China Insider

#2 | Apple in China, the Future of Zero-Covid, and the Politics of Death in the PRC

Episode Summary

Miles and Wilson discuss the Chinese Communist Party's use of high-tech surveillance technologies to repress the Chinese people and the pro-freedom demonstrations at Apple's facilities in China and California. They also evaluate General Secretary Xi Jinping's plans as he charts the way forward in a possible post-Zero-COVID world. Finally, they analyze China's nationwide state funeral for former General Secretary Jiang Zemin, and the politics of death in communist regimes, going back to Lenin and Mao. Follow the China Center's work at https://www.hudson.org/china-center

Episode Notes

Miles and Wilson discuss the Chinese Communist Party's use of high-tech surveillance technologies to repress the Chinese people and the pro-freedom demonstrations at Apple's facilities in China and California. They also evaluate General Secretary Xi Jinping's plans as he charts the way forward in a possible post-Zero-COVID world. Finally they analyze China's nationwide state funeral for former General Secretary Jiang Zemin, and the politics of death in communist regimes, going back to Lenin and Mao. 

 

Follow the China Center's work at https://www.hudson.org/china-center