China Shock 2.0: This Time It's Europe, with Adam Tooze
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Welcome to this special edition of the Seneca Podcast, a weekly discussion of current affairs in China, coming to you this week from Dalian. from the Davos on Air booth at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting of the new champions, otherwise known as Summer Davos. 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.
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Last week in Brussels, the leaders of the European Union's twenty seven member states sat down to a working dinner. The single item on the menu read global macroeconomic imbalances and their implications for Europe's competitiveness and prosperity. Everyone in the room knew precisely what was actually being discussed and that of course was China. As one diplomat put it. We all know the imbalances discussion is about China. It was the first time in three years that EU leaders had held a sustained debate about China policy, and they were so wary, I guess, of Beijing's reaction that they wouldn't even print the word on the agenda.
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