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by Manoj Kewalramani
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  • A Realist Reckoning: India Between the US & China

    October 7, 2026 · 57 min

    There is a school of thought in international relations that strips away the comforting language—the values, the norms, the rhetoric of solidarity—and looks at the world as it is. States pursue power. Interests are permanent. And the gap…

  • Xi-Trump Summit: Seeking a Very Stable Rivalry?

    September 22, 2026 · 50 min

    In May this year, Donald Trump flew to Beijing. This week, Xi Jinping returns the favour. The Chinese leader arrives in the United States on a state visit, with the two presidents set to meet on September 24. This is their second summit in…

  • Afro-Optimism in the age of Disorder

    August 25, 2026 · 1 hr 0 min

    Ask almost anyone about the state of the world today and you’ll hear the same words: anxiety, disruption, disorder. There’s a sense of flux; nobody quite knows where things are heading. So it’s striking to come across a generation that…

  • The Making & Re-making of Xi Jinping Thought

    August 8, 2026 · 59 min

    How much can we really understand about Chinese politics from the outside, and how much has become genuinely unknowable? A senior general, who is a close confidant of Xi Jinping; a family friend for whom retirement norms were reportedly…

  • The Geopolitical Gene: Biology as Statecraft

    August 8, 2026 · 1 hr 4 min

    When we talk about what makes a nation strong, we reach instinctively for the familiar levers armies, economies, semiconductors, ships. But running quietly beneath all of them is something older and more intimate, i.e., the mastery of life…

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  • The Actual Governance of China

    July 16, 2026 · 1 hr 22 min

    One of the enduring puzzles about China is how a country of its size is actually governed. We often talk about “Beijing” as though it were a single actor with a coherent strategy, but behind every policy announcement lies an immense…

  • The Unraveling of Order in West Asia

    June 19, 2026 · 1 hr 4 min

    West Asia today finds itself in a deeply uncertain moment. A conditional ceasefire has held for months, but the war isn’t truly over. The Strait of Hormuz remains severely disrupted, even without large-scale fighting at sea. The United…

  • The PLA's Theory of Total War

    May 28, 2026 · 54 min

    When we talk about US-China competition, we often tend to focus on the obvious: trade, technology and Taiwan. But there’s a deeper question that doesn’t get enough attention. How does China actually think about fighting a war against a far…

  • Japan's Shift From Pacifism to Power

    May 28, 2026 · 52 min

    There’s a quiet but unmistakable change taking place in Japan. For decades, Japanese politics was defined by caution. The country has a pacifist constitution. There has been managed ambiguity in its international engagements. Economic…

  • A New Nepal Navigating Great Power Competition

    May 3, 2026 · 56 min

    In international relations, we obsess over great powers. What Washington thinks, what Beijing wants, what New Delhi will do next. We map their strategies, track their rivalries, debate their ambitions. And somewhere along the way, we…

  • The Making of China's Strategic Thinkers

    April 4, 2026 · 1 hr 2 min

    How does China think about the world? We spend a lot of time trying to decode Beijing’s behaviour—its strategy, its ambitions, its moves on the global stage. But we rarely ask a more basic question: where does that thinking come from? What…

  • The Trump-Xi Summit: Chess, Checkers or Go?

    April 3, 2026 · 57 min

    We are living through a moment of tremendous transformation. The post-Cold War order is over, and what replaces it is not yet clear. What is clear, however, is that the two countries with the most power to shape that answer are the United…

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About the show

The world is changing fast. Developing countries are on the rise, politics in the West is more turbulent than ever, technology is advancing at breakneck speed, people are moving across borders in new ways, and global institutions are struggling to keep up. In the middle of all this, a new world order is taking shape—but what does it really look like? On The Great Power Show, Manoj Kewalramani dives into these big shifts and what they mean for all of us. Join him for candid conversations and thought-provoking interviews with leading scholars, thinkers and practitioners.