ChinaTalk: Adam Tooze on Why History Matters
This week's episode of ChinaTalk.
Published by The Lawfare Institute
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Adam Tooze is my favorite economic historian. After writing a handful of books on the 1920s and Nazi economics, he's now turned his eye to the present day, taking on the financial crisis and US-China relations. In this conversation, we get into
- What we can learn from the diplomatic and economic modes of 1920s and 30s
- Why Nazi legal theory resonates so well in China today
- How modes of understanding Nazi Germany can help illustrate China
- How Xinjiang camps echo the logic of Soviet gulags
- Whether the US in fact lost the Cold War
- Adam's dream bureaucracies to work it
Matt Klein, author of the recent Trade Wars are Class Wars, guest hosts.
Jordan Schneider is the host of the ChinaTalk podcast and newsletter. He previously worked at Kwai, Bridgewater and the Eurasia Group. His Chinese landscape paintings "show promise."
