Miquel Vila is a consultant and analyst of international politics. Miquel holds a master's degree in Chinese Studies from Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) and Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU) and a master's degree in International Security from the University of Groningen (UOG). His field of specialization is geoeconomics, industrial policy, and nationalism. His region of expertise is the Indo-Pacifc with a focus on China. He writes at his Substack "The Business of Power" and has recently published a book "The End of the Chinese Alternative" (soon to be translated to English).

In our discussion, we chatted about the Great Financial Crisis and its role in opening up the era of multipolarity. We go over trends in the post-industrial western world, especially Europe, and compare it to the rapidly industrialized China. Other aspects include nationalism, populism, EU federalism, geopolitics, industrial policy, and more.

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You can follow him on Twitter:   @miquelvilam 

You can find all his work here: https://www.businessofpower.com/

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