Sinostan: Raffaello Pantucci on China's inadvertent empire in Central Asia
This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Raffaello Pantucci, co-author of the 2022 book Sinostan: China's Inadvertent Empire, which examines China's presence in Central Asia. Based on extensive travel a...
16 Feb 20231h 17min
CSIS analyst Gerard DiPippo deflates the balloon hype and brings the discussion back to earth
This week, we've got a short show focused on the Chinese balloon that became the obsessive focus of American attention from Thursday through Sunday, February 5, when an F-22 shot it out of the sky off...
6 Feb 202330min
Live in New York City with veteran China journalist Ian Johnson
This week on Sinica, our live recording from the Rizzoli Bookstore in the Flatiron district of Manhattan with the legendary Ian Johnson, who has covered China for a host of publications spanning 35 ye...
2 Feb 202356min
Is China's demography China's destiny? A chat with former World Bank economist Bert Hofman
When the National Bureau of Statistics recently revealed that China's population had shrunk in 2022 for the first time in 60 years, conventional wisdom predicted that China was headed for catastrophe,...
25 Jan 202350min
A firsthand view of China's chaotic COVID re-opening, with Deborah Seligsohn
This week on Sinica, we welcome back Deborah Seligsohn, assistant professor of political science at Villanova University. Debbi spent October 2022 through early January 2023 in Shanghai and Beijing, e...
19 Jan 20231h 19min
Talking China on TikTok with The China Project's Susan St. Denis
This week on Sinica, we're proud to introduce you to Susan St. Denis, who joined The China Project full-time recently after running the China Vibe Official TikTok channel for The China Project for the...
12 Jan 202344min
The Sinica Network presents Strangers in China S3 Episode 1
This week on Sinica, we proudly present Episode 1 of the newest season of Strangers in China: Lockdown Part 1: A day in the life.The 2022 Shanghai lockdown came to Clay’s neighborhood early and caught...
6 Jan 20231h 37min
No Stranger to China: A conversation with Strangers in China creator Clay Baldo about Season 3
We proudly present Episode 1 of the new season of Strangers in China, part of the Sinica Network from The China Project. In this season, host Clay Baldo provides an intimate look at the lockdown in Sh...
5 Jan 202356min
