China correspondent Emily Feng: From the FT to NPR
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...
1 Elo 201959min
Michael Swaine on the ‘China is not an enemy’ open letter
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 lett...
25 Heinä 20191h 1min
An update on the Hong Kong protests
This week, we speak again with Antony Dapiran, a corporate lawyer in Hong Kong and the author of City of Protest: A Recent History of Dissent in Hong Kong, to catch up on the fast-moving events in the...
18 Heinä 201932min
Searching for roots in China
This week, Kaiser chats with Huihan Lie, founder of the genealogical research startup MyChinaRoots, and with two of his colleagues, Clotilde Yap and Chrislyn Choo. The three have fascinating things to...
11 Heinä 20191h 7min
Military Strategy and Politics in the PRC: A Conversation with Taylor Fravel
This week, Kaiser and Jeremy chat with Taylor Fravel, one of the world's leading authorities on the People's Liberation Army. Taylor has a brand-new book out called Active Defense: China's Military St...
3 Heinä 20191h 12min
Umbrella Revolution 2.0 – or something else? Antony Dapiran on the Hong Kong demonstrations
Antony Dapiran is a seasoned corporate lawyer who has worked in Hong Kong and Beijing for the last two decades. In that time, he’s become a historian of protests in Hong Kong and the author of City of...
27 Kesä 201958min
A voice of reason within the Beltway: Ryan Hass vs. the so-called bipartisan consensus
Ryan Hass, who served as the Director for China on the National Security Council during President Barack Obama's second term, is alarmed at the direction that the U.S. policy toward China has been tak...
20 Kesä 20191h 6min
A student leader 30 years after Tiananmen: Wu’er Kaixi reflects on the movement
This week, Kaiser is joined by Nury Turkel of the Uyghur Human Rights Project in an in-depth conversation with Wu'er Kaixi (Örkesh Dölet), best known as one of the student leaders in the Tiananmen pro...
13 Kesä 20191h 22min
