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Sinica Early Access
For SupChina Access members only: An exclusive early listen to the interviews on the Sinica Podcast, hosted by Kaiser Kuo and Jeremy Goldkorn.
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Live from New York: China and the Global South, with Maria Repnikova and Eric Olander
This week on Sinica, a live recording from New York on the eve of the 2023 NEXTChina Conference. Jeremy Goldkorn joins Kaiser as co-host, with guests Maria Repnikova of Georgia State University, who specializes in Chinese soft power in Africa and on Sino-Russian relations, and Eric Olander,...
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In Memoriam: Jeffrey A. Bader, from February 2022
This week on Sinica, I'm re-running an interview with Jeffrey Bader from early last year. I learned on Monday morning that Jeff had died, and I dedicate this interview to his memory. ___ This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Jeff Bader, who served as senior director for Asian affairs at the...
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Live from Chicago: Decoding China — China’s economic miracle interrupted?
This week on Sinica, a live recording from October 10 in Chicago, Kaiser asks Chang-Tai Hsieh of the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago, Damien Ma of the Paulson Institute’s think tank MacroPolo, and our own Lizzi Lee, host of The Signal with Lizzi Lee, to right-size the peril...
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Robert Daly of the Kissinger Institute on the morality of U.S. China policy
This week on the Sinica Podcast: a lecture by Robert Daly, director of the Wilson Center's Kissinger Institute, delivered last year to D.C.-based Faith & Law at their Friday Forum. The lecture, titled "Is Our Foreign Policy Good? American Moral Absolutism and the China Challenge," is a powerful…
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China Tobacco: How China's tobacco monopoly also has ensured that China keeps smoking
This week on Sinica, Kaiser is joined by Jason McLure, a correspondent for a new investigative reporting outfit called The Examination, and reporter Jude Chan, who writes for Initium Media. The two worked with two other reporters on a fascinating expose, funded by the Pulitzer Center, of China's...
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The Philadelphia Orchestra commemorates the 50th anniversary of its groundbreaking China tour
This week on Sinica, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the 1950 concert tour of China by the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1973, Kaiser chats with Matías Tarnopolsky, the orchestra’s president and chief executive; Alison Friedman, executive and creative director of Carolina Performing Arts;...
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Ian Johnson on his new book on China's underground historians
This week on Sinica, Pulitzer Prize-winning veteran journalist Ian Johnson, now a senior China fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, joins Kaiser to discuss his new book, Sparks" China's Underground HIstorians and their Battle for the Future. Profiling both prominent and lesser-known...
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Rep. Rick Larsen (D-WA) on his new U.S.-China policy white paper
This week on Sinica, Kaiser speaks with Representative Rick Larsen of the Washington 2nd District, the co-founder and continuously serving Democratic co-chair of the bipartisan U.S.-China Working Group. Last month, he published a white paper outlining his recommendations for how the U.S. can more...
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The case for the U.S.-China Science and Technology Agreement
This week on Sinica, Kaiser is joined by Karen Hao, a reporter recently with the Wall Street Journal whose previous work with the MIT Technology Review has been featured on Sinica; and by Deborah Seligsohn, assistant professor of political science at Villanova University, who has been on the show...
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The Rise and Fall of the EAST: MIT's Yasheng Huang on his new book
This week on Sinica, MIT professor Yasheng Huang joins Kaiser to talk about his brand new book The Rise and Fall of the EAST: How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology Brought China Success, and Why they Might Lead to its Decline. This ambitious and thought-provoking book is bound to stir…
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China Stories summer special: the best of This Week in China's History
Something different this week on Sinica: A selection of "This Week in China's History" columns by James Carter, all narrated by Kaiser with a little interstitial music by Chunqiu (Spring & Autumn). The columns: Not just a metaphor: Dragons of imperial China show us how people lived (1517) The...
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Wargaming a Taiwan invasion scenario: Lyle Goldstein on the CSIS wargame “The First Battle of the Next War"
This week on Sinica, Kaiser welcomes back Lyle Goldstein, director for China engagement at the think tank Defense Priorities and previously a professor at the U.S. Naval War College, where he taught for 20 years. Lyle offers his perspectives on an extensive wargaming exercise focusing on a…
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The state of play of generative AI in China, with Paul Triolo
This week on Sinica, Paul Triolo returns to the show to give us a rundown on what's happening in the exciting arena of generative AI in China. Just back from a trip to China during which he spoke with numerous companies working in the space, he offers a great overview of what various companies…
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Is the Biden administration resetting U.S.-China Relations?
This week on Sinica, with Kaiser on holiday we're running a terrific Twitter Spaces conversation convened by Neysun Mahboubi of UPenn's Center for the Study of Contemporary China. He's gathered a great group including Yawei Liu, whose U.S.-China Perception Monitor under the Carter Center is the...
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The CFR Taiwan task force report, with Maggie Lewis and Paul Heer
This week on Sinica, Kaiser is joined by Maggie Lewis, professor of law at Seton Hall University and veteran Taiwan observer, and Paul Heer, former national intelligence officer for East Asia in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) under the Obama administration. Both were...
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Transnational repression and China's "overseas police stations," with Jeremy Daum of Yale's Paul Tsai China Law Center
This week on Sinica, Kaiser welcomes back Jeremy Daum, senior research scholar in law and senior fellow at the Paul Tsai China Law Center. Jeremy, who has a well-deserved reputation as a debunker of myths and misperceptions about China. This time, he takes on the much-discussed “overseas police...
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China after COVID: UPenn's Neysun Mahboubi reports on scholarly exchange in a tightening political space
This week on Sinica, UPenn legal scholar Neysun Mahboubi talks about his recently-concluded trip back to China — his first time back since the outbreak of the pandemic. Neysun talks about the importance of in-person, face-to-face scholarly exchange, and despite concerns over the more restrictive...
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China's Military-Civil Fusion program: CNAS fellow Elsa Kania on the myths and realities
This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Elsa Kania, a Ph.D. candidate in Harvard University's Department of Government and adjunct fellow at the Center for a New American Security who researches China's military strategy, defense innovation, and emerging technologies. Elsa joins the show to talk...
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Mr. Blinken goes to Beijing, with former NSC China Director Dennis Wilder
With Secretary of State Antony Blinken's two days of meetings in Beijing just concluded, Kaiser spoke with Dennis Wilder, managing director for the Initiative for U.S.-China Dialogue on Global Issues at Georgetown University, where he also serves as an assistant professor of practice in Asian...
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Economist Keyu Jin on her new book, "The New China Playbook"
This week on Sinica, Kaiser is joined by Keyu Jin, associate professor of economics at LSE, who talks about her new book The New China Playbook: Beyond Socialism and Capitalism, a wide-ranging, ambitious, and accessible book that explains the unique Chinese political economy, emphasizing both its...
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David Ownby of ReadingtheChinaDream.com on the intellectual mood in China
This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with David Ownby, the University of Montreal historian who runs the excellent ReadingTheChinaDream.com website — a trove of translations of writings by mainstream Chinese intellectuals. David talks about the website’s mission and about tells about his recent...
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Curtain-raiser on the Shangri-La Dialogue, with the man who runs the show: James Crabtree of IISS
With the IISS Shangri-La Dialogue kicking off in Singapore on Friday, June 2, Kaiser chats with the organizer’s managing director for Asia, James Crabtree, about the history, structure, and significance of this Asian answer to the Munich Security Conference, James, who joined the Institute for...
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Harvard's William Kirby on China's higher education system and his book "Empires of Ideas"
This week on Sinica, Harvard’s eminent sinologist William Kirby joins Kaiser to talk about his book Empires of Ideas: Creating the Modern University from Germany to America to China, and to share his views on the state of higher education in China and the U.S， See Privacy Policy at...
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Does the Capvision raid signal a crackdown on consultancies in China? The China Project's CEO Bob Guterma, formerly of Capvision, weighs in
This week on the Sinica Podcast, Kaiser is joined by The China Project's CEO Bob Guterma, who just so happens to have served at Chief Compliance Officer (and later Managing Director for Europe and the U.S.) for the expert network Capvision. Capvision, as listeners may well be aware, was the...
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China's draft regulations on generative AI, with Kendra Schaefer and Jeremy Daum
This week on Sinica, Kendra Schaefer, a partner at Trivium, and Jeremy Daum of the Yale China Law Center discuss the new draft regulations published in April that will govern generative AI. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at...
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Xiong'an: Techno-natural utopia or authoritarian folly?
This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Andrew Stokols, a Ph.D. researcher at MIT who has been studying the “techno-natural utopia” that the Chinese government is now building a hundred kilometers southwest of Beijing: Xiong’an. Andrew breaks down why he sees it as an urban manifestation of the...
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Earth Day episode: How can the U.S. and China cooperate on climate in this era of competition?
This week on Sinica, an Earth Day special: Kaiser chats with Marilyn Waite, managing director of the Climate Finance Fund; Alex Wang, a UCLA law professor who specializes in China climate and environmental law; and Deborah Seligsohn, a political scientist at Villanova University who served as the...
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Legendary CNN reporter Mike Chinoy on his book and documentary series "Assignment China"
This week on the Sinica Podcast, Jeremy and I chat with Mike Chinoy, the legendary award-winning TV newsman who helmed CNN in Beijing for many critical years. Mike talks about the video documentary series and accompanying book Assignment China: An Oral History of American Journalists in the...
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As the U.S. and China part ways, the Global South finds its own path, with Kishore Mahbubani
This week on Sinica, Kishore Mahbubani, who served as Singapore's UN Ambassador and has written extensively on ASEAN and the U.S.-China rift, returns to the show to discuss his recent essay in Foreign Affairs, and to advocate for the pragmatic approach that's held ASEAN together for over five...
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What are the qualities of a good China analyst? A talk by Kaiser given in Madison, WI last week
This week for Sinica Early Access listeners, a talk delivered last week on April 4 in Madison, Wisconsin at the invitation of the University of Wisconsin Madison's Center for East Asian Studies. Kaiser talks about the five attributes or habits of mind that he thinks distinguish a good China...
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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 some recommendations! You'll hear from a variety of scholars, from MA students to tenured professors, talking about a bewildering range of fascinating...
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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 book he co-authored with Kunyuan Qiao, Mao and Markets: The Communist Roots of Chinese Enterprise. In it, they examine how even…
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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 Vladimir Putin. Maria Repnikova, a native Russian speaker who is also fluent in Chinese and who teaches Chinese politics and communications at Georgia State...
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Beijing brokers a Saudi-Iranian rapprochement
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 countries of the Middle East. Tuvia breaks down the agreement to normalize relations between Riyadh and Tehran, which Beijing brokered...
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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 state down to the subdistrict and neighborhood level — changes that are far-reaching, and likely permanent. They also discuss a recent essay…
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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 the Chinese Communist Party, and all that is wrong with it, from its framing of the CCP as an "existential threat" to its focus on the CCP…
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Inside Tencent, 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 the book Influence Empire: The Inside Story of Tencent and China's Tech Ambition. It's a fascinating look at not only Tencent but at the overall internet sector in China,...
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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, about his book Volt Rush: The Winners and Losers in the Race to Go Green — a book that reminds us of the very ugly fact that the metals that are needed to...
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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 a difficult year. Did Beijing's efforts to project the impression that it had distanced itself from Russia in the wake of the Party Congress…
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Sinostan: Rafaello 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 on extensive travel and interviews undertaken both before and after the tragic murder of his co-author, Alexandros...
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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 5, when an F-22 shot it out of the sky off of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Gerard DiPippo, a senior fellow with the Economics Program at…
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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 China for a host of publications spanning 35 years. Ian, who is now a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, offers his analysis of...
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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 that China was headed for catastrophe, as its workforce shrank, its pension coffers dried up, and its healthcare system grew overtaxed....
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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 in Shanghai and Beijing, experiencing quarantine, testing, and lockdown at firsthand — and witnessing the protests and the...
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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 Official TikTok channel for The China Project for the last several months. Kaiser and Susan talk about what people are getting wrong about TikTok, the...
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Strangers in China, Season 3 ep 1- The lockdown part 1: A day in the life
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 Baldo provides an intimate look at the lockdown in Shanghai, from the foreboding that preceded it through the harrowing days of the lockdown itself.…
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No Stranger to China: A conversation with "Strangers in China" creator Clay Baldo
This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Clay Baldo, creator and host of the Strangers in China podcast, the third season of which focuses on the Shanghai lockdown of 2022. The first episode drops this week, so watch for it in your Sinica feed and subscribe to the podcast! See Privacy Policy at...
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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, the author of the best-selling historical fantasy novel Babel. Set in the 1830s in England, the novel’s Chinese-born protagonist sets out to prevent a war with China over the opium trade. It’s a novel about the industrial revolution, labor...
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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. Thornton Center at the Brookings Institute) join Kaiser to discuss their new essay in Foreign Affairs, "The Taiwan Long Game: Why the Best…
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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 to internationalize the Renminbi, its currency. Diana Choyleva is chief economist and founder of Enodo Economics, an independent macroeconomic...
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