The Prince - Podcast Rankings and reviews

This is a fantastic primer on China's history, understanding the relationship between the China Communist Party ("#CCP") and China's government (something people have a hard time grasping), and China's dictator, Xi.

China is and has been America's most significant geopolitical threat in the 21st Century, and the objectivity, professionalism, and quality of this podcast series are especially surprising, considering this is from a left-leaning legacy media outlet, but as Sue discusses in the podcast, this is no longer a partisan issue. I would argue this is due mainly to the last administration's leadership which confronted this issue head-on after decades of failed bi-partisan policies that saw #China steal anywhere between $225 and $600 billion of IP annually from America without any consequences.

As we continue to see an ongoing #genocide in China while corporate interests like the National Basketball Association (NBA) and The Walt Disney Company turn a blind eye, protests from its repressed people due to its zero #covid policy, and ongoing tensions in the #southchinasea, this series is more relevant and will only become more relevant every passing day.

The CCP and China's elite, including Chairman Xi's daughter, have been sending their next generation of leaders to America for decades to study and learn from us and sometimes, even infiltrate our system; it is about time Americans do the same and learn from our adversary.

I cannot applaud the Economist enough, and I will become a subscriber solely because of this amazing work.

Really great podcast. I decided to give it a try after several good recommendations (including Ezra Klein), and I’m really happy I did! It is narrated so well that I could barely put the phone down and was always really looking forward to the next episode. And by the way this is heroic journalism. After this podcast I’d immediately subscribe to The Economist If I didn’t have a subscription yet.

As a Chinese myself, I enjoyed listening to this podcast a lot and had recommended to my friends too. Great job! If there is one thing i can think of will improve the listening experience is the pronounce of “Xi” is not correct, and the correct pronunciation doesn’t sounds like the word “sea”. Therefor I got confused a lot of times because it sounded like “she” sometimes so I lost track of who is the subject.

Actually the way how Alice Su (who did the interview with the host in the episode: “Bonus: behind the propaganda”) pronounced “Xi” is correct.

All in all I loved it, it’s very well done and insightful, looking forward for future season!

this is such a great podcast, very informative especially since I grew up in China but know very little about Chinese politics. Please do a season 2 on maybe a former president, someone high up in the Xi administration, or maybe dissect an aspect of Chinese politics!

Really enjoyed the first 3-4 episodes about Xi. The research was well done and excellent story telling as well as production.

However, once the podcast decided to bring a typical western narrative on human rights, the podcast lost a lot of credibility. Human right ms vs separationist movement in any country is a complicate issue where there is no right or wrong answer because context/culture/history is all different.

Comparing Xi’s Covid response to Chernobyl was also forced to fit a western narrative again by the podcast. Please keep in mind that WHO, Faucci, US Media, the US president all lied about Covid too.

Again, I truly enjoyed the research and story on young Xi.