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Jimmy Lai was born in mainland China but made his fortune in Hong Kong, starting as a sweatshop worker and becoming a clothing tycoon. After the Tiananmen massacre in 1989, he turned his attention to the media, launching publications critical of China’s Communist Party.
“I believe in the media,” he told Austin Ramzy, ... Show More
Mar 8
Oscars 2026: Who Will Win, and Who Should Win?
Today on “The Sunday Daily,” The Times’s chief movie critic, Manohla Dargis, talks with the “Daily” host Michael Barbaro about this year’s batch of Oscar nominees, which — according to her — are uncommonly good. They discuss the performances that Dargis believes deserve to win, t ... Show More
35m 24s
Aug 2021
The struggle for the soul of Hong Kong
<p>Each Monday this August, we're looking back at some of the stories from the past year that stuck with us.</p><p>In June 2020, with the world's attention on the pandemic, Hong Kong’s freedoms were under threat as the Chinese government imposed a draconian new security law. Now, ... Show More
28m 21s
Nov 2022
China's Lockdown Protests
Thousands take to the streets in China to protest against Xi Jinping’s Covid lockdown restrictions. Adam is joined by John Simpson, the BBC’s world affairs editor and Kerry Allen, the BBC’s China media analyst to discuss what’s happening, what it’s like to be arrested as a journa ... Show More
31m 35s
Oct 2021
Xi-Jinping dans les pas de Mao
<p>Entre la reprise en main de l’économie et le col Mao, le président chinois Xi Jinping ravive les fondamentaux de l’emprise du Parti pour diriger la Chine. Pierrick Fay et ses invités décryptent dans « La Story », le podcast d’actualité des « Echos », le nou ... Show More
24m 18s
Jun 2021
June 27, 2021 |On GPS: As China celebrates a century of communism, Fareed talks to an expert panel about what’s next for China. Plus, Malcolm Gladwell is back with a revisionist history perspective on everything from autonomous cars to the Little Mermaid.
On Thursday, the Chinese Communist Party will celebrate its 100-year anniversary and Beijing is commemorating with festivities all over the country. Fareed hosts Elizabeth Economy, senior fellow for China studies at the Council for Foreign Relations, Rana Mitter, professor of mod ... Show More
40m 14s
Oct 2021
Red Roulette: It Sucks to be a Chinese Billionaire
Red Roulette, Desmond Shum’s memoir of a fast life, deep in the bowels of Chinese politics, is the bombshell China book of 2021. It tells the story of his rise from an impoverished childhood in cultural revolution-era Shanghai and Hong Kong to his marriage to his social climbing ... Show More
45m 31s
Jun 2022
Hong Kong's 25 year slide from democracy
<p>This week marks 25 years since the UK handover of Hong Kong to China, with the promise of ‘one country, two systems’. Then, the former British colony was told its freedom would endure, but has a security crackdown turned it into just another Chinese city?</p><p><em>This podcas ... Show More
33m 27s