Nicholas Burns spent 2021 to 2025 in Beijing as US Ambassador to China, witnessing up close the forces shaping the world's most dangerous rivalry. Sitting across from Xi Jinping and living in China, he saw firsthand how dangerously close the world is to a crisis. Some of it genuinely terrified him. Our conventional wisdom about China? Outdated. And dangerously wrong. In this episode, he reveals the alarming "nightmare scenario" almost no one is talking about, why a single unanswered phone ...
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Nicholas Burns spent 2021 to 2025 in Beijing as US Ambassador to China, witnessing up close the forces shaping the world's most dangerous rivalry. Sitting across from Xi Jinping and living in China, he saw firsthand how dangerously close the world is to a crisis. Some of it genuinely terrified him. Our conventional wisdom about China? Outdated. And dangerously wrong. In this episode, he reveals the alarming "nightmare scenario" almost no one is talking about, why a single unanswered phone ...
What Happened When My Daughter Was Born Looking White - And I Wasn’t (#277)
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What Happened When My Daughter Was Born Looking White - And I Wasn’t (#277)
In a Paris hospital delivery room, Thomas Chatterton Williams, writer for The Atlantic and author of Self-Portrait in Black and White, held his newborn daughter for the first time. Blonde hair. Blue eyes. And in that instant, everything he thought he knew about race shattered. Thomas lives the questions about race and identity that most of us only debate. The son of a Black father who grew up under Jim Crow and a white mother, he had accepted America's racial categories without question. Unt...
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Nicholas Burns spent 2021 to 2025 in Beijing as US Ambassador to China, witnessing up close the forces shaping the world's most dangerous rivalry. Sitting across from Xi Jinping and living in China, he saw firsthand how dangerously close the world is to a crisis. Some of it genuinely terrified him. Our conventional wisdom about China? Outdated. And dangerously wrong. In this episode, he reveals the alarming "nightmare scenario" almost no one is talking about, why a single unanswered phone ...
