Listen "China's Strategic Culture"
Episode Synopsis
In this episode of AFPC's GREAT POWER PODCAST, host Michael Sobolik speaks with Michael Schuman, nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council's Global China Hub, about the evolution of China's strategic culture throughout its dynastic era - and how it shapes the Chinese Communist Party's practice of foreign policy today.
Guest biography
Michael Schuman the author of "Superpower Interrupted: The Chinese History of the World." He is also a contributor to The Atlantic and a columnist for Bloomberg Opinion, and, most recently, a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council's Global China Hub. Previously, he was a correspondent for TIME magazine and The Wall Street Journal.
Resources from the conversation
Read Michael Schuman's book, Superpower Interrupted: The Chinese History of the World
Read Michael Schuman's article in The Atlantic, "Washington Is Getting China Wrong"
Follow Michael Schuman's work at the Atlantic Council
Read Michael Schuman's articles at The Atlantic and Bloomberg
Subscribe to AFPC's Indo-Pacific Monitor
Guest biography
Michael Schuman the author of "Superpower Interrupted: The Chinese History of the World." He is also a contributor to The Atlantic and a columnist for Bloomberg Opinion, and, most recently, a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council's Global China Hub. Previously, he was a correspondent for TIME magazine and The Wall Street Journal.
Resources from the conversation
Read Michael Schuman's book, Superpower Interrupted: The Chinese History of the World
Read Michael Schuman's article in The Atlantic, "Washington Is Getting China Wrong"
Follow Michael Schuman's work at the Atlantic Council
Read Michael Schuman's articles at The Atlantic and Bloomberg
Subscribe to AFPC's Indo-Pacific Monitor
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