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Podcast: ChinaTalk
Episode: Economic Warfare: Implications for Sanctions Today
Description: Welcome back to the second part of my conversation with Nick Mulder and Lars Schönander.Picking the narrative up in 1935, get real in this episode:
Why the Great Depression, counterintuitively, made importing commodities cheaper, and how that affected Germany’s and Japan’s protectionism;
The difference between autarky and autarchy;
Whether Kim Jong-un’s North Korea could survive a full-on fuel embargo today by using Nazi-era technology;
Nick’s definition of “temporal claustrophobia,” and what it has to do with Japan ultimately siding with the Axis;
Parallels between the “ABCD circle” (America, Britain, China, Dutch East Indies) and...