This season of the U.S.-China Nexus looks at China’s expanding global footprint.

This season of the U.S.-China Nexus looks at China’s expanding global footprint and the country’s outlook vis-à-vis different parts of the world.

The U.S.-China Nexus podcast features conversations with a scholar or policy expert on dynamics in China and Sino-American relations. This is an excerpt from our first episode.

Former Chinese Commerce Ministry official Yang Guohua talks with host James Green about intellectual property rights protections in China and as a point of friction in trade negotiations with the United States.

Former China Investment Corporation president and securities regulator Gao Xiqing talks with host James Green about his journey from railroad construction worker to Duke Law School to Hong Kong and beyond.

Zhou Wenzhong, former Chinese ambassador to the United States and former vice minister of foreign affairs, explains Beijing's positions on establishing and maintaining U.S.-China relations over four decades.

Former United States trade representative and deputy secretary of state Robert Zoellick tells U.S.-China Dialogue Podcast host James Green about overseeing China's entry into the World Trade Organization in 2001 and coining the phrase "responsible stakeholder."

Former U.S. Army officer and National Security Council director Paul Haenle addresses North Korea's nuclear program in the Six Party Talks and China's military modernization with host James Green.

Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce Ira Kasoff talks with host James Green about changes in China over the last four decades, commercial diplomacy, and comparisons between the Japanese economy of the 1980s and China today.

Former senior intelligence analyst and National Security Council staffer Bob Suettinger discusses Taiwan, human rights, leadership struggles, and the role of the intelligence community with U.S.-China Dialogue Podcast host James Green.