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Face-Off: The U.S. vs China Airwave Media
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FACE-OFF is an eight-episode podcast about how China and the United States, once friends, are now foes.
FACE-OFF is hosted by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jane Perlez, former New York Times Beijing bureau chief and current fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center. In each episode Professor Rana Mitter, recently of the University of Oxford and now professor of modern China at the Harvard Kennedy School, chats with Jane on what’s at stake.
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Cultural Threads
From his studio in Boston, Yo-Yo Ma tells us how music eases tensions between American and Chinese people, even as Washington and Beijing are at each other’s throats.
Guests: Yo Yo Ma; Hai Ye Ni, principal cellist, Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra
Sound design, original score, mixing and mastering by Rowhome Productions.
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Doomsday
China is rapidly expanding its nuclear arsenal even as arms control treaties are shredded. Can China and the U.S. come to the table and agree to nuclear arms control accords? Should Artificial Intelligence control nuclear weapons?
Guest: Tong Zhao; Chinese born nuclear expert now at Carnegie China in DC
Sound design, original score, mixing and mastering by Rowhome Productions.
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Apple in China
Apple, one of the world’s most valuable companies, depends on China, America’s biggest adversary, to manufacture its iPhones. Apple employs millions of contract workers in China. Is this marriage heading for the rocks? What will Apple and China do to keep their marriage intact?
Guests: Prof. Willy Shih, Harvard Business School; Wayne Ma, tech reporter, The Information
Sound design, original score, mixing and mastering by Rowhome Productions.
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Spies in the Sky
An American surveillance plane and a Chinese fighter jet collide near the Chinese coast in 2001. Smart diplomacy by a former American Navy Admiral results in the release of two dozen American airmen and women from detention in China. Today, tensions between the countries are much higher, their planes are flying within feet of each other. There are fears a similar collision could result in war.
Guest: Admiral Scott Swift, former Commander US Pacific Fleet.
Sound design, original score, mixing and mastering by Rowhome Productions.
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Introducing: Face Off
Our trailer features jaw-dropping audio from the cockpit of an American spy plane flying over the South China Sea. It’s early 2001. A Chinese fighter jet is getting perilously close to the slow moving American plane. Some weeks later, a collision occurred. What happened next? Listen to episode 1 of Face Off. Our trailer also dazzles with interview clips from our episodes covering tech, spies, the Chinese economy and more.
Sound design, original score, mixing and mastering by Rowhome Productions.
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