Poking with Chopsticks (China Podcast)

About Poking with Chopsticks (China Podcast)

How dictatorships work - Freelance writers Qin Liwen and Marcel Grzanna discuss Chinese government's authoritarian policies and strategies and put it into perspective with their own real-life-experiences

Publisher

Qin Liwen & Marcel Grzanna

Category

news

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

4 Mar 2020

Latest episode

29 Oct 2022

Latest episodes

25 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   29 Oct 2022

   #24 President for good - This is what happens now

   China's President Xi Jinping has established himself in Mafia style as a leader for lifetime. That's not good news neither for 1,4 billion in the country nor for the rest of the world. His reign of fear will make lots of people suffer.

2. 

   4 Sept 2022

   #23 "Crimes against humanity" – A Xinjiang report that resonates on multiple levels

   The UN believes the victims of human rights violations more than Beijing's threadbare explanations. Thisfact will deepen the cleavage lines in international institutions. And it assures China's nationalists that they're on the right track with pushing social decoupling from the West.

3. 

   29 Apr 2022

   #22 A political power game - Emperor Xi ist exercising his will whilst tens of millions are locked up in their houses

   Lockdowns in Shanghai and other Chinese cities are apparently intended to combat the corona virus. But the main question is whether President Xi is powerful enough to become president for life. For that purpose nothing else matters. Not even more and more raging foreigners willing to leave the country.

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