This episode of Democracy IRL is a companion piece to Michael Bennon and Francis Fukuyama's essay, "China's Road to Ruin," published in the September/October 2023 issue of Foreign Affairs. Here, Bennon and Fukuyama discuss how bad Chinese Belt and Road projects are, leading to financial crises in developing countries, and how international financial institut ... Show More
Oct 2023
Homelands: A Conversation with Timothy Garton Ash
Historian and author Timothy Garton Ash joins Francis Fukuyama to talk about his new book, "Homelands: A Personal History of Europe," covering a period from 1945 to the present. Bookended by World War II and the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Ash discusses the efforts made by Europ ... Show More
44m 51s
Oct 2020
Foreign-Focused Propaganda: China's Belt and Road Initiative
In this episode of Building the Future, Joshua Eisenman, author of Red China’s Green Revolution and Assistant Professor at the Keogh School of Global Affairs at Notre Dame, sits down with Dan Runde to talk about the specifics of China’s development narrative, and how the country ... Show More
25m 18s
Sep 2023
The China Crisis: How Bad is it?
Faced with a real estate crisis, record high youth unemployment, and massive debts at the local government level, how much economic trouble is the People's Republic of China in? On this episode of the Free Expression Podcast, economist and China expert George Magnus tells Wall St ... Show More
28 m
Aug 2023
China's Search for Stimulus
Andy Browne, Partner at Brunswick Group, shares his thoughts on the global impact of China’s economic slowdown. Bloomberg News Meteorologist Rob Carolyn and Lee Mayfield, Director of Response at Hagerty Consulting, discuss Hurricane Idalia hitting Florida’s west coast. Bloomberg ... Show More
48m 6s
Aug 2023
A Primer on China's Current Economic Turmoil
China has posted some troubling economic data of late, leading many macro commentators to call attention to the concerning developments. In today's episode, NLW provides a primer on the past few years of wobbles, issues in the real estate sector, and the CCP's lack of good option ... Show More
17m 46s