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Trivium China Podcast | Joerg Wuttke: China told Europe Exactly How It Would Beat Us. We Didn't Listen.

Back in 2017, China’s former SASAC chairman told Joerg Wuttke, then president of the EU Chamber of Commerce in China, precisely which industries China’s overcapacity machine would roll through next: EVs, batteries, solar, wind, basic chemic...

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This Week in China’s History: Qing Diplomats Chafe over China’s Relegation to “Third-Class State” at the Hague

September 22, 1907

The last iteration of this column found Beijing occupied by the troops of eight nations in the wake of the Boxer Uprising. Those nations had imposed on the Qing dynasty a draconian indemnity, along with other terms. The...

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Trivium China Podcast | The Weaknesses Behind China's Booming Exports

China’s manufacturing output just grew at the fastest pace in six months, but retail sales barely moved last month — and the gap between the two growth rates just hit its widest point in over three years.

The upshot: Exports are still pick...

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China, Taiwan and the Somaliland Question

China’s engagement across Africa is increasingly shaped by both high-level geopolitics and competition in everyday markets. Somalia’s renewed ties with Beijing are being driven in part by the Somaliland question, particularly its growing re...

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"Overnight success as a Moutai-tier stock" — Phrase of the Week

Artwork by Zhang Zhigang for RealTime Mandarin

Our phrase of the week is: “overnight success as a Moutai-tier stock” (立地成茅 lì dì chéng máo)

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Unitree Robotics (宇树科技), China’s leading maker of humanoid and quadruped robots, list...

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  • Kaiser Y Kuo

    A weekly podcast about current affairs in China, hosted by Kaiser Kuo and featuring in-depth conversations about books, ideas, new research, intellectual currents, and cultural trends that can help us better understand what’s happening in China.

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  • James Carter

    Historian of modern China at Saint Joseph's University, trained under Jonathan Spence. Most recent book: Champions Day: The End of Old Shanghai (WW Norton). www.jayjamescarter.com

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    Andrew Polk is a co-founder at Trivium China and oversees the firm's macroeconomic and markets research.

  • Andrew Methven

    Creator of RealTime Mandarin, a resource helping you learn contemporary Chinese in context, and stay on top of the latest language trends in China.

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