The CFR Taiwan task force report: advice and dissent, with Maggie Lewis and Paul Heer
This week on Sinica, Kaiser is joined by Margaret (Maggie) Lewis, professor of law at Seton Hall University and veteran Taiwan observer, and Paul Heer, former national intelligence officer for East As...
27 Jul 202356min
Transnational repression and China's "overseas police stations," with Jeremy Daum of Yale's Paul Tsai China Law Center
This week on Sinica, Kaiser welcomes back Jeremy Daum, senior research scholar in law and senior fellow at the Paul Tsai China Law Center. Jeremy has a well-deserved reputation as a debunker of myths ...
20 Jul 202345min
China after COVID: UPenn's Neysun Mahboubi reports on scholarly exchange in a tightening political space
This week on Sinica, UPenn legal scholar Neysun Mahboubi talks about his recently-concluded trip back to China — his first time back since the outbreak of the pandemic. Neysun talks about the importan...
13 Jul 202349min
China's Military-Civil Fusion program: CNAS fellow Elsa Kania on the myths and realities
This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Elsa Kania, a Ph.D. candidate in Harvard University's Department of Government and adjunct fellow at the Center for a New American Security who researches China'...
6 Jul 202352min
Mr. Blinken goes to Beijing, with former NSC China Director Dennis Wilder
With Secretary of State Antony Blinken's two days of meetings in Beijing just concluded, Kaiser spoke with Dennis Wilder, managing director for the Initiative for U.S.-China Dialogue on Global Issues ...
19 Jun 202352min
Economist Keyu Jin on her new book, "The New China Playbook"
This week on Sinica, Kaiser is joined by Keyu Jin, associate professor of economics at LSE, who talks about her new book, The New China Playbook: Beyond Socialism and Capitalism, a wide-ranging, ambit...
15 Jun 20231h 24min
David Ownby of ReadingtheChinaDream.com on the intellectual mood in China
This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with David Ownby, the University of Montreal historian who runs the excellent ReadingTheChinaDream.com website — a trove of translations of writings by mainstream Chi...
8 Jun 20231h 14min
Curtain-raiser on the Shangri-La Dialogue, with the man who runs the show: James Crabtree of IISS
With the IISS Shangri-La Dialogue kicking off in Singapore on Friday, June 2, Kaiser chats with the organizer’s managing director for Asia, James Crabtree, about the history, structure, and significan...
1 Jun 20231h 11min
