Ep. 304: Zongyuan Zoe Liu on Calculated China vs Unpredictable US

Zongyuan Zoe Liu is a senior fellow for China studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Her work focuses on international political economy, global financial markets, sovereign wealth funds, supply chains of critical minerals, development finance, emerging markets, energy and climate change policy, and East Asia-Middle East relations. Dr. Liu is the author of ‘Can BRICS De-dollarize the Global Financial System?’ and ‘Sovereign Funds: How the Communist Party of China Finances its Global Ambitions’. In this podcast we discuss: 

• US-China tensions in run-up to Trump 2.0 
• Xi Jinping’s worldview and generational trauma 
• The strategic logic behind China’s limited retaliation 
• China’s non-alignment approach and regional economic diplomacy 
• Winners and losers of the trade war 
• China’s shift from export-led growth to domestic consumption 
• China’s dominance in critical materials and growing willingness to weaponize it 
• Europe’s unpreparedness for rise of protectionism 
• China-Middle East relations 
• Dollar dominance vs. de-dollarization 
• Books mentioned: My Life is not Finished (Yu Juan) 

You can follow Zongyuan here. 

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