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The Fever Has Broken — For Now (opens the original)
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As Xi Jinping’s long-awaited State Visit to Washington got underway, I was in Singapore where I had been invited, long before the summit had been scheduled, to moderate a panel on AI safety and give a talk at NUS’s East Asia Institute. Here’s an adaptation of that talk. Regular readers and listeners will have heard some of this before, but I couldn’t assume the audience would be at all familiar with any of my work, so please bear with the re-runs.I have a confession to make. After many long year
From Barefoot Doctors to Biologics: Dr. Ruby Wang on China's Healthcare Revolution (opens the original)
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Transcript | From Barefoot Doctors to Biologics: Dr. Ruby Wang on China's Healthcare Revolution (opens the original)
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"Paying to suffer" — Phrase of the Week (opens the original)
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Trivium China Podcast | Joerg Wuttke: China told Europe Exactly How It Would Beat Us. We Didn't Listen. (opens the original)
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Back in 2017, China’s former SASAC chairman told Joerg Wuttke, then president of the EU Chamber of Commerce in China, precisely which industries China’s overcapacity machine would roll through next: EVs, batteries, solar, wind, basic chemicals.Fast forward a decade, and it happened exactly as he predicted.Joerg’s very blunt take: “China, in essence, is kind enough to tell us when and how they’re going to roll over us.”On this episode, Trivium China Podcast host Andrew Polk, along with co-host Co
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