Dan Wang on China in 2021: "Common prosperity," cultural stunting, and shortcomings of the "modal China story
This week on the Sinica Podcast, Kaiser welcomes back Dan Wang, technology analyst at Gavekal Dragonomics, to talk about this year's annual letter. Dan's letters have become something of an institutio...
20 Tammi 20221h 15min
Mental models for understanding complexity, with Anthea Roberts and Nicolas Lamp
What we think about China depends in large measure on how we think about China. As a nation of 1.4 billion people in the throes of world-historic change, it's more important than ever to examine our o...
13 Tammi 20221h 48min
The sociologist watching the China-watchers: A conversation with David McCourt
This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with David McCourt, associate professor of sociology at the University of California, Davis. For the last several years, David — who is not himself a China specialist...
6 Tammi 20221h 21min
Damien Ma of MacroPolo on China's economic and political outlook
This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Damien Ma, managing director and co-founder of the Paulson Institute’s think-tank, MacroPolo. Damien discusses MacroPolo's new forecast of the property market in...
30 Joulu 202157min
The investigative team from MIT Technology Review that found major flaws with the DoJ's China Initiative
This week on the Sinica Podcast, Kaiser chats with Eileen Guo and Jess Aloe, two members of the three-person team of reporters at the MIT Technology Review who took a data-centered look at the U.S. De...
23 Joulu 202149min
FOCAC 2021 in Dakar, Senegal, and B3W — the U.S. counter to China's BRI?
The recently-concluded Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) meeting in Dakar, Senegal, generated surprisingly little international press coverage — except for a few stories that seized on what lo...
16 Joulu 20211h 14min
Sinica presents the best of China Stories 2021
This week, we bring you a selection of the best of our China Stories podcast. Launched in late January this year, it has published nearly 400 narrated pieces from the best English-language media outle...
9 Joulu 20212h 2min
Revisiting the Red New Deal, with Lizzi Lee and Jude Blanchette (live at NEXTChina 2021)
This week on the Sinica Podcast, we bring you Part 2 of a conversation with Lizzi Lee, an economist turned China analyst, and Jude Blanchette, the Freeman Chair at the Center for Strategic and Interna...
2 Joulu 202139min
