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Submit ReviewThis week on Sinica, Kaiser & Jeremy welcome Yuan Yang, a reporter for the Financial Times who was until recently covering technology in Beijing. Now based in London, her beat is China-Europe relations, and on this episode she discusses German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's recent trip to China, and how Europe and European countries are navigating the fraught U.S.-China relationship.
6:09 – Providing a balanced account of China’s tech ecosystem
9:38 – German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's recent trip to Beijing
16:00 – The strategic autonomy of European foreign policy
18:41 – European countries’ fractured response to US tech restrictions on China
21:58 – EU policies towards Xinjiang
24:31 – The impact of tech restrictions on European supply chains
27:39 – The efficacy of sanctions
30:12 – How China’s position on Russia damaged its reputation in Europe
33:48 – European reaction to Biden-Xi meeting
35:57 – How a change in the American presidency could disrupt the Transatlantic alliance system
40:55 – The formulation of Sunak’s China policy
43:50 – Yuan’s new forthcoming book Private Revolutions
A complete transcript of this podcast is available at TheChinaProject.com
Jeremy: Jewish comedian Ari Shaffir
Yuan: The Emily Wells album Regards to the End; The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin
Kaiser: mongulai.com, an e-commerce website specializing in Mongolian artisanal crafts; the Netflix show Barbarians
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