna with Walter Isaacson

0:31.3

on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:35.5

I'm Jonathan Goldstein, and on the new season of heavyweight...

0:39.0

And so I pointed the gun at him and said this isn't a joke.

0:43.6

A man who robbed a bank when he was 14 years old.

0:47.0

And a centenarian rediscovers a love lost 80 years ago.

0:51.5

How can a 101-year-old woman fall in love again?

0:58.7

Listen to heavyweight on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

1:06.5

Michael Lewis here.

1:08.4

My best-selling book, The Big Short, tells the story of the build-up and burst of the U.S. housing market back in 2008.

1:16.2

A decade ago, the Big Short was made into an Academy Award-winning movie.

1:20.2

Now I'm bringing it to you for the first time as an audiobook narrated by yours truly.

1:25.6

The Big Short's story, what it means to bet against the market, and who really pays for an unchecked

1:30.9

financial system, is as relevant today as it's ever been.

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