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Sinica Podcast

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

Episodes

Total: 473

Overreach and overreaction, with Susan Shirk
2022/10/20

This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Susan Shirk, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for E

Podcasting The Prince: Sue-Lin Wong of The Economist on her Xi Jinping podcast
2022/10/13

This week on Sinica, Kaiser and Jeremy are joined by Sue-Lin Wong, who until recently covered China

Legendary BBC presenter and China editor Carrie Gracie, live in London
2022/10/6

This week on Sinica, Kaiser and Jeremy were live in London with a very special guest: Carrie Gracie,

A conversation with Minister Xu Xueyuan, Deputy Chief of Mission of the Embassy of the People's Republic of China in Washington
2022/9/29

This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Minister Xu Xueyuan, Deputy Chief of Mission at the PRC Embas

China in the Global South, with Eric Olander and Cobus van Staden
2022/9/22

This week on Sinica, we kick off the new network show, the China-Global South Podcast, with a conver

Surveillance State: Authors Josh Chin and Liza Lin on their new book on China's tech-enhanced social controls
2022/9/15

This week on Sinica, Wall Street Journal reporters Josh Chin and Liza Lin join the program

Yuen Yuen Ang on Xi Jinping, the Party bureaucracy, and authoritarian resilience
2022/9/8

This week on Sinica, Kaiser welcomes back University of Michigan political scientist Yuen Yuen Ang,

Avoiding the China Trap, with Jessica Chen Weiss
2022/9/1

This week on Sinica, Kaiser welcomes back the Cornell political scientist Jessica Chen Weiss, who is

Is China's bubble finally about to pop? A conversation with Bloomberg Chief Economist Tom Orlik
2022/8/25

This week on the Sinica Podcast, Kaiser and Jeremy welcome back Tom Orlik, Bloomberg's chief economi

China's space program, with NASA astronaut Leroy Chiao
2022/8/18

This week on Sinica, Kaiser and Jeremy welcome Leroy Chiao, a NASA astronaut who flew three shuttle

China and the American "great power opportunity," with Ali Wyne
2022/8/11

This week on the Sinica Podcast, Kaiser chats with Ali Wyne, senior analyst at the Eurasia Group's g

Another Taiwan Straits Crisis? CIA veteran John Culver weighs in
2022/8/4

In a week dominated by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan, Kaiser welcomes John Culve

The Sinica Network presents the Café & Seda (Coffee & Silk) Podcast
2022/7/28

This week on Sinica, we offer listeners a sneak preview of one of the new shows coming soon to the S

Prototype Nation: Silvia Lindtner on what drives Chinese tech innovation, and how tech drives Chinese statecraft
2022/7/21

This week on the Sinica Podcast, Kaiser chats with Silvia Lindtner of the University of Michigan abo

Semiconductors and the unspoken U.S. tech policy on China, with Paul Triolo
2022/7/15

This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Paul Triolo, Senior VP for China and Technology Policy Lead a

Historian Andrew Liu on COVID origins: Orientalism and the "Asiatic racial form"
2022/7/7

This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Villanova University historian Andrew Liu. Andy published an

Yale's Jing Tsu on the characters who modernized Chinese characters
2022/6/30

This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Jing Tsu, John M. Schiff Professor of East Asian Languages an

Taiwan: Saber rattling, salami slicing, and strategic ambiguity, with Shelley Rigger and Simona Grano
2022/6/16

This week on the Sinica Podcast, Shelley Rigger of Davidson College returns to the show to talk Taiw

A Comprehensive Mirror: James Carter's "This Week in China's History" column marks two years
2022/6/9

This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with James (Jay) Carter, Dean of the College of Arts & Science

Mental health under lockdown: A clinical psychologist in Shanghai
2022/6/2

This week on Sinica, Kaiser welcomes back Dr. George Hu, a clinical psychologist based in Shanghai,