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- Warwick Powell - U.S., China, Tariff Wars, and Multipolarity | Ep 427, Apr 10, 2025
Warwick Powell - U.S., China, Tariff Wars, and Multipolarity | Ep 427, Apr 10, 2025
U.S., China, Tariff Wars, and Multipolarity
Conversations on Groong - April 10, 2025
Topics
* U.S. Tariff Wars
* Target: Iran
* The Global South
* The Belt and Road Initiative
Guest
* Warwick Powell - TW/@baoshaoshan
Hosts
* Hovik Manucharyan - TW/@HovikYerevan
* Asbed Bedrossian - TW/@qubriq
Episode 427 | Recorded: April 6, 2025
https://podcasts.groong.org/427
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Hello everyone, and welcome to this Conversations on Groomg episode.
Today, we're going to be talking about China on the world stage.
At a time when the U.S. is initiating tariff wars with everyone, including friendly countries,
we're going to explore what really is driving this tariff regime and what it means for the U.S.-China relationship.
So today we're talking with Professor Warwick Powell from the University of Queensland in Australia,
and also the Taihe Institute in Beijing.
Professor Warwick Powell, welcome to the show.
It's great to be with you both.
Welcome, Professor Powell.
So, Professor, you...
you describe your work to be, quote,
at the intersection of digital innovation and technologies
and international political economy, unquote.
And you have a particular interest
in the place of China in the future
of international economics, political, and social systems.
As this is your first time on our show,
please tell us a little bit about your work
and how you came to focus on China
and its place in a changing landscape of geopolitics
and technological innovation.
Sure, I'll do my best. It's a big topic, but hopefully I can give a reasonably succinct
overview of the sorts of things that have interested me over many years and which
provide the focal points for the work that I do from a research and an education point of view.
My interest in China, of course, go back many decades now to the time when I did my undergraduate
work and then into my first phases of postgraduate life and then eventually working in government in
Australia where China was emerging in the early 1990s as a
very significant part of the region. And so it was important
for Australia, Australian governments, enterprises and
other forms of organisations to develop a better understanding
of what was happening in China, which suited me perfectly fine,
because I had a background in that arena. And, and of course,
I have my own personal and family interest in in the world of China as well.
I'm from Hong Kong originally.
And whilst I've been in Australia most of my life, I still have many family
members and friends all through southern China, Hong Kong, Macau
and those sorts of places.
My work has, as you mentioned, looks at the intersection of a number of things.
One is the role of China.
The other one is global geopolitical economy, which aims to provide a macro context for
how China may or may not fit into the dynamics of the world.
And as we drill further into a place and how it connects with other places, I'm interested
in supply chain interconnections and ultimately the technologies that enable enterprises to
interact with each other.
and that's where we start to touch on the digital dimensions,
whether they are digital infrastructure to enable data about supply chains
to be captured and shared,
or whether they are digital infrastructure to support
the future of transnational payment systems.
So in some ways, you could think of it as a layered cake.
