The View from Behind Xi Jinping's Desk, with Jonathan Czin

Welcome to the Cynical Podcast, a weekly discussion of current affairs in China. In this program, we'll look at books, ideas, new research, intellectual currents, and cultural trends that can help us better understand what's happening in China's politics, foreign relations, economics, and society. Join me each week for in-depth conversations that shed more light, and bring less heat to how we think and talk about China. I'm Kaiser Guo, coming to you this week from the lovely little village of Stonesfield in Oxfordshire, where my sister and her husband live.

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