{"podcast":{"title":"China Field Notes – with Scott Kennedy","slug":"china-field-notes-with-scott-kennedy-6463683","podcast_index_feed_id":6463683,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/CSIS9824774211","website_url":null,"image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/5e580fc0-19d4-11ee-9ce1-c7afeac34b38/image/b3f5bfb7379f3b9d9ef6c37be35dd1a3.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Center for Strategic and International Studies","episode_count":25,"summary":"Understanding China has become more difficult than ever, yet also more important than ever. Hardening geopolitics has made travel to China more difficult, but not impossible. Join host Scott Kennedy, the Senior Adviser and Trustee Chair in Chinese Business and Economics at CSIS, for an on-the-ground look at China, for conversations with people shaping China and scholars exploring the country firsthand. What makes China tick? Where is the country going? How should the U.S. respond to the China challenge? We’ll dive into all of that and more on China Field Notes – with Scott Kennedy.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-16T04:20:19.240558+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/china-field-notes-with-scott-kennedy-6463683"},"episode":{"title":"Communication Amid Competition: A Conversation with Chen Dongxiao","slug":"communication-amid-competition-a-conversation-with-chen-dongxiao","published_at":"2025-04-03T17:24:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/china-field-notes-with-scott-kennedy-6463683/communication-amid-competition-a-conversation-with-chen-dongxiao","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/china-field-notes-with-scott-kennedy-6463683","url":"https://www.csis.org/podcasts/china-field-notes-scott-kennedy","audio_url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CSIS8640502703.mp3?updated=1743701390","summary":"On this episode of China Field Notes, Scott Kennedy speaks with Chen Dongxiao, the President of the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (SIIS). He discusses how China's shifting role to the center of global politics and economics has shaped his career, and he offers a frank assessment of the U.S.-China bilateral relationship during the late-Biden and early Trump administrations. The discussion concludes with a strong defense of the value of U.S.-China track-2 dialogue for thinking creatively about the world's most important challenges and offering reforms to global institutions.","meta_description":"On this episode of China Field Notes, Scott Kennedy speaks with Chen Dongxiao, the President of the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (SIIS).…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2596,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/china-field-notes-with-scott-kennedy-6463683/episodes/communication-amid-competition-a-conversation-with-chen-dongxiao/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/china-field-notes-with-scott-kennedy-6463683/communication-amid-competition-a-conversation-with-chen-dongxiao.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}