This 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 mission, low conviction rates, post hoc efforts to remove cases previously described as falling under the China Initiative, and strong evidence of racial profiling.
3:03 – The genesis of the report
9:15 – How the Department of Justice defines — or doesn't define — the China Initiative
19:00 – The deletion of China Initiative cases from the DoJ's website
22:34 – Was the Anming Hu case a watershed?
30:57 – The evidence for racial profiling
38:26 – Biden's conundrum
A transcript of this podcast is available on SupChina.com).
Recommendations:
**Eileen: **America for Beginners), a novel by Leah Franqui
**Jess: **The Expanse), a science fiction series on Amazon Prime
**Kaiser: **Cloud Cuckoo Land), a novel by Anthony Doerr
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