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Podcast: STATE OF ASIA

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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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Has China's Global Power Reached Its Peak?

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The 2022 State of Asia Address

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STATE OF ASIA: Agatha Kratz

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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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