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Live from New York: China and the Global South, with Maria Repnikova and Eric Olander

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In Memoriam: Jeffrey A. Bader, from February 2022

3

Live from Chicago: Decoding China — China’s economic miracle interrupted?

4

Robert Daly of the Kissinger Institute on the morality of U.S. China policy

5

China Tobacco: How China's tobacco monopoly also has ensured that China keeps smoking

6

The Philadelphia Orchestra commemorates the 50th anniversary of its groundbreaking China tour

7

Ian Johnson on his new book on China's underground historians

8

Rep. Rick Larsen (D-WA) on his new U.S.-China policy white paper

9

The case for the U.S.-China Science and Technology Agreement

10

The Rise and Fall of the EAST: MIT's Yasheng Huang on his new book

11

China Stories summer special: the best of This Week in China's History

12

Wargaming a Taiwan invasion scenario: Lyle Goldstein on the CSIS wargame “The First Battle of the Next War"

13

The state of play of generative AI in China, with Paul Triolo

14

Is the Biden administration resetting U.S.-China Relations?

15

The CFR Taiwan task force report, with Maggie Lewis and Paul Heer

16

Transnational repression and China's "overseas police stations," with Jeremy Daum of Yale's Paul Tsai China Law Center

17

China after COVID: UPenn's Neysun Mahboubi reports on scholarly exchange in a tightening political space

18

China's Military-Civil Fusion program: CNAS fellow Elsa Kania on the myths and realities

19

Mr. Blinken goes to Beijing, with former NSC China Director Dennis Wilder

20

Economist Keyu Jin on her new book, "The New China Playbook"

21

David Ownby of ReadingtheChinaDream.com on the intellectual mood in China

22

Curtain-raiser on the Shangri-La Dialogue, with the man who runs the show: James Crabtree of IISS

23

Harvard's William Kirby on China's higher education system and his book "Empires of Ideas"

24

Does the Capvision raid signal a crackdown on consultancies in China? The China Project's CEO Bob Guterma, formerly of Capvision, weighs in

25

China's draft regulations on generative AI, with Kendra Schaefer and Jeremy Daum

26

Xiong'an: Techno-natural utopia or authoritarian folly?

27

Earth Day episode: How can the U.S. and China cooperate on climate in this era of competition?

28

Legendary CNN reporter Mike Chinoy on his book and documentary series "Assignment China"

29

As the U.S. and China part ways, the Global South finds its own path, with Kishore Mahbubani

30

What are the qualities of a good China analyst? A talk by Kaiser given in Madison, WI last week

31

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

32

The Maoist legacy in Chinese private enterprise, with Chris Marquis

33

The Xi-Putin meetings, with Maria Repnikova

34

Beijing brokers a Saudi-Iranian rapprochement

35

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

36

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

37

Inside Tencent, with Bloomberg's Lulu Chen

38

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

39

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

40

Sinostan: Rafaello Pantucci on China's "inadvertent empire" in Central Asia

41

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

42

Live in New York City with veteran China journalist Ian Johnson

43

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

44

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

45

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

46

Strangers in China, Season 3 ep 1- The lockdown part 1: A day in the life

47

No Stranger to China: A conversation with "Strangers in China" creator Clay Baldo

48

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

49

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

50

China's push for RMB internationalization

51

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

52

Financial Times reporter Yuan Yang on China-Europe relations

53

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

54

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

55

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

56

The 20th Party Congess rundown, live from the Chicago Council of Global Affairs with Lizzi Lee and Damien Ma

57

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

58

Susan Shirk on her new book, "Overreach: How China Derailed its Peaceful Rise"

59

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

60

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

61

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

62

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

63

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

64

Yuen Yuen Ang on Xi Jinping, the CCP, and authoritarian resilience

65

Avoiding the China trap, with Jessica Chen Weiss

66

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

67

China's space program, with NASA astronaut Leroy Chiao

68

China and America's "great power opportunity," with Ali Wyne

69

Another Taiwan Straits Crisis? CIA veteran John Culver weighs in

70

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

71

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

72

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

73

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

74

Jing Tsu on the characters who modernized Chinese characters

75

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

76

James Carter's "This Week in China's History" column marks two years!

77

Mental health under lockdown: A clinical psychologist in Shanghai

78

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

79

Too much of a good thing? Connectivity and the age of "unpeace," with the ECFR's Mark Leonard

80

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

81

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

82

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

83

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

84

Inside the Shanghai lockdown, with SupChina's own Chang Che

85

China's optimal post-war scenarios, with Yun Sun and Paul Heer

86

Susan Thornton on the urgent need for diplomacy in the present crisis

87

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

88

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

89

China's Ukraine conundrum, with Evan Feigenbaum

90

Biden's China policy needs to be more than "Trump lite:" A conversation with Jeff Bader

91

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

92

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

93

China's ideological landscape, with Jason Wu

94

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

95

Personality and political discontent in China, with Rory Truex

96

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

97

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

98

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

99

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

100

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

101

FOCAC 2021 in Dakar, Senegal, and the U.S. counter to China's BRI

102

Sinica presents the best of China Stories 2021

103

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

104

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

105

Peter Hessler live at the NEXTChina 2021 Conference in New York

106

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

107

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

108

It's complicated: Getting our heads around a changing China

109

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

110

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

111

Can China meet its ambitious emissions targets?

112

How the Chinese state handles labor unrest, with Manfred Elfstrom

113

The benefits side of the engagement ledger: an audit of the S&ED

114

What's the deal with the Red New Deal?

115

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

116

The paradox of vast corruption and fast growth in China's "Gilded Age"

117

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

118

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

119

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

120

A conversation with Ambassador Huang Ping, Consul General of the P.R.C.'s New York Consulate

121

Reflecting on China's poverty reduction with Bill Bikales

122

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

123

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

124

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

125

The Chinese Communist Party at 100

126

China's population conundrum, with UNC demographer Yong Cai

127

COVID-19 origins revisited, with Deborah Seligsohn

128

Journalist Andrew Jones on China's space program

129

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

130

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

131

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

132

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

133

China's Heart of Darkness

134

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

135

Searching for the six Chinese survivors of the ‘Titanic’

136

Beethoven in Beijing

137

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

138

Deborah Seligsohn on China's COVID-19 response and the virus's origins

139

Ryan Hass on his new book, "Stronger"

140

The parallel world of Chinese tech, with Lillian Li

141

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

142

Getting Chinese politics wrong, with Jude Blanchette

143

Julie Klinger on China's rare earth frontier

144

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

145

The Xinjiang camps on Clubhouse

146

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

147

Talking Taiwan with former national intelligence officer Paul Heer

148

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

149

China's judicial decisions database and what it means

150

Ryan Hass on the Biden administration's China direction

151

Ian Johnson and Lin Yao on "liberal" Chinese Trump supporters

152

Historian James Carter on the final days of Old Shanghai

153

Veteran diplomat Evan Feigenbaum on U.S. policy in a changing Asia

154

China and India: Pallavi Aiyar and Ananth Krishnan on mutual misperceptions

155

Is coercive environmentalism the answer?

156

Chilis and China: Brian Dott on how a New World import defined regional cuisines in China

157

Jennifer Pan studied clickbait in Chinese propaganda. You won’t believe what she discovered!

158

A China policy for the progressive left

159

The wuxia storyverse of Peter Shiao

160

Southeast Asia in the dragon's shadow: A conversation with Sebastian Strangio

161

The American journalists still in China

162

The fight over Inner Mongolia's "bilingual education" policy

163

U.S.-China relations in 2020 with Susan Shirk

164

Online vitriol and identity with The New Yorker's Jiayang Fan

165

Sinica celebrates the 500th episode of the China in Africa Podcast

166

Black voices in the China space

167

Poverty eradication by 2020: A reality check

168

Rapper Bohan Phoenix and DJ Allyson Toy on hip-hop in China

169

U.S. Foreign Service Officer Leland Lazarus on China-Caribbean relations

170

Global Governance 2020: A discussion with Kaiser Kuo and Susan Thornton

171

Adam Tooze on the geopolitics of the pandemic

172

Sir Danny Alexander on the AIIB in a time of crisis

173

‘Superpower Showdown’: A conversation with authors Bob Davis and Lingling Wei

174

Huawei and the 5G ecosystem

175

Standoff in Ladakh: Ananth Krishnan on the China-India border conflict

176

The Controversy over Fangfang’s Wuhan Diary: a conversation with the translator, Michael Berry

177

Why doesn't the China bubble pop? A conversation with Bloomberg’s chief economist, Tom Orlik

178

Censored: Molly Roberts on how China uses deterrence, distraction, and dilution to control its internet

179

‘Superpower Interrupted’: A conversation with veteran China journalist Michael Schuman about his Chinese history of the world

180

Max Fisher of the New York Times on media coverage of China, COVID-19, and Trump

181

Has China won? Part 2 of our conversation with Singapore’s Kishore Mahbubani

182

Has China won? A conversation with Singapore’s Ambassador Kishore Mahbubani

183

Kaiser interviews Gordon Chang!

184

Grounding China's drones: Leading drone maker DJI's Brendan Schulman on U.S. regulatory challenges

185

The pathogen and the prejudice: Jiwei Xiao on COVID-19 in China and in America

186

The Sinica Podcast turns 10

187

China's Venezuelan vicissitudes

188

Will China save the planet? A climatic conversation with NRDC's Barbara Finamore

189

Former U.S. ambassador Michael McFaul on democracy promotion in Russia and China

190

Dexter Roberts on ‘The Myth of Chinese Capitalism’

191

Janet Yang and Michael Berry on the state of cinema in a time of souring U.S.-China ties

192

USCBC President Craig Allen on trade in a time of disruption

193

UCLA's Alex Wang on where China leads and lags in climate change

194

Jeff Wasserstrom on music in protest and revolution in modern China

195

Chinese industrial espionage and FBI profiling and overreach, with Mara Hvistendahl

196

U.S. efforts to slow China's rise in Africa aren’t going that well

197

Bonus Episode - coronavirus update with Yanzhong Huang

198

China policy and the American presidency

199

Former NSC official Jeff Prescott on China-Iran relations

200

Observing Taiwan's presidential election

201

Military modernization in Xi Jinping's China

202

The Hong Kong protests: The view from campus

203

Gary Rieschel of Qiming Venture Partners on VC, tech, and the U.S.-China relationship

204

Ambassador Gary Locke

205

Yangyang Cheng Live at NEXT China

206

Big Brother and big data at work in Xinjiang

207

Dynasty Warriors: Ming vs. Qing Smackdown

208

China and the techno-authoritarian narrative

209

Fuchsia Dunlop on The Food of Sichuan

210

Philanthropy in China, with Scott Kennedy of CSIS

211

Jerome Cohen on the Hong Kong protests and the law

212

Neil Thomas on regime support in the PRC

213

Live from Columbia: China tech triage with Samm Sacks

214

Jude Blanchette on the Hong Kong protests

215

Is China the Enemy? Featuring Ezra Vogel and Orville Schell

216

Christian Shepherd on Xinjiang and China's changing ethnic policy

217

Introducing 'Strangers in China'

218

Mirrorlands: Ed Pulford on the Sino-Russian border

219

Trade war economics, with Andy Rothman

220

Making the world safe for autocracy: Jessica Chen Weiss on what Beijing wants

221

Matt Sheehan on California's role in U.S.-China relations

222

The world according to Jeremy Goldkorn

223

Wealth and Power: Intellectuals in China

224

China correspondent Emily Feng: From the FT to NPR

225

Michael Swaine on the 'China is not an enemy' open letter

226

An update on the Hong Kong protests

227

Searching for Roots in China

228

Military Strategy and Politics in the PRC: A Conversation with Taylor Fravel

229

The Hong Kong protests, with Antony Dapiran

230

A voice of reason within the Beltway: Ryan Hass vs. the so-called bipartisan consensus

231

A student leader 30 years after Tiananmen: Wu'er Kaixi reflects on the movement

232

China's New Red Guards: Jude Blanchette on China's Far Left

233

Charlene Barshefsky on Trump’s Trade War

234

Chinese Investment: Beyond the USA

235

'Haunted by Chaos: China's Grand Strategy,' with Sulmaan Wasif Khan

236

Howard French on how China's past shapes its present ambitions

237

Strength in Numbers: USTR veteran Wendy Cutler on managing trade with China

238

An American Futurist in China: Alvin Toffler and Reform & Opening

239

Mark Rowswell a.k.a. Dashan Live at the Bookworm Literary Festival

240

Peter Lorentzen's data-driven analysis of Xi Jinping's anti-corruption campaign

241

An update on the Xinjiang crisis with Nury Turkel

242

Samm Sacks on the U.S.-China tech relationship

243

China, the U.S., and Kenya

244

Is there really an epidemic of self-censorship among China scholars?

245

Everything you ever wanted to know about Taiwan but were afraid to ask, Part 2

246

Everything you ever wanted to know about Taiwan but were afraid to ask, Part 1

247

Zha Jianying on democracy activism in China

248

Introducing the Middle Earth podcast

249

China’s ethnic policy in Xinjiang and Tibet: The move toward assimilation

250

Live from the US-China Business Council: The bilateral trade relationship in 2019

251

Mexican and Canadian diplomats in a changing, challenging China

252

The U.S. and China: Cold war, or hot air?

253

Gene-edited babies, CRISPR, and China’s changing ethical landscape

254

Huawei and the Tech Cold War

255

Meng Wanzhou’s arrest: The legal dimension

256

40 years of reform and opening up, with Jude Blanchette

257

Blaming China

258

The Nature Conservancy in China

259

Shaken Authority: Party-speak, propaganda, and the Sichuan Earthquake of 2008

260

Myth-busting China’s social credit system

261

Shadow banking, P2P lending, and pyramid schemes: Lucy Hornby on China's gray economy

262

Introducing the Ta for Ta Podcast

263

Kevin Rudd on Xi Jinping’s worldview

264

Danny Russel on the rebalancing and decoupling

265

Kai-Fu Lee and the U.S.-China AI rivalry

266

Nury Turkel and the Uyghur plight

267

Introducing the ChinaEconTalk podcast

268

Xi Jinping's long hot summer

269

Paul Haenle on North Korea, Taiwan, U.S.-China relations, and more

270

China's 'reliable friendship' with Pakistan, explained by Andrew Small

271

The strange tale of a kung-fu master in Madagascar

272

Legendary diplomat Chas W. Freeman, Jr., on U.S.-China strategy and history: Part 3

273

Legendary diplomat Chas W. Freeman, Jr., on U.S.-China strategy and history: Part 2

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Legendary diplomat Chas W. Freeman, Jr., on U.S.-China strategy and history: Part 1

275

Introducing the NüVoices Podcast

276

City of Devils: A Shanghai Noir

277

Australia’s Beijing problem

278

Poisonous pandas: Cigarette smoking in China

279

China's hydro dam ambitions and their consequences

280

China's growing hacking power, with Kevin Collier and Priscilla Moriuchi

281

Kurt Campbell on U.S.-China diplomacy

282

The saga of CEFC and China's push into Central and Eastern Europe

283

Andrew Chubb on Chinese nationalism and its influence on maritime behavior

284

China’s security picture, from North Korea to the South China Sea

285

Janet Yang on cinema, China, and being an Asian-American woman in a Harvey Weinstein world

286

Talking trade and tech with Yasheng Huang

287

China's international relations, with Jiang Changjian, Ira Kasoff, and Anthony Saich

288

Virginia Tan on women and work in China

289

Introducing TechBuzz China by Pandaily, plus Joanna Chiu on Hong Kong's illicit wildlife trade

290

Gao Yutong on the Chinese student experience in America

291

David Moser and Jess Meider on jazz in China

292

Swindles in the late Ming era, with Christopher Rea and Bruce Rusk

293

Ma Zhao and John Delury on North Korea-China relations

294

Orville Schell on the CCP's relationship with history

295

Chinese students abroad under pressure, with Eric Fish and Siqi Tu

296

Gao Qin: The Dibao social assistance program

297

Carl Minzner: End of an Era