Season 2 is all about the most interesting place in the world: China. It’s the place where the left increasingly invests much of its hope for the future, the place that makes our leaders' heads spin, and the place and where a sixth of everyone alive actually lives.

If you want to understand everything, you have to understand China.

Until the end of the year, we’ll explore its culture, its politics, the new phenomena of chinamaxxing, the country’s complex, fascinating and bloody history, its changing geopolitical role as global saviour of the energy transition and favourite villain of the anticommunists, its alleged crimes against humanity, its astonishing successes in poverty reduction, and the idea of the New Cold War.