Yuen Yuen Ang on Xi Jinping, the Party bureaucracy, and authoritarian resilience
This week on Sinica, Kaiser welcomes back University of Michigan political scientist Yuen Yuen Ang, who discusses a recent piece in the Journal of Democracy titled "How Resilient is the CCP?" The essa...
8 Sep 20221h 13min
Avoiding the China Trap, with Jessica Chen Weiss
This week on Sinica, Kaiser welcomes back the Cornell political scientist Jessica Chen Weiss, who is back in Ithaca after a year spent as a CFR International Affairs Fellow working in the State Depart...
1 Sep 202245min
Is China's bubble finally about to pop? A conversation with Bloomberg Chief Economist Tom Orlik
This week on the Sinica Podcast, Kaiser and Jeremy welcome back Tom Orlik, Bloomberg's chief economist and author of the book China: The Bubble that Never Pops. Ahead of the release of the new, update...
25 Aug 202255min
China's space program, with NASA astronaut Leroy Chiao
This week on Sinica, Kaiser and Jeremy welcome Leroy Chiao, a NASA astronaut who flew three shuttle missions and served as commander of the International Space Station for over six months. Leroy is al...
18 Aug 20221h
China and the American "great power opportunity," with Ali Wyne
This week on the Sinica Podcast, Kaiser chats with Ali Wyne, senior analyst at the Eurasia Group's global macro geopolitics practice and author of the brand new book America's Great Power Opportunity:...
11 Aug 20221h 28min
Another Taiwan Straits Crisis? CIA veteran John Culver weighs in
In a week dominated by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan, Kaiser welcomes John Culver, who served as national intelligence officer for East Asia from 2015 to 2017 and as a CIA analyst ...
4 Aug 202258min
The Sinica Network presents the Café & Seda (Coffee & Silk) Podcast
This week on Sinica, we offer listeners a sneak preview of one of the new shows coming soon to the Sinica Network: Café & Seda, or Coffee and Silk. While this episode is in English, the podcast will b...
28 Jul 202246min
Prototype Nation: Silvia Lindtner on what drives Chinese tech innovation, and how tech drives Chinese statecraft
This week on the Sinica Podcast, Kaiser chats with Silvia Lindtner of the University of Michigan about her book Prototype Nation. In a wide-ranging conversation, they discuss how China's maker movemen...
21 Jul 20221h 7min
