Podcast: STATE OF ASIA

Engaging Conversations with Leading Minds

 

The STATE OF ASIA podcast brings you exclusive, engaging conversations with leading minds on issues that shape Asia and affect us all. Listen also for bonus episodes with insights straight from some of the many events organised by Asia Society Switzerland.

This season, hear from Pakistan's Minister for Climate Change Sherry Rehman, renowned sinologist Marina Rudyak, CSIS fellow and expert on Vietnam and Southeast Asia Huong Le Thu, Taiwan journalist Brian Hioe, and many more.

Click above to listen to the latest episode, and subscribe on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or search for 'State of Asia' on any other podcast app. All previous episodes are also available right here, on this site.

Last fall, the series featured in-depth conversations on developments in Asia with perspectives from Leni Robredo, the 14th Vice President of the Philippines; Tomohiko Taniguchi, Special Advisor to Japan's longest-serving Prime Minister, the late Shinzo Abe; C. Raja Mohan, one of India's foremost foreign policy thinkers and Senior Fellow at the Asia Society Policy Institute in New Delhi; Agatha Kratz, who leads research on E.U.-China relations at Rhodium Group; and James Crabtree, Executive Director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies-Asia in Singapore.

All of them were present in Zurich at the inaugural STATE OF ASIA conference. More information on the upcoming STATE OF ASIA conference, taking place November 22, 2023, in Zurich, is available here.

STATE OF ASIA podcast

Hosts: Serena Jung, Nico Luchsinger, Remko Tanis – Asia Society Switzerland

Producer: Remko Tanis, Programs and Editorial Manager – Asia Society Switzerland

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Huong Le Thu
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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.
OxD Japan
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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.
Marina Rudyak
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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
Sherry Rehman
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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?
Has China’s Global Power Reached Its Peak?
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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'.