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Mary Kay Magistad
Creator and Host, "Whose Century Is It?" Podcast
Mary Kay Magistad is creator and host of the “Whose Century Is It?” podcast, a Webby Award honoree about ideas, trends, and twists shaping the 21st century. She also teaches international reporting to undergraduates at University of California, Berkeley. A former award-winning East Asia correspondent, Magistad was based in Beijing and traveled throughout China and the greater Asian region and beyond, reporting for PRI/BBC’s “The World” on the global impact of China’s rise. Previously, she was based in Bangkok, Hong Kong, and Beijing for NPR. Magistad has been a fellow at the Institute for the Future and a Nieman Fellow and Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard University.
Previously
![Deep Dive: Is China the Threat It’s Made Out to Be?](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/6b142c10-c0ac-4438-8bba-c5def35b1590/43094706731_95e75713c9_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=0%2C21%2C6720%2C3772&w=400)
Under Xi Jinping, China has become more authoritarian at home and more aggressive overseas. As China becomes increasingly economically dominant, what are the economic, politic...
![North Korea: The Threat Assessment](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/52f54090-1315-475f-bc60-d4f0108e5ace/42995290652_db49f1c3fc_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=0%2C0%2C6720%2C3782&w=400)
President Obama told incoming President Trump that North Korea would likely be the toughest item on his to-do list, and through the first 500 days of the administration, the p...