Live: Second China Shock @ BISA 2026

How should we understand the ruptural shift of the second China shock? How does it effect what we thought we knew about China and global production? How can we study this transformation? What comes next?

Professor Yvette To is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Social Sciences at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Dr Frank Maracchione is an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Politics and International Studies, SOAS, University of London. Dr Shizhi Zhang is a post-doctoral Research Associate at the Urban Institute, University of Sheffield. Dr Zhengli Huang is a Research Associate also at the Urban Institute, University of Sheffield.

They join Chris Saltmarsh to discuss the theoretical and empirical challenges posed by the the reconfiguration of production networks led by China poses a fresh set of theoretical and empirical challenges; how existing paradigms of development, dependency, and power in the global economy are being unsettled; and in what ways scholars and policymakers alike must rethink the frameworks they use to study global production from the systemic to the everyday levels.

This SPERI Presents... episode is a live recording of the roundtable "The global impact of China’s technological leadership and offshoring: Towards a second China shock" at BISA26 conference. It was sponsored by the International Political Economy Working Group (IPEG) and took place in Brighton on Thursday 4 June 2026.

This episode is produced by Frank Maracchione and Chris Saltmarsh and edited by Chris Saltmarsh. Music and audio by Andy_Gambino. Hosted on Acast. See https://acast.com/privacy for more information.

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