
The Maoist legacy in Chinese private enterprise, with Chris Marquis
This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Chris Marquis, a professor at Cambridge University’s Judge Business School, and formerly at Cornell’s business school, about the book he co-authored with Kunyuan...
30 Mar 202358min

Beijing brokers a Saudi-Iranian rapprochement, with Tuvia Gering
This week on Sinica, Kaiser welcomes Tuvia Gering of Israel's Institute of National Security Studies, where he focuses on China's relations with Israel and other countries of the Middle East. Tuvia br...
23 Mar 20231h 8min

The Xi-Putin meetings, with Maria Repnikova
This week, a bonus episode to keep you caught up on the week's biggest China story: Xi Jinping's two days of meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Maria Repnikova, a Latvian-born native Russ...
23 Mar 202328min

The expansion of China's administrative state during COVID, with Yale Law's Taisu Zhang
This week on Sinica, Kaiser welcomes Taisu Zhang, professor of law at Yale University, who discusses his recent work on the expansion of the administrative state down to the subdistrict and neighborho...
16 Mar 20231h 20min

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 Mar 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 Mar 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 Mar 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 Feb 20231h





















