{"podcast":{"title":"Pekingology","slug":"pekingology-580593","podcast_index_feed_id":580593,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/pekingology","website_url":null,"image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/1c3c2762-d106-11ea-9755-1b672730c07c/image/uploads_2F1595963372466-j45c0t35uig-78ab17d139a3c14b70aeb7332087a294_2FPekingology_ART.jpg?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":139,"summary":"China is one of the 21st century’s most consequential nations, and it has never been more important to understand how the country is governed. Pekingology is the podcast that unpacks Chinese politics, the inner workings of the Communist Party, and how China's domestic and foreign policy will impact the world. Pekingology is hosted by Henrietta Levin, Senior Fellow with the Freeman Chair in China Studies at CSIS. It is produced by Gina Kim.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/pekingology-580593"},"episode":{"title":"Is China’s Military Ready for War?","slug":"is-china-s-military-ready-for-war","published_at":"2025-08-21T09:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/pekingology-580593/is-china-s-military-ready-for-war","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/pekingology-580593","url":"https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/traffic.megaphone.fm/CSIS2883700867.mp3","audio_url":"https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/traffic.megaphone.fm/CSIS2883700867.mp3","summary":"In this episode of Pekingology, CSIS Senior Fellow Henrietta Levin is joined by M. Taylor Fravel, Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science and Director of the Security Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. They discuss Dr. Fravel's recent Foreign Affairs article, \"Is China’s Military Ready for War? What Xi’s Purges Do—and Don’t—Mean for Beijing’s Ambitions.\" The conversation unpacks corruption, modernization, and sudden disappearances at the highest levels of the People's Liberation Army.","meta_description":"In this episode of Pekingology, CSIS Senior Fellow Henrietta Levin is joined by M. Taylor Fravel, Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science and…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2270,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/pekingology-580593/episodes/is-china-s-military-ready-for-war/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/pekingology-580593/is-china-s-military-ready-for-war.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}