Asia In-Depth Podcast
1) South Korea’s Watershed Moment, with Euwoon Lee
South Korea is heading to the polls to elect a successor to impeached President Yoon, whose failed attempt to put the country under martial law back in December laid bare the deep divisions and gloom ...Show More
2) Like Swimming with Piranhas – Entrepreneurial China, with Zak Dychtwald
The defining characteristic of the environment in China has been its pace of change. And that has its impact on the latest generation of Chinese entrepreneurs who need to innovate to meet the tough de...Show More
3) Reunified Vietnam at 50, with Bich Tran
Bich Tran, senior fellow at Verve Research, adjunct fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and nonresident fellow at We Protect our Seas, discusses Vietnam's strategies at navig...Show More
4) China’s Assertive Insecurity, with Selina Ho
Selina Ho, associate professor in International Affairs and co-director of the Centre on Asia and Globalisation at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, discusses...Show More
5) What’s Bonding Beijing and Bern?
Switzerland was one of the first western nations to recognize the People's Republic of China, in 1950, and one of the first to reach a free trade agreement with Beijing as well, in 2013. Historian Ari...Show More
6) Tech and Global Power, with John Lee
Semiconductors, EVs, AI, TSMC, BYD, DeepSeek... In a time when trade, technology, and global power dynamics are more interconnected and in flux than ever before, we turn to an expert on all those thi...Show More
7) Economy Watch: Japan, China, and India
Late last year, at our annual STATE OF ASIA conference, we hosted a conversation on the economic developments in Japan, China, and India. After decades of stagnation, Japan’s economy is showing optimi...Show More
8) How We Talk About China, with Kaiser Kuo
Kaiser Kuo, host of the long-running Sinica podcast, joins us in Zurich to discuss the evolving narrative on China, and why the West is so often 'stunned' by Chinese breakthroughs in electric vehicles...Show More
9) India and Indonesia: Can They Pull It Off?
India and Indonesia, the juggernaut democracies of South and Southeast Asia, both ended 2024 with new governments that hold new ambitions. How will this pan out in the year to come? We talked about t...Show More
10) The State of China, with Qing Wang, Zichen Wang, and Adam Tooze
China is undergoing unprecedented changes domestically, while also dealing with the challenges of a volatile world. Listen to Qing Wang, host of the popular Chinese-language podcast The Weirdo; Zichen...Show More