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A weekly discussion of current affairs in China with journalists, writers, academics, policymakers, business people and anyone with something compelling to say about the country that's reshaping the world. Hosted by Kaiser Kuo.
Topics: Politics , News , Business
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curl -s -H "x-api-key: YOUR_KEY" \
https://spoken.md/podcasts/1121407665/episodes \
| jq -r '.episodes[] | "\(.id) \(.title)"' \
| while IFS=' ' read -r id title; do
slug=$(echo "$title" | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | tr -cs 'a-z0-9' '-' | sed 's/-*$//')
[ -f "${id}-${slug}.md" ] && continue
curl -s -H "x-api-key: YOUR_KEY" \
-o "${id}-${slug}.md" \
https://spoken.md/transcripts/$id
sleep 0.34
done
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Example Transcripts
The Platform State: Angela Zhang and Alex Yang on How China Really Governs Its Economy July 8, 2026
Agile Governance: Tsinghua's Xue Lan on How China Regulates What It Can't Fully Predict June 30, 2026
China Shock 2.0: This Time It's Europe, with Adam Tooze June 24, 2026
"But China!": Robert Wright on the AI Race and Our Coming Cosmic Reckoning June 17, 2026
The Texas Paradox: How the Most Anti-China State Is Building America's China Capacity June 3, 2026
Spain's China Gambit: Pedro Sánchez, Strategic Autonomy, and the European Turn to Beijing — with Mario Esteban Rodríguez April 22, 2026
"The China Debate We're Not Having" | Part 2: What Does the United States Want? April 15, 2026
"The China Debate We're Not Having" | Part 1: What China Wants April 9, 2026
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