Earth Day episode: How can the U.S. and China cooperate on climate in this era of competition?
This week on Sinica, an Earth Day special: Kaiser chats with Marilyn Waite, managing director of the Climate Finance Fund; Alex Wang, a UCLA law professor who specializes in China climate and environm...
27 Apr 202356min
Legendary CNN reporter Mike Chinoy on his book and documentary series "Assignment China"
This week on the Sinica Podcast, Jeremy and I chat with Mike Chinoy, the legendary award-winning TV newsman who helmed CNN in Beijing for many critical years. Mike talks about the video documentary se...
20 Apr 20231h 13min
As the U.S. and China part ways, the Global South finds its own path, with Kishore Mahbubani
This week on Sinica, Kishore Mahbubani, who served as Singapore's UN Ambassador and has written extensively on ASEAN and the U.S.-China rift, returns to the show to discuss his recent essay in Foreign...
13 Apr 20231h
Sinica at the Association for Asian Studies Conference, Boston 2023: Capsule interviews
This week on Sinica, something different: Kaiser asks over a dozen scholars of various facets of China studies to talk about their work and make some recommendations! You'll hear from a variety of sch...
6 Apr 20231h 3min
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
