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 ...
9 Maalis 20231h
Inside Tencent's "Influence Empire," 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 Ambit...
9 Maalis 20231h 5min
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 Rac...
2 Maalis 202347min
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 pro...
23 Helmi 20231h
Sinostan: Raffaello 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 a...
16 Helmi 20231h 17min
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...
6 Helmi 202330min
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 ye...
2 Helmi 202356min
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,...
25 Tammi 202350min
