Soumaya Keynes

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Unhedged · The Economics Show: China wanted western tech. Now, the tables have turned. · 6 Aug 2026 podcast

And then China entered the World Trade Organization.

So how did that change?

I should say that we're talking about your forthcoming paper, Re-Innovation Nation, which will be published in the Journal of Politics soon, maybe this year or next.

So in that paper, you talk about this huge variation in the use of these technology transfer requirements or these policies across sectors.

And I want to start with the ones that look like they were successful.

So high-speed rail, right?

That seems to be the famous example.

China's managed to build 50,000 kilometers of high-speed lines in 17 years.

It now has twice as much capacity as the rest of the world combined.

And its trains are being made with fewer and fewer imported components.

So what were the dynamics here that allowed that...

to seem like such a success?

Okay, so you've got high-speed rail.

That seems like a success story.

The other seeming success is in the wind turbine industry.

Were there similar dynamics at play there?

Okay.

I mean, it sounds like the lesson is force companies to hand over their tech and do local content requirements, which is maybe distressing to the free traders, the liberals among our listeners.

Okay, well, maybe let's go into some examples where they don't look to have been so successful, at least not for a while.

So for a long time, the main example that people pointed to was cars.

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