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This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Professor Tai Ming Cheung of the University of California, San Diego. Tai is the director of the UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC) and also a leading expert on Chinese national security and defense modernization. This show is part of a nine-part series of shows taped in California in December 2019, made possible by the Serica Initiative,...

On this week's show, Kaiser chats with Alejandro Reyes, an associate professor at the University of Hong Kong and a former senior policy adviser to Canada's assistant deputy minister for Asia Pacific, about the ongoing Hong Kong protests and the spread of violence to some of Hong Kong's best-known universities in November. Alejandro offers his take on this phase of the protests, and on how half a...

In a show taped in Seattle, Kaiser chats with Gary Rieschel, founding managing partner of Qiming Venture Partners. With 30 unicorns and over 30 exits, Qiming has been one of the most successful VCs in China, investing in numerous companies that have gone on to become household names in the country. Gary reflects on his years in China and the folly of decoupling. See Privacy Policy at https://art19...

Gary Locke served as U.S. Ambassador to China from 2011 to 2014. Locke was not only the first Chinese-American ambassador to China, but also the first Chinese-American state governor and Secretary of Commerce. This week on Sinica, he joins Kaiser in a show taped in Seattle, Washington. He reminisces about his early visits to his ancestral village in China's Guangdong Province, recalls the att...

In a show taped at SupChina's NEXT China conference, Kaiser and Jeremy chat with particle physicist Yangyang Cheng, one of the boldest new voices writing on science and contemporary China. Get to know the woman behind SupChina's Science and China column. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian, the China reporter for Axios and the lead reporter of an explosive piece that details the Chinese government's ongoing oppression of Uyghurs in Xinjiang, is our guest this week. Her report, titled Exposed: China’s Operating Manuals for Mass Internment and Arrest by Algorithm , exposes what she describes as a "manual for operating the camps," and reveals how Chinese police...

Sinica brings you a little levity for this Thanksgiving weekend. In one of the last live events taped at the storied Bookworm in Beijing, which shut its doors this month, the Royal Asiatic Society of Beijing sponsored a debate over a simple proposition: The Ming was better than the Qing. Four seasoned China watchers battle it out for dynastic supremacy. Who will prevail? See Privacy Policy at http...

In a podcast taped live for the Asia Society of Switzerland in Zurich, Kaiser is joined by Kristin Shi-Kupfer, head of public policy and society research at The Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS) in Berlin, and Evgeny Morozov, contributing editor at the New Republic and the author of  The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom  and  To Save Everything, Click Here...

Fuchsia Dunlop, the preeminent writer on Chinese cuisine in the English language, has published a completely revised and updated version of  Land of Plenty , her classic book on Sichuan cookery, containing 70 new recipes. She joins Kaiser and guest host Jim Millward of Georgetown University in a discussion of this wildly popular cuisine — and how to get started as a Sichuan chef in your own k...

This week on Sinica, Kaiser talks about the state of charitable giving in China with Scott Kennedy, senior adviser and Trustee Chair in Chinese Business and Economics at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Has philanthropy kept pace with the growth of wealth? And how have charities fared under Xi Jinping and China's new laws governing NGOs and charity? See Privacy Policy at...

In this live show taped at New York University on October 16, Jeremy and Kaiser spoke with Jerry Cohen, the doyen of American studies of Chinese law. We explore the legal foundations for the Hong Kong handover in 1997, and how imprecision has contributed to many of the difficulties playing out in Hong Kong's streets today. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Noti...

This week on Sinica, Neil Thomas of MacroPolo sits down with Kaiser to talk about what we know — and what we don’t know — about popular support for the Chinese political leadership. After we discount for censorship, propaganda, and “patriotic education,” how much “natural” regime support is left, and what accounts for it? See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notic...

Samm Sacks, Cybersecurity Policy and China Digital Economy Fellow at New America, speaks with Kaiser on Huawei’s nebulous role in the U.S.-China trade war, Beijing’s long march to technological self-reliance, and the growing U.S. Commerce Department Entities List. This episode was recorded live at the Columbia China and the World Forum 2019, on September 28, 2019 at Columbia University. See Privac...

Jude Blanchette, the Freeman Chair in China Studies at CSIS, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, joins Kaiser for a discussion of the ongoing Hong Kong protests, possible U.S. responses, Beijing's puzzling inaction, the perspectives of mainland Chinese, and media coverage of ongoing events in Hong Kong. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice a...

The Sinica Podcast this week features an exclusive recording of a China Institute event in New York on September 17 that sought to answer this question: How can the United States live with a rising China, an ideologically different country that is home to one-fifth of humanity? Joe Kahn, managing editor of the New York Times and the paper’s former Beijing bureau chief, moderates the discussion wit...

This week on the Sinica Podcast, Kaiser and Jeremy speak with Christian Shepherd, the Beijing correspondent for the Financial Times. They discuss his debut longform piece for the FT, Fear and oppression in Xinjiang: China’s war on Uighur culture , and dive into the policy drivers behind the assimilation efforts being carried out by the central government in Xinjiang, and his experiences while repo...

The Sinica Podcast Network is proud to introduce the latest member of our family, Strangers in China. It features the voices of an emergent new China. Dissident voices, outspoken voices, marginalized voices, queer voices. Some are people who just find one aspect of living in China unreasonable, others are people who are rebellious. Some want to push the boundaries creatively, while others are just...

This week, Sinica features a chat taped in March with author Ed Pulford, whose book,  Mirrorlands: Russia, China and Journeys in Between , has recently published. Kaiser chats with Ed about the Sino-Russian border and Ed’s anthropological travelogue exploring the border’s past and present. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/priva...

On this week’s podcast, Kaiser and Jeremy speak with Andy Rothman of Matthews Asia to get his take on recent events in the U.S.-China trade war. Andy lived in China for over 20 years, and was previously the chief China strategist for the brokerage and investment group CLSA after a long career in the U.S. Foreign Service. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice...

Jessica Chen Weiss is Associate Professor of Government at Cornell University and a prolific writer on Chinese nationalism and China's international relations. Kaiser sat down with her recently to hear her ideas on how we should understand what it is that Beijing ultimately wants, on how to right-size the challenges that China poses to the liberal world order, and about the CCP's relationship with...

Matt Sheehan, former China correspondent for the Huffington Post and current fellow at the MacroPolo think tank, discusses his new book, The Transpacific Experiment: How China and California Collaborate and Compete for Our Future . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

This special episode of Sinica starring our very own Jeremy Goldkorn was recorded in New York on July 17. With decades of experience in China-related business, entrepreneurship, and media, Jeremy shares his views on the latest developments in Chinese business, technology, and politics, and tells personal stories from his 20 years living in China. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and...

This week, while Kaiser is vacationing on the Carolina coast, we are running a March 2014 interview with Orville Schell and David Moser. The discussion in this episode centers on the book co-authored by Schell and John Delury, Wealth and Power: China’s Long March to the Twenty-First Century, and the role of select members of Chinese intelligentsia in the formation of modern China. This discussion...

Emily Feng is one of the rising stars among China reporters. She’s about to take up her post in Beijing as National Public Radio’s correspondent after an illustrious run with the Financial Times. In a show taped a few months ago, Emily speaks with Kaiser and Jeremy about her most recent reporting for the FT, covering important topics related to Xinjiang and technology. She also reflects on why, as...

The Washington Post recently published an open letter signed by five scholars and former government officials: M. Taylor Fravel, Stapleton Roy, Michael Swaine, Susan Thornton, and Ezra Vogel. The letter laid out seven main arguments for why the U.S. should not treat China as an enemy, and not surprisingly, the letter got a lot of pushback from more hawkish China-watchers. This week on Sinica, Kais...