SPECIAL: ‘A Full-Fledged Economic Cold War’ with David Barboza

John interviews David Barboza, the Pulitzer Prize-winning co-founder of the digital newsmagazine The Wire China. They discuss how the country has changed in the last few decades; why predictions of China’s economic collapse never pan out; the potential for war over Taiwan; and how the Chinese Communist Party lost the international community’s trust. This is a longer, lightly edited version of an interview that ran on Thursday, June 17. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com