Mar 12

Russian Elite Perceptions of China: A Conversation with Witold Rodkiewicz

In this episode of the ChinaPower Podcast, Witold Rodkiewicz joins us to discuss Russian elite assessments of the China‑Russia relationship at the strategic level, how they interpret China’s growing power and the emerging U.S.–China competition, and whether U.S. policy can still ... Show More

30m 37s

Feb 26

Assessing the Scope and Impacts of Xi’s Military Purges

In this special episode of the China Power Podcast, listen to our recent event assessing Xi Jinping’s widespread purges of China’s military and what they reveal about China’s priorities, dynamics within the PLA, and China’s overall military readiness. To discuss these issues, our ... Show More

1h 29m

Feb 13

China’s Embodied AI: A Conversation with William Hannas and Hugh Grant-Chapman

In this episode of the ChinaPower Podcast, William Hannas and Hugh Grant‑Chapman join us to discuss key findings from Bill’s new report, China’s Embodied AI: A Path to AGI, as well as the CSIS report Is China Leading the Robotics Revolution? They examine why Chinese researchers v ... Show More

35m 41s

Jan 2022

Heidi Wang-Kaeding, "China's Environmental Foreign Relations" (Routledge, 2021)

Environmental protection and climate actions has embedded in China’s foreign policy and the Chinese government has recently pledged to make the Belt and Road Initiative “open, green, and clean”. How far is this an agenda designed primarily for international consumption? How do do ... Show More

18m 54s

Sep 2023

Can the US and China take on climate change together? | Changhua Wu

Climate change doesn't care about ideological divides, says policy analyst and China expert Changhua Wu. Here's what she says the US can learn from the progress China has made on the clean energy revolution -- and why collaboration instead of competition is the key to avoiding cl ... Show More

13m 43s

Nov 2021

TED Climate: Can China achieve its ambitious climate pledges? | Hongqiao Liu

In 2020, China's President Xi Jinping pledged that China would both peak its emissions by 2030 and achieve net-zero emissions by 2060 -- a change that will require action at an unheard-of scale and speed. Can the country actually achieve this ambitious vision? In this forward-loo ... Show More

9m 34s

Apr 2021

Can the U.S. Win Back Its Climate Credibility?

<p>During a global climate summit, President Biden signaled America’s commitment to fighting climate change with an ambitious target: The U.S. will cut its economywide carbon emissions by 50 percent of 2005 levels by 2030. </p><p>What became clear is that the rest of the world h ... Show More

27m 1s

Apr 2023

John Kerry on the Climate Crisis

A recent report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change sounded the alarm once again that the time to act is now if the global community hopes to limit the effects of climate change. But is there sufficient political will across countries to implement the necessary polic ... Show More

43m 12s

Nov 2022

COP27 climate reparations and democracy activists fear Elon's Twitter

At COP27, the UN's conference on climate change this week, countries in the Global South are calling for a loss and damage compensation fund. And for the first time, it's actually on the agenda. The central argument for the fund is that the countries most vulnerable to climate ch ... Show More

30m 41s

Oct 2021

Can China achieve its ambitious climate pledges? | Hongqiao Liu

In 2020, China’s President Xi Jinping pledged that China would both peak its emissions by 2030 and achieve net-zero emissions by 2060 -- a change that will require action at an unheard-of scale and speed. Can the country actually achieve this ambitious vision? In this forward-loo ... Show More

9m 46s

Dec 2022

Who Pays the Bill for Climate Change?

<p>Last month at COP27, the U.N. climate change conference, a yearslong campaign ended in an agreement. The rich nations of the world — the ones primarily responsible for the emissions that have caused climate change — agreed to pay into a fund to help poorer nations that bear th ... Show More

45m 40s

Nov 2023

10 Years On: China's Belt & Road Initiative and its Future in the Middle East

In this episode, titled "10 Years On: China's Belt & Road Initiative and its Future in the Middle East," our host Jonathan Fulton delves into the current state of China's ambitious Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and its implications for the Middle East. Jonathan will analyze the ... Show More

40m 20s

China’s Commitments to Fighting Climate ...