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【Roughly Chinese EP24】Why is everybody becoming Chinese now? | with Cyrus Janssen
3If you have been following the latest trends on the Internet, the CHINA-MAXXING is hard to miss: people are celebrating the "chinese moments" in their life. But why is China becoming so attractive on the Internet all in a sudden? In this episo...
Who Really Benefits From U.S. Sanctions? And How Do We Resist Them? | Maryam Jamshidi [Thinkers Forum]
Are sanctions really a peaceful alternative to war — or are they part of how U.S. power is enforced?Professor Maryam Jamshidi joins Thinkers Forum to discuss how U.S. sanctions rely on private actors such as banks, corporations, lawyers, pl...
[Roughly Chinese] Why Does Chinese Fashion Still Look Western? | Gracia Ventus
Why Does Chinese Fashion Still Look Western? | with Gracia Ventus of ROSENChina has 5,000 years of civilizational history — so why do Chinese people still dress in the visual language of Western modernity?In this episode, Yunpen...
[Roughly Chinese] Here is how the Internet ROASTS the Trump-Xi summit...
The Roughly Chinese POD is BACK! In this episode, our host Mimi Zhu and Yunpeng Zhang sat down for Trump's China visit memes circulating on both Chinese and English social media! Why did Chinese people "celebrate" Trump in Beijing on the Intern...
[Thinkers Forum] Before the Belt and Road, There Were the Mongols ｜ Marie Favereau
Historian Marie Favereau joins Thinkers Forum to explain why the Mongols were not just conquerors — but builders of a mobile, connected Eurasian world that still changes how we think about China, Central Asia, and the Silk Road.We discu...
