{"podcast":{"title":"Barbarians at the Gate","slug":"barbarians-at-the-gate-434733","podcast_index_feed_id":434733,"rss_url":"https://feeds.blubrry.com/feeds/barbarians.xml","website_url":"http://granitestudio.org","image_url":"https://assets.blubrry.com/coverart/orig/359922-172016.jpg","author":"Barbarians at the Gate","episode_count":110,"summary":"A semi-serious deep dive into Chinese history and culture broadcast from Beijing and hosted by Jeremiah Jenne and David Moser.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-19T00:19:24.204604+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/barbarians-at-the-gate-434733"},"episode":{"title":"Is America Beginning to Look More Like China?","slug":"is-america-beginning-to-look-more-like-china","published_at":"2025-07-15T15:03:25+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/barbarians-at-the-gate-434733/is-america-beginning-to-look-more-like-china","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/barbarians-at-the-gate-434733","url":"https://blubrry.com/barbarians/147055025/is-america-beginning-to-look-more-like-china/","audio_url":"https://media.blubrry.com/barbarians/content.blubrry.com/barbarians/BATG-2025-07-15-097.mp3","summary":"In this episode we chat with Shanghai-based author and editor Jacob Dreyer, a China watcher who writes with great insight and nuance about the shifting landscape of China-US relations. We touch on questions such as: Is the China model of governance outperforming Western liberal democracy? Is China winning the AI and technology wars? (Spoiler alert: That ship has sailed.) How do the architecture and logic of surveillance and information control systems differ between the U.S. and China? Is the current China-US geopolitical chill drifting toward a hot war? And finally, we unpack the question posed in Jacob’s guest op-ed in the New York Times: Is Trump’s America beginning to look more like China?","meta_description":"In this episode we chat with Shanghai-based author and editor Jacob Dreyer, a China watcher who writes with great insight and nuance about the shifting la…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2496,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/barbarians-at-the-gate-434733/episodes/is-america-beginning-to-look-more-like-china/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/barbarians-at-the-gate-434733/is-america-beginning-to-look-more-like-china.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}