Joe Ngai, McKinsey: Domestic rivalry drives Chinese firms

HARDtalk by BBC

Aug 25, 202623:00News & Politics

“More Chinese companies are put out of business by other Chinese companies. Chinese companies are not put out of business because of Western companies, so this whole competition is not, from a Chinese guy's mind, like a...

Related Episodes

Continue listening to more episodes from HARDtalk.

Sophia Amoruso, Nasty Gal founder: I was out of my league

Sep 10, 2026 - 23:01

“I had hired a CEO for the last two years. The company was at a place where revenue had plateaued. I wasn...

Vadym Skibitsky, Ukrainian intelligence: We are fighting for survival

Sep 8, 2026 - 23:00

“We don’t have another way for surviving, because we are an independent state, it's our territory, it's o...

Rene Haas, Arm CEO: AI demand won’t slow

Sep 6, 2026 - 24:12

“Let's go back to the timeframe with the internet building out. We didn’t have an issue that the internet...

Leah Solivan, TaskRabbit founder: How the gig economy falls short

Sep 3, 2026 - 22:58

“People just wanted to own the way they worked, but with that comes these institutional structures that h...

Daron Acemoglu, Economist: Liberal democracy is in crisis

Sep 1, 2026 - 22:59

BBC Newsnight presenter Paddy O’Connell speaks to Nobel Prize-winning economist Daron Acemoglu about why...

Michelle Bachelet, UN Chief candidate: Time for a woman to lead

Aug 30, 2026 - 23:01

“For 80 years, we only have men [lead the UN] and I think it is not about women because she is a woman …...

Kristina Wilfore: Male anxieties being weaponised

Aug 27, 2026 - 23:33

“It's a distortion of real pressures. When I'm analysing trends around men…they are wanting to lean into...

María Fernanda Espinosa, UN secretary general candidate: The UN risks becoming irrelevant

Aug 23, 2026 - 23:01

“Sometimes we confuse activity with impact. And here I think the way we measure results should be differe...