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Our second podcast season "Meet My Country" is out. In this season, you will learn about a new Asian country in each edition from the perspective of leading local voices from journalists and lawyers, to academics and entrepreneurs. This time we cover the kingdom of Bhutan, as well as Sri Lanka, Uzbekistan, Bangladesh and the Sultanate of Brunei.

Our first podcast season “China and the World” looks at how China’s relationship with the world is changing. We are looking at China’s Southeastern neighbours, from Laos to Indonesia; at China’s activities in Africa; at its uneasy and complicated relationship with India; its growing closeness to Russia; and its influence on Switzerland.

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Episodes

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State of Taiwan with Brian Hioe

Brian Hioe 丘琦欣, a Taipei-based editor and writer, talks about how people in Taiwan experience the rise and fall, but mostly rise, in cross Strait tensions, and looks ahead at the upcoming presidential elections.
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State of Southeast Asia and Vietnam: Huong Le Thu

Huong Le Thu, non-resident fellow with the Southeast Asia program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, talks about how Southeast Asia can succeed in not choosing a side in the China - U.S. power competition.
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Japan's Military Build-Up: A Threat To Regional Stability?

Listen to four stellar experts debating whether Japan's military build-up is a threat to regional stability. Clear, concise, well-thought-out arguments highlight both sides of the debate.
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State of Global China: Marina Rudyak

Marina Rudyak, sinologist at the University of Heidelberg, is one of the foremost experts on China as a global development force. She talks about how China is....m
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State of Climate Change: Pakistan's Sherry Rehman

Sherry Rehman, Pakistan's Federal Minister for Climate Change, talks about 'apocalyptic misery' her country is experiencing from extreme heat and flooding. And about how she can be hopeful the world will realise the time for action is now.
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The State of India

Asia Society Switzerland's Nico Luchsinger talks with Bergos Now host Aurelia Rauch about what he heard during the many conversations he had on a recent trip to India.
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Bergos Now on State of Asia

Bergos Now host Aurelia Rauch and Asia Society Switzerland's Nico Luchsinger approach the questions: is this the Asian Century, and where is Asia, actually?
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Has China's Global Power Reached Its Peak?

Listen to four stellar China experts debating the question whether China's global power has reached its peak. Clear, concise, well-thought-out arguments highlight both sides of the debate.
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The 2022 State of Asia Address

In the inaugural State of Asia Address, India's foremost foreign policy thinker C. Raja Mohan talks about new pessimism surrounding Asia's rise, and the need for more European involvement in the region.
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STATE OF ASIA: Agatha Kratz

Agatha Kratz, Head of E.U.-China Research at Rhodium Group, on the reasons for China's economic slowdown, and on how to get information on a country that has closed its borders for over 2.5 years now.
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STATE OF ASIA: James Crabtree

James Crabtree, Executive Director of IISS-Asia, joins us from Singapore to talk about the effects of increasing tensions between China and other great powers on Southeast Asia, and whether this is still 'the Asian Century'.
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STATE OF ASIA: Leni Robredo

Leni Robredo, 14th Vice President of the Philippines, joins us from Manila to talk about how disinformation tripped up her run for the presidency, and about her goal to create politically empowered citizens.
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STATE OF ASIA: C. Raja Mohan

C. Raja Mohan, India's foremost foreign policy thinker and Senior Fellow with the Asia Society Policy Institute in New Delhi, on how to find balance among the Asian powers, and Western worries about the state of democracy in India.
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STATE OF ASIA: Tomohiko Taniguchi

Tomohiko Taniguchi, former Special Advisor to Japan's longest-serving Prime Minister, the late Shinzo Abe, on his worries about security in Asia, the question who is the enemy of the future of Japan, and the enduring importance of hope.
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Podcast: STATE OF ASIA

Exclusive, engaging conversations with leading minds on issues that shape Asia and affect us all. Plus bonus episodes with insights from some of our many events. Listen here, or search for 'State of Asia' in your favorite podcast app.
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Meet My Country: Brunei, With Hon. Iswandy Ahmad and Dr. Vanessa Teo

Legislative Council member Iswandy Ahmad and agricultural entrepreneur Dr. Vanessa Teo talk about their homeland Brunei – the independent Islamic sultanate on the island of Borneo.
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Meet My Country: Bangladesh, With Sara Hossain and Dr. Faraha Nawaz

Supreme Court lawyer Sara Hossain and academic Dr. Faraha Nawaz talk about their homeland Bangladesh – one of the world’s most crowded countries.
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Meet My Country: Uzbekistan, With Dilfuza Kurolova and Dr. Farkhod Tolipov

Human rights lawyer Dilfuza Kurolova and political scientist Dr. Farkhod Tolipov talk about their homeland Uzbekistan – the land locked and most populous country of Central Asia.
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Meet My Country: Sri Lanka, With Bhavani Fonseka and Ambika Satkunanathan

Human rights lawyer Bhavani Fonseka and human rights advocate Ambika Satkunanathan talk about their homeland Sri Lanka – the island nation just off the southeastern coast of India.
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Meet My Country: Bhutan, With Kunga Tenzin Dorji (Supe)

Journalist and Musician Kunga Tenzin Dorji, known as Supe, talks about his homeland Bhutan – the landlocked country located in the Eastern Himalayas.