Jul 30

Taking stock: China gains in the AI race

Is China rapidly catching up with the United States in the race to dominate artificial intelligence? Rahul Tandon is joined by Walter Todd in the US and Rebecca Choong Wilkins in Singapore to discuss, following a week of sharp moves in AI-related markets and growing questions ove ... Show More

24m 19s

Apr 2026

Headspace: from mindfulness app to military partner

Headspace started life as a mindfulness app. Now it's partnering with the US Navy and investing in artificial intelligence for mental health support.The company's CEO Tom Pickett speaks to us about therapy, the increasing role of technology, and tackling burnout at scale.If you'd ... Show More

17m 28s

Apr 2026

Anthropic: the $300bn AI firm at war with the White House

Anthropic’s rise from startup to one of the world’s leading players in artificial intelligence has been staggering, but so in recent weeks has been its row with the US Government.Today, we look at that journey to becoming a 380 billion dollar company, ask why Claude has become on ... Show More

17m 28s

Oct 2021

A Threat to China’s Economy

<p>Every once in a while a company grows so big and messy that governments fear what would happen to the broader economy if it were to fail. In China, Evergrande, a sprawling real estate developer, is that company.</p><p>Evergrande has the distinction of being the world’s most de ... Show More

30m 25s

Aug 2025

Here's Why China Can’t Sort Out Its Property Market Mess

China’s property market has been in a downward spiral for five years, with little sign of the crisis abating. Even after the collapse of real estate giant Evergrande, values are continuing to plummet. Households in financial distress are being forced to sell properties, and apart ... Show More

7m 50s

Jan 2024

Property giant Evergrande to be liquidated

From the BBC World Service: Evergrande was once China’s biggest property developer. Now, a judge in Hong Kong has ordered the liquidation of the debt-laden real estate giant, but Evergrande says it’ll continue on China’s mainland. And French farmers take their fight over red tape ... Show More

8m 42s

Oct 2023

How did 6 million people in China buy homes that don’t exist?

China is in the middle of a housing market crisis. Two of its top property developers, Evergrande and Country Garden, are struggling to pay back debt or fulfil their promises to build properties they have already sold to millions of people.Fan Wang, a BBC reporter in Singapore, t ... Show More

13m 43s

Sep 2021

Evergrande debt crisis: China’s ‘Lehman moment’ vs Xi’s ‘Common Prosperity’

Mimi Lau speaks with SCMP reporter Pearl Liu about the background to the US$300 billion debt crisis for China's property giant Evergrande, the warning signs from 2019 and escalating events this year that lead to protests across China. Desk editor Zhou Xin explores how Evergrande ... Show More

38m 54s

Sep 2023

China’s Perilous New Debt Phase; Gas-Plunge Hazards

China’s property crisis has lurched into a perilous new phase — with significant implications for the world’s second-largest economy, according to Bloomberg News’ Alice Huang. The deepening distress hurts other industries and repels foreign investors, Huang says. In this episode ... Show More

30m 43s

Dec 2021

Unsafe as houses? Evergrande and China’s big plans

<p>The wildly indebted property firm has defaulted at last. That poses big risks as China’s leadership works to <a href="https://www.economist.com/leaders/2021/12/11/china-courts-global-capital-on-its-own-terms?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&utm_source=theintellige ... Show More

24m 7s

Oct 2021

Is Evergrande Really China’s Lehman Moment?

In September China's second largest real-estate developer, Evergrande, missed an $83.5 million debt payment. Skeptics and bears on China have long said that its property market, which makes up some 30 percent of GDP, is over-leveraged and overheated. The recent news has people as ... Show More

56m 54s

Evergrande and China's property woes