Announcement: this podcast will be going on holiday for the rest of December, so this is the last new episode you'll be seeing on this feed in 2025. But I'll be back to regularly scheduled episodes beginning on January 1st of the new year :)

Rana Mitter is the ST Lee Chair in US-Asia Relations at the Harvard Kennedy School, and an expert on understanding the nature of Chinese politics: government, culture, values, and much more.

In this episode, I got a chance to speak with him about how China's Zero COVID policies increased resentment towards the Chinese government, the nature of China's investments in renewable energy, and whether the Chinese economy is poised to overtake the American economy within the next few decades.

Show Notes

"American Energy Policy Cannot Afford to Be This Dumb" by Derek Thompson

"America: the failed state" by Francis Fukuyama, Prospect Magazine

"Modern China: A Very Short Introduction" by Rana Mitter