Hosts Jesse and Madhavi discuss issues raised by Ronnie Chan in his Reorient! interview.

Notes from Utopia:

The Tropicalist looks at examples from history to determine whether its possible to import foreign cultural values without localizing and thus transforming them.

Jesse and Madhavi discuss:

the historical context to China’s approach to its relationship with the US;

the applicability of Cold War paradigms to a fundamentally different era and great power conflict;

whether a clash of civilizations is inevitable between the US and China;

and the difference between the rhetoric and the reality.