Latest Chong Podcast Episodes
No Stranger to China: A conversation with Strangers in China creator Clay Baldo about Season 3
Sinica Podcast - January 05, 2023 17:59 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsWe proudly present Episode 1 of the new season of Strangers in China, part of the Sinica Network from The China Project. In this season, host Clay Baldo provides an intimate look at the lockdown in Shanghai, from the foreboding that preceded it through the harrowing days of the lockdown...
Author Rebecca Kuang on her novel Babel, or on the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators Revolution
Sinica Podcast - December 29, 2022 19:19 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Rebecca Kuang (who writes under the name R.F. Kuang), the author of the best-selling historical fantasy novel Babel. Set in the 1830s in England, the novel’s Chinese-born protagonist sets out to prevent a war with China over the opium trade. It’s a...
The best solution for Taiwan is no solution: Jude Blanchette and Ryan Hass argue for kicking the can down the road
Sinica Podcast - December 21, 2022 19:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on Sinica, Jude Blanchette (Freeman Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies) and Ryan Hass (Armacost Chair at the John L. Thornton Center at the Brookings Institute) join Kaiser to discuss their new essay in Foreign Affairs, "The Taiwan Long Game: Why the B...
China's push for RMB internationalization
Sinica Podcast - December 08, 2022 19:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on Sinica, Kaiser and Jeremy welcome Diana Choyleva and Dinny McMahon, who recently published a report for the Wilson Center on China's efforts to internationalize the Renminbi, its currency. Diana Choyleva is chief economist and founder of Enodo Economics, an independent macr...
A familiar drumbeat: Michael Mazarr on the run-up to the Iraq invasion and parallels with China
Sinica Podcast - December 01, 2022 19:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on Sinica, Kaiser is joined by Michael J. Mazarr, author of the book Leap of Faith: Hubris, Negligence, and America's Greatest Foreign Policy Tragedy, which examines the decision to invade Iraq in March 2003. Mike is a senior political scientist at the Rand Corporation and a f...
Special episode: The COVID lockdown protests, with David Moser and Jeremiah Jenne
Sinica Podcast - November 29, 2022 18:20 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsWe've got a special bonus episode this week on the protests over the weekend of November 26th-27th in multiple cities around China. Joining Kaiser and Jeremy are old friends David Moser and Jeremiah Jenne, co-hosts of the Barbarians at the Gate podcast, who have 50 years in Beijing betw...
Financial Times reporter Yuan Yang on China-Europe relations
Sinica Podcast - November 23, 2022 19:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on Sinica, Kaiser & Jeremy welcome Yuan Yang, a reporter for the Financial Times who was until recently covering technology in Beijing. Now based in London, her beat is China-Europe relations, and on this episode she discusses German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's recent trip to Chi...
Evan Feigenbaum on the U.S. in the Indo-Pacific region
Sinica Podcast - November 17, 2022 17:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on Sinica, in lieu of the regular show we present a keynote address given by Evan Feigenbaum, VP for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, at the recent East Asia Strategy Forum, held on November 1-2 in Ottawa, Canada. The forum is put on annually by the A...
New America President Anne-Marie Slaughter on balancing China competition and global imperatives
Sinica Podcast - November 10, 2022 21:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Anne-Marie Slaughter, a leading American public intellectual who serves as president of New America and was Director of Policy Planning for the U.S. State Department during the first Obama administration. Anne-Marie talks about how collaboration on...
The 20th Party Congress postgame show with Damien Ma and Lizzi Lee
Sinica Podcast - November 02, 2022 19:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on Sinica, our friends at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs invited us for a live show taping before a small group. Kaiser is joined by Lizzi Lee, MIT-trained economist-turned-reporter who hosts the Chinese-language show "Wall Street Today" as well as The China Project's "...
Grifter, chaos agent, or CCP spy? The New Yorker's Evan Osnos on Guo Wengui
Sinica Podcast - October 27, 2022 18:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on Sinica, Evan Osnos, staff writer for The New Yorker, joins hosts Kaiser Kuo and Jeremy Goldkorn to talk about his new piece on one of the most puzzling figures to come out of China: Guo Wengui, a.k.a. Miles Kwok, who took what he learned about dealing with power and money i...
Overreach and overreaction, with Susan Shirk
Sinica Podcast - October 20, 2022 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Susan Shirk, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia Pacific and Research Professor and Chair of the 21st Century China Center at the School of Global Policy and Strategy at UCSD, about how the deliberately collective leadership of...
Podcasting The Prince: Sue-Lin Wong of The Economist on her Xi Jinping podcast
Sinica Podcast - October 13, 2022 15:10 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on Sinica, Kaiser and Jeremy are joined by Sue-Lin Wong, who until recently covered China for The Economist and hosted an eight-part podcast series all about Xi Jinping called The Prince. The podcast features interviews with a wide range of China-watchers, peers of Xi, disside...
Legendary BBC presenter and China editor Carrie Gracie, live in London
Sinica Podcast - October 06, 2022 17:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on Sinica, Kaiser and Jeremy were live in London with a very special guest: Carrie Gracie, whose career with the BBC spanned three decades as a China-based correspondent, news presenter, and China editor. She talks about her podcast series on the Bo Xilai scandal, her longitud...
A conversation with Minister Xu Xueyuan, Deputy Chief of Mission of the Embassy of the People's Republic of China in Washington
Sinica Podcast - September 29, 2022 16:58 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Minister Xu Xueyuan, Deputy Chief of Mission at the PRC Embassy in Washington, D.C. A few words about the process, in the interest of transparency: Minister Xu’s team did request questions in advance, and they were all accepted without alteration...
China in the Global South, with Eric Olander and Cobus van Staden
Sinica Podcast - September 22, 2022 21:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on Sinica, we kick off the new network show, the China-Global South Podcast, with a conversation with the show's hosts and co-founders of the China-Global South Project (formerly the China Africa Project), Eric Olander and Cobus van Staden. Kaiser chats with them about where t...
Surveillance State: Authors Josh Chin and Liza Lin on their new book on China's tech-enhanced social controls
Sinica Podcast - September 15, 2022 16:33 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on Sinica, Wall Street Journal reporters Josh Chin and Liza Lin join the program to discuss their new book Surveillance State: Inside China's Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Control. From Urumqi to Uganda and from Hangzhou to the Bronx, the book explores every facet of tec...
Yuen Yuen Ang on Xi Jinping, the Party bureaucracy, and authoritarian resilience
Sinica Podcast - September 08, 2022 18:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on Sinica, Kaiser welcomes back University of Michigan political scientist Yuen Yuen Ang, who discusses a recent piece in the Journal of Democracy titled "How Resilient is the CCP?" The essay examines how China's bureaucracy remains surprisingly competent and even relatively a...
Avoiding the China Trap, with Jessica Chen Weiss
Sinica Podcast - September 01, 2022 21:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on Sinica, Kaiser welcomes back the Cornell political scientist Jessica Chen Weiss, who is back in Ithaca after a year spent as a CFR International Affairs Fellow working in the State Department's Office of Policy Planning. She talks about an important essay published in the l...
Is China's bubble finally about to pop? A conversation with Bloomberg Chief Economist Tom Orlik
Sinica Podcast - August 25, 2022 21:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on the Sinica Podcast, Kaiser and Jeremy welcome back Tom Orlik, Bloomberg's chief economist and author of the book China: The Bubble that Never Pops. Ahead of the release of the new, updated edition of his book, we ask him about all that has changed in the two-and-a-half year...
China's space program, with NASA astronaut Leroy Chiao
Sinica Podcast - August 18, 2022 21:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on Sinica, Kaiser and Jeremy welcome Leroy Chiao, a NASA astronaut who flew three shuttle missions and served as commander of the International Space Station for over six months. Leroy is also very knowledgeable about China's space program and was the first American astronaut ...
China and the American "great power opportunity," with Ali Wyne
Sinica Podcast - August 11, 2022 21:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on the Sinica Podcast, Kaiser chats with Ali Wyne, senior analyst at the Eurasia Group's global macro geopolitics practice and author of the brand new book America's Great Power Opportunity: Revitalizing U.S. Foreign Policy to Meet the Challenges of Strategic Competition. Ali'...
Another Taiwan Straits Crisis? CIA veteran John Culver weighs in
Sinica Podcast - August 04, 2022 21:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsIn a week dominated by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan, Kaiser welcomes John Culver, who served as national intelligence officer for East Asia from 2015 to 2017 and as a CIA analyst focusing on China for 35 years. John offers his perspective on Pelosi's trip and provid...
The Sinica Network presents the Café & Seda (Coffee & Silk) Podcast
Sinica Podcast - July 28, 2022 21:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on Sinica, we offer listeners a sneak preview of one of the new shows coming soon to the Sinica Network: Café & Seda, or Coffee and Silk. While this episode is in English, the podcast will be mostly in Spanish — our first non-English show. The host is Parsifal D'Sola, who is E...
Prototype Nation: Silvia Lindtner on what drives Chinese tech innovation, and how tech drives Chinese statecraft
Sinica Podcast - July 21, 2022 21:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on the Sinica Podcast, Kaiser chats with Silvia Lindtner of the University of Michigan about her book Prototype Nation. In a wide-ranging conversation, they discuss how China's maker movement inspired the Party leadership to encourage tech entrepreneurship, how Shenzhen rose t...
Semiconductors and the unspoken U.S. tech policy on China, with Paul Triolo
Sinica Podcast - July 15, 2022 00:20 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Paul Triolo, Senior VP for China and Technology Policy Lead at Dentons Global Advisors ASG, formerly and probably better known still as Albright Stonebridge Group. Paul provides an in-depth overview of today’s semiconductor landscape, from export c...
Historian Andrew Liu on COVID origins: Orientalism and the "Asiatic racial form"
Sinica Podcast - July 07, 2022 21:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Villanova University historian Andrew Liu. Andy published an excellent essay in n+1 magazine in April that captured how the eclipse of the "wet-market" theory of COVID origins and its replacement by the "lab-leak" theory illustrates how an old raci...
Yale's Jing Tsu on the characters who modernized Chinese characters
Sinica Podcast - June 30, 2022 21:30 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Jing Tsu, John M. Schiff Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures & Comparative Literature at Yale University, about her wonderful new book Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution that Made China Modern. Jing talks about her role as...
Taiwan: Saber rattling, salami slicing, and strategic ambiguity, with Shelley Rigger and Simona Grano
Sinica Podcast - June 16, 2022 21:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on the Sinica Podcast, Shelley Rigger of Davidson College returns to the show to talk Taiwan. She's joined by Simona Grano, a sinologist and Taiwan specialist at the University of Zürich. They talk about President Joe Biden's recent "gaffes" that call into question the longsta...
A Comprehensive Mirror: James Carter's "This Week in China's History" column marks two years
Sinica Podcast - June 09, 2022 21:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with James (Jay) Carter, Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences at St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia. Jay, who joined us on the show in December 2020 to talk about his book Champion's Day, is the author of one of the most widely-read columns that ...
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