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Polaris Live Podcasts with Host, Sarwar KashmeriBonnie Glaser - The China-U.S.-Taiwan ConundrumIs China really about to invade Taiwan? Does it need to? Can the U.S. do anything about it? Are America's Indo-Pacific allies really as strong as the U.S. seems to make them appear? Will America's much touted allies in the Indo Pacific get into a fight with China. How do the countries in the region view the U.S. Indo-Pacific Strategy?----------------------------------- Bonnie GlaserMs. Glaser is managing director of GMF’s Indo-Pacific program. She is also a nonresident fellow with the Lowy Institute in Sydney, Australia, and a senior associate with the...2025-07-2233 min

Polaris Live Podcasts with Host, Sarwar KashmeriChuck Hagel - Evaluating Evolving Nature of the U.S. MilitaryIn just six months, the new U.S. administration has fundamentally restructured the military, resulting in diminished alliances, reduced normative standards, and less emphasis on diversity. Concurrently, there has been a shift toward a more militarily-led U.S. foreign policy that has already seen American involvement in two wars in the Middle East.Proponents argue that this redesign enhances the military’s lethality and effectiveness. But does it truly achieve that goal? More critically, does this new approach position the U.S. military to compete more effectively with its primary competitor, the People’s Republic of China, whic...2025-07-0838 min

Polaris Live Podcasts with Host, Sarwar KashmeriVina Nadjibulla - Canada Squares Off To A New RealityVina NadjibullaVice-President, Research & Strategy, Asia Pacific Foundation of CanadaVina leads APF Canada’s research, education, and network support activities. She also oversees the Foundation’s granting and research fellowships programs as well as development and capacity building projects. Vina spent a significant portion of her career working at the United Nations headquarters and in peacekeeping and peacebuilding missions in West and Central Africa. She is a frequent media commentator on geopolitics, Canadian foreign policy, and Canada-Asia relations, with a focus on India and China.Vina is also an Adjunct Professor at the University of B...2025-06-1727 min

Polaris Live Podcasts with Host, Sarwar KashmeriZhou Mi - Are U.S. Tariffs Containing China?Dr. ZHOU MiDeputy Director, Institute of American and Oceania Study, Chinese Academy of International Trade and Economic Cooperation.He has published 1 book, compiled 1 book as executive editor and has been involved in compiling 10+ books, and published more than 700 articles. He has been responsible for or taken part in more than 200 research projects to support the decision making or consulting for wide range of Ministries, Local governments, International Organizations and enterprises.2025-06-1129 min

Polaris Live Podcasts with Host, Sarwar KashmeriGeorge Magnus - Is Xi's China Still In Jeopardy?GEORGE MAGNUSResearch Associate at Oxford University’s China Centre, and at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, and works as author and speaker. His work has been featured in many media sources including the Financial Times, Guardian, New Statesman, Politico, Prospect, Spectator, Telegraph, and the Times, and his China views are sought regularly by radio and TV. He also authored The Age of Aging (2008), and Uprising: will emerging markets shape or shake the world economy? (2011).Since leaving UBS in 2016, George has devoted his attention to the Xi Jinping’s China and sought...2025-06-0430 min

Polaris Live Podcasts with Host, Sarwar KashmeriDoris Liew - Facing up to the U.S. trade tariffs - Malaysia & ASEANRecent headline in Straits Times: “Trump blinked in Trade war with China,” Is this the image of the U.S. Tariff flip-flop in Malaysia? Is ASEAN holding together or are the bloc's countries ready to strike their own deals? Are India and European Countries diversification candidates for Malaysia, What other countries might be likely candidates?-----------------------------------------------------------Doris Liew is an economist specializing in ASEAN’s economic development, regional and international trade dynamics, labor economics, poverty and inequality, and public finance.2025-05-2130 min

Polaris Live Podcasts with Host, Sarwar KashmeriJeremy Paltiel - Oh Canada! Elbows Up!The long history of friendship between the U.S. and Canada has ruptured, can it ever be rebuilt? What is the best Canadians can expect in the Tariff negotiations with Mr. Trump seeing that over 70% of Canada's exports go to America? Where does Canada go to lessen its trade reliance on on the U.S.------------------------------------------------------------------- JEREMY PALTIEL Professor of Political Science (emeritus) at Carleton University, Canada. He is author of several chapters included in edited volumes. His published articles appear in numerous publications including The China Quarterly and Asian Affairs.2025-05-0930 min

Polaris Live Podcasts with Host, Sarwar KashmeriShehzad Qazi - Can China decouple from U.S. & Survive?SHEHZAD QAZIAs the firm-wide operations lead, Shehzad oversees product innovation, client services, new businessacquisition, and corporate strategy at China Beige Book International. Since 2012, Shehzad has helped develop data collection for the China Beige Book™ platform and supervised the analytics team. During this time, he has also designed innovative services and macro strategic and sectoral products for the firm’s financial markets and corporate clients. Shehzad is a frequent guest on major national news networks including CNBC, Bloomberg, and CNN and speaks regularly at investor conferences. His articles have appeared in Barron’s, Foreign Policy, and Huffing...2025-04-2330 min

Polaris Live Podcasts with Host, Sarwar KashmeriLuv Puri - Vietnam in the new U.S. designed global trading systemLuv Puri Has been working in the field of International Affairs for two decades, both as a practitioner and an analyst. He was with the UN Department of Political Affairs for ten years, during which period he worked at the highest levels of multilateral diplomacy, including as part of the Secretary-General’s Good Offices. He started his career working with the widely-read and respected daily, The Hindu, where he reported on conflict areas with a focus on issues related to Human Rights for several years. In 2006, he won the European Commission Award for Human Rights and Democracy.At...2025-04-1631 min

Polaris Live Podcasts with Host, Sarwar KashmeriMarc Chandler - Global Tariffs = U.S. Giveth U.S. Taketh AwayThe Trump Administration's tariff regime has been widely condemned by CEOs, country leaders, and Wall Street traders. Inflation and recession in the U.S. are increasingly predicted. But after being battered for a week, world markets appear to be rallying. Instead of collectively ganging up on the U.S., in anger countries are lining up to pacify American demands. So, is the era of globalization over? A new American dollars led order is descending on the world? What might this order look like?MARC CHANDLERManaging Director and Chief Market Strategist for Bannockburn Global...2025-04-1131 min

Polaris Live Podcasts with Host, Sarwar KashmeriWorld Order To World Disorder? Perspective From West Point Profs. Liebert & Silverstone"Empires come and go; just look at world history," says Alan Friedman, best selling journalist in his new best seller "The End of America?: A Guide to the New World Disorder." True? Two history professors from the U.S. Military Academy, West Point weigh in. Dr. Scott Silverstone Professor of International Relations at the United States Military Academy at West Point, where he has served on the faculty since 2001. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania, and early in his career he was as a US Naval officer, flying for an...2025-03-1955 min

Polaris Live Podcasts with Host, Sarwar KashmeriDavid Lin - Is China's DeepSeek America's AI Wakeup Call?David Lin is Senior Director for Future Technology Platforms at the Special Competitive Studies Project (SCSP).Prior to joining SCSP, David served for 12 years at the U.S. Department of State and the Central Intelligence Agency, focusing on China and technology policy. His expertise includes China’s industrial strategy, data and cybersecurity policies, and digital infrastructure development.During his government tenure, David led multidisciplinary teams providing analytic support to high-level U.S. China policy processes and served as an economic officer responsible for the tech portfolio at the U.S. Consulate in...2025-03-1229 min

Polaris Live Podcasts with Host, Sarwar KashmeriAjay Srivastava - Trump Reciprocal Tariff's and IndiaThe U.S. Reciprocal Tariff Plan, introduced by President Donald Trump, aims to counter perceived trade imbalances by imposing higher tariffs on countries with which the U.S. runs a trade deficit.With India-U.S. trade exceeding $125 billion in 2024, Indian exporters in many sectors face significant risks.The Indian government and industry stakeholders should respond strategically to mitigate losses.-------------------------------------------------------------------- AJAY SRIVASTAVAFounder, Global Trade Research Initiative (GTRI, an Indian research group specializing in technology, climate change, and trade. He took voluntary retirement from the Government of India in March 2022, having served a...2025-03-0530 min

Polaris Live Podcasts with Host, Sarwar KashmeriPou Sothirak - Cambodia, ASEAN and U.S. - China RelationsThe Indo-Pacific is vital for US supremacy and as such, Trump is unlikely to drastically alter the existing structure that undergirds relations between the US and the region. Nonetheless, how Trump implements his strategies for the region is of concern for US allies, especially with his “America First” stance in foreign policy. A renewed focus on ASEAN will continue to be essential for lasting stability amid China tensionsAMBASSADOR POU SOTHIRAKPou Sothirak is a retired academic and Distinguished Senior Adviser to the Cambodian Center for Regional Studies (CCRS). Previously secretary of state at the...2025-02-2837 min

Polaris Live Podcasts with Host, Sarwar KashmeriZha Daojiong - Trump 2.0 Beijing ViewZHA Daojiong is Professor of International Political Economy in the School of International Studies and the Institute of South-South Cooperation and Development, Peking University, Beijing, China.His areas of expertise include non-traditional security studies, international political economy and China’s international economic relations. His research publications cover such topics as energy, cross-boundary water management, development aid and public health, and international development cooperation. He also contributes opinion pieces in newspapers including the South China Morning Post. He studied at the University of Hawaii and the East West Center, where he earned a Doctorate in Political Sci...2025-02-1931 min

Polaris Live Podcasts with Host, Sarwar KashmeriT.V. Paul - The world and Trump 2.0's new AmericaThe 2nd inauguration of Donald Trump didn’t just herald the Presidency of another U.S. chief executive to lead the America for the next 4 years. It heralded a President who promised a wholesale redesign of the Presidency and the norms that channeled and guided American behavior within and without America.Trump 2.0 is bringing forth America 2.0 – a country that will believe in might versus right, a reversal of the open trading system, a shrinkage of U.S. Departments that were considered indispensable including: Education, International AID, and a wholesale replacement of critically important Departments’ leadership and st...2025-02-1229 min

Polaris Live Podcasts with Host, Sarwar KashmeriThomas Daniel - ASEAN - Malaysia prepares for Trump 2.0Mr. Daniel is a senior fellow in the Foreign Policy and Security Studies program at the Center of Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)- Malaysia. His interests lie in the strategic-security challenges of Southeast Asia, including the impacts of major power dynamics on the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN).On 20 January, with the inauguration of Donald Trump as President the United States proclaimed that world’s biggest and most powerful country was getting off the globally interconnected, rules-based system of which it was an integral part the day before.Am...2025-02-0528 min

Global in the Granite StateMaking The U.S. China Relationship Great AgainThe relationship between the United States and China remains one of the most critical dynamics shaping our world today, with ripple effects that could lead to either global progress or conflict. Amid political shifts in the U.S., now is the perfect time to take stock of where this high-stakes relationship stands, uncover emerging trends, and hear from experts on fostering understanding between these two global powerhouses.In this month’s episode, we sit down with Sarwar Kashmeri—renowned host of the Polaris Live web series and Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Association. A longtime friend of t...2025-01-1330 min

Altri OrientiEp.71 - “Ogni cinese è uno storico”La storia è fonte di legittimazione del Partito comunista cinese. Per questo l’attuale leader Xi Jinping vuole che la storia cinese sia scritta solo dal Pcc. Ma sotto traccia in Cina agiscono giornalisti, intellettuali, artisti, documentaristi, che cercando di contrastare questa tendenza, aggiungono “sfumature” diverse al racconto ufficiale. Uno di loro è sicuramente il giornalista Yang Jisheng, autore di “Lapidi”.Gli inserti audio di questa puntata sono tratti da: David Daokui LI - Demystifying China's World View, canale YouTube Sarwar Kashmeri, 16 gennaio 2024; 习近平：领导干部要多读一点历史, baijiahao.baidu.com, 5 luglio 2018; Sparks: China’s Underground Historians and Their Battle for the Future, canale YouTube Global Georgetown, 10 ottobre 2023...2024-03-2236 min

Global in the Granite StateRussia and China: A Relationship with No LimitsOn February 4th Russia and China announced a renewed relationship that "has no limits". Three weeks later Russia began its invasion of Ukraine, violating the territorial sovereignty of an independent nation. In this month's episode we explore the relationship between these two countries and what the invasion signals for the future. Sarwar Kasmeri, host of the Polaris Live Podcast, joins us to provide his perspective on the issues and opportunities that he sees as the world grapples with the largest invasion of a European nation since World War II. Sarwar Kashmeri is an international relations specialist, author...2022-04-0830 min

Global in the Granite StateRethinking the China - U.S. RelationshipFor the past several decades, foreign policy experts have been sounding the alarm bells about a rising China who would one day pose a threat to the United States of America as a global leader. Those bells seemingly ring louder each and every day. Whether it is a trade war, war of words, or something worse, the relationship between the two countries are at an all time low. This episode explores a new report from the Foreign Policy Association that looks to reimagine the relationship between the world's two biggest economies. The report's author, Sarwar Kashmeri, tries to get...2021-08-0227 min

The ExplanationWhat's the deal with China? With Sarwar KashmeriChina is arguably the most important other country in the world next to the United States and has now been a chief concern of three US Administrations. Yet, many Americans know little-to-nothing about China. So what actually is happening with the country, what are the issues that are most important, and what does the future hold? Today Sylvia and Ian discuss joined by Professor Sarwar Kashmeri. https://kashmeri.com Follow The Explanation on Social Media Twitter: https://twitter.com/explanation_pod IG: https://www.instagram.com/theexplanationpod/ 2021-07-201h 14

China in the WorldSetting the Table for U.S.-China Strategic CompetitionThe Biden administration has an opportunity to recalibrate U.S. China policy to better reflect current realities. Has the administration been effective in laying the groundwork for strategic competition with China? How can Washington maintain a competitive relationship with Beijing while minimizing the risk of conflict? What did the U.S.-China Anchorage summit signal about the trajectory of U.S.-China relations? On this joint episode of the China in the World podcast and Polaris-Live, Paul Haenle joined Sarwar Kashmeri to discuss U.S.-China relations 100 days into the Biden administration. The discussion was hosted by Polaris-Live...2021-05-2138 min

Global in the Granite StateGlobal in the Granite State #18 - The Economy EpisodeAs the Covid-19 pandemic continues to ravage economies worldwide, we take the time to speak with Dr. Bruce Elmslie of UNH about the global economy during this time. Also, we speak with Dr. Sarwar Kashmeri about China's Belt and Road Initiative, as well as how China's relations with the world will be affected by the current crisis. Join us for these interesting discussions and hear more about how this crisis is shaping our world today and into the future.2020-05-0139 min

A Better Peace: The War Room PodcastCHINA'S GRAND STRATEGY AND THE BRIThere has never been anything like it in recorded history where a country has put…a trillion dollars aside to help in jump starting all of these infrastructure projects around the country Much has been made of China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Wary watcher's are quick to point out the spread of Chinese influence in many resource rich countries. Critics promptly highlight the missteps that China has made including snubbing local labor and ignoring cultural norms. A BETTER PEACE welcomes Sarwar Kashmeri as he joins our Editor-In-Chief Jacqueline Whitt to examine how the BRI has succeeded and more importantly ho...2020-03-0330 min

DiffusionDiffusionThis week, the U.S. outlined an updated policy on the war in Afghanistan, sending more troops to assist Afghan forces. What role has China played in protecting its own interests in South Asia, particularly vis–à–vis Afghanistan and Pakistan? Sarwar Kashmeri speaks with Barnett Rubin, director of the Afghanistan-Pakistan Regional Project at NYU's Center on International Cooperation.2017-08-2315 min

DiffusionDiffusionChina continues to expand its economic and infrastructure partnerships on the continent, but is the strategy working? China in Focus host Sarwar Kashmeri speaks with Yunnan Chen of the China Africa Research Initiative at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies about the successes—and controversies—of the China/Africa relationship.2017-07-2412 min

DiffusionDiffusionChina in Focus host Sarwar Kashmeri speaks with Matthew Goodman of the Center for International and Strategic Studies about China’s $9 billion “One Belt, One Road” initiative, a project some refer to as the new “silk road.”2017-06-2014 min

DiffusionDiffusionHost Sarwar Kashmeri speaks with Orville Schell, Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society, and Susan Shirk, Chair of the 21st Century China Center and Research Professor at the UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy, as President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping prepare to meet at Mar-a-Lago in Florida. Schell and Shirk are co-chairs of the Asia Society report "U.S. Policy Toward China: Recommendations for a New Administration."2017-04-0515 min