China Desk is a nonpartisan podcast to inform policymakers and the public about critical issues in the
US-China relationship.
We interview thought-provoking authors, subject matter experts, and government officials to elevate and respond to challenges posed by China.
China Desk is hosted by Steve Yates, former president of Radio Free Asia and former White House national security advisor.
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“It's worth saying fentanyl is illegal in China. It's a death sentence if you get caught possessing or selling fentanyl in China to somebody else. So they have their feelings about it, but they don't mind making the fentanyl and sending it to America via the cartels across our southern border, which is where we get 95-plus percent of all of it. So they're amused at seeing us use fentanyl, and seeing the cartels make money selling us fentanyl, and Americans dying.”
Ep. 9 — Congressman Neal Dunn
“Governments are fearful of Chinese retaliation. There is a lot of self-censorship by governments so that they do not incur the wrath of Beijing...There is this dominant influence of China having its own way, essentially, for lack of a better word, bullying its way on the economic front.”
Ep. 13 — Shihoko Goto, Director of Geoeconomics at the Wilson Center
“I want to talk specifically about the attacks–legal and sometimes physical–on Chinese dissidents, young Hong Kong people, and those who are here in the United States who are saying things that the Chinese government doesn't like. They're working to silence them, and there are a lot of other countries that are seeing the Chinese government get away with this.”
Ep. 24 — Carolyn Bartholomew, Chair of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission
“China has a government that's afraid of its own people. Trying to rally people around the globe against the Chinese Communist Party, I think is the best that we can hope for.”
Ep. 4 — Christian Watson, Author and former State Department Advisor
