The Cosmopolitan

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November 23, 2021 Pandemics and Politics in Mao's China, with Fang Xiaoping
Podcast: Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Pandemics and Politics in Mao's China, with Fang Xiaoping
Pub date: 2021-11-10

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Speaker: Fang Xiaoping, Assistant Professor of History, School of Humanities, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
During the 1961-1965 period, a cholera pandemic ravaged the southeastern coastal areas of Mao’s China which was already suffering from lingering starvation, class struggles, political campaigns and geopolitical challenges of the Cold War. This lecture focuses on the first global pandemic that had plagued China after 1949 and the resulting large-scale but clandestine emergency response. Based on rare archival documents and in-depth interviews with the ever-dwindling witnesses of the pandemic, this lecture examines the dynamics between disease and politics when the Communist Party was committed to restructuring society between the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution. The speaker argues that disease and its control were not only affected by the social restructuring that began in the 1950s and strengthened since 1961, but also integral components of this. Quarantine, mass inoculation, epidemic surveillance and information control functionalised social control and political discipline, and therefore significantly contributed to the rise of an emergency disciplinary state, which exerted far-reaching impacts on its sociopolitical system and emergency response since Mao’s China, including the COVID-19 pandemic.
Xiaoping Fang is an assistant professor of history at the School of Humanities of the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He received his PhD in History from the National University of Singapore (NUS), where he majored in modern China and the history of science, technology and medicine in East Asia from 2002 to 2008. He studied and worked at the Needham Research Institute, Cambridge, UK (2005-2006), the Asia Research Institute of the NUS (2008), the China Research Centre of the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia (2009-2013), and the National Humanities Center, USA (2019-2020). His research interests focus on the history of medicine, health, and disease in twentieth-century China and the socio-political history of Mao’s China after 1949. He is the author of Barefoot Doctors and Western Medicine in China (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2012) and China and the Cholera Pandemic: Restructuring Society under Mao (Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021).
The lecture is part of the Modern China lecture at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University, hosted by Professor Arunabh Ghosh.

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November 23, 2021 Long Reads: Fabien Escalona on French Socialism from Mitterrand to Meltdown
Podcast: Jacobin Radio (LS 60 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Long Reads: Fabien Escalona on French Socialism from Mitterrand to Meltdown
Pub date: 2021-11-13

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Fabien Escalona, journalist at the French publication Mediapart, joins Long Reads for a discussion about the trajectory of socialism in France over recent decades. Long Reads is a Jacobin podcast looking in-depth at political topics and thinkers, both contemporary and historical, with the magazine’s longform writers. Hosted by Features Editor Daniel Finn.

Read Fabien's essay "François Mitterrand Gave French Socialists Power at the Price of Their Soul" on Jacobin here: https://jacobinmag.com/2021/05/francois-mitterrand-french-socialism-parti-socialiste-40th-anniversary

Produced by Conor Gillies, music by Knxwledge.

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November 16, 2021 The Fall of Evergrande with Robert Hockett
Podcast: Macro N Cheese (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: The Fall of Evergrande with Robert Hockett
Pub date: 2021-11-06

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Somber headlines recall the 2008 financial crisis: “Global financial markets have been on high alert,” warns the BBC. “Chinese property giant Evergrande is on the brink of collapse, and analysts warn the potential fallout could have far-reaching implications that spill outside China’s borders,” says CNBC. From the New York Times: “Every once in a while a company grows so big and messy that governments fear what would happen to the broader economy if it were to fail.”

To navigate this story, we needed someone immune to hysteria, so Steve invited the infinitely sensible Robert Hockett to guide us through the Evergrande saga.

Hockett begins the episode with a brief history of China’s strategy for economic development. Unsurprisingly, it looks a lot like that of the US, Germany, and Japan, in different eras. The so-called export-led growth strategy involves developing industries that can achieve a sizable share of the global market for manufactured goods, starting at the low end and proceeding up the ladder to higher end products. Current account surpluses are plowed back into domestic investment, creating a virtuous circle and growing productive capacity.

Throughout the history of capitalism, developed nations have been willing to tolerate current account deficits of developing economies for a number of reasons. During the post-WWII cold war years, the US was in competition with the Soviet Union for influence with Germany and Japan, for example. Sometimes, it’s simply to help create good trading partners. The US was pleased to see China join the WTO in 2000.

And even before that, the US was willing to endure or experience sustained current account deficits vis a vis China on the theory that China developing more rapidly in consequence of that strategy would ultimately give it a stake in the global neoliberal order that it would become a team player…

But as tends to happen over time, after a while, the countries that are footing the bill as it were, or in this case, the US, which was footing the bill in the form of rapidly hollowing out industrial base and even more rapidly eroding labor standards and workplace standards all in the name of global competition or competitiveness. Eventually the US began to object.
When the pressure mounted, the Chinese government turned toward investment in domestically generated demand. They looked at the commercial and residential real estate bonanzas that drove American growth during the Reagan and Clinton years, respectively. These investments are substantially debt fueled. Ergo, Evergrande.

As for predictions of imminent financial meltdown, Hockett remains sanguine. If a bailout is required, the Chinese government has the capacity to do so without the kind of constraints, real or fictional, that prevent the US government from acting in the interests of the majority. China is not afraid to attach strings to bailouts, including, if necessary, seizing control of a private company.

Grumbine takes a detour to ask about infrastructure. Given the deteriorating state of infrastructure in the US, it’s remarkable to see the massive amount of government spending in China, some of which may appear baffling to people in the West. They have literally built bridges to nowhere and uninhabited ghost cities, but there is logic behind it. It is a way to both spend money into the economy as well as prepare for the eventual migration of people from the countryside. Rather than tent cities and Hoovervilles, they will have housing, roads and utilities.

One conclusion we might draw from this episode is that sovereign states’ differing approaches to spending their fiat currency can have vastly different outcomes.

Robert Hockett is the Edward Cornell Professor of Law at Cornell Law School, Adjunct Professor of Finance at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business, and Senior Counsel at Westwood Capital, LLC.

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November 16, 2021 State, society, and markets in North Korea
Podcast: Events from the Brookings Institution (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: State, society, and markets in North Korea
Pub date: 2021-11-08

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Under Kim Jong Un, North Korea’s economic markets have grown, a new middle class has emerged, and the country has experienced modest levels of urban development. Yet, questions remain about the country’s domestic future. To what extent have state-society relations shifted? How much domestic change has North Korea experienced, and what other developments can be expected in light of pandemic border lockdowns and economic sanctions?

In his new book from Cambridge University Press — “State, Society and Markets in North Korea” — Andrew Yeo evaluates the shifting relationship between state, society, and markets in a deeply authoritarian context. Although North Korea watchers hope for positive reforms, Yeo argues that situational factors will continue to complicate the country’s future domestic prospects.

On November 5, the Center for East Asia Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution hosted Yeo for a discussion of his new book with Jean Lee, moderated by Nonresident Senior Fellow Sheena Greitens.

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November 16, 2021 Climate and conflict in Darfur / Jérôme Tubiana
Podcast: This Is Hell! (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Climate and conflict in Darfur / Jérôme Tubiana
Pub date: 2021-11-08

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Journalist Jérôme Tubiana on his article "Land of Thirst" for The Baffler.
https://thebaffler.com/salvos/land-of-thirst-tubiana

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November 09, 2021 Manzanar Diverted: When Water Become Dust: From Payahuunadu (Owens Valley, CA) to Tongva (LA)
Podcast: American Indian Airwaves
Episode: Manzanar Diverted: When Water Become Dust: From Payahuunadu (Owens Valley, CA) to Tongva (LA)
Pub date: 2021-10-28

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From the majestic peaks of the snow-capped Sierras to the parched valley of Payahuunadü, “the land of flowing water,” (Owens Valley, CA) Manzanar Diverted: When Water Become Dust is a brand new film recounting more than 150 years of history, showing how Payahuunadu (Owens Valley, CA) is tied to the city of Los Angeles and how the forced removals of two peoples -the Nüümü (Paiute) and the Newe (Shoshone) who were marched out of the Valley in the 1860s and the Japanese Americans who were forcibly brought to Manzanar from their West Coast homes and incarcerated in a World War II concentration camp are intergenerationally connected. In addition, the film’s central character is piyah (water) and the film’s narrative weaves the intergenerational telling of settler colonialism violence, stolen waters from the Nüümü (Paiute) and the Newe (Shoshone) nations, cultural genocide, and more given the severe drought impacting Mother Earth and all that she provides. Payahuunadu (Owens Valley, CA) is beginning point of the Los Angeles Aqueduct that channels water to Los Angelenos. Tune in for this and more. There are several free, public screening of the film, including on 11/4/2021 at the Los Angeles Historic State Park in the traditional territories of the Tongva/Gabrielino nations. For more information and registering for attendance, click here.
Guest:
• Kathy Bancroft (Nüümü [Paiute] Nation), and Anne Kaneko, director and producer of Manzanar Diverted: When Water Become Dust, joins us for the entire hour to provide listeners an critical and in-depth and intergenerational history of water in relationship to the Nüümü (Paiute) and the Newe (Shoshone) nation, Japanese Americans incarcerated at Manzanar, the City of Los Angeles, and the importance of water as life.
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November 09, 2021 How US-imposed austerity and privatization schemes are crushing Puerto Rico
Podcast: Moderate Rebels (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: How US-imposed austerity and privatization schemes are crushing Puerto Rico
Pub date: 2021-10-30

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Ben Norton speaks with Ángel Rodríguez Rivera, president of the Puerto Rican Association of University Professors, about the devastating neoliberal economic policies forced on Puerto Rico.

Washington imposed an unelected fiscal control board, called the junta, to control Puerto Rico's finances. Now it is pushing through so-called "debt restructuring," in law PC1003, that will slash social benefits, defund public universities, and crush working-class people in order to pay off foreign corporate debt vultures.

Meanwhile, the US-imposed privatization of Puerto Rico's electrical grid in a neoliberal public-private partnership has caused chronic blackouts, while executives at LUMA Energy make huge salaries.

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November 02, 2021 Katrina Northrop on the Evergrande Debt Crisis
Podcast: The Lawfare Podcast (LS 68 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Katrina Northrop on the Evergrande Debt Crisis
Pub date: 2021-10-26

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Evergrande is a massive Chinese real estate company that has found itself with more than $300 billion in liability and no real idea of how to get out of debt. Its financial problems have come to a head in recent months, and concerns have grown about the potential of Evergrande’s debt problems to threaten the Chinese economy. It's a financial story, but one with real implications for China's broader economic picture in great power competition between the U.S. and China. To break it all down, Jacob Schulz spoke with Katrina Northrop. a reporter for The Wire China and the author of a recent profile of Evergrande and its highly mercurial CEO.
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November 02, 2021 #119 Agustin Mario: MMT In Latin America & Argentina’s Jefes Y Jefas Program
Podcast: The MMT Podcast with Patricia Pino & Christian Reilly (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: #119 Agustin Mario: MMT In Latin America & Argentina’s Jefes Y Jefas Program
Pub date: 2021-10-27

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Patricia & Christian talk with Argentinian economist and author of “Modern Monetary Theory And The Employer Of Last Resort” Agustin Mario about Argentina’s economic history, and its employer of last resort program - Plan Jefes y Jefas de Hogar Desocupados (Program for Unemployed Male and Female Heads of Households).

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November 02, 2021 Understanding Emptiness in Postsocialist Eastern Europe and Russia: The Changing Relationships Between People, Places and the State - Dr. Dace Dzenovska
Podcast: The Know Show Podcast (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Understanding Emptiness in Postsocialist Eastern Europe and Russia: The Changing Relationships Between People, Places and the State - Dr. Dace Dzenovska
Pub date: 2021-10-26

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Dr. Dace Dzenovska is an Associate Professor in the Anthropology of Migration at the University of Oxford. In this episode of The Know Show Podcast she discusses her incredible research that interrogates what we mean by emptiness. She talks about the way she has looked at this in relation to the emptying cities, towns, and villages in Latvia, Ukraine, Belarus and Russia. Listen to hear Dace unpack emptiness as a concrete historical formation that has emerged in conditions when socialist modernity is gone and promises of capitalist modernity have failed.

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