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Sinica Podcast · 2025-09-02 · 90 min · 16,176 words

What Does China Want? The Authors of a New Paper Challenge the DC Consensus

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Welcome to the Seneca 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 Gullock coming to you this week from my home in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

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