Panders to authoritarians. Bashes everyone else.
Awful show. The host seems incapable of asking serious and meaningful questions to any conservative (US) or authoritarian (Chinese) guest. The less the guest aligns with acceptable norms of free speech, human rights, and open democracy, the more the host gives that guest an open and unchallenged mic to spew all manner of lies and dishonesty. Meanwhile, the host gleefully harasses middle-of-the-spectrum and “liberal” guests with a plethora of fact-free, half-baked “it seems to me’ assertions. The Economist wold immediately double the quality of their podcasts by dropping this show (or at least its host).
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