Hosted by writers Chang Che and Ian Buruma, Into Asia explores how China, Japan, and Korea are reshaping the world. From memory politics to AI and demographic decline, they connect history and current affairs to reveal the new role Asia will play in the twenty-first century. Editing by Sydney Watson
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Signup to Generate a PitchHosted by writers Chang Che and Ian Buruma, Into Asia explores how China, Japan, and Korea are reshaping the world. From memory politics to AI and demographic decline, they connect history and current affairs to reveal the new role Asia will play in the twenty-first century. Editing by Sydney Watson
Into Asia is hosted by Chang Che. The show has published 24 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "“I Helped Build China’s Brave New World”" (17 October 2026, 37 minutes), "The Untold Story of Jimmy Lai" (30 September 2026, 45 minutes), and "What Trump’s Military Pullback Means for East Asia" (2 September 2026, 33 minutes).
Into Asia publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 47 minutes across 24 episodes.
Booking probability for Into Asia is 29%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Into Asia requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Into Asia's contact route on record: public web form.
Chang Che hosts Into Asia, a news show with 24 episodes published.
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China’s tech rise seemed to debunk an old Western belief that free speech drives innovation. Yinfi (Yin Lu), a music composer turned YouTuber, thinks the old Western view should be revisited. For five years he wrote...
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Before Jimmy Lai was branded the biggest “black hand” behind Hong Kong’s 2019 protests, he was a child laborer in a glove and textile factory. His unlikely story is chronicled in The Troublemaker: How Jimmy Lai Became a...
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Trump has scaled back military exercises with South Korea and is courting North Korea's president Kim Jung Un. Chang and Ian discuss what this means for Japan and South Korea from discussions of nuclear rearmament to...
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In 2015, Daniel Bell, then a political theorist at Tsinghua University published “The China Model.” China should be evaluated not by its failure to live up to a Western liberal democracy, Bell argued, but by its own...
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Chang just returned from a extended trip to China and shares some of his reflections. He visited frontier AI labs and stopped by the World AI Conference in Shanghai, where Xi Jinping spoke and announced a new AI...
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Before Pyongyang became the capital of the Kim dynasty, it was known as the "Jerusalem of the East," a city so devoutly Christian that one American missionary in 1925 declared it "the most Protestant city" they had ever...
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How should decent people live in indecent societies? Chang and Ian look at historical cases from Nazi Germany and contemporary China to see how artists and intellectuals responded, and resisted, as their societies grew...
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Chang and Ian unpack Trump's historic summit with Xi Jinping. They discuss the pageantry, the Taiwan question, the first serious bilateral talks on AI, plus the echoes of Marco Polo and the Macartney Missions: the...
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Will Trump cut a deal with Xi that concedes ground on America's Taiwan policy? That is the question hanging over the US-China summit in Beijing this week. To talk through what's at stake, Ian and I are joined by Eyck...
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Why are Chinese, Korean, and Japanese musicians so overrepresented in Western orchestras? Mari Yoshihara, author of Musicians from a Different Shore , joins Ian Buruma and Chang Che to trace how Western classical...
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From 2025 to 2026, Zhang Chi was an AI researcher at ByteDance Seed, the division behind Doubao, China's most-used chatbot. Now a assistant professor at Peking University, he joins Chang for a rare insider account of...
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The main item on Sanae Takaichi's agenda during her recent visit to the White House, on March 19, was China: to shore up Japan's relationship with the U.S. ahead of Trump much-anticipated summit with Xi Jinping. But the...
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In February, Sanae Takaichi won the biggest electoral victory in the Liberal Democratic Party’s 70-year history. With a constitutional supermajority, an ambitious industrial policy, and a willingness to speak bluntly...
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In November, the left-wing political commentator Hasan Piker took his first trip to China, live-streaming the trip to hundreds of thousands of viewers on the streaming platform Twitch. Hasan is a self-described...
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China’s top generals are falling like flies, and at unprecedented speeds. As Xi Jinping dismantles the upper ranks of the People’s Liberation Army, questions are mounting about corruption, loyalty, and the stability of...
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As Trump threatens the sovereignty of NATO allies, the leaders of South Korea and Japan appeared together in Nara, playing drums in a highly choreographed display of diplomatic comity. Ian and Chang talk about the...
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Across the world, the promise of stable growth that underwrote many economies is unraveling. From Nepal to Bulgaria to Mexico, young people fed up with the status quo are rebelling. While many have turned to populists...
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Lau Kek-huat is a Malaysian-born documentary filmmaker based in Taiwan. His latest film, From Island to Island , won the prestigious Golden Horse Award in 2024. The film examines the role of Taiwanese in Japan’s Pacific...
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Less than a month into Sanae Takaichi’s tenure as Japan's prime minister, she has already sparked a diplomatic crisis with Japan's powerful neighbor. Joining us is Tokujin Matsudaira, a constitutional-law professor at...
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In the September 29, 2025 , issue of The New Yorker, the writer Ian Buruma reviews two books that trace the uses and abuses of anti-semitism from late-19th century France to present-day US campus politics. Long before...
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