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Podcast: ChinaTalk
Episode: (Ad-Free) US-China Science Relations and the PhDs Caught in the Middle
Description: Is the treatment of China in Western public discourse inevitable? Yale Law School postdoc, particle physicist and essayist Yangyang Cheng (@yangyang_cheng) joins me alongside undergrad Alex Liang to talk about understanding the other, how the personal can be lost in the noise of geopolitical tension and science across borders.We also discussPower hierarchies and identitiesThe “new red scare” and scrutiny on Chinese scientistsThe Large Hadron Collider as aLanguage as an instrument of state power"Brain drain" and other phrases Yangyang doesn't likeLinks to Yangyang’s articles:https://www.ny...