The Bridge

Joining us is Cyrus Janssen, an American-Canadian businessman who has spent over two decades doing business across China and the United States. His firsthand experience in both markets gives him rare insight into how the two superpowers can find common ground—if they make the right moves.

Joining us is Mitch Presnick, a pioneer in bringing the Super 8 hotel brand to and expanding it across the Chinese market, and a Visiting Fellow at Harvard’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. He explains the nuanced ways in which the US and China are already interdependent, and what that means for our future and world.

Joining us today is Dr. Warwick Powell—Queensland University of Technology academic, policy advisor, and media commentator—on the trillion-dollar question facing Chinese investment in America. Chinese firms may want in. But, as he explains, Washington's behaviour could make the risk too high. Money may be ready to move; politics may not.

Joining us today is Einar Tangen, an international political and economic affairs commentator based in Beijing. We ask him if the world will become more peaceful or more volatile in the new world of multipolarity. Tangen explains how global governance might just preserve the peace.

Joining us today is Dr. Steven Keen, Honorary Professor at University College London, who famously predicted the 2008 financial crisis years in advance. He discusses how China’s economy works and why it has left the West behind.

Business researcher Ryan Milton just returned from two weeks traveling across China—and what he saw changed how he thinks about peace, diplomacy, and America's future. In this episode, he makes the case that a peaceful foreign policy isn't a concession but a strategy: one that makes the United States stronger.

Former British police officer Jerry Grey cycled more than 40,000 kilometres across China — alone. What he discovered along the way bears little resemblance to the China of Western imagination. In this episode of The Bridge, he shares what he saw, who he met, and why he believes the West has China all wrong.

Joining us today is Carl Zha — American geopolitical commentator and host of the Silk and Steel podcast. He argues that China is, in fact, the incumbent economic superpower. When it comes to Beijing's global strategy, he explains, the core priority is simple: maintain global stability, keep the peace, and above all — keep business moving.