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Mental health under lockdown: A clinical psychologist in Shanghai
Sinica Podcast - June 02, 2022 21:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on Sinica, Kaiser welcomes back Dr. George Hu, a clinical psychologist based in Shanghai, who has a lot to say about the state of mental health in Chinese cities under lockdown. Unsurprisingly, mental health disorders like anxiety and depression have been exacerbated under con...
Covering the U.S.-China relations beat with the FT's Demetri Sevastopulo
Sinica Podcast - May 26, 2022 21:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on Sinica, Kaiser welcomes veteran Asia reporter Demetri Sevastopulo, who covers the U.S.-China relationship for the Financial Times. They discuss some of Demetri's scoops, like the news that Vladimir Putin had requested military aid from Xi Jinping, leaked just before Nationa...
Too much of a good thing? Connectivity and the age of "unpeace," with the ECFR's Mark Leonard
Sinica Podcast - May 19, 2022 21:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on Sinica, Kaiser is joined by Mark Leonard, founder and director of the European Council on Foreign Relations and author most recently of The Age of Unpeace: How Connectivity Causes Conflict. Mark talks about how despite the bright promise that increasing connectedness — whet...
The rise and fall of U.S.-China scientific collaboration, with Deborah Seligsohn
Sinica Podcast - May 12, 2022 21:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on Sinica, Deborah Seligsohn returns to the show to talk about the sad state of U.S.-China scientific collaboration. As the Science Counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing from 2003 to 2007 — arguably the peak years for collaboration in science — she has ample firsthand exper...
Chinese public opinion on the Russo-Ukrainian War, with Yawei Liu and Danielle Goldfarb
Sinica Podcast - May 05, 2022 21:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on Sinica, Kaiser is joined again by Yawei Liu, Senior Director for China at the Carter Center in Atlanta, Georgia; and by Danielle Goldfarb, head of global research at RIWI Corp, an innovative web-based research outfit headquartered in Toronto. They discuss a survey commissio...
China and India share a contested border and an uncomfortable neutrality in the Ukraine War — but not much else
Sinica Podcast - April 28, 2022 21:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on the Sinica Podcast, Kaiser is joined by Manjari Chatterjee Miller, Senior Fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations and associate professor of political science at Boston University; and Manoj Kewalramani, chairperson of the Indo-Pacific...
China, Europe, and the Russo-Ukrainian War, with Marina Rudyak
Sinica Podcast - April 21, 2022 21:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on Sinica, Kaiser is joined by Marina Rudyak, assistant professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Heidelberg. She offers her unique perspective on the underlying tensions and potential conflicts between Russia and China, the "dialogue of the deaf" that was the China-Eu...
Inside the Shanghai lockdown, with SupChina's own Chang Che
Sinica Podcast - April 14, 2022 21:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThe COVID lockdown in China's biggest city, Shanghai, hasn't been going exactly according to plan. This week on Sinica, we speak with our business editor Chang Che, who flew back to Shanghai in early March and emerged from quarantine just in time for "dynamic clearing." He gives us a fi...
After the War: Scenarios China faces when the Russo-Ukrainian War eventually ends
Sinica Podcast - April 06, 2022 21:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on the Sinica Podcast, in a show taped on March 23, Chinese foreign policy expert Yun Sun, director of the China program at the Stimson Center, and former national intelligence officer for East Asia Paul Heer join Kaiser for a discussion of possible scenarios that China might ...
Susan Thornton on the urgent need for diplomacy with China over the Russo-Ukraine War
Sinica Podcast - March 30, 2022 21:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on Sinica, Kaiser is joined by Susan Thornton, former Acting Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs and a veteran diplomat. Susan makes a compelling case for the importance of diplomacy in the U.S.-China relationship — and the alarming absence of real ...
Chinese international relations scholar Dingding Chen on Beijing's position in the Russo-Ukrainian War
Sinica Podcast - March 23, 2022 21:44 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on Sinica: Chén Dìngdìng 陈定定, professor of international relations at Jinan University in Guangzhou, offers his perspective on how Beijing views the war in Ukraine that began on February 24 with the Russian invasion. He concludes that while Beijing's short-term alignment with ...
China's soft power collides with the hard realities of the Russo-Ukrainian War: A conversation with Maria Repnikova
Sinica Podcast - March 16, 2022 21:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Maria Repnikova, assistant professor of global communications at Georgia State University, who recently published a short book under the Cambridge Elements series called Chinese Soft Power. A native Russian speaker who also reads and speaks Chinese...
China’s Ukraine conundrum, with Evan Feigenbaum
Sinica Podcast - March 09, 2022 22:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on the Sinica Podcast, Kaiser chats with Evan Feigenbaum, vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, former vice-chairman of the Paulson Institute, and (during the second George W. Bush administration), Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for...
Biden's China policy needs to be more than "Trump lite:" A conversation with Jeff Bader
Sinica Podcast - March 03, 2022 22:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Jeff Bader, who served as senior director for Asian affairs at the National Security Council during the first years of the Obama presidency, until 2011. Now a senior fellow at the John L. Thornton China Center at the Brookings Institute, Jeff was d...
Veteran diplomat Bill Klein recalls the turbulent Trump years at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing
Sinica Podcast - February 24, 2022 22:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with William (Bill) Klein, who served as acting deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing from 2016 to mid-2021. In a wide-ranging conversation, he offers insights about his postings at AIT in Taiwan in the aftermath of the Sunflower Moveme...
What China is reading and why it matters: A conversation with author Megan Walsh
Sinica Podcast - February 17, 2022 22:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on the Sinica Podcast, Kaiser chats with Megan Walsh, journalist, literary critic, and author of the brand-new book The Subplot: What China Is Reading and Why It Matters. The book offers an accessible overview of China's literary scene, from better-known writers like Mò Yán 莫言...
China's ideological landscape, with Jason Wu
Sinica Podcast - February 10, 2022 22:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on the Sinica Podcast, Kaiser chats with Indiana University political scientist Jason Wu about his work on China's ideological landscape. With so many now framing the contest between the U.S. (or, more broadly, "the West") and China in terms of ideology, it makes sense to exam...
Why the law matters in China, with Jeremy Daum of Yale's Paul Tsai China Law Center
Sinica Podcast - February 03, 2022 22:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Jeremy Daum, senior research scholar in law and senior fellow at Yale University's Paul Tsai China Center. Jeremy runs ChinaLawTranslate.com, a Wiki-style resource for translations of Chinese laws and regulations and an invaluable resource not just...
Personality and political discontent in China, with Rory Truex
Sinica Podcast - January 27, 2022 22:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on the Sinica Podcast, Kaiser welcomes back Rory Truex, who teaches politics and international affairs at Princeton. In a fascinating as-yet-unpublished paper, Rory draws on extensive survey research that examines both political attitudes and personalities among Chinese partic...
Dan Wang on China in 2021: "Common prosperity," cultural stunting, and shortcomings of the "modal China story
Sinica Podcast - January 20, 2022 22:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on the Sinica Podcast, Kaiser welcomes back Dan Wang, technology analyst at Gavekal Dragonomics, to talk about this year's annual letter. Dan's letters have become something of an institution: wide-ranging, insightful, and always contentious, his missives are read by a great m...
Mental models for understanding complexity, with Anthea Roberts and Nicolas Lamp
Sinica Podcast - January 13, 2022 22:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsWhat we think about China depends in large measure on how we think about China. As a nation of 1.4 billion people in the throes of world-historic change, it's more important than ever to examine our own mental models when it comes to our understanding of China. This week on the Sinica P...
The sociologist watching the China-watchers: A conversation with David McCourt
Sinica Podcast - January 06, 2022 22:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with David McCourt, associate professor of sociology at the University of California, Davis. For the last several years, David — who is not himself a China specialist — has undertaken a sociological study of "China-watchers," and has presented his findi...
Damien Ma of MacroPolo on China's economic and political outlook
Sinica Podcast - December 30, 2021 22:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Damien Ma, managing director and co-founder of the Paulson Institute’s think-tank, MacroPolo. Damien discusses MacroPolo's new forecast of the property market in China and the likely impact of the predicted contraction of that market. Damien also o...
The investigative team from MIT Technology Review that found major flaws with the DoJ's China Initiative
Sinica Podcast - December 23, 2021 18:34 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on the Sinica Podcast, Kaiser chats with Eileen Guo and Jess Aloe, two members of the three-person team of reporters at the MIT Technology Review who took a data-centered look at the U.S. Department of Justice's China Initiative and uncovered serious problems: an ill-defined m...
FOCAC 2021 in Dakar, Senegal, and B3W — the U.S. counter to China's BRI?
Sinica Podcast - December 16, 2021 22:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThe recently-concluded Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) meeting in Dakar, Senegal, generated surprisingly little international press coverage — except for a few stories that seized on what looked, at first blush, like a significant decrease in Beijing's overall investment commi...
Sinica presents the best of China Stories 2021
Sinica Podcast - December 09, 2021 20:41 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week, we bring you a selection of the best of our China Stories podcast. Launched in late January this year, it has published nearly 400 narrated pieces from the best English-language media outlets focused on China: Sixth Tone, Caixin Global, The Wire China, Protocol China, The Wor...
Revisiting the Red New Deal, with Lizzi Lee and Jude Blanchette (live at NEXTChina 2021)
Sinica Podcast - December 02, 2021 22:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on the Sinica Podcast, we bring you Part 2 of a conversation with Lizzi Lee, an economist turned China analyst, and Jude Blanchette, the Freeman Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). In September, Lizzi and Jude joined Kaiser and Jeremy to discuss...
The Carter Center's survey on Chinese perception, with Yawei Liu and Michael Cerny
Sinica Podcast - November 25, 2021 22:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsRecent polls conducted by organizations like Gallup and Pew have shown a precipitous decline in U.S. public opinion toward China. But how do the Chinese feel about the U.S.? This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Yawei Liu, senior China advisor at the Carter Center in Atlanta, Georgia, ...
Peter Hessler live at the NEXTChina 2021 Conference in New York
Sinica Podcast - November 18, 2021 22:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on Sinica, a live show taped on November 11 at the fourth annual NEXTChina Conference at the China Institute in New York, featuring Peter Hessler. Pete returned to the U.S. from Chengdu over the summer after his contract at Sichuan University, where he was teaching journalism ...
Psychologist George Hu of the United Family Mental Health Network on mental health in China
Sinica Podcast - November 11, 2021 16:15 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 545 ratingsThis week on Sinica, Kaiser and Jeremy discuss mental health in China with George Hu, a Shanghai-based clinical psychologist who serves as president of the Shanghai International Mental Health Association and leads the United Family Mental Health Network. George describes how American i...
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