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Sinica
by The China Project
The Sinica Podcast, founded in 2010, is a weekly discussion of current affairs in China hosted by Kaiser Kuo and Jeremy Goldkorn. It is the flagship show of the Sinica Podcast Network, powered by The China Project.
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Sinica at the Association for Asian Studies Conference, Boston 2023: Capsule interviews
This week on Sinica, something different: Kaiser asks over a dozen scholars of various facets of China studies to talk about their work and make...
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The Maoist legacy in Chinese private enterprise, with Chris Marquis
This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Chris Marquis, a professor at Cambridge University’s Judge Business School, and formerly at Cornell’s business school, about the...
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The Xi-Putin meetings, with Maria Repnikova
This week, a bonus episode to keep you caught up on the week’s biggest China story: Xi Jinping’s two days of meetings with Russian President...
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Beijing brokers a Saudi-Iranian rapprochement, with Tuvia Gering
This week on Sinica, Kaiser welcomes Tuvia Gering of Israel’s Institute of National Security Studies, where he focuses on China’s relations with Israel and other...
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The expansion of China’s administrative state during COVID, with Yale Law’s Taisu Zhang
This week on Sinica, Kaiser welcomes Taisu Zhang, professor of law at Yale University, who discusses his recent work on the expansion of the administrative...
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Jude Blanchette on the Select Committee and the American moral panic over China
A second full episode this week for you Sinica listeners! Jude Blanchette joins to talk about the House Select Committee on United States Competition with...
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Inside Tencent’s “Influence Empire,” with Bloomberg’s Lulu Chen
This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Lulu Chen, who has reported on tech in China for over a decade and is the author of...
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China and the electric vehicle battery supply chain, with Henry Sanderson
This week on Sinica, Kaiser and Jeremy speak with Henry Sanderson, a former AP and Bloomberg reporter who was based in China for many years...
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China and the Ukraine War one year after the invasion, with Evan Feigenbaum and Alexander Gabuev
It’s been one year now since Vladimir Putin launched his assault on Ukraine, and China has sought to maintain the same difficult, awkward straddle across...
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Sinostan: Raffaello Pantucci on China’s inadvertent empire in Central Asia
This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Raffaello Pantucci, co-author of the 2022 book Sinostan: China’s Inadvertent Empire, which examines China’s presence in Central Asia. Based...
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CSIS analyst Gerard DiPippo deflates the balloon hype and brings the discussion back to earth
This week, we’ve got a short show focused on the Chinese balloon that became the obsessive focus of American attention from Thursday through Sunday, February...
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Live in New York City with veteran China journalist Ian Johnson
This week on Sinica, our live recording from the Rizzoli Bookstore in the Flatiron district of Manhattan with the legendary Ian Johnson, who has covered...
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Is China’s demography China’s destiny? A chat with former World Bank economist Bert Hofman
When the National Bureau of Statistics recently revealed that China’s population had shrunk in 2022 for the first time in 60 years, conventional wisdom predicted...
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A firsthand view of China’s chaotic COVID re-opening, with Deborah Seligsohn
This week on Sinica, we welcome back Deborah Seligsohn, assistant professor of political science at Villanova University. Debbi spent October 2022 through early January 2023...
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Talking China on TikTok with The China Project’s Susan St. Denis
This week on Sinica, we’re proud to introduce you to Susan St. Denis, who joined The China Project full-time recently after running the China Vibe...
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The Sinica Network presents Season 3 Episode 1 of “Strangers in China”
This week on Sinica, check out the first episode of the latest season of “Strangers in China,” with host Clay Baldo! The 2022 Shanghai lockdown...
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No Stranger to China: A conversation with Strangers in China creator Clay Baldo about Season 3
We 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...
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Author Rebecca Kuang on her novel Babel, or on the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators Revolution
This 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...
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The best solution for Taiwan is no solution: Jude Blanchette and Ryan Hass on why we must kick the can
This week on Sinica, Jude Blanchette (Freeman Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies) and Ryan Hass (Armacost Chair at the John L...
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China’s push for RMB internationalization
This 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...
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A familiar drumbeat: Michael Mazarr on the run-up to the Iraq invasion and parallels with China
This 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...
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Special episode: The COVID lockdown protests, with David Moser and Jeremiah Jenne
We’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...
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Financial Times reporter Yuan Yang on China-Europe relations
This 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...
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Evan Feigenbaum on the U.S. in the Indo-Pacific region
This week on Sinica, in lieu of the regular show we present a keynote address given by Evan Feigenbaum, VP for studies at the Carnegie...
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New America President Anne-Marie Slaughter on balancing China competition and global imperatives
This 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...
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The 20th Party Congress postgame show with Damien Ma and Lizzi Lee
This week on Sinica, our friends at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs invited us for a live show taping before a small group. Kaiser...
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Grifter, chaos agent, or CCP spy? The New Yorker’s Evan Osnos on Guo Wengui
This 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...
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Overreach and overreaction, with Susan Shirk
This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Susan Shirk, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia Pacific and Research Professor and Chair of...
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Podcasting the Prince: Sue-Lin Wong of the Economist on her Xi Jinping podcast
This 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...
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Legendary BBC presenter and China editor Carrie Gracie, live in London
This week on Sinica, Kaiser and Jeremy were live in London with a very special guest: Carrie Gracie, whose career with the BBC spanned three...
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A conversation with Minister Xu Xueyuan, Deputy Chief of Mission of the embassy of the People’s Republic of China in Washington, D.C.
This 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...
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China in the Global South, with Eric Olander and Cobus van Staden
This 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...
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Surveillance State: Authors Josh Chin and Liza Lin on their new book on China’s tech-enhanced social controls
This 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...
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Yuen Yuen Ang on Xi Jinping, the Party bureaucracy, and authoritarian resilience
This 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...
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Avoiding the China Trap, with Jessica Chen Weiss
This week on Sinica, Kaiser welcomes back the Cornell political scientist Jessica Chen Weiss, who is back in Ithaca after a year spent as a...
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Is China’s bubble finally about to pop? A conversation with Bloomberg Chief Economist Tom Orlik
This 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...
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China’s space program, with NASA astronaut Leroy Chiao
This week on Sinica, Kaiser and Jeremy welcome Leroy Chiao, a NASA astronaut who flew three shuttle missions and served as commander of the International...
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China and America’s “great power opportunity,” with Ali Wyne
This 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...
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Another Taiwan Straits Crisis? CIA veteran John Culver weighs in
In 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...
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The Sinica Network presents the Café & Seda (Coffee & Silk) Podcast
This week on Sinica, we offer listeners a sneak preview of one of the new shows coming soon to the Sinica Network: Café & Seda...
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Prototype Nation: Silvia Lindtner on what drives Chinese tech innovation, and how tech drives Chinese statecraft
This 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...
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Semiconductors and the unspoken U.S. tech policy on China, with Paul Triolo
This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Paul Triolo, Senior VP for China and Technology Policy Lead at Dentons Global Advisors ASG, formerly and probably...
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Historian Andrew Liu on COVID origins: Orientalism and the “Asiatic racial form”
This 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...
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Yale’s Jing Tsu on the characters who modernized Chinese characters
This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Jing Tsu, John M. Schiff Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures & Comparative Literature at Yale University...
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Taiwan: Saber rattling, salami slicing, and strategic ambiguity, with Shelley Rigger and Simona Grano
This 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...
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A Comprehensive Mirror: James Carter’s “This Week in China’s History” column marks two years
This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with James (Jay) Carter, Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences at St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia. Jay...
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Mental health under lockdown: A clinical psychologist in Shanghai
This week on Sinica, Kaiser welcomes back Dr. George Hu, a clinical psychologist based in Shanghai, who has a lot to say about the state...
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Covering the U.S.-China relations beat with the FT’s Demetri Sevastopulo
This 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...
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Too much of a good thing? Connectivity and the age of “unpeace,” with the ECFR’s Mark Leonard
This 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...
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The rise and fall of U.S.-China scientific collaboration, with Deborah Seligsohn
This 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...
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The Sinica Podcast, founded in 2010, is a weekly discussion of current affairs in China hosted by Kaiser Kuo and Jeremy Goldkorn. It is the flagship show of the Sinica Podcast Network, powered by The China Project.
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