The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway · 2026-04-14 · 44 min · 7,154 words

China Decode: China Steps In as Trump’s Ceasefire Unravels

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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. It isn't any kind of a secret that China has been selling arms to Iran for decades. That's no secret at all. What's really key is whether China has been selling arms to Iran since the end of February when this war between the US and Israel and Iran began. That's the

key point and that's where quite a lot of ambiguity lies right at the moment welcome to China Decode I'm Alice Han and I'm James King. In today's episode of China Decode we're discussing how China's stepping in as Trump ceasefire wobbles. Plus Ike Freiman joins us to discuss China's outreach to Taiwan's opposition, the real risk of a Taiwan conflict and how the U.S. can actually deter Beijing. That's all coming up, but first let's do a quick check-in with how the Chinese markets are starting the week.

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