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Jane Perlez is a long time foreign correspondent for The New York Times. She served as Beijing Bureau Chief in China until 2019, where she wrote about China’s role in the world, and the competition between the United States and China, particularly in Asia. Perlez arrived in Beijing in February 2012, and left in 2019. Wikipedia
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WBUR-FM is a public radio station located in Boston, Massachusetts, owned by Boston University. WBUR is the largest of three NPR member stations in Boston, along with WGBH and WUMB-FM. Wikipedia
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The Great Wager
February 07, 2022
With money, power and political standing at stake, America’s relationship with China is tenuous. But it wasn’t always that way.
On the 50th anniversary of Richard Nixon’s historic trip to China, NPR & WBUR’s Here & Now brings you The Great Wager, a five-part series that tells the story of the extraordinary encounter that brought these two countries together, the secret collaborations born from that meeting — and the reverberations we’re still feeling today. Find out more here.
The Great Wager episodes
Episode 1. Richard Nixon’s ‘crazy’ idea: Make befriending the Chinese Communist Party his legacy
President Richard Nixon has a plan: He wants to go to China. The only problem? The U.S. and China have had zero contact since the Communist Party took over China two decades before. The Great Wager host Jane Perlez digs into the beginning of Nixon’s improbable diplomatic mission.
Episode 2. Plots and private planes: How Henry Kissinger pulled off a secret trip to China
Nixon and his national security adviser Henry Kissinger make contact with China. But in the midst of the Cold War, they don’t want anyone to know. How will Kissinger get to Beijing without alerting anyone — and what’s Frank Sinatra got to do with it?
Episode 3. Grip and grin: When Nixon met Mao
The news of Nixon’s trip to China is public, and he’s getting credit for pulling off such a historic event. Now, he and his advisers have to work with the Chinese to forge a relationship between two very different countries.
Episode 4. Shared secrets: How The U.S. and China worked together to spy on the Soviet Union
The relationship between China and the U.S. is off and running — and now the two countries are collaborating on secret, sensitive intelligence. This installment of The Great Wager includes exclusive information about how Chinese and American intelligence officials agreed to work together against their common rival of many years.
Episode 5. The break-up: Richard Nixon’s great wager reverberates from the ’70s to today
All of a sudden, it’s less clear if Nixon’s wager is paying off. After years of collaboration and mutual economic benefit, relations between China and the U.S. are at a low point. What does the start of this important relationship reveal about its next chapter?
How to listen
Radio
- Each week starting Friday, Feb. 18, listen to an installment on your local NPR station during Here & Now.
Podcast
- On Friday, Feb. 18, you’ll be able to find the series on Here & Now’s podcast feed, wherever you listen to podcasts.
https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2022/02/07/the-great-wager-podcast
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