Why the N.B.A. is Betting Big on China

Hogging seats on a crowded train, not saying excuse me, watching videos on your phone with no headphones in. Sometimes it feels like we don't know how to act anymore. What we have been seeing, increasingly, is people breaking rules. Why should I play by the rules if nobody else is going to do that for me? This week on Explain It to Me, how to mind your manners.

New episodes Sundays wherever you get your podcasts. I think it's really fascinating how we've seen, you know, on the trade side in areas like soybeans and rare earths, really China and America can't seem to catch a break. They've been slugging it out in all types of different arenas, but in basketball, things are going a lot better. This is a rather interesting situation. Welcome to China Decode.

I'm Alice Han. And I'm James King. So in today's episode of China Decode, we're discussing Trump's war of words with Xi heating up after Beijing clamps down on rare earth exports, why the NBA returned to China for the first time in six years, and how Chinese surgeons pull off a world-first, a pig-to-human liver transplant. There's a lot of exciting topics. James, but I know that you've probably been very busy like I have in the last few days, mainly because of the whole rare earths shenanigan.

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