UCLA's Alex Wang on where China leads and lags in climate change
In this episode, part of Sinica's California series, Kaiser chats with Alex Wang, a professor of law at UCLA and an expert on China's environmental law. Just back from the COP25 meeting in Madrid, Ale...
5 Maalis 202047min
Jeff Wasserstrom on music in protest and revolution in modern China
From the Xinhai Revolution of 1911 that ended the Qing dynasty to the Second Sino-Japanese War to Tiananmen in 1989 and Hong Kong 30 years later, songs have inspired and united people in protest and p...
27 Helmi 202059min
Chinese industrial espionage and FBI profiling and overreach, with Mara Hvistendahl
In a live show taped at the Asia Society, in partnership with ChinaFile, Kaiser sat down to chat with prolific author Mara Hvistendahl at the launch event of her latest book, The Scientist and the Spy...
20 Helmi 202049min
U.S. tries to persuade Africa it is a credible alternative to China
This week, we feature an episode from the newest member of our Sinica Podcast Network: the China in Africa Podcast, hosted by Eric Olander and Cobus van Staden. The United States sees Africa as a key ...
13 Helmi 202041min
Bonus Episode - coronavirus update with Yanzhong Huang
Kaiser and Jeremy chat with Yanzhong Huang, senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), where he directs the Global Health Governance roundtable series. In addition to h...
7 Helmi 202046min
China policy and the American presidency
With the United States now in a presidential election year, how should an incoming administration — whether a Democratic presidency or a second Trump administration — approach China policy? This week,...
6 Helmi 20201h 1min
Former NSC official Jeff Prescott on China-Iran relations
In the aftermath of the targeted killing of Qasem Soleimani in early January, Kaiser talked to Jeff Prescott, a veteran China-watcher who now serves as a senior advisor to the Penn Biden Center. Jeff ...
30 Tammi 202039min
Observing Taiwan’s presidential election
Maggie Lewis, a law professor at Seton Hall University, discusses the recent presidential election in Taiwan, where she and other Chinese and Taiwanese legal scholars took part as independent observer...
23 Tammi 202045min
