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China NowEp. 246 Hour 1 China Now: Friend or Foe? War or Peace?Nan Su & Michael Olson
MO: Broken by Design: Why CCP always breaks its deals
NS: EU's von der Leyen says China ties are at 'inflection point' at tense summit
MO: CCP prevents Wells Fargo exec from leavin
NS: China controls over 80% of battery materials crucial to US defense equipment,
MO: Cleaning out the urban poor2025-07-2454 minChina NowEp 246 China NowMichael Olson & Nan Su
Is China's CCP losing the Mandate of Heaven?
2025-07-2453 minChina Now245 China Now Hour One 25.7.17Gang of Two Nan Su & Michael Olson
News of the Week 25.7.17
* The CCP gets Nvidia’s AI chip
* US expanded its military collaboration with Taiwan
* Taiwan tanks navigate dense urban streets
* Green China Runs on Black Coal
2025-07-1754 minChina NowEp 245 Hour 2 25.7.17Gang of Two Michael Olson & Nan Su
News of the Week
Trump’s Tariff War with Brazil
Russia’s Lavrov meets with CCP’s Xi
China Pledges Closer Ties With Russia
Rubio condemns China over Hague South China Sea ruling
2025-07-1701 minChina NowEp 244 China Now Hour OneHosts Nan Su & MIchael Olson
News of the Week
Germany Blames China for Laser Attack on Aircraft in the Middle East
China Builds up nuke arsenal in direct challenge to US
Iran Orders Material From China for Hundreds of Ballistic Missiles
Secret Russian Intelligence Document Shows Deep Suspicion of China
China will invade Siberia, not Taiwan
China threatens US Vietnam Trade Deal
2025-07-1154 minChina NowEp 244 China Now Hour TwoHosts Michael Olson and Nan Su
"Eat at Mao's"
A look at Mao's catastrophic effort to have China make a great leap forward to eating in common canteens.
2025-07-1153 minChina NowEp 243 Hour 1 China Now 25.7.3Local Government’s arbitrary fines
Lithuania’s Defense Chief Praises Philippine To Expose CCP
US Delivers blow to CCP in the Congo
No Safe Harbor: The Risks of China’s Port Projects in Latin America
2025-07-0653 minChina NowEp 243 Hour 2 25.7.3China Now with Nan Su & Michael Olson
Trump signs trade deal with CCP
Is Chinese President Xi Jinping on his way out?
2025-07-0654 minChina NowEp. 242 China Now Hour 2 25.6.26China Now: Friend or Foe? War or Peace? Hosts Michael Olson and Nan Su
*. US Strikes on Iran send message to Beijing
* As Tehran loses the war, so does China (opinion)
2025-06-2853 minChina NowEpisode 241 China Now Hour 1Gang of Two Michael Olson & Nan Su
says Covid 19 wave on the rise
Closing China’s Kindergartens
Why 2 Chinese aircraft carriers are operating in the Pacific together for the first time
US-China Competition in Micronesia heats up
2025-06-1954 minChina NowEp 241 B China Now Hour 2Gang of Two Nan Su & Michael Olson
US-China Trade truce leaves military-use rare earth issue unresolved
CCP AI firms move data in secret to train banned Nvidia chips
China’s Sodium-ion powered scooters
CCP entity pushes green energy to advance CCP interests
2025-06-1954 minChina NowEp 240 CN AGang of Two Michael Olson & Nan Su
Another student pathogen smuggler
Xi and Trump agree to a trade framework
Xi losing influence in trade talks
LA Riot funding tied to CCP-friendly millionaire
2025-06-1954 minChina NowEp 240 China NowGang of Two Nan Su & Michael Olson
Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics: How a CCP statistician was forced to fake the numbers.
2025-06-1951 minChina NowEp 239 Hour 2China Now Gang of Two Michael Olson & Nan Su Week of 25.6.1
Trump and Xi finally make the call?
Will Trump play hardball with the CCP?
What did the new CCP security white paper say about trouble ahead?
2025-06-0654 minChina NowEp 239 China Now News of the WeekGang of Two: Nan Su & Michael Olson week of 25.6.1
HOUR ONE: Current News
36th Anniversary of the Tian An Men Square massacre
Why is the CCP smuggling a crop-killing fungus into the U.S.?
How did Harvard University become the CCP Party school?
Why did the Governor of Arizona veto legislation that would have banned the CCP from owning land in her state?
2025-06-0654 minChina NowEp 238 China Now Hour One* Why did Trump say, "Putin is playing with fire" and is "Absolutely crazy?"
* How will the world's 75 poorest nations pay the $20 Billion they owe the CCP this year?
* Has the CCP co-opted the green energy movement?
2025-05-2953 minChina NowEp 238 China Now Hour 2Gang of Two - Nan Su & Michael Olson
* Chinese rioting for pay and against government fees
*. Is China unraveling faster than expected?
2025-05-2954 minChina NowEp 237 China Now Hour 2China Now Hour Two Gang of Two Nan Su and Michael Olson
Update of Trump’s Tariff War with the Xi Jinping and the CCP
Is this the trade war Xi Jinping and the CCP have been planning and laying in wait for?
If so, what is the CCP’s plan to win the trade war?
If the CCP does not win the trade war, what will it do to survive?
2025-05-2254 minChina NowEp 237 China Now Hour 1 25.5.22China Now Hour One with Gang of Two Nan Su and Michael Olson
CCP embedded communication control devices in USA solar systems
Pentagon pivots to the Indo Pacific
Parents rebel against CCP private school closings
China’s Municipal Bonds turn into worthless pape
CCP State Department lists domestic threats
CCP monitoring 70 million Instagram users
2025-05-2254 minChina NowEp 236 B China Now Hour 2 - Trump's Tariff Cease FireChina Now Gang of Two Nan Su & Michael Olson
Trump & Xi Agree to a Tariff Cease Fire
USA and China made a cease fire deal on tariffs. According to many in the mainstream press, and the CCP press, Trump caved in the tariff negotiations and let the CCP off the hook…. and so we ask:
Did President Donald J. Trump let Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party off the tariff hook?
If he did, why did he?
If he didn’t, why is the CCP and US press touting the fac...2025-05-1654 minChina NowEp 236 Hour 1: China Now News of the WeekGang of Two - Nan Su & Michael Olson News of the Week
CCP goes to school at Stanford
Xi tells Putin to “Resist” external pressures
Chinese exporters
China removes ban on Boeing aircraft
CCP tries to buy Latin & South American influence
CCP says fentanyl is "America's problem"
2025-05-1654 minChina NowEp 235 B. Trump's Terrific Tariff TantrumChina Hour: Friend or Foe - War or Peace?
with Gang of Two - Nan Su & Michael Olson
Beijing not going to kneel down to USA
Tough Talk on Tariffs opening the door to talks?
Despite the denials, China is losing the tariff war!
Bessent to Switzerland for talks to dial it down...
2025-05-0854 minChina NowEp 235 A News from Week. 25.5.8China Now: Friend or Foe with Michael Olson & Nan Su
News of the Week
Xi Jinping to Moscow for Victory Day
Project Zero: CCP's USA Fentanyl Campaign
House passes Falun Gong Protection Act
CCP is disappearing Russia & China's moon base
Bessent to Switzerland for talks to dial it down
2025-05-0854 minChina NowEp. 233 China Now – Friend or Foe? War or Peace?Gang of Two Nan Su and Michael Olson
Hour One:
* Teenage Girl “Opens the Boxes” of the CCP’s Private Information marketplac
*. China copies Russian military gear, sells the fakes back to Russia
*. China and Egypt conduct war games
Hour Two:
* Trump's Tariff Tantrum
2025-04-251h 47China NowEp. 232 China Now with Dr. Antonio Graceffo, Author, A Deeper Look at the Chinese Economy, From Mao to Xi Jinping and Donald Trump* A look at China's history from Mao to Xi
* How the U.S. fell into "Panda Love" with China
* China joins the WTO, and begins taking control of world trade
* Xi Jinping becomes a "Wolf Warrior"
* Trump launches a tariff war on Xi
* Who will win the tariff war?
2025-04-1953 minChina NowChina Now: Friend or Foe? War or PeaceGang of Two Nan Su & Michael Olson
In Hour One News of the Week:
Resolving 3 rumors
Xi attempts to scuttle Li Ka-shing’s Port deal
China’s Tofu dreg belt and road
In Hour Two Focus Issue: President Donald Trump changes the name of the People's Republic of China.
2025-04-061h 42China NowEpi 229 China Now with guest James GorrieChina Now Gang of Two Nan Su and Michael Olson with special guest James Gorrie, author, China Crisis.
Three rumours:
* Has Xi Jinping's #3 been disappeared?
* Did Xi say he was thinking about retiring?
* Were the reports of cannon fire phoned in from Bejing correct?
One Question: Who has the best hand to play in the winner-take-all game of diplomatic poker: Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin or Xi Jinping?
2025-03-2854 minChina NowChina Now March 2025 Episode 228China Now – Friend or Foe? War or Peace?
Gang of Two: Nan Su & Michael Olson
Hour One:
* Taiwan President Lai Ching-Te declares the CCP to be a "Foreign Hostile Force"
* Xi Jinping purge of the top military leaders continues
* CIA wakes up to Covid's origins
Hour Two: The phone calls Trump made and did not make
2025-03-271h 33China NowEp. 227 China Now 25.3.13China Now with Gang of Two Nan Su & Michael Olson
Hour One: News of the Week
* China's Spring of Infectious Diseases
* PLA Navy's Running and Gunning Circumnavigation of Australia
* China, Russia & Iran hold Nuclear Talks in Beijing
* China, Russian & Iran hold joint Naval Exercises in the Gulf of Oman
Hour Two: Trump the Terrible Tariff Madman
* Trump Lays out his Tariff Strategy to Congress
* Trump confronts China's theft of the World's China Industry
* Xi Jinping Frees and Handcuffs Private S...2025-03-141h 42China NowEp. 227 China Now with Gang of Two Nan Su & Michael OlsonHour One: News of the Week
* Chinese Navy "Running and Gunning" past Japan and the Philippines and around Australia
*. CCP to stop cooperating with U.S. on fentanyl
* CCP poised to take over Organization of American States
Hour Two: Russia, China & U.S. jockey for position over The Ukraine
2025-03-071h 45China NowEp. 225 China NowMichael Olson w/ Charles Freedman in Hour Two
Hour One - News of the Week:
* New Corona Virus discovered by researchers at the Wuhan Virology Institute
* China hospitals and crematoriums experience surge in "White Lunge" disease.
* CCP Naval task force runs and guns around Australia
* Sec State Marco Rubio says big story of 21rst Century will be China V. USA
Hour Two – General Chih Haotian's retirement speech of 2003: "One mountain does not allow two tigers to live together."
2025-02-281h 48China NowEp. 1385 Bee-ing there for 900,000,000,000 Blossoms.When the fruit and nut trees in California’s Central Valley explode into mile upon mile of blossoms, the bees simply must be there! That leads us to ask:
How do bees get to bee-ing there for all those blossoms?
The Food Chain Radio Show - Podcast with Michael Olson hosts Jason Miller, Apiarist, Miller Honey Farms, Newcastle, CA, for a conversation about pollinating the West's fruit and nut trees.
Topics include the annual migration of the nation's apiarists to the blossoms of California's Central Valley; how the apiarists' pollination services changed the nature...2025-02-2746 minChina NowChina Now #224: Putin, Trump & Xi - A Strategic Realignment?China Now with Nan Su & Michael Olson
Hour One:
* Xi welcomes back private business
* US drops "Not supporting Taiwan Independence"
* China's show of force off Sydnet
Hour Two: Putin, Trump & Xi - A Strategic Realignment?
2025-02-221h 47China NowEp. 223 China Now 25.2.13News topics of the week:
Chinese Fighter deploys flares at Australian Patrol Plane
The Risk of Taiwan Invasion is Rising Fast
No Xi - Trump Let’s Make a Deal phone call
Xi to Moscow for Victory Day
House reups Select Committee on CCP
Samoa warns Pac Island nations about CCP strings
Week's In-Depth
Trump's Net-Zero Bomb on China's Industry
2025-02-141h 35China NowEp. 222 China Now: Making the Round One Phone Call!Hour One News of the Week:
USAID $38 Million goes to Wuhan & Ralph Baric
Panama cancels China’ Belt and Road
China Despairs at Trump Tarrifs
China to sue USA tariffs at WTO
China back Hamas re Trump’s takeover of Gaza
Hour 2: Question of the Week:
Who will be the first to pick up the phone and make The Call: Xi Jinping or Donald Trump?
2025-02-081h 43China NowEp. 220 China Now - New PresidentHOUR 1: News From Week One of President Donald J Trump
* Xi Calls Trump
* Vance meets with Han Sheng
* Rubio heads for Panama
HOUR 2: To Ban, or not to ban, TikTok
2025-01-241h 53China NowChina Now: Out with the old 2024 and in with the new 2025Gang of Three: Michael Olson, David Welch, Nan Su
HOUR 1: News From The Week
Private Equity’s Captured Capital
The CCP’s Multifaceted Assault on US Security and Sovereignty
HOUR 2: Biden’s 2013 Trip to Beijing
Question of the Week: Hunter Biden to Devon Archer: “Joe Biden & Xi Jinping were supposed to spend 2 hrs together, but it stretched to 7 hrs. I think they are in love!” Question: What do you think Joe Biden loved about Xi Jinping? And… What did Xi Jinping love about Joe Biden?”
2025-01-241h 47China NowEp. 218 China NOwGang of Two Nan Su & Michael Olson ask: China Now - Friend or Foe? War or Peace?
*. China cuts the undersea cables of Taiwan and other countries in its "grey war" against the West.
* Xi Jin Ping muzzles lead economist who dared to doubt the CCP's numbers.
* Trump confronts Panama on its Chinese connection.
* Trump "tariffies" the Markets with the possibility of new sanctions.
2025-01-101h 46China NowEp. 217 China Now News & Opinions from week of 24.12.19
The Gang of Three: Michael Olson, Nan Su and David Welch
with special guest Anders Corr, Principal of Corr Analytics,
Author of Great Powers, Grand Strategies: The New Game in the South China Sea
Writer of Epoch Times Op Ed: “Will the CCP’s Hack of a Presidential Phone Be the Last Straw?
Topics:
* Will Xi Jinping's continued purge of the PLA force him to miss his 2027 date to invade Taiwan?
* Will the CCP's hack of America's cell phones – including that of President-elect Trump – be the last s2024-12-211h 47China NowEp. 216 China Now Radio 24.12.12Gang of Three: Nan Su, Michael Olson, David Welch
Guest: Petr Svab, Journalist, Epoch Times
Hour One:
* Xi Jinping and the fall of Syria's Assad
* President-elect Trump invites Xi Jinping to his inauguration?
Hour Two:
* Is the New York Times collaborating with the CCP to de-platform the Shen Yun classical Chinese performing arts company?
2024-12-151h 46China NowEp. 215 A China Now News & Opinion Week Of 24.12.5The Gang of Three present news and opinion from the week of 24.12.5
News:
* Chinese Military Shakeup Reveals CCP Power Crisis
* South Korea Martial Law Spotlights CCP Infiltration
* Chairman Xi gives President Trump "Four No's"
2024-12-0853 minChina NowEp. 215B 24.12.5Guests:
* Su Yi introduces the Shen Yun interpretive performance of China before the CCP
* Samantha Chen returns home to visit her 97 year-old mother and describes the changes she observed in China's culture and economy
2024-12-0853 minChina NowEp 213 B Question of the Week: Lame Duck USA?2024-11-2354 minChina NowEp 213 A News & Opinions Week of 24.11.172024-11-2354 minChina NowEp. 212 B China Now News & Opinions from the week 24.11.7.News and Opinions:
Chang on China’s Blockage of Taiwan
Trump says would not have to use force of arms to prevent a blockade
Xi Jinping losing power in the CCP?
State Treasurers urge pension funds to stop investing in China
2024-11-1153 minChina NowEp. 212 A Plan Red: China's Project to Destroy AmericaInterview with Gordon Chang on his newly released Plan Red: China's Project to Destroy America
What is China's planned project to destroy America?
2024-11-1148 minChina NowEp 211 B. Question of the Week discussionWhich do you think the CCP would most like to win the U.S. Presidential Election
*. Kamala Harris
* Donald Trump
* Doesn't matter
2024-11-1154 minChina NowEp. 211 A China Now news and opinions from week of 24.10.31HOUR One News & Opinions:
*. CCP clamps down on Halloween
* CCP officials daughter speaks out on Tim Walz affair
*. CCP fishermen fishing out the world's fisheries
2024-11-1153 minChina NowEp. 209 B Question of the Week: Who owns Taiwan?In a recent speech, Taiwan President Lai Ching-Te said that Taiwan owns Taiwan. Chinese Communist Party Chairman Xi Jinping disagreed. And so we ask, Who owns Taiwan?
2024-10-2853 minChina NowEp. 209 A China Now News & Opinions week of 24.10.17China Now News and Opinions week of 24.10.17
*. American Public Not as concerned about the CCP's activities as are the publics of their allies.
* Big money guys Fink and Dalio turn their back on investing in China.
*. China stock market collapses
2024-10-2802 min
China NowEp. 208 B China Now Question of the Week 24.9.30Gang of Three's China Now Question of the Week:
Which Navy would win the pending gunfight at the Taiwan Strait: USA or CCP?
2024-10-0447 minChina NowEp. 208 A China Now News and Opinion week of 24.9.30Gang of Three's News and Opinions from the Week of 24.9.30
* VP candidate Tim Walz's ties with the CCP
* CCP's muted Celebration of its 75th anniversary
* Terminating the CCP's Most Favored Nation Trade status
* Japanese ask for nuclear weapons
*. 90 million empty Chinese housing units
* No Chinese students for U.S. Colleges
2024-10-0445 min
82770297Vol. 131 张浩东｜上海夜生活传奇之复兴公园Park97
本期对谈嘉宾：张浩东（Tony Zhang）
嘉宾介绍：
芙艾医疗（PhiSkin）联合创始人 董事
毕业于美国加州大学洛杉矶的机械工程专业
1997年 创立上海餐饮娱乐地标”Shanghai Park 97”并于2000年引入香港兰桂坊集团品牌
1999年 发起中英文的中国娱乐和餐饮指南“中国脑 ChinaNow.com”
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本期节目简介：
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时间轴：
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07:26 张浩东在上海的成长回忆
09:10 开酒吧的渊源和市场环境
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The Rich Robinson Show - Season 1 - At the Speed of ChinaKaiser Kuo on Creating a Wave of Innovation in Chinese Journalism and TechnologyKaiser Kuo is the Host and Co-Founder of the Sinica Podcast, which talks about China’s current affairs. Kaiser was a professional rock guitarist for Tang Dynasty, a Mandarin metal band before he got involved with journalism, the Internet, and related industries.In this episode, Kaiser shares his journey from America to the Middle Kingdom, and China's innovation and the differences between the US and Chinese governments.Key Takeaways:•"Free Fall" was the first rock and roll band Kaiser joined.•"ChinaNow.com" was founded in 1996.•Beijing is the Silicon Valley of China...2023-01-2451 min
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Prior to co-founding Tsingyuan Ventures, Eric graduated from Harvard, worked at BCG then got an MBA at MIT and worked as a management consultant and serial entrepreneur in China for 14 years.
Eric was one of the rare foreign co-founders of multiple tech startups during China’s early Internet wave, and hi...2020-06-0336 min