Miles Yu and Wilson Shirley discuss the Chinese Communist Party's use of high-tech surveillance technologies to repress the Chinese people, and the pro-freedom demonstrations at Apple's facilities in China and California. They also evaluate General Secretary Xi Jinping's plans as he charts the way forward in a possible post-Zero-COVID world. Finally, they analyze China's nationwide state funeral for former General Secretary Jiang Zemin and the politics of death in communist regimes, going back to Lenin and Mao.
On multiple fronts鈥攆rom ideology to the economy, to the military, to technology鈥攖he Chinese Communist Party presents the United States and its allies and partners with their most serious threat since the Cold War鈥攎aybe since World War II. What does the emerging consensus about the China challenge get right, and what is it missing? And what will it take to compete to win?
China Insider is a weekly podcast project from 华体会's China Center, hosted by Miles Yu and Wilson Shirley, who provide weekly news that mainstream American outlets often miss, as well as in-depth commentary and analysis on the China challenge and the free world鈥檚 future.