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UK in China: Hard choices between rival superpowers
Season 4 ยท Episode 19

UK in China: Hard choices between rival superpowers

Independent Thinking

January 30, 202635m 32s

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Show Notes

Host Bronwen Maddox is joined by Ben Bland, head of our Asia-Pacific Programme, and Dr Yu Jie, senior research fellow on China. They discuss the opportunities and risks of closer engagement between the UK and China, and why the opacity of Chinese elite politics makes them an unpredictable security actor.

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