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Transnational repression and China's "overseas police stations," with Jeremy Daum of Yale's Paul Tsai China Law Center
Sinica Podcast - July 20, 2023 18:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on Sinica, Kaiser welcomes back Jeremy Daum, senior research scholar in law and senior fellow at the Paul Tsai China Law Center. Jeremy has a well-deserved reputation as a debunker of myths and misperceptions about China. This time, he takes on the much-discussed “overseas pol...
China after COVID: UPenn's Neysun Mahboubi reports on scholarly exchange in a tightening political space
Sinica Podcast - July 13, 2023 18:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on Sinica, UPenn legal scholar Neysun Mahboubi talks about his recently-concluded trip back to China — his first time back since the outbreak of the pandemic. Neysun talks about the importance of in-person, face-to-face scholarly exchange, and despite concerns over the more re...
China's Military-Civil Fusion program: CNAS fellow Elsa Kania on the myths and realities
Sinica Podcast - July 06, 2023 18:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Elsa Kania, a Ph.D. candidate in Harvard University's Department of Government and adjunct fellow at the Center for a New American Security who researches China's military strategy, defense innovation, and emerging technologies. Elsa joins the show...
Mr. Blinken goes to Beijing, with former NSC China Director Dennis Wilder
Sinica Podcast - June 19, 2023 21:11 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsWith Secretary of State Antony Blinken's two days of meetings in Beijing just concluded, Kaiser spoke with Dennis Wilder, managing director for the Initiative for U.S.-China Dialogue on Global Issues at Georgetown University, where he also serves as an assistant professor of practice in...
Economist Keyu Jin on her new book, "The New China Playbook"
Sinica Podcast - June 15, 2023 19:11 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on Sinica, Kaiser is joined by Keyu Jin, associate professor of economics at LSE, who talks about her new book, The New China Playbook: Beyond Socialism and Capitalism, a wide-ranging, ambitious, and accessible book that explains the unique Chinese political economy, emphasizi...
David Ownby of ReadingtheChinaDream.com on the intellectual mood in China
Sinica Podcast - June 08, 2023 18:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with David Ownby, the University of Montreal historian who runs the excellent ReadingTheChinaDream.com website — a trove of translations of writings by mainstream Chinese intellectuals. David talks about the website’s mission and about tells about his r...
Curtain-raiser on the Shangri-La Dialogue, with the man who runs the show: James Crabtree of IISS
Sinica Podcast - June 01, 2023 18:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsWith the IISS Shangri-La Dialogue kicking off in Singapore on Friday, June 2, Kaiser chats with the organizer’s managing director for Asia, James Crabtree, about the history, structure, and significance of this Asian answer to the Munich Security Conference, James, who joined the Instit...
Harvard's William Kirby on China's higher education system and his book "Empires of Ideas"
Sinica Podcast - May 25, 2023 18:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on Sinica, Harvard’s eminent sinologist William Kirby joins Kaiser to talk about his book Empires of Ideas: Creating the Modern University from Germany to America to China, and to share his views on the state of higher education in China and the U.S， 03:12 – Wissenschaft and ...
Does the Capvision raid signal a crackdown on consultancies in China? The China Project's CEO Bob Guterma, formerly of Capvision, weighs in
Sinica Podcast - May 18, 2023 18:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on the Sinica Podcast, Kaiser is joined by The China Project's CEO Bob Guterma, who just so happens to have served at Chief Compliance Officer (and later Managing Director for Europe and the U.S.) for the expert network Capvision. Capvision, as listeners may well be aware, was...
China's draft regulations on generative AI, with Kendra Schaefer and Jeremy Daum
Sinica Podcast - May 11, 2023 18:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on Sinica, Kendra Schaefer, a partner specializing in technology at China-focused consultancy Trivium, and Jeremy Daum, Senior Research Scholar in Law and Senior Fellow at the Paul Tsai China Center. discuss the new draft regulations published in April by the Cyberspace Admini...
Xiong'an: Techno-natural utopia or authoritarian folly?
Sinica Podcast - May 04, 2023 18:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Andrew Stokols, a Ph.D. researcher at MIT who has been studying the “techno-natural utopia” that the Chinese government is now building a hundred kilometers southwest of Beijing: Xiong’an. Andrew breaks down why he sees it as an urban manifestation...
Earth Day episode: How can the U.S. and China cooperate on climate in this era of competition?
Sinica Podcast - April 27, 2023 18:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on Sinica, an Earth Day special: Kaiser chats with Marilyn Waite, managing director of the Climate Finance Fund; Alex Wang, a UCLA law professor who specializes in China climate and environmental law; and Deborah Seligsohn, a political scientist at Villanova University who ser...
Legendary CNN reporter Mike Chinoy on his book and documentary series "Assignment China"
Sinica Podcast - April 20, 2023 18:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on the Sinica Podcast, Jeremy and I chat with Mike Chinoy, the legendary award-winning TV newsman who helmed CNN in Beijing for many critical years. Mike talks about the video documentary series and accompanying book Assignment China: An Oral History of American Journalists in...
As the U.S. and China part ways, the Global South finds its own path, with Kishore Mahbubani
Sinica Podcast - April 13, 2023 18:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on Sinica, Kishore Mahbubani, who served as Singapore's UN Ambassador and has written extensively on ASEAN and the U.S.-China rift, returns to the show to discuss his recent essay in Foreign Affairs, and to advocate for the pragmatic approach that's held ASEAN together for ove...
Sinica at the Association for Asian Studies Conference, Boston 2023: Capsule interviews
Sinica Podcast - April 06, 2023 18:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on Sinica, something different: Kaiser asks over a dozen scholars of various facets of China studies to talk about their work and make some recommendations! You'll hear from a variety of scholars, from MA students to tenured professors, talking about a bewildering range of fas...
The Maoist legacy in Chinese private enterprise, with Chris Marquis
Sinica Podcast - March 30, 2023 18:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Chris Marquis, a professor at Cambridge University’s Judge Business School, and formerly at Cornell’s business school, about the book he co-authored with Kunyuan Qiao, Mao and Markets: The Communist Roots of Chinese Enterprise. In it, they examine ...
The Xi-Putin meetings, with Maria Repnikova
Sinica Podcast - March 23, 2023 18:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week, a bonus episode to keep you caught up on the week's biggest China story: Xi Jinping's two days of meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Maria Repnikova, a Latvian-born native Russian speaker who is also fluent in Chinese and who teaches Chinese politics and communic...
Beijing brokers a Saudi-Iranian rapprochement, with Tuvia Gering
Sinica Podcast - March 23, 2023 18:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on Sinica, Kaiser welcomes Tuvia Gering of Israel's Institute of National Security Studies, where he focuses on China's relations with Israel and other countries of the Middle East. Tuvia breaks down the agreement to normalize relations between Riyadh and Tehran, which Beijing...
The expansion of China's administrative state during COVID, with Yale Law's Taisu Zhang
Sinica Podcast - March 16, 2023 18:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on Sinica, Kaiser welcomes Taisu Zhang, professor of law at Yale University, who discusses his recent work on the expansion of the administrative state down to the subdistrict and neighborhood level — changes that are far-reaching, and likely permanent. They also discuss a rec...
Jude Blanchette on the Select Committee and the American moral panic over China
Sinica Podcast - March 09, 2023 19:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsA second full episode this week for you Sinica listeners! Jude Blanchette joins to talk about the House Select Committee on United States Competition with the Chinese Communist Party, and all that is wrong with it, from its framing of the CCP as an "existential threat" to its focus on t...
Inside Tencent's "Influence Empire," with Bloomberg's Lulu Chen
Sinica Podcast - March 09, 2023 19:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Lulu Chen, who has reported on tech in China for over a decade and is the author of the book Influence Empire: The Inside Story of Tencent and China's Tech Ambition. It's a fascinating look at not only Tencent but at the overall internet sector in ...
China and the electric vehicle battery supply chain, with Henry Sanderson
Sinica Podcast - March 02, 2023 19:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on Sinica, Kaiser and Jeremy speak with Henry Sanderson, a former AP and Bloomberg reporter who was based in China for many years, about his book Volt Rush: The Winners and Losers in the Race to Go Green — a book that reminds us of the very ugly fact that the metals that are n...
China and the Ukraine War one year after the invasion, with Evan Feigenbaum and Alexander Gabuev
Sinica Podcast - February 23, 2023 19:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsIt's been one year now since Vladimir Putin launched his assault on Ukraine, and China has sought to maintain the same difficult, awkward straddle across a difficult year. Did Beijing's efforts to project the impression that it had distanced itself from Russia in the wake of the Party C...
Sinostan: Raffaello Pantucci on China's inadvertent empire in Central Asia
Sinica Podcast - February 16, 2023 19:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Raffaello Pantucci, co-author of the 2022 book Sinostan: China's Inadvertent Empire, which examines China's presence in Central Asia. Based on extensive travel and interviews undertaken both before and after the tragic murder of his co-author, Alex...
CSIS analyst Gerard DiPippo deflates the balloon hype and brings the discussion back to earth
Sinica Podcast - February 06, 2023 16:58 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week, we've got a short show focused on the Chinese balloon that became the obsessive focus of American attention from Thursday through Sunday, February 5, when an F-22 shot it out of the sky off of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Gerard DiPippo, a senior fellow with the Economics Pr...
Live in New York City with veteran China journalist Ian Johnson
Sinica Podcast - February 02, 2023 19:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on Sinica, our live recording from the Rizzoli Bookstore in the Flatiron district of Manhattan with the legendary Ian Johnson, who has covered China for a host of publications spanning 35 years. Ian, who is now a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, offers his an...
Is China's demography China's destiny? A chat with former World Bank economist Bert Hofman
Sinica Podcast - January 25, 2023 20:11 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsWhen the National Bureau of Statistics recently revealed that China's population had shrunk in 2022 for the first time in 60 years, conventional wisdom predicted that China was headed for catastrophe, as its workforce shrank, its pension coffers dried up, and its healthcare system grew ...
A firsthand view of China's chaotic COVID re-opening, with Deborah Seligsohn
Sinica Podcast - January 19, 2023 19:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on Sinica, we welcome back Deborah Seligsohn, assistant professor of political science at Villanova University. Debbi spent October 2022 through early January 2023 in Shanghai and Beijing, experiencing quarantine, testing, and lockdown at firsthand — and witnessing the protest...
Talking China on TikTok with The China Project's Susan St. Denis
Sinica Podcast - January 12, 2023 19:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on Sinica, we're proud to introduce you to Susan St. Denis, who joined The China Project full-time recently after running the China Vibe Official TikTok channel for The China Project for the last several months. Kaiser and Susan talk about what people are getting wrong about T...
The Sinica Network presents Strangers in China S3 Episode 1
Sinica Podcast - January 06, 2023 17:22 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on Sinica, we proudly present Episode 1 of the newest season of Strangers in China: Lockdown Part 1: A day in the life. The 2022 Shanghai lockdown came to Clay’s neighborhood early and caught him off-guard. Struggling with his mental health, Clay documents how lockdown works ...
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