Live in Berkeley: Jessica Chen Weiss and Ryan Hass on the U.S. and China in 2025
This week, a special episode taped live at the University of California, Berkeley — my alma mater — on March 6 and featuring Jessica Chen Weiss of Johns Hopkins SAIS and Ryan Hass of the Brookings Ins...
12 Maalis 20251h 2min
Introducing the Trivium Podcast, now on the Sinica Network
This week, I'm proud to announce a new collaboration with Trivium, a China-focused strategic advisory firm you've probably heard of. They've got offices in DC, London, Shanghai, and Beijing, and they ...
6 Maalis 20251h 18min
Studying China in the Absence of Access: Rediscovering a Lost Art — Part 2, with Alice Miller and Joseph Fewsmith
This week: Part 2 in a series of podcasts in conjunction with the China Research Center at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). The series, titled "Studying China in the ...
27 Helmi 20251h 23min
China’s Strategy in Global Power Transitions: Challenges in a Turbulent World — A panel discussion
This week on Sinica: February 24 marks the third anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and as I’ve done for the last two years, I moderated a panel organized by Vita Golod, a Ukraini...
24 Helmi 20251h 10min
The War for Chinese Talent in America, with David Zweig
This week on Sinica, I chat with David Zweig, a veteran China scholar who is Professor Emeritus from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. We discuss Davis'd latest book, The War for Chi...
23 Helmi 20251h 14min
Getting China Right: Senator Andy Kim at the Hopkins SAIS Institute for America, China, and the Future of Global Affairs
I’m delighted to bring you today the first in a series of conversations from a remarkable day-long session put on by the Institute for America, China, and the Future of Global Affairs, or ACF, at John...
14 Helmi 20251h 10min
Back to the 80s: For Trump, is China the New Japan? with Andy Liu
This week on Sinica, I chat with economic historian Andrew B. Liu of Villanova University about how to understand Trump's thinking on China and tariffs. Andy wrote about this in an excellent piece on ...
13 Helmi 20251h 5min
Is the U.S. Experiencing a Narrative Shift on China?
This week as we enter the Year of the Snake, Sinica co-founder Jeremy Goldkorn makes a re-appearance on the show. It's been a year since his last, and much has changed — and indeed, if Jeremy is right...
3 Helmi 20251h 2min
