319 | Frank Dikötter: Shattering the Myths of China After Mao

Frank Dikötter, author of China After Mao: The Rise of a Superpower, How to Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century, and The People's Trilogy, joins The Realignment to discuss how unprecedented access to Chinese archives during the brief 2000s-2010s period of openness offers a corrective to the conventional wisdom in the West about China's post-1976 ambitions. Frank and Marshall also cover what questions future researchers should study should the archives ever open again, particularly relating to Zero-COVID.

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The United States is in the midst of a dramatic political realignment with shifting views on national security, economics, technology, and the role of government in our lives. Saagar Enjeti and Marshall Kosloff explore this with thinkers, policymakers, and more.