Each episode of Why It Matters breaks down an issue that is shaping our world’s future. Join host Gabrielle Sierra as she speaks with the leaders and thinkers who are facing these questions head on. Fueled by the minds at the Council on Foreign Relations, Why It Matters brings some of the world’s most compelling stories home to you.
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Wednesday May 20, 2020
Wednesday May 20, 2020
China is undertaking massive infrastructure projects across the world and loaning billions of dollars to developing nations. On paper, the objective is to build a vast trade network, but is China also exporting authoritarianism?
Featured Guests:
Jessica Chen Weiss (Associate Professor of Government, Cornell University)
Elizabeth C. Economy (C. V. Starr Senior Fellow and Director for Asia Studies)
For more information on this episode, visit us at cfr.org/podcasts/exporting-authoritarianism