{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"","title":"Episode 6: How to think about China","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/5eb41117570358cd673a3a85/8c87c5862302071d91ccd5ca2dc6ea7b.jpg?height=200","description":"Meia Nouwens, IISS Research Fellow for Chinese Defence Policy and Military Modernisation, joins Dr Kori Schake for this episode of Sounds Strategic.\n\nMeia and Kori discuss the economic and intellectual property antagonisms of China’s military development, and the wider economic strategy implications of its goal to become a military world leader by 2030. China seems to have ‘activated the antibodies against [its] continued success’, suggests Kori, referring to the renationalisation of high-tech industries.\n\nMeia debunks the myth that China is inflexible because it is an authoritarian government and that, therefore, domestic public opinion doesn’t matter.\nShe asserts that the Chinese public mood is a far greater threat to the Chinese Communist Party than the United States could ever be. Meia and Kori discuss how such assumptions can lead to poor policy decisions by foreign governments.\n\nFavourite data visualisation:\nXi Jinping’s Thought https://i.stack.imgur.com/tO3Rg.jpg\n\nReading recommendations:\nPhilip Ball, The Water Kingdom: A Secret History of China (London: Penguin Random House, 2016)\nDate of recording: 19 February 2019\nSounds Strategic is recorded and produced at the IISS in London.\nTheme music: ‘Safety in Numbers’ by We Were Promised Jetpacks.","author_name":"International Institute for Strategic Studies"}