The Platform State: Angela Zhang and Alex Yang on How China Really Governs Its Economy

Welcome to this special edition of the Seneca Podcast. A weekly discussion of current affairs in China. In this program, we 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 Gua coming to you this week and that's what makes this a special edition From the Davos on Air booth at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting of the new champions twenty twenty six.

For over twenty years now I have had the privilege of working as an official writer for the World Economic Forum. And this year they've asked some podcasters to team up with them to bring shows to you under both the Davos on Air banner and under the banner of our own podcast. So I am delighted to be able to do this with Seneca. Seneca, of course, is supported this year by the Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Wisconsin Madison, a national resource center for the study of East Asia. Listeners, you can support my work by becoming a paying subscriber at senecapodcast.com. Really, I do need your help to keep doing this work to be able to continue to bring you these conversations.

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