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Sinica — 121 episodes

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

2

The Maoist legacy in Chinese private enterprise, with Chris Marquis

3

The Xi-Putin meetings, with Maria Repnikova

4

Beijing brokers a Saudi-Iranian rapprochement, with Tuvia Gering

5

The expansion of China’s administrative state during COVID, with Yale Law’s Taisu Zhang

6

Jude Blanchette on the Select Committee and the American moral panic over China

7

Inside Tencent’s “Influence Empire,” with Bloomberg’s Lulu Chen

8

China and the electric vehicle battery supply chain, with Henry Sanderson

9

China and the Ukraine War one year after the invasion, with Evan Feigenbaum and Alexander Gabuev

10

Sinostan: Raffaello Pantucci on China’s inadvertent empire in Central Asia

11

CSIS analyst Gerard DiPippo deflates the balloon hype and brings the discussion back to earth

12

Live in New York City with veteran China journalist Ian Johnson

13

Is China’s demography China’s destiny? A chat with former World Bank economist Bert Hofman

14

A firsthand view of China’s chaotic COVID re-opening, with Deborah Seligsohn

15

Talking China on TikTok with The China Project’s Susan St. Denis

16

The Sinica Network presents Season 3 Episode 1 of “Strangers in China”

17

No Stranger to China: A conversation with Strangers in China creator Clay Baldo about Season 3

18

Author Rebecca Kuang on her novel Babel, or on the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators Revolution

19

The best solution for Taiwan is no solution: Jude Blanchette and Ryan Hass on why we must kick the can

20

China’s push for RMB internationalization

21

A familiar drumbeat: Michael Mazarr on the run-up to the Iraq invasion and parallels with China

22

Special episode: The COVID lockdown protests, with David Moser and Jeremiah Jenne

23

Financial Times reporter Yuan Yang on China-Europe relations

24

Evan Feigenbaum on the U.S. in the Indo-Pacific region

25

New America President Anne-Marie Slaughter on balancing China competition and global imperatives

26

The 20th Party Congress postgame show with Damien Ma and Lizzi Lee

27

Grifter, chaos agent, or CCP spy? The New Yorker’s Evan Osnos on Guo Wengui

28

Overreach and overreaction, with Susan Shirk

29

Podcasting the Prince: Sue-Lin Wong of the Economist on her Xi Jinping podcast

30

Legendary BBC presenter and China editor Carrie Gracie, live in London

31

A conversation with Minister Xu Xueyuan, Deputy Chief of Mission of the embassy of the People’s Republic of China in Washington, D.C.

32

China in the Global South, with Eric Olander and Cobus van Staden

33

Surveillance State: Authors Josh Chin and Liza Lin on their new book on China’s tech-enhanced social controls

34

Yuen Yuen Ang on Xi Jinping, the Party bureaucracy, and authoritarian resilience

35

Avoiding the China Trap, with Jessica Chen Weiss

36

Is China’s bubble finally about to pop? A conversation with Bloomberg Chief Economist Tom Orlik

37

China’s space program, with NASA astronaut Leroy Chiao

38

China and America’s “great power opportunity,” with Ali Wyne

39

Another Taiwan Straits Crisis? CIA veteran John Culver weighs in

40

The Sinica Network presents the Café & Seda (Coffee & Silk) Podcast

41

Prototype Nation: Silvia Lindtner on what drives Chinese tech innovation, and how tech drives Chinese statecraft

42

Semiconductors and the unspoken U.S. tech policy on China, with Paul Triolo

43

Historian Andrew Liu on COVID origins: Orientalism and the “Asiatic racial form”

44

Yale’s Jing Tsu on the characters who modernized Chinese characters

45

Taiwan: Saber rattling, salami slicing, and strategic ambiguity, with Shelley Rigger and Simona Grano

46

A Comprehensive Mirror: James Carter’s “This Week in China’s History” column marks two years

47

Mental health under lockdown: A clinical psychologist in Shanghai

48

Covering the U.S.-China relations beat with the FT’s Demetri Sevastopulo

49

Too much of a good thing? Connectivity and the age of “unpeace,” with the ECFR’s Mark Leonard

50

The rise and fall of U.S.-China scientific collaboration, with Deborah Seligsohn

51

Chinese public opinion on the Russo-Ukrainian War, with Yawei Liu and Danielle Goldfarb

52

China and India share a contested border and an uncomfortable neutrality in the Ukraine War — but not much else

53

China, Europe, and the Russo-Ukrainian War, with Marina Rudyak

54

Inside the Shanghai lockdown, with The China Project’s own Chang Che

55

Susan Thornton on the urgent need for diplomacy with China over the Russo-Ukraine war

56

Chinese international relations scholar Dingding Chen on Beijing’s position in the Russo-Ukrainian War

57

China’s soft power collides with the hard realities of the Russo-Ukrainian War: A conversation with Maria Repnikova

58

China’s Ukraine conundrum, with Evan Feigenbaum

59

Biden’s China policy needs to be more than “Trump lite:” A conversation with Jeff Bader

60

Veteran diplomat Bill Klein recalls the turbulent Trump years at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing

61

What China is reading and why it matters: A conversation with author Megan Walsh

62

China’s ideological landscape, with Jason Wu

63

Why the law matters in China, with Jeremy Daum of Yale’s Paul Tsai China Law Center

64

Personality and political discontent in China, with Rory Truex

65

Dan Wang on China in 2021: “Common prosperity,” cultural stunting, and shortcomings of the “modal China story”

66

Mental models for understanding complexity, with Anthea Roberts and Nicolas Lamp

67

The sociologist watching the China-watchers: A conversation with David McCourt

68

Damien Ma of MacroPolo on China’s economic and political outlook

69

The investigative team from MIT Technology Review that found major flaws with the DoJ’s China Initiative

70

FOCAC 2021 in Dakar, Senegal, and B3W — the U.S. counter to China’s BRI?

71

Sinica presents the best of China Stories 2021

72

Revisiting the Red New Deal, with Lizzi Lee and Jude Blanchette (live at NEXTChina 2021)

73

The Carter Center’s survey on Chinese perception, with Yawei Liu and Michael Cerny

74

Peter Hessler live at the NEXTChina 2021 Conference in New York

75

Psychologist George Hu of the United Family Mental Health Network on mental health in China

76

The worldview of Wang Huning, the Party’s leading theoretician

77

Bonus Episode: Introducing the China Sports Insider Podcast!

78

It’s Complicated: Getting our heads around a changing China

79

Did tariffs make a difference in Trump’s trade war?

80

How Taiwan propelled China’s economic rise, with Shelley Rigger

81

Can China meet its ambitious emissions targets?

82

How the Chinese state handles labor unrest, with Manfred Elfstrom

83

The benefits of engagement with China, defined: An audit of the S&ED

84

What’s the deal with the Red New Deal?

85

The state of the field: U.S. China programs, with Rosie Levine and Jan Berris of the NCUSCR

86

The paradox of vast corruption and fast growth in China’s “Gilded Age”

87

Harvard’s William Overholt on Esquel, cotton sanctions, and forced Uyghur labor

88

Historian Adam Tooze on why China’s modern history should matter to Americans

89

Peter Martin on ‘China’s Civilian Army: The Making of Wolf Warrior Diplomacy’

90

A conversation with Ambassador Huang Ping, consul general of the P.R.C.’s New York Consulate

91

Reflecting on China’s poverty reduction with Bill Bikales

92

A data-driven dive into Chinese politics, with Stanford’s Yiqing Xu

93

Avoiding ideological conflict with Beijing: Thomas Pepinsky and Jessica Chen Weiss

94

How China escaped shock therapy: Isabella Weber unpacks the debates of the 1980s

95

The Chinese Communist Party at 100

96

China’s population conundrum, with UNC demographer Yong Cai

97

COVID-19 origins revisited, with Deborah Seligsohn

98

Journalist Andrew Jones on China’s space program

99

Chinese college students in the U.S., with Yingyi Ma

100

China, Russia, and the U.S.: Does the ‘strategic triangle’ still matter?

101

Orville Schell on his novel, My Old Home: A Novel of Exile

102

Margaret Lewis on ethnic profiling in the DOJ’s China Initiative

103

China’s Heart of Darkness

104

U.S.-China climate cooperation in a competitive age

105

Searching for the six Chinese survivors of the ‘Titanic’

106

Beethoven in Beijing

107

China’s new youth, with Alec Ash and Stephanie Studer

108

China’s COVID-19 response and the virus’s origins, with Deborah Seligsohn

109

Ryan Hass on his new book, ‘Stronger’

110

The parallel world of Chinese tech, with Lillian Li

111

Cheng Lei: The detention and arrest of an Australian CGTN reporter

112

Getting Chinese politics wrong, with Jude Blanchette

113

Julie Klinger on China’s rare earth frontier

114

Journalist Te-Ping Chen on her short fiction collection, Land of Big Numbers

115

The Xinjiang camps on Clubhouse

116

China’s struggle for tech ascendancy, with Dan Wang of Gavekal Dragonomics

117

Talking Taiwan with former national intelligence officer Paul Heer

118

A new U.S. strategy in East Asia, from the Quincy Institute

119

China’s judicial decisions database and what it means

120

Ryan Hass on the Biden administration’s China direction

121

Ian Johnson and Lin Yao on “liberal” Chinese Trump supporters