Chinese and U.S. AI Applications in Public Administration: Lessons and Implications for Ukraine
Artificial intelligence has been a frequent topic on Sinica in recent years — but usually through the lens of the two countries that have produced the leading models and companies: the United States a...
14 Elo 20251h 18min
Nuclear Weapons, Ukraine, and Great-Power Competition
Join me for a conversation with four fantastic panelists about nuclear safety and security issues brought on by Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and more broadly on the state of nuclear securi...
12 Elo 20251h 12min
The World AI Conference in Shanghai: Two tech veterans share their impressions
This week on Sinica, Paul Triolo of DGA Albright Stonebridge and tech investor Ryan Cunningham join to talk about their observations and insights from the World AI Conference (WAIC), held in July in S...
6 Elo 20251h 26min
Chinese Cooking Demystified: Chris Thomas and Stephanie Li visit Shaxi!
This week on Sinica: On my final two days in Shaxi in Yunnan, Chris Thomas and Stephanie Li, the hosts of the marvelous YouTube channel Chinese Cooking Demystified, joined me for some cooking and lots...
30 Heinä 20251h 17min
Adam Tooze Climbs the China Learning Curve
I'm in Shaxi, a wonderful little town in the Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, and I was joined here by the Columbia economic historian Adam Tooze, who shared his thoughts on what he sees happening on t...
16 Heinä 20251h 3min
Carnegie's Tong Zhao on the Expansion of China's Nuclear Arsenal
This week on Sinica, in a show taped in early June in Washington, Kaiser chats with Tong Zhao (赵通) of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a leading expert on Chinese nuclear doctrine, abou...
25 Kesä 20251h 10min
The Strange Afterlife of an American Football Story from China
In 2014, the writer Christopher Beam published a humorous, heartwarming story in The New Republic about an unlikely team of American football enthusiasts in Chongqing who went on to defeat their archr...
18 Kesä 202545min
The Raider: China and the Life of Evans Carlson, with Historian Stephen Platt
This week on Sinica, I chat with Stephen Platt, historian at UMass Amherst and author, most recently, of the book The Raider: The Untold Story of a Renegade Marine and the Birth of U.S. Special Forces...
11 Kesä 20251h 22min
