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Matters of Policy & PoliticsMatters of Policy & PoliticsSilicon Triangle: Mary Kay Magistad on the Future of US-China Competition | Hoover InstitutionRead "Scenarios for Future US-China Competition" here: https://www.hoover.org/sites/default/files/research/docs/SiliconTriangle_Chapter1_230828.pdf Mary Kay Magistad and Kharis Templeman discuss four potential futures for US-China relations. These scenarios depend on whether the global economy becomes more integrated or bifurcated, and whether the US or China leads in semiconductor technology. They also cover key findings and policy recommendations around supply chain security, US-China competition, and Taiwan's future. To learn more, go to https://www.hoover.org/silicon-triangle Mary Kay Magistad is deputy director of the Asia Society’s Ce...2023-10-1137 minCOAL + ICE PodcastCOAL + ICE PodcastEp1: Burning Up: The Climate ChallengeWe're awfully good at burning things up in the name of progress -- coal, oil, gas, Amazon rain forests.  We're not as good at factoring in the real cost of those choices, on our health, and on the health of the planet. In this first episode of the COAL+ICE podcast, top climate journalists talk about what these choices look like where they live -- in China, South Africa and Brazil -- and what's being done, and needs to be done, to bend the curve on climate change. Joining host Mary Kay Magistad are:2022-01-2548 minCOAL + ICE PodcastCOAL + ICE PodcastIntroducing COAL+ICE PodcastWe're all living with climate change,  but what can we do about it?  Join host Mary Kay Magistad, for global conversations on what's happening with climate change around the world, and what's being done to bend the curve.  This biweekly Asia Society podcast starts in late January 2022. 2022-01-1702 minAsia In-DepthAsia In-DepthOrville Schell's China JourneyThe director of Asia Society's Center on U.S.-China Relations talks with Mary Kay Magistad about his six decades observing China, in an episode celebrating the launch of the third edition of Asia Society Magazine. 2021-12-0942 minThe Belt and Road PodcastThe Belt and Road PodcastWho Decides and How Along the Belt and Road? with Thomas Hale & Johannes UrpelainenWho makes decisions about project approval, design, and the pursuit of sustainability - in China, in recipient countries, and beyond? A recent report entitled, 'Belt and Road Decision-making in China and Recipient Countries: How and To What Extent Does Sustainability Matter?' breaks this question down artfully to trace the interests and institutional structures shaping BRI projects. Listen to our interview with two of the three the authors, Thomas Hale (Associate Professor of Global Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford) and Johannes Urpelainen (Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz Professor of Energy, Resources and...2020-12-1848 minSinica PodcastSinica PodcastMary Kay Magistad - On China's New Silk Road (Episode 1: The China Dream)This week, we're delighted to bring you the first episode of Mary Kay Magistad's brand new podcast, On China's New Silk Road. Mary Kay is a veteran China reporter and a dear friend of the Sinica Podcast – a frequent guest in our early days. After she moved back to the States, she created another great podcast called Who's Century It It?, a show that often looked at issues related to China. We know that Sinica's audience would really appreciate her latest series and wanted to share it with you. On China's New Silk Road is a production of...2020-09-1144 minWhose Century Is It?: Ideas, trends & twists shaping the world in the 21st centuryWhose Century Is It?: Ideas, trends & twists shaping the world in the 21st centuryOn China's New Silk Road Podcast PreviewIf you like Whose Century Is It?, check out this preview of my new limited series podcast with the Global Reporting Centre, On China's New Silk Road. I've teamed up with great local journalists on almost every continent to explore how China's global ambition is seen around the world, and at the impact Chinese investments in one of the biggest global infrastructure efforts ever, are having on the ground. 2020-08-2003 minOn China’s New Silk RoadOn China’s New Silk RoadOn China’s New Silk RoadJoin host Mary Kay Magistad as she explores how China’s New Silk Road may change the world. Dozens of countries have invited China to build roads, railways, ports, 5G networks, and more. How is China’s global ambition seen around the world and what impact are its investments having on the ground? Over nine episodes, Mary Kay, a former China correspondent for NPR and PRX’s “The World,” partners with local journalists on five continents to uncover the effects of the most sweeping global infrastructure initiative in history. From the Global Reporting Centre, “On China’s New Silk Road” is out n2020-08-0802 minOn China’s New Silk RoadOn China’s New Silk RoadOn China’s New Silk RoadJoin host Mary Kay Magistad as she explores how China’s New Silk Road may change the world. Dozens of countries have invited China to build roads, railways, ports, 5G networks, and more. How is China’s global ambition seen around the world and what impact are its investments having on the ground? Over nine episodes, Mary Kay, a former China correspondent for NPR and PRX’s “The World,” partners with local journalists on five continents to uncover the effects of the most sweeping global infrastructure initiative in history. From the Global Reporting Centre, “On China’s New Silk Road” is out n2020-08-0802 minWhose Century Is It?: Ideas, trends & twists shaping the world in the 21st centuryWhose Century Is It?: Ideas, trends & twists shaping the world in the 21st centurySlavery in your grocery cartNext time you sip your tea or bite into a bar of chocolate, or load up your grocery cart with other treats, spare a thought for the underpaid or unpaid workers who made it possible. Modern slavery comes in many guises, and politics professor Genevieve LeBaron of the University of Sheffield in England, who's done field studies on the subject, is here to tell you how it happens, and what you might want to look out for as you shop.2019-04-0435 minWhose Century Is It?: Ideas, trends & twists shaping the world in the 21st centuryWhose Century Is It?: Ideas, trends & twists shaping the world in the 21st centuryWizards, Prophets & the Fate of the Earth: Innovation & Conservation in an age of climate changeWe're pretty clever, we humans, but we ignore unintended consequences at our peril -- like climate change, after a couple of centuries of fossil fuel-driven growth and innovation. Can we innovate our way out of that growing crisis, or must we cut back and conserve if we want a habitable planet? Or both? Science journalist and author Charles Mann, author of 1491, 1493 and The Wizard & the Prophet, tells the tale of these two competing approaches through the lives of the 'wizard,' Norman Borlaug, father of the Green Revolution, and the 'prophet,' William Vogt, early ecologist and author of t...2019-01-1139 minWhose Century Is It?: Ideas, trends & twists shaping the world in the 21st centuryWhose Century Is It?: Ideas, trends & twists shaping the world in the 21st centurySci Fi FutureIn the imagined world of novelist Eliot Peper's near-term future in such books as Bandwidth and Borderless, San Diego's burning, polar ice caps have melted, everyone's got their heads in their digital feeds, and a powerful social media company called Commonwealth controls --well, seems like just about everything. Eliot talks to host Mary Kay Magistad about writing speculative fiction, about the value of sci fi in helping us all think through current crises and possible futures, and about what sci fi has seen coming, and what it's gotten just plain wrong. 2018-12-0337 minWhose Century Is It?Whose Century Is It?Sci Fi FutureIn the imagined world of novelist Eliot Peper's near-term future in such books as Bandwidth and Borderless, San Diego's burning, polar ice caps have melted, everyone's got their heads in their digital feeds, and a powerful social media company called Commonwealth controls --well, seems like just about everything. Eliot talks to host Mary Kay Magistad about writing speculative fiction, about the value of sci fi in helping us all think through current crises and possible futures, and about what sci fi has seen coming, and what it's gotten just plain wrong.2018-12-0337 minWhose Century Is It?: Ideas, trends & twists shaping the world in the 21st centuryWhose Century Is It?: Ideas, trends & twists shaping the world in the 21st centuryWhy half the world's languages may disappear in this centuryEmbedded in each language is a reflection of life as lived by its speakers, over thousands of years. And when a language disappears, that embedded knowledge is lost. As the world grows more connected, and as dominant cultures push their own languages for wider use – think English, Chinese and Arabic, for starters -- languages are disappearing. As many as half the world's 7,000 languages may be gone by the end of the century. The good news is that linguists are on it, like this episode’s guest Laura Welcher, who oversees the Long Now Foundation’s Rosetta Project in San Franci...2018-04-081h 02Whose Century Is It?: Ideas, trends & twists shaping the world in the 21st centuryWhose Century Is It?: Ideas, trends & twists shaping the world in the 21st centuryEthnic cleansing, human tragedy & the future few saw coming for Burma: What the Rohingya Muslim purge reveals about Myanmar's challenges in building real democracy  Not so long ago, Myanmar (Burma) was a good news story, with democratic reforms, a booming economy and falling poverty rates. Then came ugly military-led attacks on Rohingya Muslims, who killed, raped and burned houses, and forced more than 700,000 Rohingyas to flee to camps in Bangladesh, with little pushback from pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi. What does this mean for Myanmar's democratic future? Khin Ohmar, an exiled Burmese human rights and democracy activist for 30 years, shares her thoughts.2018-03-0644 minWhose Century Is It?: Ideas, trends & twists shaping the world in the 21st centuryWhose Century Is It?: Ideas, trends & twists shaping the world in the 21st centuryWe'd all love to change the world: Social entrepreneurs are working at itWhat happens when you mix the efficiency and energy of the entrepreneurial world with the idealism of philanthropy? A growing number of social entrepreneurs say, you can do a world of good. But just like real entrepreneurs, more such efforts fail than succeed, and both smarts and resilience are needed for the long haul. Jonathan Lewis, author of The Unfinished Social Entrepreneur and founder of the microcredit funder MCE Social Capital and cofounder of Copia, a kind of mail-order catalogue for poor women around Nairobi, shares what he's learned over years as a social entrepreneur. 2018-01-2249 minWhose Century Is It?: Ideas, trends & twists shaping the world in the 21st centuryWhose Century Is It?: Ideas, trends & twists shaping the world in the 21st centuryChina's counterintuitive betCan China become a global leader in innovation by protecting state-run companies from competition at home, while acquiring innovative companies abroad? Can that innovation be sustained in a society where free speech and intellectual inquiry is sharply curtailed? China's leaders are betting on it, and in this episode, journalist-turned-business analyst Jim McGregor, chairman of APCO Greater China, mulls over the odds.2017-12-3043 minWhose Century Is It?: Ideas, trends & twists shaping the world in the 21st centuryWhose Century Is It?: Ideas, trends & twists shaping the world in the 21st centuryFollow the Leader?Populist leaders and strongmen often rise at times of dizzying, unsettling change. But what if that's exactly the wrong kind of leadership to face the challenges and seize the opportunities of this century? Futurist Bob Johansen argues the era ahead will be one with less hierarchy, more shared and shifting leadership, and clarity and agility will be rewarded, while rigid certainty will be punished. 2017-11-1935 minWhose Century Is It?: Ideas, trends & twists shaping the world in the 21st centuryWhose Century Is It?: Ideas, trends & twists shaping the world in the 21st centuryIn the Amazon: Brazil, China, climate change, & the future of the planetBreathe in. Breathe out. The oxygen that keeps you going, that keeps life going on earth, comes in part from the vast Amazon rainforest, most of which is in Brazil. Lush, vast and rich in biodiversity, it is the lungs of the planet. But it also attracts miners, loggers, farmers and developers who, over the past 40 years, have contributed to reducing forest cover by some 20 percent. Foreign investors have played a role too -- American, European and now, Chinese.  Many dams have been built. Hundreds more are planned, to create power to drive further development in the Amazon, creating s...2017-10-171h 08Whose Century Is It?Whose Century Is It?In the AmazonBreathe in. Breathe out. The oxygen that keeps you going, that keeps life going on earth, comes in part from the vast Amazon rainforest, most of which is in Brazil. Lush, vast and rich in biodiversity, it is the lungs of the planet. But it also attracts miners, loggers, farmers and developers who, over the past 40 years, have contributed to reducing forest cover by some 20 percent. Foreign investors have played a role too -- American, European and now, Chinese.  Many dams have been built. Hundreds more are planned, to create power to drive further development in the Amazon, creating short-term p...2017-10-161h 08Whose Century Is It?: Ideas, trends & twists shaping the world in the 21st centuryWhose Century Is It?: Ideas, trends & twists shaping the world in the 21st centuryYoung ChinaFew generations in the world face a reality as dramatically different from all that have come before, as China's one-child generation. Since the one-child policy started in the early '80s, China has gone from aspiring developing country to powerful global player. It has shifted from being majority rural to majority urban, with per capita annual GDP rising from $300 to over $8,000 now. Young Chinese are more connected with the world than previous generations, thanks to the internet, smartphones, films, television and travel and study abroad, with some 330,000 studying in the United States alone. What does all this mean for the...2017-08-2746 minWhose Century Is It?Whose Century Is It?Young ChinaFew generations in the world face a reality as dramatically different from all that have come before, as China's one-child generation. Since the one-child policy started in the early '80s, China has gone from aspiring developing country to powerful global player. It has shifted from being majority rural to majority urban, with per capita annual GDP rising from $300 to over $8,000 now. Young Chinese are more connected with the world than previous generations, thanks to the internet, smartphones, films, television and travel and study abroad, with some 330,000 studying in the United States alone. What does all this mean for the...2017-08-2746 minWhose Century Is It?: Ideas, trends & twists shaping the world in the 21st centuryWhose Century Is It?: Ideas, trends & twists shaping the world in the 21st centuryRebuilding Brazil's economy requires more than BRICS and ChinaBrazil's economy was blazing along in the first decade of this century, turbo-charged by China's appetite for commodities. And there was the added boost of being named, by a Goldman Sachs exec, one of the rising economies to watch — the BRICS, Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. Then China's economic growth slowed, demand for commodities dropped and Brazil fell into its worst recession in a century, intensified by its worst corruption scandal ever. Brazil is beginning to emerge now, after two years of economic contraction and political turbulence. What are its prospects for again being seen as one of th...2017-08-1529 minWhose Century Is It?Whose Century Is It?Rebuilding Brazil's economy requires more than BRICS and ChinaBrazil's economy was blazing along in the first decade of this century, turbo-charged by China's appetite for commodities. And there was the added boost of being named, by a Goldman Sachs exec, one of the rising economies to watch — the BRICS, Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. Then China's economic growth slowed, demand for commodities dropped and Brazil fell into its worst recession in a century, intensified by its worst corruption scandal ever. Brazil is beginning to emerge now, after two years of economic contraction and political turbulence. What are its prospects for again being seen as one of th...2017-08-1529 minWhose Century Is It?: Ideas, trends & twists shaping the world in the 21st centuryWhose Century Is It?: Ideas, trends & twists shaping the world in the 21st centuryBumps along South Africa's yellow BRIC roadSouth Africans' hopes and expectations that their country might become a democratic and economic leader in Africa, helped by a strong relationship with China and membership in the BRICS group — a collection of big countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) expected to emerge as economic leaders in this century — haven't turned out quite as planned. South Africa dipped into recession this year, has unemployment near 30 percent, and a deeply unpopular and, many South Africans say, ineffective president, Jacob Zuma. What happened, what now, and what do South Africans make of the similarities they see between their president, and Pres...2017-08-0239 minWhose Century Is It?Whose Century Is It?Bumps along South Africa's yellow BRIC roadSouth Africans' hopes and expectations that their country might become a democratic and economic leader in Africa, helped by a strong relationship with China and membership in the BRICS group — a collection of big countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) expected to emerge as economic leaders in this century — haven't turned out quite as planned. South Africa dipped into recession this year, has unemployment near 30 percent, and a deeply unpopular and, many South Africans say, ineffective president, Jacob Zuma. What happened, what now, and what do South Africans make of the similarities they see between their president, and Pres...2017-08-0239 minWhose Century Is It?: Ideas, trends & twists shaping the world in the 21st centuryWhose Century Is It?: Ideas, trends & twists shaping the world in the 21st centuryRequiem for Liu XiaoboNobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo spent much of his life advocating for basic political rights and democracy in China. For that, he spent years imprisoned by a government that feels threatened by such demands. He was in prison when he won the Nobel Prize in 2010, serving 11 years for "subversion of state power," and he was in prison as his liver cancer advanced. He was released, under guard, to a state hospital, and died there July 13, 2017. Chinese authorities have repeatedly called Liu Xiaobo a criminal. They have censored information about him at home and appear to hope the world will...2017-07-1720 minWhose Century Is It?: Ideas, trends & twists shaping the world in the 21st centuryWhose Century Is It?: Ideas, trends & twists shaping the world in the 21st centuryHow China's past shapes dreams of future powerChina was one of the world's great powers for most of the past couple thousand years, and back on its heels only for a couple of centuries, as the Industrial Revolution took off and European colonialism expanded. Now, China's drawing on its past and moving with deliberation to reclaim what many Chinese feel is China's rightful place in the world. The challenges are many, but with slowing economic growth, an aging population and uncertain future challenges from within and outside China's borders, there's incentive to act now to cement China's place as a regional if not global leader. And that's...2017-06-3055 minWhose Century Is It?Whose Century Is It?How China's past shapes dreams of future powerChina was one of the world's great powers for most of the past couple thousand years, and back on its heels only for a couple of centuries, as the Industrial Revolution took off and European colonialism expanded. Now, China's drawing on its past and moving with deliberation to reclaim what many Chinese feel is China's rightful place in the world. The challenges are many, but with slowing economic growth, an aging population and uncertain future challenges from within and outside China's borders, there's incentive to act now to cement China's place as a regional if not global leader. And that's...2017-06-3055 minWhose Century Is It?: Ideas, trends & twists shaping the world in the 21st centuryWhose Century Is It?: Ideas, trends & twists shaping the world in the 21st centuryCan Chinese pragmatism help save the planet?China's leaders may not exactly be evangelizing about the perils of climate change, but compared to Donald Trump, these days, they look downright statesmanlike on this front. And Chinese policies on renewable energy, while often driven by pragmatic self-interest more than selfless concern for the planet, may nonetheless help tip the balance in the right direction in this century.2017-06-1656 minWhose Century Is It?: Ideas, trends & twists shaping the world in the 21st centuryWhose Century Is It?: Ideas, trends & twists shaping the world in the 21st centurySeeing into the futureBlind seers aside, it's easier to see where you're going, on the road and in life, if you can actually see. More than half of Americans wear glasses; in poorer and more remote regions of the world, it's estimated that some two billion people need glasses but don't have access to them, cutting into their ability to learn, work and live a full life. A social entrepreneurial effort called VisionSpring has reached millions of such people in Asia and Africa, selling glasses at affordable prices to customers who earn less than $4 a day. Host Mary Kay Magistad talks with VisionSpring's...2017-05-2929 minWhose Century Is It?Whose Century Is It?Seeing into the futureBlind seers aside, it's easier to see where you're going, on the road and in life, if you can actually see. More than half of Americans wear glasses; in poorer and more remote regions of the world, it's estimated that some two billion people need glasses but don't have access to them, cutting into their ability to learn, work and live a full life. A social entrepreneurial effort called VisionSpring has reached millions of such people in Asia and Africa, selling glasses at affordable prices to customers who earn less than $4 a day. Host Mary Kay Magistad talks with VisionSpring's...2017-05-2929 minWhose Century Is It?: Ideas, trends & twists shaping the world in the 21st centuryWhose Century Is It?: Ideas, trends & twists shaping the world in the 21st centuryRadio Free(ing) AfricaAn unsung weapon against terrorism that has proven successful in Africa is the power of the airwaves — shortwave radio reaching people with reliable information, and programming that helps educate them, connect them and imagine a different kind of future. The ubiquity of cellphones allows people in conflict regions to call in, challenge abuses of power and have a voice. That's worked in the Congo, with Radio Okapi. It's working now in areas where Boko Haram has been active in West Africa, and the new Dandal Kura radio network is now broadcasting. Host Mary Kay Magistad talks with her old editor an...2017-05-1943 minWhose Century Is It?Whose Century Is It?Radio Free(ing) AfricaAn unsung weapon against terrorism that has proven successful in Africa is the power of the airwaves — shortwave radio reaching people with reliable information, and programming that helps educate them, connect them and imagine a different kind of future. The ubiquity of cellphones allows people in conflict regions to call in, challenge abuses of power and have a voice. That's worked in the Congo, with Radio Okapi. It's working now in areas where Boko Haram has been active in West Africa, and the new Dandal Kura radio network is now broadcasting. Host Mary Kay Magistad talks with her old editor an...2017-05-1943 minWhose Century Is It?Whose Century Is It?Soul searching in ChinaA resurgence of interest in religion in China, after more than half a century of Communism and in the midst of China's rapid economic transformation and global rise, comes as new generations search for spiritual meaning and an ethical foundation. Host Mary Kay Magistad talks with former China correspondent colleagues Ian Johnson, author of "The Souls of China: The Return of Religion After Mao," and Jennifer Lin, author of "Shanghai Faithful: Betrayal and Faith in a Chinese Christian Family," about how her own Chinese family, including Watchman Nee, the Billy Graham of China in the first half of the 20th...2017-05-031h 13Whose Century Is It?: Ideas, trends & twists shaping the world in the 21st centuryWhose Century Is It?: Ideas, trends & twists shaping the world in the 21st centurySoul searching in ChinaA resurgence of interest in religion in China, after more than half a century of Communism and in the midst of China's rapid economic transformation and global rise, comes as new generations search for spiritual meaning and an ethical foundation. Host Mary Kay Magistad talks with former China correspondent colleagues Ian Johnson, author of "The Souls of China: The Return of Religion After Mao," and Jennifer Lin, author of "Shanghai Faithful: Betrayal and Faith in a Chinese Christian Family," about how her own Chinese family, including Watchman Nee, the Billy Graham of China in the first half of the 20th...2017-05-031h 13Whose Century Is It?: Ideas, trends & twists shaping the world in the 21st centuryWhose Century Is It?: Ideas, trends & twists shaping the world in the 21st centuryEnemies of the (Corrupt) PeopleWith kleptocratic autocrats on the rise, good journalism that explains what's going on matters more than ever. Fresh from sharing a 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting, for coverage of the Panama Papers, Drew Sullivan, founder and editor of the Organized Crime & Corruption Project, talks corruption, authoritarian creep and the future of journalism.2017-04-1944 minWhose Century Is It?: Ideas, trends & twists shaping the world in the 21st centuryWhose Century Is It?: Ideas, trends & twists shaping the world in the 21st centuryTruth & reconciliation in South Africa, revisitedHealing deep social wounds takes time, even with active effort. After decades of institutionalized racism under apartheid, South Africa's Truth & Reconciliation Commission helped a divided nation watch, weep, reflect & come together — even if imperfectly. What is its legacy now, two decades later? How much of the hope South Africans had for what their future might be together has been borne out? Host Mary Kay Magistad visited South Africa to see how South Africans from different communities feel about what difference the TRC has, and hasn't, made in their lives.2017-04-0641 minWhose Century Is It?: Ideas, trends & twists shaping the world in the 21st centuryWhose Century Is It?: Ideas, trends & twists shaping the world in the 21st centuryAtrocity amnesiaWhat happens when neighbors kill neighbors? What happens when the perpetrators try to bury the past? The past can still both shape and haunt the present, as the villagers of the small Polish town of Jedwabne have found, decades after other villagers there rounded up and killed hundreds of their Jewish neighbors. The World's Nina Porzucki visits the village to see how that past is remembered, and who's willing to talk about it.2017-03-1537 minWhose Century Is It?: Ideas, trends & twists shaping the world in the 21st centuryWhose Century Is It?: Ideas, trends & twists shaping the world in the 21st centuryWomen's workWomen around the world face varying degrees of gender discrimination in the workplace — whether they're hired, how much they're paid, whether they advance as fast as men doing the same job. In Jordan, where girls and women generally do better than their male counterparts in school, and where more women than men attend college, startlingly few women participate in the workforce. Why? Asma Khader, a Jordanian lawyer, women's rights activist and former government official, weighs in, in conversation with The World's Shirin Jaafari.2017-03-0842 min