Podcasts about Hangzhou

AGENDA: IntroResultados torneos fin de semana. Kimberly Birrell venció a Maya Joint 6-4, 6-2 para ganar el WTA 250 de Corea y el primer título de su carrera.Leylah Fernandez venció a Talia Gibson para ganar el WTA 250 de Singapur y el 6to título de su carreraAlejandro Davidovich-Fokina venció a Hubert Hurkacz 6-4, 7-6 para ganar el ATP 250 de Chengdu y el segundo título de su carrera. Daniil Medvedev venció a Andrey Rublev 7-5, 6-4 para ganar el ATP 250 de Hangzhou y el título 24 de su carrera. Lideradas por Karolina Muchova y Linda Noskova, el Equipo de Czechia venció al equipo de Ucrania 2-0 para ganar la Billie Jean King Cup por 12va ocasión. Team Europe gana la Laver Cup por sexta ocasión al vencer a Team World con marcador de 13-5. (6-3 el marcador global de todas las ediciones) Quienes fueron los mejores de cada equipo. Quienes fueron los peores de cada equipo. Conclusión final de que si estuvo buena esta edición de la Laver Cup o no. Agradecimiento al colaborador Lalo Sanchez. Torneos esta semanaWTA 1000 de Beijing Roads a la final de las primeras 4 sembras. Posibles CF por siembre. PicksATP 500 de Beijing. (Quienes entraron + Jannik Sinner se dio de baja por no recuperarse al 100% de la rodilla.ATP 500 de Tokio. (Quienes entraron) La academia de Rafael Nadal cumple 10 años y el sábado habrá un evento de exhibición entre el equipo de Nadal formado por: Nadal, Ferrer, Moyá y Gasquet y el equipo de Murray formado por: Murray, Thiem, Fognini y Safin. Top 10'sY más ...Instagram: @TennisPiochasTwitter: @TennisPiochasTikTok: @tennis.piochasEpisodio patrocinado por: Ese de Sandalo Reel con colección nueva de tenis de Ese de Sandalo Distribuido por Genuina Media Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

This week on Sinica, I sit down with Dr. Ruby Wang, whose new book, China Cure: The Rise of a Biotech, AI Medicine and Global Health Superpower (Agenda Publishing, out October 31, with a foreword by Kerry Brown), is the explanation general readers have been missing for one of the most consequential and least understood transformations in China today. Ruby is a rare creature in this space: a practicing physician in Britain's NHS, trained in surgery, who worked London's hospital wards through the first wave of COVID; the former head of the UK government's health engagement in China at the British Embassy in Beijing; a former health adviser within the UN system; a onetime medical adviser at AliHealth in Hangzhou; and a Schwarzman Scholar. She now runs the strategy consultancy Lintris Health and writes the excellent China Health Pulse newsletter and podcast, both of which I recommend to anyone trying to follow this space.Anyone who spent time in a Chinese hospital in the late ‘80s or ‘90s — the pre-dawn queues, the ticket scalpers, the cashier's window at every step, the IV drips for a head cold — will find the arc of this book hard to believe. Within living memory, China sent barefoot doctors into the countryside with herbal remedies and antibiotics in army-green satchels; last year, Chinese companies signed something like 186 out-licensing deals worth a disclosed $137 billion, roughly half the global total and close to ten times the 2021 figure, with Pfizer, Bristol-Myers Squibb, AstraZeneca, GSK, and Eli Lilly all buying. Since Ruby gave a terrific interview to my friend Kyle Chan on his High Capacity podcast this spring on the apps, data flows, and clinical AI, I deliberately steered elsewhere: to her family — a deckhand grandfather, a father's crooked splint, a grandmother's transnational hunt for Gleevec — to the four reinforcing conditions she argues made the transformation possible, to the “China is fast because China is loose” shortcut and what's actually behind the speed, to BIOSECURE and its successors, to the AI doctor avatars now fielding millions of inquiries a year, and to the burnout and violence that still bedevil the lives of Chinese clinicians.10:31 – Two family stories from 1970s Zhejiang: a deckhand grandfather and a barefoot doctor's crooked splint15:57 – Four reinforcing conditions, part one: demographic pressure and crisis as catalyst (SARS, melamine, fake vaccines)23:42 – The long view: Healthy China 2030 and why China's health ministers are technocrats27:54 – The cultural inheritance: who signs the consent form, and China's health codes vs. Britain's billion-pound app35:26 – Grandma and Gleevec: a family's transnational hunt for a drug in 200340:17 – The reversal: hǎiguī, copycats to first-in-class, and the tenfold surge in out-licensing42:35 – Is China fast because China is loose? Where China leads (oncology, GLP-1s) and where it lags50:22 – BIOSECURE, COINS, and BINSA: who loses when politics meets pharma55:37 – Digital health in three systems, Ant Afu's AI doctor avatars, and whether the silver generation can keep up1:08:44 – “A lifetime of eating bitterness”: Dr. Wang of Guangzhou, burnout, and yī nàoPaying It ForwardYanzhong Huang, senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations and professor at Seton Hall — the go-to voice on the geopolitics of China and health, and Ruby's first port of call.Afra Wang, writer of the Concurrent newsletter — Ruby admires how she reads the cultural currents beneath technology, and finds it endlessly useful to take those insights to the health-tech angle.Olivia Plotnick, Shanghai-based founder of Wai Social — on-the-ground work on branding and consumer behavior across some 30 lower-tier Chinese cities, including health and wellness.RecommendationsRuby: Deep China: The Moral Life of the Person, edited by Arthur Kleinman with Yunxiang Yan, Jing Jun, Sing Lee, and others — what being sick reveals about society and culture in China: psychiatry, caregiving, and how patients and families have changed as the country has. Kleinman's The Soul of Care is also worth your time.Kaiser: Augustus by John Williams — the third of his novels I've recommended on the show, and the National Book Award winner: an epistolary novel of imperial Rome told through a crazy quilt of letters and fragments from family, friends like Agrippa, and poets like Virgil and Horace, each given a completely distinct voice. Quiet campus novel, anti-Western, imperial Rome — the range, and the restraint, are astonishing.Also: Ezra Klein's conversation with Carnegie's Matt Sheehan — a masterclass in clarity on AI safety and the U.S.-China relationship, and the best thing to listen to in the wake of Dario Amodei's “Pacing the Frontier” essay.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

On Monday Match Analysis, Gill Gross breaks down Daniil Medvedev's continued dominance over his friend Andrey Rublev. Medvedev took the trophy in Hangzhou. We'll also discuss some standout moments from Laver Cup including Carlos Alcaraz's crucial match point saves against Taylor Fritz. Lastly, we'll delve into Alejandro Davidovich Fokina's 2nd career title, as he beat Hubert Hurkacz in Chengdu.0:00 Intro0:40 Medvedev def. Rublev Hangzhou17:20 Laver Cup Moments20:25 Alcaraz vs. Fritz31:05 ADF def. Hurkacz Chengdu IG: https://www.instagram.com/gillgross_/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@gill.gross24/7 Tennis Community on Tribe: https://tribechat.com/gillTwitter/X: https://twitter.com/Gill_GrossThe Draw newsletter, your one-stop-shop for the best tennis content on the internet every week: https://www.thedraw.tennis/subscribeBecome a member to support the channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvERpLl9dXH09fuNdbyiLQQ/joinEvans Brothers Coffee Roasters, the Official Coffee Of Monday Match Analysis... use code GILLGROSS25 for 25% off your first order: https://evansbrotherscoffee.com/collections/coffeeAUDIO PODCAST FEEDSSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5c3VXnLDVVgLfZuGk3yxIF?si=AQy9oRlZTACoGr5XS3s_ygItunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/monday-match-analysis/id1432259450?mt=2 Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

How far can a tree travel? A redwood in the Hangzhou Botanical Garden knows. Itcrossed thePacific from the #US in 1972 and took root in Hangzhou—alivingsymbol of #China-US friendship. That friendship blossomed further in 1982, whenHangzhou and Boston became sister cities. Now, exchanges among young peoplefromboth cities arebridging thePacific.Hangzhou cuisinebrings the flavors ofHangzhou to Boston streets. And the Hangzhou Sino-US Friendship Folk Museumpreserves generations of ties. This tree's journey was never just about distance. Aspeople come and go, its story lives on. #CityDance #

The Asian swing continues as the ATP tournaments in Chengdu and Hangzhou have reached the Round of 16. Sean Calvert and Nigel Seeley link up to provide full betting previews and predictions for several of ATP Chengdu and ATP Hangzhou's top Round of 16 matches. The tennis handicappers evaluate recent player trends, provide weather updates and analyze odds changes to give you the best betting angles. 00:00 Round Of 16 Match Previews 03:36 ATP Chengdu Conditions 05:04 Federico Cina vs. Alexandre Muller 10:48 Lloyd Harris vs. Valentin Vacherot 15:12 Martin Damm vs. Hubert Hurkacz 21:16 ATP Hangzhou Conditions 22:18 Daniil Medvedev vs. Valentin Royer

Cracked Racquets Editor-in-Chief Alex Gruskin breaks down this week's WTA and ATP Tour action. He shares his thoughts on the favorites at this week's BJK Cup Finals. He also offers updates on this week's tour-level action in Singapore, Seoul, Hangzhou, Chengdu, and SO much more!! Episode Notes BJK Cup - 3:00 Laver Cup Day 1 - 13:30 WTA Singapore - 17:55 WTA Seoul - 21:25 ATP Hangzhou - 24:20 ATP Chengdu - 25:30 WTA 125Ks + ATP Challenger action - 27:15 Laurel Springs Ranked among the best online private schools in the United States, Laurel Springs stands out when it comes to support, personalization, community, and college prep. They give their K-12 students the resources, guidance, and learning opportunities they need at each grade level to reach their full potential. Find Cracked Racquets Website: https://www.crackedracquets.com Instagram: https://instagram.com/crackedracquets Twitter: https://twitter.com/crackedracquets Facebook: https://Facebook.com/crackedracquets YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/crackedracquets Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

How do technology and public services shape our everyday lives? In this episode, we sit down with Scott Pruett, an American who moved to China 18 years ago and has spent the past six years in Hangzhou, one of China's most innovative cities. Scott takes us through his journey from arriving in Beijing to watching Hangzhou evolve with technologies such as the AI-powered "City Brain," and shares his observations about urban life and public services.

Cracked Racquets Editor-in-Chief Alex Gruskin breaks down this week's WTA and ATP Tour action. He breaks down what he's watching for at the 2026 Laver Cup. He also previews the draws in Singapore, Seoul, Hangzhou, and Chengdu, offers his predictions for the week, plus SO much more!! Episode Notes Laver Cup - 2:45 WTA Singapore - 20:00 WTA Seoul - 25:40 ATP Hangzhou - 29:40 ATP Chengdu - 34:55 WTA 125Ks + ATP Challenger action - 38:05 Laurel Springs Ranked among the best online private schools in the United States, Laurel Springs stands out when it comes to support, personalization, community, and college prep. They give their K-12 students the resources, guidance, and learning opportunities they need at each grade level to reach their full potential. Find Cracked Racquets Website: https://www.crackedracquets.com Instagram: https://instagram.com/crackedracquets Twitter: https://twitter.com/crackedracquets Facebook: https://Facebook.com/crackedracquets YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/crackedracquets Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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Dive into the Asian swing with Sean Calvert and Nigel Seeley, who offer tournament betting previews on the ATP Chengdu and Hangzhou events. Explore betting trends and key players. The tennis handicappers analyze the draws and examine the early-round matches to find you the best bets and value plays. 00:00 The Asian Swing Is Here 03:38 ATP Chengdu Preview 07:34 ATP Chengdu Winner Market 14:30 Sebastian Baez vs Jenson Brooksby 21:40 Nuno Borges vs Camilo Ugo Carabelli 26:34 Juan Manuel Cerundolo vs Yi Zhou 31:16 ATP Hangzhou Preview 35:08 ATP Hangzhou Winner Market 41:34 Yunchaokete Bu vs. Michael Zheng

AGENDA: IntroResultados torneos fin de semana. Iva Jovic venció a Peyton Stearns 6-4, 6-2 para ganar (y defender) el WTA 500 de Guadalajara y el 2do título de su carrera.Kaitlin Quevedo venció a Nadia Podoroska 4-6, 6-4, 6-2 para ganar el WTA 250 de Sao Paulo y el primer título de su carrera. Acabó el Hard Court Swing y empieza el Asian Swing con estos torneos: WTA 500 de SingapurWTA 250 de Corea ATP 250 de Chengdu. ATP 250 de Hangzhou. Empieza este fin de semana la LAVER CUP. Historia del torneo y como funciona todo el tema de los equipos, scores, etc. Jugadores en cada equipo + alternates + capitanes. Como va el score general de todas las ediciones. Predicción de quién va a ganar. Ya salieron nuestras gorras de edición especial por nuestro 5to año de aniversario (Y5)Y más ...Instagram: @TennisPiochasTwitter: @TennisPiochasTikTok: @tennis.piochas Distribuido por Genuina Media Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Dave and Jon talk all things early rounds in Hangzhou! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

The first events of the Asian Swing are previewed! I take a look through the draws before providing betting tips for Outrights and First Round matches!

This week's podcast is about the recent Alibaba Ecommerce Training Program - and our trip to Alibaba HQ in Hangzhou.I outlined two companies visits:Geely / ZeekrDEEP RoboticsPlus a little about Fly Zoo Hotel.I outlined two useful tools:QwenWorkAccio and Aidge.You can listen to this podcast here, which has the slides and graphics mentioned. Also available at iTunes and Google Podcasts.Here is the link to TechMoat Consulting.Here is the link to our Tech Tours.Here are the articles with all the photos and videos:Day 1 of Our Alibaba Ecommerce Training Program: Visiting Geely / Zeekr (1 of 5) (Tech Strategy)Day 1 of Our Alibaba Ecommerce Program: Touring DEEP Robotics (2 of 5) (Tech Strategy)Day 4 of Our Alibaba Ecommerce Program: Accio, QwenWork and Fly Zoo Hotel (5 of 5) (Tech Strategy)Disclosure. I have had a education partnership with Alibaba within the past twelve months.  --------I am a founder, consultant and keynote speaker specialized in digital and AI agentic strategy.I am the founder of Agentic Org Now, a firm that helps leadership teams launch AI and agentic initiatives fast.I write (a lot) about digital and digital AI strategy (3 best selling books, +2.9M followers on LinkedIn). You can get a free book at the email sign-up below.My Moats and Marathons book series is a framework for building and measuring competitive advantages in digital and AI businesses.This content (articles, podcasts, website info) is not investment, legal or tax advice. The information and opinions from me and any guests may be incorrect. The numbers and information may be wrong. The views expressed may no longer be relevant or accurate. This is not investment advice. Investing is risky. Do your own research.Support the show

Fluent Fiction - Mandarin Chinese: Moonlit Reflections: A Mid-Autumn Night at West Lake Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.com/zh/episode/2026-09-20-22-34-01-zh Story Transcript:Zh: 西湖的秋天在微风中宁静而美丽。En: The autumn of West Lake is serene and beautiful in the breeze.Zh: 灯笼高挂在树枝上，桂花的香气在空气中弥漫。En: Lanterns hang high on the branches, and the scent of osmanthus flowers fills the air.Zh: 今天是一年一度的中秋节。En: Today is the annual Mid-Autumn Festival.Zh: 西湖边到处是欢声笑语，人们准备迎接丰收和团圆的夜晚。En: All around West Lake, there are sounds of joy and laughter as people prepare to welcome a night of harvest and reunion.Zh: 思雨和邓在湖边慢慢走。En: Siyu and Deng stroll slowly by the lakeside.Zh: 这是他们第一次来杭州过中秋节。En: This is their first time celebrating Mid-Autumn Festival in Hangzhou.Zh: 思雨兴奋地举起一张湖上的照片，“邓，我们租条船吧！看晚上的月亮肯定很美。”En: Excitedly, Siyu holds up a photo of the lake, "Deng, let's rent a boat! The moon must be beautiful tonight."Zh: “嗯，不过我有点担心船，我们不熟，”邓回答道，他有点不安。En: "Hmm, but I'm a bit worried about the boat since we're not familiar with it," Deng replied anxiously.Zh: 他们来到租船的地方，但管理员皱着眉告诉他们，今天游客太多，船桨已经不够了，只剩下一根。En: They arrive at the boat rental place, but the manager, frowning, tells them that there are too many tourists today, and there aren't enough oars—only one remains.Zh: 思雨不气馁，En: Siyu does not get discouraged.Zh: 她笑着对邓说：“别担心，我们可以想办法。”En: She smiles at Deng and says, "Don't worry, we can figure something out."Zh: 她让邓坐在船尾，而自己在船头拿起那根唯一的船桨。En: She lets Deng sit at the stern of the boat while she takes the only oar at the bow.Zh: “你手放进水里，我们一起划，”思雨提议，“像这样。”En: "Put your hand in the water, and we'll row together," suggests Siyu, "like this."Zh: 两人都笑着尝试着，时不时水花溅起。En: They both laugh while trying, occasionally splashing water.Zh: 很快，他们技巧终于熟练起来，慢慢地向湖中心划去。En: Soon, they finally become adept and slowly row towards the center of the lake.Zh: 月亮开始升起，银色的光辉照在水面上，像无数星星洒下。En: The moon begins to rise, its silver glow reflecting on the water like countless scattered stars.Zh: 他们停在湖中心，月亮映在水中，犹如第二个天空。En: They stop at the lake's center, where the moon reflects in the water as if it were a second sky.Zh: 思雨和邓坐在船上，拿出月饼，互相给对方吃了一块。En: Siyu and Deng sit on the boat and take out mooncakes, feeding each other a piece.Zh: “真的很美，谢谢你，”邓微笑着说，他眼中是温柔和感激。En: "It's really beautiful, thank you," Deng says with a smile, with tenderness and gratitude in his eyes.Zh: 思雨点点头：“遇到困难时也能有意想不到的美好。”En: Siyu nods: "Even when facing difficulties, there can be unexpected beauty."Zh: 他们在湖中心坐着，脚还在水中轻轻拨动，一齐欣赏着这如画的秋夜。En: They sit in the center of the lake, their feet gently paddling in the water, enjoying the picturesque autumn night together.Zh: 经过这次特别的旅程，思雨发觉，能够和好朋友一起享受欢乐，即使有点小波折，也是人生极大的快乐。En: Through this special journey, Siyu realizes that sharing joy with good friends, even amid small setbacks, is one of life's greatest pleasures.Zh: 而邓学会了即便在不熟悉的境地，也能勇敢地尝试，可能会得到难以忘怀的回忆。En: And Deng learns that even in unfamiliar situations, trying bravely can lead to unforgettable memories.Zh: 在这个中秋节的夜晚，西湖温柔地将他们的笑声和满满的幸福包围。En: On this Mid-Autumn Festival night, West Lake gently surrounds them with laughter and happiness.Zh: 月亮升得更高，映照着他们的心，仿佛在述说，这样的时刻，是人生中最值得珍惜的。En: The moon rises higher, illuminating their hearts, as if telling them that such moments are the most cherished in life. Vocabulary Words:serene: 宁静breeze: 微风lanterns: 灯笼branches: 树枝scent: 香气osmanthus: 桂花annual: 一年一度harvest: 丰收reunion: 团圆stroll: 慢慢走anxiously: 不安frowning: 皱着眉tourists: 游客oars: 船桨stern: 船尾bow: 船头splashes: 水花adept: 熟练scattered: 洒下picturesque: 如画的setbacks: 波折cherished: 珍惜unfamiliar: 不熟悉illuminating: 映照grateful: 感激unexpected: 意想不到的paddling: 拨动surrounds: 包围memories: 回忆reflection: 映

The 2023 Asian Games in Hangzhou saw India's best ever performance – we came back with 107 medals, including 28 gold medals, and we finished fourth on the medals table, behind only China, Japan and South Korea. The 2026 Asian Games will officially kick off in from September 19, and the big question is: can improve on its performance? In this episode, we preview 's prospects, and joining us is Uthra Ganesan from The Hindu's Sports Bureau. Host: G Sampath, Social Affairs Editor, The Hindu Producer: Jude Weston Editor: Jude Weston and Shiksha Jural Video: Tayyab Hussain Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week I sat down with Gloria Xiong, Assistant Professor of Government at Colby College, and Jessica Chen Weiss, the David M. Lampton Professor of China Studies at Johns Hopkins SAIS, to discuss their new Foreign Affairs essay, "How China Found Its Most Potent Weapon: The Real History of Beijing's Rare Earth Dominance." The story everyone tells is one of foresight — a master plan hatched by Deng Xiaoping and now coming to fruition. Gloria and Jessica argue the reality was far messier: reform-era export mania, environmental catastrophe, defiant local governments, scarcity anxiety, and a lesson in chokepoint weaponization that Beijing learned from Washington. Getting the story wrong, they argue, feeds an action-reaction spiral that neither side started and neither fully controls — and with the Busan truce expiring in November, the stakes could hardly be higher.09:31 — "The Middle East has oil, China has rare earths": what Deng Xiaoping actually said, and how a quote got recruited for a story he wasn't telling12:33 — Why the master plan narrative is so irresistible across the partisan spectrum in Washington15:40 — The cheap and dirty origins: reform-era export mania, thousands of small mines, and rare earths sold "at the price of cabbage and dirt"19:06 — The West as co-author of the chokepoint: offshoring the pollution, and the stockpile that was never built21:53 — Beijing's struggle to control its own industry: quotas, "crime rings," and the partially failed 2002 consolidation25:13 — September 2010: what really happened with the "embargo" against Japan, and why Beijing may have learned about it from Japanese customs28:47 — Fans and fire hoses: how bottom-up nationalism can commit Beijing to coercive postures it didn't choose32:13 — The debate inside China after 2010: protectionists versus Hong Feng's warning against using rare earths as "political chips"35:44 — The 2015 WTO ruling: China complied — was it a rule-taker, or did it simply lack the tools to do anything else?38:06 — Learning from Washington: Huawei, the Export Control Law, the China Rare Earth Group, and what distinguishes learning from planning40:24 — The 2022–2024 ledger: what's the evidence for an action-reaction spiral beyond the timeline?44:25 — April 2025: coercion or bureaucratic pileup? Thirty licensing officials and a 74% collapse in magnet exports47:46 — October 2025: the extraterritorial rule that mirrored the Foreign Direct Product Rule, and the Busan truce52:32 — The countdown to November: hawks in both capitals, "mutually assured disruption," and Xi's coming state visit55:29 — The limits of leverage on both sides: yttrium, Japan's diversification, and China's own resource insecurity58:32 — From crime rings to two national champions: has the Wild West been tamed, and are central-local relations "fractured"?01:02:21 — Prescriptions: positive reciprocity, licensing Chinese technology, and managing interdependence rather than escaping it01:05:51 — Everyone else: Myanmar, Congo, Australia, and how Beijing thinks about third countries that don't want to choosePaying It ForwardGloria name-checked Wendy Leutert of Indiana University, who works on the reform and global expansion of China's state-owned enterprises and, with Isaac Kardon, on Chinese investment in global ports; Ning Leng of Georgetown University, author of the award-winning Politicizing Business: How Firms Are Made to Serve the Party State in China; and Ketian Zhang, who has written extensively on Chinese coercion and maritime disputes.Jessica first acknowledged the scholars whose research the essay drew on but couldn't cite in Foreign Affairs: Cory Combs of Trivium China, Arthur Kroeber, Henry Farrell, Duleep Singh, and Julie Klinger. She also flagged Jack Zhang, who runs the Trade War Lab at the University of Kansas, and Kyle Jaros and Sara Newland, who are writing a book on subnational economic statecraft — work that has shaped her thinking on disaggregating what the United States wants, not just what China wants.RecommendationsGloria: Healing the Heart of Democracy by Parker Palmer — a book she first read in a college writing seminar and returned to as she heads back into the classroom.Jessica: The Scientist and the Spy by Mara Hvistendahl, which she uses to close her SAIS seminar on Chinese foreign policy as a reminder about proportionality; and Ann Patchett's new novel Whistler.Kaiser: Wallace Stegner's Angle of Repose, the 1972 Pulitzer winner — a novel about mining camps in the American West and one of the most fully realized characters in American fiction.Also mentioned: Jessica's recent interview with Daniel Kurtz-Phelan on The Foreign Affairs Interview podcast, and her interview in The Monitor, the newsletter of the Carter Center's U.S.-China Perception Monitor.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In this week's episode, Mihir and Pritish discuss if after its historic 100 plus medal haul at Hangzhou, can India repeat the feat in Nagoya–Aichi? They look at the medal prospects, marquee stars and emerging talent in athletics, shooting, badminton, wrestling, weightlifting and cricket.Produced by Ichha SharmaEdited and mixed by Suresh Pawar

Deze week hoor je het verhaal van onze correspondent in China Roland Smid. Hij ging op bezoek in Hangzhou, dat door overheidssubsidies en Alibaba-investeringen bekroond is als China’s AI-hoofdstad. En dat is te zien aan de huizenmarkt. Jonge dertigers die robots bouwen en taalmodellen in elkaar zetten stuwen Hangzhou’s topsegment; luxe huizen vliegen er vanaf €4 mln weg. Voorgelezen en gemonteerd: Elfanie toe LaerEindmontage: Sophia WoudaSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：In China, people brave simulated typhoons to prepare for the real thing正文：Huang Zhen, 34, shut his café for a day to be buffeted by surging waters and powerful winds that knocked him off his feet — training for extreme weather increasingly afflicting China. Huang was one of a dozen people attending a session at the Lvxing Disaster Simulation Training Center in Hangzhou. For 1,599 yuan ($235) per day, the centre offers a realistic experience of being caught in a typhoon or flash flood, with participants wearing wetsuits and helmets under the guidance of safety instructors.知识点：be buffeted by phrase. /bi ˈbʌfɪtɪd baɪ/· 英文释义：to be repeatedly struck or shaken by strong forces such as wind,waves, or difficulties· 中文释义：被……反复冲击，遭受……的猛烈袭击· 文中意：文中指黄震在训练中任由汹涌的水流和强风反复冲击身体，buffet 作动词意为“连续猛击”，常与风浪搭配· 例句一：The small boat was buffeted by violent waves throughout the night. 小船整夜被巨浪猛烈拍打。· 例句二：The company has been buffeted by a series of financial crises this year. 这家公司今年接连遭受金融危机冲击。【节目介绍】 《早安英文-每日外刊精读》，带你精读最新外刊，了解国际最热事件：分析语法结构，拆解长难句，最接地气的翻译，还有重点词汇讲解。 所有选题均来自于《经济学人》《纽约时报》《华尔街日报》《华盛顿邮报》《大西洋月刊》《科学杂志》《国家地理》等国际一线外刊。 【适合谁听】 1、关注时事热点新闻，想要学习最新最潮流英文表达的英文学习者 2、任何想通过地道英文提高听、说、读、写能力的英文学习者 3、想快速掌握表达，有出国学习和旅游计划的英语爱好者 4、参加各类英语考试的应试者（如大学英语四六级、托福雅思、考研等） 【你将获得】 1、超过1000篇外刊精读课程，拓展丰富语言表达和文化背景 2、逐词、逐句精确讲解，系统掌握英语词汇、听力、阅读和语法 3、每期内附学习笔记，包含全文注释、长难句解析、疑难语法点等，帮助扫除阅读障碍。

This week on Sinica, I'm joined once again by Ryan Hass, Director of the John L. Thornton China Center at Brookings, former NSC director for China, Taiwan, and Mongolia, and co-host of the Beijing Brief podcast. Ryan has just published two pieces that couldn't be better timed: a long essay in China Leadership Monitor, “China's Great Power Vision Comes into Focus,” which argues that the 2020s may be remembered as the decade Beijing finally laid its cards on the table — and a shorter Brookings piece, “Why Beijing Isn't Taking the Bait with Trump,” on why Xi Jinping has answered an unusually accommodating American president with a poker face, and what that means for Xi's state visit to Washington later this month.We start with the perennial question — what does China want? — and Ryan's own two-decade journey with it, from chasing a supposed secret strategy in Zhongnanhai as a junior political officer to concluding that Beijing's vision is now legible and consistent: an international political order stripped of its liberal core and rebuilt around sovereign equality and the “global majority.” We talk about “American decline” and “strategic stalemate” in Chinese discourse, the tension between China's pitch to the developing world and its export juggernaut, the Middle East and Northeast Asia as test cases, and the central riddle of Ryan's essay: why a country so willing to articulate its ambitions has been so unwilling to pay for them. Then we turn to the summit — constructive strategic stability, escalation dominance, and what will and won't be on the table when Xi comes to Washington.03:11 – The “What does China want?” genre — and why Ryan concluded there is no secret plan locked in a Zhongnanhai vault06:10 – From participant to architect: what actually changed, and whether Beijing is revisionist or, as I cheekily put it, restorationist09:12 – “American decline” (美国衰落) and “strategic stalemate” (战略相持): reading Beijing's rhetorical restraint and the Maoist echo14:34 – Champion of the global majority, or the world's factory? The $6 toaster problem and the credibility gap on Ukraine and Japan19:36 – The Middle East as a test case: economic enabler, not security patron — and the good-faith maximalist rebuttal24:38 – Northeast Asia: why Beijing keeps generating the very encirclement it fears26:59 – Rhetoric without resources: flat foreign aid, shrinking BRI lending, and the SCO as China's proving ground32:28 – The Pew swing that hasn't materialized, and why Biden may have been America's last restorationist president36:01 – Why Beijing isn't taking the bait: Xi's poker face, “constructive strategic stability,” and the G2 refusal41:55 – Confident abroad, anxious at home: the purges, the memory of 2020, economic escalation dominance, and a viewer's guide to the September summitPaying It ForwardRyan flags two women doing important work in China studies, both with books out this fall: Emily Matson of Georgetown, whose China's Date Debate: How Manchurian Scholars Rewrote World War II examines how the start date of China's war with Japan was moved from 1937 back to 1931; and Shuxian Luo of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, whose Simmering Seas: Escalation and De-escalation in China's Maritime Disputes is forthcoming from Oxford University Press in October. He also gives a shout-out to the engines of the Brookings China Center, research assistants Allie Matthias and Joyce Yang.RecommendationsRyan: Barbara Tuchman's The Guns of August, which he's late to but found poignant for its eerie echoes of today's battlefields — and Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan's Regime Change, an inside account of the second Trump administration that he calls harrowing but essential for anyone trying to anticipate the president's behavior. (He also finally read The Three-Body Problem, and now knows his sophons from his Trisolarans.)Kaiser: Robert Harris's Agrippa, published September 1 — the memoir of Marcus Agrippa, the general who won Octavian's battles and built half of Augustan Rome, and a story about the pivot from republic to empire that feels uncomfortably relevant. And if you've read Tuchman, do read Christopher Clark's The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914. Not my official recommendation, but astonishing.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This week's podcast is about my recent tour to Hangzhou and Alibaba headquarters. And my 3 take-aways from the epicenter of ecommerce meets AI and agents.You can listen to this podcast here, which has the slides and graphics mentioned. Also available at iTunes and Google Podcasts.Here is the link to TechMoat Consulting.Here is the link to our Tech Tours.My big take-aways are:Agentic Commerce Is Now an Arms RaceEveryone needs to upgrade their capabilities with AI and agents to stay competitive.And then repeat.And repeat again.Human KOLs and Content Creators Have Already Peaked.Livestreaming is already shifting to digital avatars. Other content creator types will follow.The future of content creation and KOLs is mostly not-human.Digital Livestreamers Have Arrived in Ecommerce. Entertainment and Thought Leaders Are Next.My playbook for human content creators / KOLs is:Focus on topics where being human matters:Taste and curation. What wine is better vs. what laptop is better.Irreversible and/or critical decisions. Situations where you can't do it over and judgement matters.There is an advancing frontier of knowledge. There is no existing online database of expertise. Think new AI tools, not history.Use a multi-format approach:Focus on building personal relationships. Such as in communities and events. Both online and offline.Make your content super authentic. Ideally videos instead of text or voice. Make it clear this is a human.Deploy an avatar army. Your solo content is not enough. You need an army creating content 24/7. This can be clones of yourself or similar personas.The mentioned photos are here. Disclosure. I have had a education partnership with Alibaba within the past twelve months. -------I am a consultant & keynote speaker on how to increase digital growth and strengthen digital AI moats.I am the founder of TechMoat Consulting, a consulting firm specialized in increasing digital growth and strengthening digital AI moats. Get in contact here.I write (a lot) about digital growth and digital AI strategy (3 best selling books, +2.9M followers on LinkedIn). There is a free book and email newsletter below.My Moats and Marathons book series is a framework for building and measuring competitive advantages in digital businesses.This content (articles, podcasts, website info) is not investment, legal or tax advice. The information and opinions from me and any guests may be incorrect. The numbers and information may be wrong. The views expressed may no longer be relevant or accurate. This is not investment advice. Investing is risky. Do your own research.Support the show

For a thousand years, Suzhou and Hangzhou stood as synonyms for the next best thing to Heaven itself. Well... that was before 1860. As of now, Hangzhou is a fire-gutted ruin, and Suzhou is next on the target list. But the army that does the most damage… is not the invader. The Taiping arrive to find the dirty work done ahead of them, by the very Qing forces assigned to defend the great southern city, and a vast number of the city having decided to "take matters into their own hands." As such, when a party of missionaries sails upriver from Shanghai to find out just what happened to Suzhou, they'll have to wade through a literal riverful of the dead. Time Period Covered:May-Aug. 1860 CE Major Historical Figures: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom:Hong Xiuquan, the Heavenly King [1814–1864]Hong Rengan, the Shield King (Gan Wang), Prime Minister [1822–1864]Li Xiucheng, the Loyal King (Zhong Wang) [1823–1864] The Qing:The Xianfeng Emperor [1831–1861]He Guiqing, Governor-General of Liangjiang [1816–1862]Xu Youren, Governor of Jiangsu [d. 1860]Zeng Guofan, Governor-General of Liangjiang (from June 8, 1860); commander, Hunan Army [1811–1872]Ma Dezhao, Qing commander The Foreign Missionaries:Joseph Edkins, London Missionary Society [1823–1905]Jane Edkins, his wife [1841-1863]Griffith John, Welsh Congregationalist missionary [1831–1912]James Legge, London Missionary Society, Hong Kong [1815–1897] Major Works Cited:Jen, Yu-wen. The Taiping Revolutionary Movement.Michael, Franz, and Chung-li Chang. The Taiping Rebellion: History and Documents, Vols. I–III.Platt, Stephen R. Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War.Spence, Jonathan D. God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Just in time for the Year of the Snake, this classic Chinese folktale takes us to the famed shores of the West Lake in Hangzhou where magical Taoist snakes turn into beautiful women and fall in love with good hearted shepherds. It's The Legend of the White Snake! Episode link: https://www.chinesepod.com/2137

Reading blood work well means resisting the urge to sort everything into simply normal or abnormal. But what happens when the real diagnosis lives in the relationships between markers, not the markers themselves?Dr. Jessica Parker is an acupuncturist and lab-work educator who teaches practitioners to read blood panels through a Chinese medicine lens. In this conversation, she joins Michael to explore the gap between conventional ranges and true optimal health.Listen in as they trace her path from a formative year in Hangzhou, where East and West medicine shared the same pharmacy shelf, to teaching acupuncturists to read cortisol, cholesterol, and thyroid markers as stories of stress and imbalance; how spleen-chi deficiency hides inside ordinary lab numbers; and why cortisol has been unfairly demonized online.

The stealth troops successfully sneak past the enemy lines in dead men's coats. The false flags planted on the hillside fool the city guard. The front gate assault diverts, while the sappers around back bring the walls down. I love it when a plan comes together, every single piece locking in like perfect clockwork... Except… it wasn't really the plan. The city that fell was never the objective – it was merely a diversion… a diversion that would leave 60,000 dead within a week. Time Period Covered: 1860 CE Major Historical Figures: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom: Hong Xiuquan, the Heavenly King [1814–1864] Hong Rengan, the Shield King (Gan Wang), Prime Minister [1822–1864] Li Xiucheng, the Loyal King (Zhong Wang) [1823–1864] Li Shixian, the Attending King (Shi Wang) [1834–1865] Chen Yucheng, the Brave King (Ying Wang) [1837–1862] The Qing: The Xianfeng Emperor [1831–1861] He Chun, Imperial Commissioner, Jiangnan Daying [d. 1860] Zeng Guofan, acting Governor-General of Liangjiang; commander, Hunan Army [1811–1872] Zhang Guoliang, commander, Jiangnan Daying [1822–1860] Zhang Yuliang, commander of the Hangzhou relief column Xu Yuren, Governor of JiangsuMajor Works Cited:Jen, Yu-wen. The Taiping Revolutionary Movement.Michael, Franz, and Chung-li Chang. The Taiping Rebellion: History and Documents, Vols. I–III. Platt, Stephen R. Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War.Spence, Jonathan D. God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kate Adie presents stories from Germany on the Alternative für Deutschland party's plans if it takes power in state elections; India's Cockroach party takes on a new fight; inside the factories of China's robotic revolution; how corned beef changed a Uruguayan town and the protesters of the peaceful anti-communist revolution in 1989 who've taken up a new cause.Jessica Parker has followed the campaign of AfD's state leader in Saxony-Anhalt, Ulrich Siegmund, and heard more about the plans to reform the culture and education systems to make them more patriotic - and what locals are making of them.Geeta Pandy has visited rural schools in Faridabad - which are poorly staffed and in a dilapidated condition. It's a situation replicated across India and the subject of a new campaign by the Cockroach Janata Party, as she discovers.In China, Laura Bicker has visited factories in Chengdu, Hangzhou and Beijing - as well as the World Humanoid Olympics - to witness the robot revolution underway. More than two million robots work in the country's factories and she encounters the industrial robots working alongside humans - and the young people being encouraged to embrace the advances.Sara Wheeler has been in the Uruguayan town of Fray Bentos, and learns how corned beef along with other beef products once changed the fortunes of the region and the country.And Anne McElvoy reflects on her time as a student in communist East Germany, and then as a reporter of the anti-communist protests in 1989 - and finds some of those who took to the streets back then have redirected their sense of national pride to embrace a new cause: support for the AfD.Series Producer: Serena Tarling Production Coordinators: Katie Morrison and Sophie Hill Editor: Justine Lang

Plus: Alibaba to raise $10.2 billion for AI investment with share placement. And the Justice Department and TikTok reach $400 million settlement over children's privacy suit. Julie Chang hosts. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

In this episode, we were LIVE(ish) again from Hangzhou, China at the 2026 World ParaVolley Sitting World Championship. We welcomed U.S. Men's Sitting National Team libero Travis Ricks to the show (1:00 - 38:30). We caught up with Travis following competition at Worlds, and he talks about the results of the Men's team and the team qualifying for LA28, as well as shares about his experience competing in China. Travis talks about his journey in volleyball, starting out as a multisport athlete, finding sitting volleyball and coming back to competition after retiring and so much more! Text us!

Unitree, a Hangzhou-based robot maker, surged 542 percent on its Shanghai debut, according to CNBC. The move highlights strong domestic investor interest in advanced manufacturing and robotics in China. The listing adds to Asia's varied robotics funding paths, alongside UBTech Robotics' 2023 Hong Kong IPO and Boston Dynamics' private status under Hyundai Motor Group. U.S. founders may face faster product cycles and pricing pressure as Chinese peers scale manufacturing and iterate quickly. Buyers in energy, logistics, and public safety will assess reliability, cybersecurity, and vendor origin before deploying quadrupeds. A headline debut may reset valuation comps and spur M&A, but execution discipline and service coverage remain critical for hardware operators.Learn more on this news by visiting us at: https://greyjournal.net/news/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week on Sinica, I sit down with the writer Pallavi Aiyar — at her own dining table in Beijing, where in recent months I've been the lucky beneficiary of her and her husband Julio's legendary hospitality. Pallavi first arrived in Beijing in 2002 to teach at the Beijing Broadcasting Institute and went on to spend the better part of a decade as The Hindu's China correspondent — for much of that time, the only Chinese-speaking Indian foreign correspondent in the country. That period produced Smoke and Mirrors: An Experience of China, still one of the very few sustained attempts to look at China through Indian eyes. After 16 years away — years spent in Brussels, Jakarta, Tokyo, and Madrid — she's back in Beijing, and turning her gaze inward with her latest book, Travels in the Other Place: Pursuing the Self in Eight Acts. She writes the wonderful Substack The Global Jigsaw, which I recommend without reservation.Our conversation is built around her recent essay for Noema Magazine, “The Real Problem Underlying India-China Tensions,” which argues that the deepest problem in the relationship isn't the border or the trade imbalance but the distorting lenses through which each side reads the other: China reads India through the lens of colonial subordination, while India reads China through the lens of betrayal. We talk about the ugly etymology of an ethnic slur, the partial historical memories each country mistakes for the whole picture, her serialized interviews with the Chinese India-watcher Mao Keji, the aporia-inducing impossibility of explaining either country to outsiders — and how her answer to the question she first posed in 2008, “Would I rather be born Indian or Chinese?”, has changed, painfully, in the years since.4:35 – Beijing, 2002: an ad in That's Beijing, gandhi@hotmail.com, and becoming The Hindu's correspondent10:03 – “Beijing and I grew up together”: the aughts as a shared coming-of-age12:16 – The asymmetry of obsession: why India watches China, but not the reverse16:39 – The unacknowledged third vertex: Western discursive power in the India-China relationship18:08 – Back after 16 years: the Liangma River, blue skies, and the panopticon21:35 – Walks in the park and the “buddy system”: what access looks like now25:43 – Where did all the foreigners go?29:59 – The scene at CCG: candor, offense, and the register of truth33:10 – “Asan”: the etymology of a slur, Sikh policemen, opium fortunes, and China's colonial lens40:10 – 1962 and India's betrayal lens42:15 – Aporia: the foolhardy task of explaining India or China47:22 – Shame and indignation: explaining a place you love versus a place you merely know52:29 – The big question, 2008: born Indian or Chinese?55:44 – The 2026 answer: “It hurts”1:00:08 – Kaiser pushes back: cherry-picked comparisons, and can this essay's very existence complicate its conclusions?1:04:43 – Twin nations of the exam1:06:57 – Cognitive empathy: what it would take for ordinary Indians and Chinese to actually see each otherPaying It ForwardYaqi Li, a young Chinese international relations scholar recently returned to China after a year in Singapore — Pallavi admires the rare self-reflectiveness of his memoir-inflected IR writing on his Substack, New China Literacy, and notes that he makes an interesting case for AI-assisted writing as a way for second- and third-language English speakers to find their voice.RecommendationsPallavi: Flashlight by Susan Choi — a novel spanning Japan, the U.S., and North Korea, built around the North Korean abductions of Japanese citizens in the 1970s. Also This Is Where the Serpent Lives by Daniyal Mueenuddin — the first novel from her favorite Pakistani writer, a sprawling, Chekhovian portrait of feudalism and politics in modern Pakistan.Kaiser: Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner — beautiful at the sentence level, painted on a small canvas: two couples who meet as young academics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and their friendship across the decades. Emotionally rich despite the absence of grand drama.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The Hangzhou-based company will be listed at an offering price of 150.8 yuan, or about 22 US dollars, per share. That will give the company an estimated market capitalization of nearly 61 billion yuan following its initial public offering.

Fluent Fiction - Mandarin Chinese: Summer Frights and Library Nights: A Ghostly Revelation Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.com/zh/episode/2026-08-16-07-38-19-zh Story Transcript:Zh: 在杭州的一座古老图书馆，夏天的一个晚上，三位高中生聚集在一起。En: In an ancient library in Hangzhou, on a summer night, three high school students gathered together.Zh: 他们是敏、嘉和伟，他们计划一起完成一个重要的学校项目。En: They were Min, Jia, and Wei, and they planned to complete an important school project together.Zh: 这间图书馆以其昏暗的灯光、吱吱作响的地板和高大的书架而闻名，En: This library is known for its dim lighting, creaky floors, and tall bookshelves.Zh: 据说在鬼节期间，这里有幽灵出没。En: It's said that during the Ghost Festival, ghosts haunt the place.Zh: 敏是个刻苦的学生，但他很迷信，经常对图书馆的鬼故事感到不安。En: Min is a diligent student, but he's superstitious and often feels uneasy about ghost stories related to the library.Zh: 嘉则是个实事求是的朋友，她并不相信这些故事。En: Jia, on the other hand, is a pragmatic friend who doesn't believe in these stories.Zh: 伟是一位好学又稍显好玩的朋友，他总是喜欢拿敏的迷信开玩笑。En: Wei is a studious yet somewhat playful friend who always enjoys joking about Min's superstitions.Zh: 天渐渐暗下来，三人在书堆中忙碌着。En: As the sky darkened, the three of them busied themselves among the stacks of books.Zh: 但敏的思绪总是被外面的抽噎声和轻声脚步打断。En: But Min's thoughts were constantly interrupted by the sobbing sounds and the light footsteps outside.Zh: 他心里不安，觉得这个晚上可能会遇到不寻常的事情。En: He felt uneasy inside, thinking that something unusual might happen that night.Zh: 大约八点钟，图书馆里突然传来一声轻轻的笑声，随后又是一阵急促的脚步声。En: Around eight o'clock, a light laughter suddenly came from inside the library, followed by a series of hurried footsteps.Zh: “敏，你又在想什么呢？”嘉抬起头问道。En: “Min, what are you thinking about again?” Jia asked, looking up.Zh: “没什么，只是……你不觉得这里有点点怪吗？”敏有些迟疑地说。En: “It's nothing, it's just... don't you feel it's a bit strange here?” Min said hesitantly.Zh: “这里是老图书馆，这种声音很正常。”嘉摇了摇头。En: “This is an old library, such sounds are normal,” Jia shook her head.Zh: 但伟微微笑着，似乎知道一些不可告人的秘密。En: But Wei smiled slightly, as if he knew some unspeakable secret.Zh: 随着时间的推移，敏越来越坐立不安。En: As time went by, Min became more and more restless.Zh: 离鬼节的午夜越来越近了，奇怪的声音也愈加频繁。En: The midnight of the Ghost Festival was approaching, and the strange sounds became more frequent.Zh: 在内心的挣扎和好奇心的驱使下，敏决定去探个究竟。En: Driven by inner struggle and curiosity, Min decided to go and find out.Zh: 他轻声对嘉说：“我必须看看那是什么。”En: He whispered to Jia, “I have to see what it is.”Zh: 嘉叹了口气，继续整理他们的研究材料。En: Jia sighed and continued organizing their research materials.Zh: 敏沿着走廊小心翼翼地走着，声音变得更清晰。En: Min walked cautiously along the hallway, and the sounds became clearer.Zh: 最终，他在图书馆的一个角落里发现了一点光线。En: Finally, he discovered a bit of light in a corner of the library.Zh: 原来是伟，正用手电筒投射影子，在玩着恶作剧。En: It turned out to be Wei, who was using a flashlight to cast shadows, playing a prank.Zh: “伟，你骗得我好苦啊！”敏哭笑不得地说。En: “Wei, you fooled me so badly!” Min said, both laughing and crying.Zh: 伟哈哈大笑：“看来你的鬼都只在我这里。”En: Wei laughed heartily: “Looks like your ghosts only exist with me.”Zh: “你们真幼稚。”嘉走过来，摇着头。En: “You're so childish,” Jia said, walking over and shaking her head.Zh: 经过这一幕，敏认识到这些传说可能只是故事罢了。En: After this scene, Min realized that these legends might just be stories.Zh: 他们三人回到桌子前，在余下的时间里专心投入到项目中，最终顺利完成。En: The three of them returned to their table, devoted themselves to the project for the rest of the time, and eventually completed it successfully.Zh: 在古老的图书馆，敏吸取了教训。En: In the ancient library, Min learned a lesson.Zh: 他对自己说：“以后要让理智引导我，而不是恐惧。”En: He told himself: “In the future, I should let reason guide me, not fear.”Zh: 他们三人开心地走出图书馆，夏夜的凉风迎面而来，吹散了敏心头的最后一丝不安。En: The three of them happily walked out of the library, with the cool breeze of the summer night blowing away the last trace of Min's unease.Zh: 敏，终于在这个鬼节变得更加理智和坚定。En: Min finally became more rational and resolute on this Ghost Festival. Vocabulary Words:ancient: 古老creaky: 吱吱作响superstitious: 迷信pragmatic: 实事求是playful: 好玩sobbing: 抽噎hesitantly: 迟疑地unspeakable: 不可告人restless: 坐立不安struggle: 挣扎curiosity: 好奇心cautiously: 小心翼翼flashlight: 手电筒shadows: 影子prank: 恶作剧legends: 传说rational: 理智resolute: 坚定unease: 不安diligent: 刻苦haunt: 出没urgent: 急促interrupted: 打断persuasive: 具有说服力successfully: 顺利devoted: 投入gathered: 聚集serious: 正式dim: 昏暗sky darkened: 天渐渐暗下来

This week on Autonomy Signals presented by KPMG, Grayson Brulte and Rob Grant discuss Uber fully exiting its equity position in Serve Robotics as the delivery partnership ends, CaoCao launching robotaxi operations in Hangzhou, and Boeing offloading Wisk, SkyGrid and Insitu to Archer Aviation in a deal that trades equity for cash flow.Uber recently liquidated its entire remaining stake in Serve Robotics, as Serve announced on their Q2 2026 earnings call that the company will not be renewing its delivery partnership when the contract expires in 2027, exposing the pitfalls of being reliant on a demand aggregation platform.While Uber and Serve prepare to part ways, CaoCao launched public road testing without a safety driver in Hangzhou's Binjiang District with a fleet of roughly 100 vehicles, backed by parent Geely's manufacturing might and a purpose-built EvaCab robotaxi with a sub $35,000 BOM cost targeting 100,000 units by 2030.As China's robotaxi industry grows, Boeing exited autonomy by selling Wisk, SkyGrid and Insitu to Archer Aviation for a 19.75% equity stake, immediately re-anchoring Archer's valuation on defense cash flow rather than eVTOL speculation while pushing autonomous certification down the line.Episode Chapters0:00 KPMG Sponsor Introduction01:32 Signal 1: Uber and Serve Robotics Get Divorced31:40 Signal 2: CaoCao Vertically Integrates Robotaxis1:00:10 Signal 3: Boeing Exits Autonomy with Archer Aviation DealFollow The Road to Autonomy Indices--------About The Road to AutonomyThe Road to Autonomy is the leading applied intelligence platform covering the convergence of automation, autonomy, and the Autonomy Economy.™.Through our podcasts, newsletter, and proprietary applied intelligence, we set the narrative for institutional investors, industry executives, and policymakers navigating the convergence of automation, autonomy, and economic growth.Join institutional investors and industry leaders who read This Week in The Autonomy Economy every Sunday. Each edition delivers exclusive insight and commentary on the autonomy economy, helping you stay ahead of what's next.Sign up for This Week in The Autonomy Economy newsletterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This week on Sinica, I welcome back Evan Osnos of The New Yorker, whose marvelous new essay, “The Future, Made in China,” chronicles a tech-focused return trip to Beijing, where he lived from 2005 to 2013 — first for the Chicago Tribune, then as The New Yorker's China correspondent. Evan is the author of Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China, which won the National Book Award, as well as Wildland: The Making of America's Fury and The Haves and Have-Yachts.His essay is far more than another breathless account of China's advances in robotics and electric vehicles. It's a meditation on what China's technological ascent means for the United States, for how both societies are organized, and for the rest of us, whose futures increasingly seem to be wagered by two small circles of powerful men in Beijing and Washington. We talk about the Xiaomi Hyperfactory, “Chinamaxxing,” the export control debate, and the deeper contest Evan identifies: not democracy versus authoritarianism, but humanism versus scientism.3:04 – Walking Beijing's streets again: quieter, richer, more surveilled11:26 – The Xiaomi Hyperfactory: choreography, awe, and what's actually real18:10 – Doomed to coexist: Evan's message for the American reader24:15 – Schrödinger's China: joke or juggernaut?27:16 – The limits of knowability in an increasingly opaque system31:56 – Threat narratives vs. “Chinamaxxing”: America's two China conversations43:20 – “Thank Trump”: America's self-inflicted wounds47:29 – Revisiting the Sullivan doctrine and export controls53:10 – Mankind 2000: humanism, scientism, and rival oligarchies1:02:48 – Convergence: arriving at dystopia from opposite directions1:07:21 – Self-strengthening redux: Levenson and America's meum-verum gap1:17:53 – The other Sputnik moment: the backlash against tech oligarchyPaying It ForwardYi-Ling Liu, author of The Wall Dancers: Searching for Freedom and Connection on the Chinese Internet — Evan admires how her work grapples with the competition between scientism and humanism across national borders.Chang Che, who writes for The New Yorker and The Guardian — watching China's technological developments up close, “creating history in real time.”RecommendationsEvan: How to Rule the World: An Education in Power at Stanford University by Theo Baker — the youngest-ever Polk Award winner on how a rising generation at Silicon Valley's feeder school perceives its opportunities and obligations. Also True Grit by Charles Portis — splendid, sentence-savoring dialogue.Kaiser: Butcher's Crossing by John Williams, author of Stoner — a Western with the same sentence-level craft; for fans of Melville and Cormac McCarthy.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Typhoon Dolphin made double landfall in East China's Zhejiang province on Sunday evening, bringing strong winds, high waves and heavy rain.台风 “白海豚” 于周日晚间在华东浙江省二次登陆，带来狂风、巨浪与强降雨。The typhoon is expected to weaken as it moves inland and northward, reaching North China in the coming days.该台风向内陆北上过程中将逐步减弱，未来数日将抵达华北地区。Dolphin, the 13th typhoon of the year, made its first landfall in Kanmen subdistrict of Yuhuan, Taizhou, at around 5:30 pm as a strong typhoon, with the maximum sustained wind speed at its center exceeding 150 kilometers per hour, according to the National Meteorological Center.据国家气象中心消息，今年第 13 号台风 “白海豚” 以强台风级别，于下午 5 时 30 分左右在台州玉环坎门街道首次登陆，中心最大持续风速超每小时 150 公里。The typhoon then made a second landfall in Yueqing, Zhejiang, about 70 minutes later.约 70 分钟后，该台风在浙江乐清完成二次登陆。Ahead of its arrival, coastal cities across Zhejiang scaled up their emergency response systems.台风来临前，浙江各沿海城市提升应急响应等级。Wenzhou, Taizhou and Ningbo activated Level I responses, the highest in China's four‑tier system, while Hangzhou activated Level II.温州、台州、宁波启动我国四级应急体系中的最高等级 Ⅰ 级应急响应，杭州启动 Ⅱ 级应急响应。In Taizhou, all 3,815 fishing vessels were berthed in safe waters, and work was suspended at 29 coastal water‑related projects.台州 3815 艘渔船全部回港避风，29 个涉海沿海项目停工。Wenzhou imposed citywide suspension of classes, work, production, transportation and business operations.温州全市实行停课、停工、停产、停运、停业。The National Meteorological Center issued a red typhoon alert, its highest‑level warning, on Sunday morning.国家气象中心周日早晨发布台风红色预警，为最高级别预警。It was the second such alert this year, following one for Typhoon Noul in late July.这是继 7 月底台风 “红霞” 之后，今年第二次发布台风红色预警。The storm caused widespread travel disruptions across the Yangtze River Delta.这场风暴造成长三角地区大范围交通受阻。More than 1,000 flights were canceled on Sunday, while some railway services and ferry routes were suspended.周日千余架次航班取消，部分铁路班次与轮渡航线停运。Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport canceled 388 inbound and outbound flights, mostly scheduled for the afternoon.杭州萧山国际机场取消 388 架次进出港航班，大部分为下午时段航班。Shanghai's Pudong and Hongqiao airports canceled more than 1,300 flights, nearly 60 percent of scheduled services.上海浦东、虹桥两大机场取消 1300 余架次航班，占计划航班量近六成。Authorities also moved people living in vulnerable areas to safety.相关部门也将居住在风险区域的群众转移至安全地带。In Hangzhou's Xiaoshan district, for example, a shelter at Jinshan Junior High School had become a temporary home for 231 construction workers by Sunday afternoon.例如，截至周日下午，杭州萧山区金山中学安置点已接纳 231 名建筑工人临时避险。On Saturday evening, authorities in Zhejiang evacuated some 390,000 people in Taizhou.周六晚间，浙江台州转移安置约 39 万名群众。Authorities in Shanghai evacuated more than 30,000 people from risk‑prone areas.上海相关部门从风险区域转移 3 万余人。Dolphin's impact is expected to last for days.“白海豚” 带来的影响预计将持续数日。Dong Lin, chief forecaster at the National Meteorological Center, said its circulation spans about 1,300 kilometers, contributing to a broad and prolonged wind and rain impact.国家气象中心首席预报员董林表示，该台风环流范围约 1300 公里，将造成大范围、长时间的风雨影响。Through Monday, heavy rainfall is expected mainly in areas south of the Yellow and Huaihe rivers, including parts of Zhejiang, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Anhui, Hubei, Henan and Shandong.截至周一，强降雨主要集中在黄淮以南部分地区，涵盖浙江、上海、江苏、安徽、湖北、河南、山东局部。The rain belt is expected to move northward beginning Tuesday as Dolphin's residual circulation moves inland.随着 “白海豚” 残余环流深入内陆，雨带预计自周二起向北推移。According to the Beijing Meteorological Service, the Beijing‑Tianjin‑Hebei region is forecast to see heavy rainfall from Monday night through Friday.北京市气象台消息，京津冀地区预计自周一夜间至周五将迎来强降雨。landfall /ˈlændfɔːl/n.（台风）登陆circulation /ˌsɜːkjəˈleɪʃn/n. 环流；环流圈evacuate /ɪˈvækjueɪt/v. 疏散；转移forecaster /ˈfɔːkɑːstə(r)/n. 预报员

Chinese robot maker Unitree Robotics on Monday opened subscriptions for its initial public offering (IPO) on the Shanghai Stock Exchange's sci‑tech innovation board, or STAR Market, following a preliminary offline price inquiry that indicated strong investor demand.中国机器人企业宇树科技周一启动上海证券交易所科创板新股申购，此前开展的初步线下询价显示投资者认购需求旺盛。The Hangzhou‑based company is offering 40.446434 million shares at 150.80 yuan (about $22) each, representing 10 percent of its post‑offering share capital. The offering is expected to raise about 6.10 billion yuan in gross proceeds.这家总部位于杭州的企业本次发行 4044.6434 万股，发行价每股 150.80 元人民币（约合 22 美元），占发行后总股本的 10%。本次发行预计募集毛资金约 61.0 亿元。After invalid bids and the highest‑priced portion of proposed subscriptions were excluded, the remaining proposed offline subscriptions totaled 71.463 billion shares, 2,760.67 times the initial offline offering size before adjustment for strategic placement, according to the issuance announcement.根据发行公告，剔除无效报价和最高报价部分申购后，剩余线下有效申购总量达 714.63 亿股，为战略配售调整前初始线下发行规模的 2760.67 倍。According to its prospectus, Unitree mainly develops, produces and sells high‑performance general‑purpose humanoid and quadruped robots, robot components and embodied intelligence models. On its official website, Unitree describes itself as a civilian robotics company with leadership in core robot parts, motion control, robot sensing and other comprehensive fields.据招股书披露，宇树科技主要研发、生产及销售高性能通用人形机器人、四足机器人、机器人零部件以及具身智能模型。宇树科技在官网中将自身定位为民用机器人企业，在机器人核心零部件、运动控制、机器人感知等综合领域具备行业领先水平。The prospectus shows that from 2023 to 2025, Unitree sold 33,294 quadruped robots and 5,632 humanoid robots. Its humanoid robot shipments exceeded 5,500 units in 2025, excluding wheeled dual‑arm robots.招股书显示，2023 至 2025 年间，宇树科技累计销售四足机器人 33294 台、人形机器人 5632 台。2025 年，剔除轮式双臂机器人后，其人形机器人出货量超 5500 台。China's securities regulator approved Unitree's IPO registration application in a decision dated July 1.中国证券监管机构于 7 月 1 日作出批复，核准宇树科技首次公开发行股票注册申请。subscription /səbˈskrɪpʃn/n. 申购；认购prospectus /prəˈspektəs/n. 招股说明书quadruped /ˈkwɒdrəped/n. 四足动物；四足机器人regulator /ˈreɡjuleɪtə(r)/n. 监管机构；监管者

Photographer Yue Sun joins Michael Chovan-Dalton from the 2026 Chico Review to discuss His work from Inner Mongolia and the transition of his hometown from coal mining to tourism.https://www.yuesunphoto.comhttps://www.instagram.com/__4le_/b. 1998, Wuhai, Inner Mongolia, ChinaBased in Shanghai, China‍Yue Sun is a self-taught Chinese photographer, currently working as a freelance-architect in Shanghai.BA Architecture(ARB/RIBA Part I), Architecture Association School of ArchitectureGroup Exhibitions2026 - Gui Qu Lai Xi, FujiFilm X-Space, Hangzhou, China2025 - 6th Lanzhou International Image Biennale This podcast is sponsored by the Charcoal Book Club - Begin Building your dream photobook library today at:https://charcoalbookclub.com

In this episode, we were LIVE(ish) from Hangzhou, China, at the 2026 World ParaVolley Sitting World Championship. We welcomed Paralympic gold medalist and U.S. Women's Sitting Team athlete Jillian Coffee to the show (1:00 - 42:28). We caught up with Jillian before competition started at Worlds, and she shares what it would take for her and the team to win this event, as well as shares about competing in China. She talks about her journey in volleyball, being a mother and National Team athlete, and coming back to competition after having a child. She also talks about her foundation, hunting and so much more! Text us!

This week on Sinica, a rare treat: an in-person recording from Beijing with two dear friends who happen to be two of the very best in the business on technology and China — Samm Sacks and Paul Triolo, fresh off the exhibition floor of the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai. We dig into Xi Jinping's first in-person WAIC appearance and his most extensive statement on AI to date, the launch of the World AI Cooperation Organization, Moonshot's release of Kimi K3, the Trump administration's reported push to shut Chinese open-weight models out of the U.S. market, the coming age of agents, the untranslatable problem of ānquán, and what to expect from the first U.S.-China AI dialogue in September.8:51 – The view from the floor: heat, humidity, robot boxing grandmas, WeChat-gated free water, and the "AI+" vibe — why WAIC 2026 felt less like an AI conference than a sector-by-sector snapshot of China's entire economy being supercharged with AI, with attendance swelling to some 200,000 tickets16:32 – Why Xi showed up: what the leader's first in-person WAIC appearance and his most extensive AI statement to date signal, and why domestic drivers matter as much as geopolitics18:01 – Chapter and verse: which phrases from the speech will be put to work in the system — "secure and orderly development" and the governance of agents, and Xi's strikingly extensive language on AI safety after China was frozen out of the Paris process22:26 – The ānquán problem: one word meaning both "safety" and "security," the three buckets of AI risk, and how China's safety community has moved from bias and deepfakes toward CBRN and loss-of-control concerns — Black Mirror versus Star Trek28:14 – Shanghai's baby: how WAIC's ownership structure differs from the CAC-run World Internet Conference in Wuzhen, Chen Jining's very visible host duties, and whether the center of gravity in AI policy is shifting to the Yangtze River Delta30:05 – WAICO: what the new World AI Cooperation Organization with its 29 founding members is actually for, Xi's concrete deliverables for the Global South — 5,000 AI training slots, regional cooperation centers, the MAZU early-warning system — and healthy skepticism about follow-through34:39 – Kimi K3: what's technically significant in Moonshot's big new model, why it's the fourth arguably frontier-class Chinese release in a single month, the two-way traffic in distillation accusations, and what it all says about the state of the frontier gap four years into export controls40:33 – Washington reacts: the reported menu of options for shutting Chinese open-weight models out of the U.S. — entity listings, a draft executive order, supply-chain security authorities — and why none of the tools actually fit the problem49:36 – Strange bedfellows: David Sacks versus the "closed lab duopoly," the FUD strategy, why some 80% of Andreessen Horowitz portfolio companies reportedly run on Chinese open models, and how gating U.S. frontier models while Chinese weights flow freely supercharges the AI sovereignty argument worldwide54:55 – The model is infrastructure, the agent is the product: the ByteDance–ZTE agentic phone, the CAC's new initiative on agent trust and interoperability, and why agents fused into operating systems upend both super-app walled gardens and China's data protection regime1:02:27 – An exegesis of kěkòng: the many meanings of "controllable," the long history of ānquán kěkòng in Chinese tech policy, and the unanswered question of who — CAC, NDRC, or somebody new — actually owns AI safety in either system1:08:54 – The road to September: what to expect from the first U.S.-China AI dialogue, why Mythos tops the Chinese grievance list, the securitization feedback loop that starves trust-and-safety advocates of resources on both sides, and why recursive self-improvement makes this feel like a last, best chancePaying It ForwardPaul nominates Tony Peng, whose Substack RecodeChinaAI offers sharp, well-written analysis of the application side of China's AI industry — part of an impressive new generation of independent China tech writers. Samm gives a shout-out to Professor Zhu Yue of Tongji University Law School, published in Science and doing pioneering work at the intersection of disability law and AI law.RecommendationsSamm: The Land and Its People by David Sedaris — laugh-out-loud funny, especially the "Enough is Enough" chapter; Transcription by Ben Lerner, a perfect small novel about fathers, sons, memory, and technology as enabler or disabler of connection; and Didion and Babitz, on Joan Didion and Eve Babitz and the 1970s California rock scene.Paul: The Party's Interests Come First by Joseph Torigian — dense but beautifully written, and essential for understanding the current Chinese leadership.Kaiser: A fiction-only summer! Stoner by John Williams, a small life told most grandly in some of the most beautiful sentence-level writing anywhere; Gilead by Marilynne Robinson, an epistolary novel dense with distilled wisdom from a dying Iowa minister; and Wang Xiaobo's The Golden Age (黄金时代) in Yan Yan's excellent new translation — bawdy, hilarious, and super Beijing-y despite its Cultural Revolution setting.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Fluent Fiction - Mandarin Chinese: Preserving Legacy: A Tea House Tale of Love and Memory Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.com/zh/episode/2026-07-23-22-34-01-zh Story Transcript:Zh: 杭州的夏天，空气中弥漫着一股茶香。En: In the summer of Hangzhou, the air is filled with the scent of tea.Zh: 一家古老的茶馆坐落在西湖边，绿意盎然。En: An ancient tea house is nestled by West Lake, surrounded by lush greenery.Zh: 明宇和丽华走进茶馆。En: Mingyu and Lihua enter the tea house.Zh: 他们是兄妹，来自北京，最近因为爷爷的事来到杭州。En: They are siblings from Beijing, recently arrived in Hangzhou due to their grandfather's affairs.Zh: 爷爷不久前去世，留下了许多事情需要处理。En: Their grandfather passed away not long ago, leaving many matters to be settled.Zh: 明宇是兄长，性格务实。En: Mingyu is the older brother, pragmatic by nature.Zh: 他想尽快处理完爷爷的遗物，返回工作。En: He wants to swiftly sort out their grandfather's belongings and return to work.Zh: 然而，丽华更为感性。En: Yet Lihua is more sentimental.Zh: 她想细致地保留爷爷的记忆。En: She wishes to meticulously preserve the memories of their grandfather.Zh: 兄妹俩意见不一，特别是在茶馆的处理上。En: The siblings disagree, especially regarding the handling of the tea house.Zh: 这一天是七夕节，茶馆内挂了红灯笼。En: On this day, it's the Qixi Festival, and the tea house is adorned with red lanterns.Zh: 丽华在整理爷爷的物品时，发现了一张神秘的照片。En: While sorting through their grandfather's belongings, Lihua discovers a mysterious photograph.Zh: 照片上的女子陌生而亲切。En: The woman in the photo is unfamiliar yet familiar.Zh: 丽华对这张照片产生了浓厚的兴趣，想要知道更多背后的故事。En: Lihua develops a strong interest in the photo, wanting to learn more about the story behind it.Zh: “明宇，我们不能这么快卖掉茶馆。”丽华说。En: "Mingyu, we can't sell the tea house so hastily," Lihua said.Zh: “这或许是爷爷留下的宝贵回忆。”En: "This might be a precious memory left by Grandpa."Zh: “丽华，我理解你的感情，但我们还有其他事情要做。”明宇坚持他的计划。En: "Lihua, I understand your feelings, but we have other matters to attend to," Mingyu insisted on his plan.Zh: 但丽华没有放弃。En: But Lihua did not give up.Zh: 她决定找当地的历史学者，希望能揭开照片的秘密。En: She decided to find a local historian, hoping to uncover the secret of the photo.Zh: 几天后，丽华成功地发现，爷爷年轻时曾与一位女子有过一段隐秘的爱情。En: A few days later, Lihua successfully discovered that their grandfather had a secret love affair with a woman when he was young.Zh: 这段故事感人至深，从未被家族提及。En: This touching story had never been mentioned by the family.Zh: 得知这个消息后，明宇沉默了。En: After learning this news, Mingyu fell silent.Zh: 他开始理解丽华的坚持。En: He began to understand Lihua's persistence.Zh: 回忆不仅是过去的纪念，更是生活的一部分。En: Memories are not only a commemoration of the past but also a part of life.Zh: “也许我们可以重新翻修茶馆，保留爷爷的回忆。”明宇提议。En: "Perhaps we can renovate the tea house and preserve Grandpa's memories," Mingyu suggested.Zh: 丽华点头，眼中闪烁着泪光。En: Lihua nodded, her eyes brimming with tears.Zh: 兄妹决定不卖掉茶馆，而是保留它，作为对爷爷的纪念。En: The siblings decided not to sell the tea house but to keep it as a tribute to their grandfather.Zh: 几个星期后，茶馆焕然一新，迎接着新的客人。En: Weeks later, the tea house had a completely new look, welcoming new guests.Zh: 明宇和丽华从这次经历中学到了珍惜记忆的重要和务实的必要。En: Mingyu and Lihua learned from this experience the importance of cherishing memories as well as the necessity of practicality.Zh: 他们在茶馆门口挂上了一块新的牌匾，上面写着“忆缘茶馆”。En: They hung a new plaque at the tea house entrance, reading "Yiyuan Tea House."Zh: 茶香依旧，故事继续。En: The scent of tea remains, and the story continues. Vocabulary Words:scent: 茶香ancient: 古老nestled: 坐落sibling: 兄妹affairs: 事情pragmatic: 务实sort out: 处理sentimental: 感性meticulously: 细致地disagree: 意见不一adorned: 挂mysterious: 神秘unfamiliar: 陌生hastily: 这么快precious: 宝贵historian: 历史学者uncover: 揭开secret: 隐秘affair: 爱情commemoration: 纪念renovate: 翻修tribute: 纪念brimming: 闪烁new look: 焕然一新cherish: 珍惜necessity: 必要plaque: 牌匾entrance: 门口preserve: 保留lush: 盎然

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This week on Sinica, in a special episode recorded at the Davos On Air booth at the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting of the New Champions in Dalian, I sat down with Angela Huyue Zhang, professor of law at USC's Gould School of Law and author of High Wire: How China Regulates Big Tech and Governs Its Economy, and S. Alex Yang, professor of management science and operations at London Business School. Angela and Alex — who are also married, and who arrived at this collaboration from opposite ends of the academy — have developed what I think is one of the most useful new mental models for understanding China's political economy: the platform state. Their argument is that we should think of the Chinese state less as a central planner or owner and more as a platform company like NVIDIA or Apple, one that builds architecture, sets standards, and governs an ecosystem within which fiercely competitive private firms fight it out. Value accrues at the system level rather than as firm profit, and the payoff may decide who wins the race to put AI to work across an entire economy.5:37 – Three puzzles the framework is built to solve: profitless dominance in solar, EVs, and batteries; why the "grabbing hand" hasn't strangled Chinese innovation; and how China is attempting both zero-to-one invention and one-to-hundred scaling at once7:57 – The platform state thesis: why the Chinese government behaves like a platform company, how nurturing an ecosystem of private firms solves the information deficit that cripples command-and-control, and why over-entry, involution, and consolidation are a repeated pattern — from EVs to the 140-plus humanoid robot companies operating today16:13 – The aha moment: how a paper on the legal infrastructure of physical AI became the platform state idea over the Zhang-Yang dinner table, and whether this is a new species of political economy or the East Asian developmental state in new clothes20:44 – State conditions: why state capacity and domestic scale are the two preconditions for the model, and why an ambitious Vietnam — which has the top-down capacity — may still find the Chinese playbook impossible to replicate23:39 – Profitless dominance by design: harvesting versus extracting, the Uber analogy, overshooting as a control-theory strategy for nudging sectors, and how the anti-involution campaign and the 60-day supplier payment mandate show the state moderating the very competition it engineered30:33 – Organized chaos: from the bike-sharing graveyards of the O2O wars to today's disciplined market, the exit of more than 400 EV makers since 2018, and why the survivors of China's "Premier League" of competition are now turning profitable32:59 – The 3Gs playbook: growing markets by solving the cold-start problem, from Liuzhou's EV test drives to Beijing's green license plates, and how subsidy is only one lever among many38:36 – Governing the ecosystem like Apple runs its App Store: why Beijing regulates generative AI with a light touch but physical AI is a different species entirely, law as the sixth layer of the AI stack, why robotaxis scale faster in China than in the U.S., and the state-convened standard-setting that's driving down humanoid robot costs46:54 – Two flywheels: the familiar data-and-cost flywheel and the deeper state capacity flywheel, and how the National AI Fund's small but voting stake in DeepSeek aligns a complementor with the domestic stack — tilting the ecosystem toward Chinese chips53:28 – Guarding the moat: automotive data rules and Tesla's stalled FSD ambitions, the unwound Manus sale, China's own small yard and high fence, and the closing provocation — that America could build the smartest frontier models and still lose the diffusion race to "artificial good-enough intelligence." Plus: the case for coopetition, and what policymakers should (and shouldn't) borrow from the platform stateLinks from the episodeAngela's paper on law as the sixth layer of China's AI stack:The Sixth Layer: The Legal Infrastructure for Physical Artificial Intelligence in China (SSRN)Three Project Syndicate op-eds on the platform state idea:The Rise of the Chinese Platform State by S. Alex Yang & Angela Huyue ZhangAre Government Stakes the Key to AI Sovereignty? by Angela Huyue ZhangOvercapacity Is China's Biggest AI Advantage by Angela Huyue ZhangTwo Management Science papers on commercial platforms:Crowd-Judging on Two-Sided Platforms: An Analysis of In-Group BiasImproving Dispute Resolution in Two-Sided Platforms: The Case of Review BlackmailSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Fluent Fiction - Mandarin Chinese: Winning Hearts on Dragon Boat Festival: Ming's Courageous Leap Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.com/zh/episode/2026-07-03-07-38-19-zh Story Transcript:Zh: 夏天的阳光洒在杭州寄宿学校的校园内。En: Summer sunshine bathed the campus of a boarding school in Hangzhou.Zh: 校园满是绿树和鲜花，空气中弥漫着粽子的香味。En: The campus was full of green trees and flowers, with the air filled with the aroma of zongzi.Zh: 端午节就要到了，同学们都在为这一天的活动紧张准备。En: The Dragon Boat Festival was about to arrive, and the students were busy preparing for the day's activities.Zh: 明坐在湖边的长椅上，手心里捏着一张写满心里话的小纸条。En: Ming sat on a bench by the lake, holding a small piece of paper filled with his innermost thoughts.Zh: 明是一个腼腆的学生，平时话不多。En: Ming was a shy student who didn't talk much.Zh: 他喜欢丽娜已经很久了，但一直不敢表达。En: He had liked Lina for a long time but never dared to express his feelings.Zh: 丽娜是个活泼开朗的女孩，朋友很多，她的身边总是热闹非凡。En: Lina was a lively and outgoing girl with many friends, always surrounded by a bustle of activity.Zh: 最近学校里流传着一个谣言，说丽娜和另一个学生在交往，这让明很困惑。En: Recently, there was a rumor circulating in the school that Lina was dating another student, which left Ming feeling perplexed.Zh: 明望着湖水，心里想着：“我该怎么办？要是谣言是真的怎么办？”他叹了口气，心中充满犹豫。En: Staring at the lake, Ming thought, "What should I do? What if the rumor is true?" He sighed, filled with hesitation.Zh: 终于到了端午节，学校在湖边举行了热闹的庆祝活动。En: Finally, the Dragon Boat Festival arrived, and a lively celebration was held by the school beside the lake.Zh: 大家都在欢笑，赛龙舟的声音此起彼伏。En: Everyone was laughing, and the sound of dragon boat racing echoed nonstop.Zh: 明决定趁人多的时候找丽娜谈谈。En: Ming decided to take the opportunity during the crowd to talk to Lina.Zh: 他走向丽娜，脚步有些沉重。En: He walked towards Lina, his steps somewhat heavy.Zh: 丽娜正在和朋友们说笑，看到明靠近，向他招了招手：“嗨，明！”En: Lina was chatting and laughing with her friends. Seeing Ming approach, she waved at him, "Hi, Ming!"Zh: 明深吸一口气，说：“丽娜，我能和你聊聊吗？”En: Taking a deep breath, Ming said, "Lina, can I talk with you?"Zh: 丽娜点点头，两人走到一旁。En: Lina nodded, and the two of them walked aside.Zh: 明的心跳得很快，他说：“学校里有谣言，说你在和别人交往。真的吗？”En: Ming's heart was racing as he said, "There's a rumor going around school that you're dating someone else. Is it true?"Zh: 丽娜笑了：“我听说了那些谣言，但它们不是真的。我还单身呢！”En: Lina laughed, "I heard those rumors, but they're not true. I'm still single!"Zh: 明松了一口气，紧张的心情略微放松。En: Ming let out a sigh of relief, his nervousness slightly easing.Zh: 他鼓起勇气，说：“其实，我喜欢你很久了，但一直不敢说。”En: He gathered his courage and said, "Actually, I've liked you for a long time but never dared to say it."Zh: 丽娜有些惊讶，但随即笑得更灿烂：“谢谢你的诚实和勇气，明。我们可以一起走走，我也想多了解你。”En: Lina was a bit surprised, but quickly smiled more brightly, "Thank you for your honesty and courage, Ming. We can take a walk together; I also want to learn more about you."Zh: 两人慢慢走在湖边，夕阳的余晖洒在湖面上，波光粼粼。En: The two of them slowly walked along the lakeside, the glow of the setting sun glistening on the water.Zh: 明心情平静了许多，他明白有时面对面交流，比猜测和传闻更有效。En: Ming felt much more at peace, realizing that face-to-face communication was more effective than guessing and rumors.Zh: 了解真相，让他学会了勇敢。En: Learning the truth taught him to be brave.Zh: 从此，他不再畏惧表达自己的心声。En: From then on, he was no longer afraid to express his true feelings.Zh: 端午节的微风中，明感受到了一份新的希望。En: In the breeze of the Dragon Boat Festival, Ming felt a new sense of hope. Vocabulary Words:bathed: 洒aroma: 香味innermost: 心里话shy: 腼腆lively: 活泼outgoing: 开朗surrounded: 围绕bustle: 热闹非凡rumor: 谣言perplexed: 困惑hesitation: 犹豫celebration: 庆祝echoed: 此起彼伏opportunity: 机会approach: 靠近nodded: 点头racing: 跳得很快single: 单身relief: 松了一口气nervousness: 紧张courage: 勇气sun glistening: 余晖洒realizing: 意识到effective: 有效afraid: 畏惧breeze: 微风hope: 希望

Recorded live from the Davos on Air booth at the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting of the New Champions in Dalian, this special episode of Sinica tackles the "pacing problem": the widening gap between how fast AI moves and how slowly regulation can catch up. I sit down with Xue Lan, dean of Schwarzman College at Tsinghua University and one of the architects of China's concept of "agile governance," to unpack what that term means in practice. He traces China's regulatory evolution from the 2017 AI plan through the generative AI rules and the 2021 tech crackdown, compare Chinese, American, and European approaches, and ask whether Beijing's adaptive style can travel to other political systems — including liberal democracies.00:09 – Live from Dalian: the “pacing problem” and why AI has turned it into a chasm03:18 – Introducing Xue Lan, dean of Schwarzman College and architect of “agile governance”04:34 – Why AI's pace makes it uniquely hard to regulate06:01 – Defining agile governance: mindset, partnership over adversary, and light-touch tools11:54 – From the 2017 AI plan to today: China's two-track approach to tech and governance20:07 – Balancing development and security amid the US-China AI race23:24 – Revisiting the 2021 tech crackdown: failure of the model, or agility of a different kind?26:14 – The “DeepSeek moment,” open-weight models, and regulatory uncertainty by design37:10 – EU comprehensiveness vs. US patchwork vs. China's modular, adaptive approach46:59 – Can agile governance travel to liberal democracies? Finding common ground on global AI riskSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Last week in Brussels, EU leaders held their first sustained debate on China policy in three years, and were so wary of Beijing's reaction they wouldn't print the word “China” on the agenda. The trigger: a goods-trade deficit closing in on 360 billion euros, and, for the first time ever, all 27 member states in the red. Recorded at Summer Davos in Dalian, I sat down with economic historian Adam Tooze to ask why the panic, and why now. Polanyi, the Plaza Accord, “glut shaming,” a $1.2 trillion surplus, and what Europe and China each most need to understand about the other.04:26 – Why the alarm now? Imbalances are decades old, so what changed—and the shift from China slotting into Western supply chains to climbing the value chain07:04 – Karl Polanyi, the “double movement,” and how the European working-class question becomes the politics of right-wing populism11:21 – Autos as the core of the fight—12 million jobs—and why the Ukraine alignment gives the whole thing its moral charge for von der Leyen14:14 – “Glut shaming”: the accusation of illegitimacy baked into the Western framing, and how it lands on a Chinese ear18:16 – Wěiqu (委屈)—the swallowed sense of being wronged and why the EU should exercise a bit of cognitive empathy20:14 – Merz reaches for the 1985 Plaza Accord, and the empathy gap that lets a German politician miss what that signals in Beijing22:00 – The currency-manipulation argument, Germany's own history with the euro, and why Switzerland is the real manipulator25:49 – The $1.2 trillion surplus—”nothing we've ever seen before”—and the consumption China refuses to do26:12 – Sorting the sectors: solar, batteries, and EVs where resistance is futile, versus steel and shipbuilding as “Polanyi double-movement as cosplay”32:04 – The Draghi report and the house of mirrors: is China the cause of Europe's malaise or just the thing exposing a homegrown one?36:27 – If Tooze had von der Leyen's ear: investment-linked talks, phased protection with a clear exit, and “investment, investment, investment”41:16 – The October clock on the U.S.–China truce, and why this autumn could get very ugly43:09 – Closing advice: what Europe and Beijing each most need to understand if this ends in managed rebalancing rather than a trade warSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This week on Sinica I'm joined by Robert Wright, author of The Moral Animal, Nonzero, and The Evolution of God, for a conversation that runs a little outside our usual beat, though China sits closer to its center than you'd expect. The occasion is his new book The God Test: Artificial Intelligence and Our Coming Cosmic Reckoning, which reads the AI revolution as the latest turn in a story going back billions of years. We get into the French Jesuit paleontologist Teilhard de Chardin's "noosphere," Bob's argument that we evolved large language models rather than engineered them, the cognitive empathy we've both long preached, and the two-word talking point — "But China!" — that Bob thinks is most likely to lead us astray.6:56 – Teilhard de Chardin, the noosphere, and why a planetary "global brain" has become necessary14:49 – Directionality without the mysticism: complexification, teleology, and the "cell's-eye view" worry21:57 – The God Test: is moral progress really the price of governing AI, and is that hopeless on a short clock?28:33 – Why Bob says we evolved large language models rather than built them, and the sycophancy problem that follows35:19 – Open weights and open source: a real safety argument, or competitiveness in safety's clothing?40:03 – Cognitive empathy as the master key, and the same capacity as an engine of deception48:06 – Arms-race fatalism and its limits: cheetahs, gazelles, and the rival who can pick up the phone53:40 – "But China": fear of Beijing, Anthropic and Amodei, Jeff Ding, and the chip-control backfire1:10:48 – Nonzero: game theory, common threats, and the takeoff scenarios that worry Bob most1:23:22 – Attribution error and projection, Ed Fredkin's old warning, and the actual first movePaying It Forward: Garrison Lovely, author of the forthcoming Obsolete (Nation Books) and the Substack of the same name on the AI race.Recommendations:Bob: Pantheon, the animated series on uploaded minds and emergent superintelligence; and the Crowded House song "Don't Dream It's Over."Kaiser: Kyle Chan's High Capacity podcast, especially his episode with Carnegie's Matt Sheehan, "Is China Getting Worried About AI?"; and Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin novels.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The summit in Beijing produced a "constructive strategic stability" framework and a warming of tone between the two presidents. But heads of state can announce a multi-year horizon; somebody else has to operationalize it. Does the United States have the people — the linguists, the regional experts, the long-haul institution-builders — to do that work?This week, I chatted with two Texans answering that question from very different directions. David Firestein is the inaugural president and CEO of the George H.W. Bush Foundation for U.S.-China Relations in Houston. A career State Department officer who served four administrations and spent five years in Beijing, he's one of the few Americans concurrently affiliated with both a Republican and a Democratic presidential legacy institution. Eddie Conger is a retired Marine major and the founder and superintendent of International Leadership of Texas (IL Texas) — a public charter network of 26 campuses serving 26,000 K-12 students and now the largest K-12 Chinese language program in the country. In January, IL Texas became the first-ever K-12 recipient of the Bush China Foundation's George H.W. Bush Award for Educational Excellence in U.S.-China Relations, joining past honorees including Jimmy Carter and Henry Kissinger.The conversation tackles what David calls the Texas paradox: the same state that just forced its cities to dissolve their sister-city ties with China, that pioneered the closure of Confucius Institutes, and that has restricted Chinese land purchases is also where the country's deepest K-12 Mandarin pipeline is taking root — and where the most institutionally Texan China foundation has chosen to plant its flag. David and Eddie talk through engagement honestly (no straw-man Jeffersonian-democracy fantasies), the erroneous strategic assumptions undergirding U.S. China policy, what real national-language capacity would look like operationally, what they each saw in the Trump–Xi summit, and what 5,000 IL Texas graduates are already doing in the world.05:40 — Eddie's path: Marine infantryman to fifth-grade math teacher to the country's largest K-12 Mandarin program09:12 — David on when the Nixon-through-Obama engagement consensus broke (fall 2017) and how the lexicon shifted13:30 — Engagement honestly defined: what its architects actually believed vs. the Jeffersonian-democracy straw man18:30 — The Texas paradox: HB 128, sister cities, Confucius Institutes — and the country's biggest Mandarin program in the same state31:26 — Texas business, Tim Dunn, faith, and the gap between political rhetoric and where Texans actually are41:54 — The Defense Department safety/security story: when one Chinese word ate an entire bilateral agreement46:16 — David's six (or seven) erroneous strategic assumptions: China doesn't want to be us, and it has benefited more than anyone from the current order52:28 — What real national-language capacity would actually look like: NSLI, WALARA, and why the pipeline still runs through one Marine major in Texas01:06:07 — Reading the Beijing summit: the warmth, the "constructive strategic stability" framing, and whether Trump's Taiwan call could blow it all up01:17:10 — Where 5,000 IL Texas graduates are now — White House interns, service academies, doctors, entrepreneurs, and one high-schooler who pulled a stranger out of the surfPaying it ForwardEddie: Carlos Carrasco; Emily, who is heading to Taiwan this fall on a one-year high-school program; and another student bound for the University of Texas at Austin who will be sent to South Korea for a semester as a freshman — a rarity at UT. And he closes with Miles, a high-school senior and Marine scholarship recipient who, just weeks ago at a national competition in Florida, heard someone screaming for help in the ocean, called for a boogie board, and swam out to save a drowning swimmer while a crowd of adults stood on the beach. "Others before self," as Eddie puts it — the IL Texas mission statement made flesh.David:Frank Zhou, who just graduated from Harvard and chaired the Harvard College China Forum; Selina Gong, a recent graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School involved in its annual China conference; and Dean Dai, a recent graduate of Columbia's SIPA who has been deeply involved in many of the most significant student-run China conferences in the country — and who, as it turns out, was one of the organizers of the University of Chicago U.S.-China Economy and Business Summit where Kaiser spoke earlier this month.Recommendations:Eddie: John Pomfret, The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom: America and China, 1776 to the Present (Henry Holt, 2016)David: Stephen Roach, Accidental Conflict: America, China, and the Clash of False Narratives (Yale, 2022)Kaiser: David Grann, The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Doubleday, 2023)Also mentioned: Stephen R. 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Eric Olander on how the Global South is reading the Beijing summitsThis week I'm joined again by Eric Olander, founder of the China Global South Project, which runs the most indispensable English-language operation going for understanding China's engagement with Africa, Latin America, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East.I came in with a plan: map, region by region, how the capitals of the Global South were reading the back-to-back Trump and Putin visits to Beijing — relief at a steadier U.S.-China modus vivendi, or foreboding at a G2 condominium squeezing shut their room to maneuver. Eric dismantled the premise within ten minutes. The honest answer, he warned me, is that most of the Global South simply isn't watching the way we are — and the disappointment turned out to be the most interesting thing in the room. What looked like the absence of a story was the story. I'd built my questions around one assumption about what mattered; Eric had built his answers around another, and I cop to being schooled.Once you set the summit framing aside, what Eric's contributors are actually seeing comes into focus: Japan racing to recenter an Asia-Pacific security architecture, a region quietly de-risking from an unreliable United States, fresh cracks in the BRICS, Justin Yifu Lin's “three moves” for Chinese manufacturing, Latin America's “find out” phase, and a Gulf where the Chinese setback so many in Washington insist must exist simply isn't there. We get into all of it — and close on the summit as a remarkable piece of theater, the first since 1945 at which no one quite knew who the most powerful person in the room was.04:27 — The dominant mood: pro forma coverage, exhaustion, and bigger problems at home08:15 — Breaking news: the paused $14B Taiwan arms package and the canceled Colby trip11:15 — The dog that caught the truck: China and the costs of a receding U.S. umbrella13:00 — "Constructive strategic stability" — new equilibrium or just choreography?28:23 — The snub: Beijing sends only an ambassador to the BRICS meeting in New Delhi37:56 — Africa: tariff-free access, the trade imbalance, and Kenya's "collapsed" exports44:34 — Justin Yifu Lin's "three moves": move up-market, localize, move south51:00 — Latin America's "find out" phase in Panama, and very low China literacy57:35 — The Gulf after the war on Iran: who really won?Paying it Forward:Boston University's Global Development Policy (GDP) Research CenterRecommendationsEric: A “rabbit hole” of books on Xi Jinping, currently Party of One by Chun Han Wong (after Kevin Rudd's On Xi Jinping).Kaiser: Angine de Poitrine, a “microtonal math rock” duo from Quebec — think Frank Zappa meets King Crimson — possibly the thing to breathe new life into progressive rock.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.