{"podcast":{"title":"What's Left? With Jovan + Freddie","slug":"what-s-left-with-jovan-freddie-7312642","podcast_index_feed_id":7312642,"rss_url":"https://media.rss.com/what-s-left-with-jovan-and-freddie/feed.xml","website_url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/what-s-left-with-jovan-and-freddie","image_url":"https://media.rss.com/what-s-left-with-jovan-and-freddie/20250428_100455_d8247ddbed27fddf8fc93a901706c97a.png","author":"What's Left? With Jovan + Freddie","episode_count":34,"summary":"'What's Left?' is a progressive political podcast for the generation tasked with returning order to political chaos. With 'Left/Right' no longer a clear distinction for our politics, what does it really mean to be on the political 'left'? And given the enormous change we're living through, what is left of our values, institutions and political systems? Co-hosts Jovan Owusu-Nepaul and Freddie Feltham are ex-Labour Party staffers, who have scrapped with Nigel Farage and Andrew Tate between them. Through in-depth chats with friends and experts inside Westminster and beyond, we hope to reveal what's really at stake as civilisation crosses the AI Rubicon. This is a show for anyone fed up with the status quo; ready to listen, learn and do in pursuit of a better and fairer future. Oh - and we wanna have some fun with it too. Jovan + Freddie","last_synced_at":"2026-06-10T02:17:39.272409+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/what-s-left-with-jovan-freddie-7312642"},"episode":{"title":"Xi Jinping's One Vulnerability - Steve Tsang","slug":"xi-jinping-s-one-vulnerability-steve-tsang","published_at":"2026-02-11T11:44:35+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/what-s-left-with-jovan-freddie-7312642/xi-jinping-s-one-vulnerability-steve-tsang","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/what-s-left-with-jovan-freddie-7312642","url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/what-s-left-with-jovan-and-freddie/2541926","audio_url":"https://content.rss.com/episodes/327403/2541926/what-s-left-with-jovan-and-freddie/2026_02_11_11_41_22_fbe331e8-4cbb-4229-a5e2-06ca74370b4b.mp3","summary":"JOIN US ON SUBSTACK: substack.com/@wtfisleft Early Access to Ad-Free Extended Interviews Ask our Guests Questions LIVEs with Jovan + Freddie WL Book Club + Community Discussion Articles + Exclusive Content ********************************************** Steve Tsang is a political scientist, Director of the SOAS China Institute and the author of 'Xi Jingping's Political Thought'. On Tuesday 27th January, We sat down with Steve as Keir Starmer landed in Beijing for the first visit of a British Prime Minister in China since 2018. With the Davos consensus of globalisation and free seamless trade becoming a relic of modern history, how should Britain hedge its strategic bets in a bipolar world of Chinese and American competition? Does a third way even exist between these two undeniable superpowers? In the UK and the West more broadly, we suffer from a paucity of understanding when it comes to the world's second largest economy. China is enormous, deeply complex and hidden behind a veil of propaganda and posturing from the ruling Communist Party. Over the past decade, China's president Xi Jinping has consolidated absolute power in the executive, undoing many of the consultative reforms under previous regimes. But has this move, while making Xi omnipotent, actually made China vulnerable? On the day before Starmer set off to Beijing, it was reported that General Zhang Youxia, one of Xi's most loyal acolytes, had been purged. The official story from the CCP was that he had passed on state secrets about China's nuclear deterrent to the United States. What seems more likely is that Zhang had a base of power that would not be tolerated by the supreme leader... China's irrepressible rise to superpower status has been driven by its ruthless execution of long-term modernising policies…","meta_description":"JOIN US ON SUBSTACK: substack.com/@wtfisleft Early Access to Ad-Free Extended Interviews Ask our Guests Questions LIVEs with Jovan + Freddie WL Book Club…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4461,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/what-s-left-with-jovan-freddie-7312642/episodes/xi-jinping-s-one-vulnerability-steve-tsang/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/what-s-left-with-jovan-freddie-7312642/xi-jinping-s-one-vulnerability-steve-tsang.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}