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Sinica

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.

  1. 149

    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...

  2. 148

    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...

  3. 147

    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...

  4. 146

    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...

  5. 145

    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...

  6. 144

    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...

  7. 143

    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...

  8. 142

    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...

  9. 141

    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...

  10. 140

    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...

  11. 139

    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...

  12. 138

    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...

  13. 137

    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...

  14. 136

    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...

  15. 135

    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...

  16. 134

    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...

  17. 133

    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...

  18. 132

    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...

  19. 131

    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...

  20. 130

    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...

  21. 129

    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...

  22. 128

    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...

  23. 127

    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...

  24. 126

    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...

  25. 125

    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...

  26. 124

    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...

  27. 123

    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...

  28. 122

    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...

  29. 121

    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...

  30. 120

    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...

  31. 119

    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...

  32. 118

    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...

  33. 117

    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...

  34. 116

    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...

  35. 115

    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...

  36. 114

    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...

  37. 113

    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...

  38. 112

    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...

  39. 111

    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...

  40. 110

    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...

  41. 109

    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...

  42. 108

    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...

  43. 107

    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...

  44. 106

    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...

  45. 105

    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...

  46. 104

    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...

  47. 103

    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...

  48. 102

    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...

  49. 101

    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...

  50. 100

    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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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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