Mary Kay Magistad is associate director of Asia Society’s Center on US-China Relations, and an award-winning journalist who lived and reported in East Asia for more than two decades, including in China for NPR (1995-99) and PRX’s The World (2003-13), and in Southeast Asia for NPR, The Washington Post, and others (1988-95).  Her previous podcasts are On China’s New Silk Road (2020) with the Global Reporting Centre, and Whose Century Is It? (2015-18), with PRX's The World.