The Hinrich Foundation Trade Podcast

In this edition of the Hinrich Foundation’s podcast on global trade, the Association of Foreign Press Correspondents-USA and Miguel Alberto Gomez, Senior Research Fellow with the Centre on Asia and Globalisation at Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, sat to discuss US tech governance on frontier AI and policy lessons from the 1990s’ Crypto Wars. On June 12, 2026, the US Commerce Department restricted foreign access to Anthropic’s Mythos 5 and Fable 5 models, citing nationa...

In this special edition of the Hinrich Foundation’s podcast on global trade, the Association of Foreign Press Correspondents-USA sits down with Ian Storey, Principal Fellow at the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, to examine Southeast Asia’s renewed interest in nuclear power and how Russia and China are competing to shape the region’s nuclear future. Southeast Asia is again giving serious consideration to nuclear power after decades of hesitation. Rising electricity demand, commitments to achieve ...

In this special edition of the Hinrich Foundation’s podcast on global trade, the Association of Foreign Press Correspondents-USA sits down with Robert D. Atkinson, Senior Fellow at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF), to discuss China’s growing technological and industrial strength, the areas in which the West still holds an advantage, and what it must do to remain competitive. China’s rise as a technological and industrial power has challenged long-held Western assump...

In this special edition of the Hinrich Foundation’s podcast on global trade, the Association of Foreign Press Correspondents-USA sits down with Stewart Paterson, Senior Research Fellow at the Hinrich Foundation, to examine whether the world is moving toward a more fragmented, multi-currency system as US inflation, alternative payment systems, and China’s renminbi ambitions test the dollar’s dominance. The US dollar has anchored global trade and finance for decades, giving the United Sta...

The Hinrich Foundation Trade Book Talk hosted a discussion with Jonathan Saunders, author of Empires of Trade: The Ruthless Battle for Globe. In conversation with moderator and Trade Education Program Director Alex Boome, Saunders examines trade not as a neutral exchange of goods, but as a persistent arena of strategic global competition. Saunders contrasts simple international trade with the complex web of modern globalization, arguing that a decades-long, relentless pursuit of corporate eff...