XIANG Lanxin: China’s “rise” should not come as a surprise

This week, we discuss China-US-Russia relations with Xiang Lanxin, Distinguished Fellow at the Stimson Center and Professor Emeritus of International History and Politics at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva.

Time Stamps:

• 00:01:17 The Xiang family’s four centuries in the Chinese military
• 00:07:38 Lanxin’s experience during the Cultural Revolution
• 00:18:00 Graduate school in the United States and the start of an academic career
• 00:23:01 A history of Western misperceptions of China
• 00:34:05 The recent decline in US-China relations
• 00:39:39 Russia’s relations with the West
• 00:47:55 Russia-China relations
• 00:51:56 Taiwan

*The Trialogue Podcast is hosted by the Stimson Center and produced by University FM.

**The first twelve episodes of this podcast were published by the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey.