The Bridge

Special guest Einar Tangen, a Senior Fellow of Taihe Institute, joins us for a peek inside China’s economy in a global context. Why has the west gotten China so wrong and how can we better understand the most important economic transformation in modern history?

We discuss Xinjiang, the Belt and Road Initiative and our new multipolar world with Hussein Askary, Vice Chairman of The Belt and Road Institute in Sweden. He describes his recent trip to Xinjiang and the transformative power of global development within the context of the Modern Silk Road.

The US TikTok ban will affect one out of every two Americans in the US. Has the US abandoned freedom of speech? What will happen to the US economy? Will other companies fear investing in the US? We break it down.

Visiting Assistant Professor at Vassar College in New York joins us to discuss a tour that university students took across China. We talk about their first impressions and the rural and urban spaces in the country.

If you are okay with working 12 hour shifts 6 days a week, in a lot of countries, with the right education, you can make big bucks. But is it worth it?

According to China Daily, Giant Pandas are no long an endangered species. But thousands more species are in peril. How will human lives be impacted if we lose just some of them?

More than 60 million U.S. households are at the risk of being kicked off their internet plans or facing skyrocketing bills. Those most likely to be affected are veterans and the elderly. Does it really make sense in 21st century America?

Carlos Martinez, author of The East is Still Red, joins us to discuss China's efforts in creating a just economy. How can the success of China's poverty alleviation campaign help in transforming the developing world? Listen in.