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Sinica Podcast

A weekly discussion of current affairs in China with journalists, writers, academics, policymakers,

Episodes

Total: 473

China after COVID: UPenn's Neysun Mahboubi reports on scholarly exchange in a tightening political space
2023/7/13

This week on Sinica, UPenn legal scholar Neysun Mahboubi talks about his recently-concluded trip bac

China's Military-Civil Fusion program: CNAS fellow Elsa Kania on the myths and realities
2023/7/6

This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Elsa Kania, a Ph.D. candidate in Harvard University's Departm

Mr. Blinken goes to Beijing, with former NSC China Director Dennis Wilder
2023/6/19

With Secretary of State Antony Blinken's two days of meetings in Beijing just concluded, Kaiser spok

Economist Keyu Jin on her new book, "The New China Playbook"
2023/6/15

This week on Sinica, Kaiser is joined by Keyu Jin, associate professor of economics at LSE, who talk

David Ownby of ReadingtheChinaDream.com on the intellectual mood in China
2023/6/8

This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with David Ownby, the University of Montreal historian who ru

Curtain-raiser on the Shangri-La Dialogue, with the man who runs the show: James Crabtree of IISS
2023/6/1

With the IISS Shangri-La Dialogue kicking off in Singapore on Friday, June 2, Kaiser chats with the

Harvard's William Kirby on China's higher education system and his book "Empires of Ideas"
2023/5/25

This week on Sinica, Harvard’s eminent sinologist William Kirby joins Kaiser to talk about his book&

Does the Capvision raid signal a crackdown on consultancies in China? The China Project's CEO Bob Guterma, formerly of Capvision, weighs in
2023/5/18

This week on the Sinica Podcast, Kaiser is joined by The China Project's CEO Bob Guterma, who just s

China's draft regulations on generative AI, with Kendra Schaefer and Jeremy Daum
2023/5/11

This week on Sinica, Kendra Schaefer, a partner specializing in technology at China-focused consulta

Xiong'an: Techno-natural utopia or authoritarian folly?
2023/5/4

This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Andrew Stokols, a Ph.D. researcher at MIT who has been studyi

Earth Day episode: How can the U.S. and China cooperate on climate in this era of competition?
2023/4/27

This week on Sinica, an Earth Day special: Kaiser chats with Marilyn Waite, managing director of the

Legendary CNN reporter Mike Chinoy on his book and documentary series "Assignment China"
2023/4/20

This week on the Sinica Podcast, Jeremy and I chat with Mike Chinoy, the legendary award-winning TV

As the U.S. and China part ways, the Global South finds its own path, with Kishore Mahbubani
2023/4/13

This week on Sinica, Kishore Mahbubani, who served as Singapore's UN Ambassador and has written exte

Sinica at the Association for Asian Studies Conference, Boston 2023: Capsule interviews
2023/4/6

This week on Sinica, something different: Kaiser asks over a dozen scholars of various facets of Chi

The Maoist legacy in Chinese private enterprise, with Chris Marquis
2023/3/30

This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Chris Marquis, a professor at Cambridge University’s Judge Bu

Beijing brokers a Saudi-Iranian rapprochement, with Tuvia Gering
2023/3/23

This week on Sinica, Kaiser welcomes Tuvia Gering of Israel's Institute of National Security Studies

The Xi-Putin meetings, with Maria Repnikova
2023/3/23

This week, a bonus episode to keep you caught up on the week's biggest China story: Xi Jinping's two

The expansion of China's administrative state during COVID, with Yale Law's Taisu Zhang
2023/3/16

This week on Sinica, Kaiser welcomes Taisu Zhang, professor of law at Yale University, who discusses

Jude Blanchette on the Select Committee and the American moral panic over China
2023/3/9

A second full episode this week for you Sinica listeners! Jude Blanchette joins to talk about the Ho

Inside Tencent's "Influence Empire," with Bloomberg's Lulu Chen
2023/3/9

This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Lulu Chen, who has reported on tech in China for over a decad