Did tariffs make a difference in Trump’s trade war?
This week on Sinica: Did the Trump-era tariffs have their intended effects? In other words, did they prompt companies to pull up stakes in China and re-shore jobs to the United States? Kaiser chats wi...
21 Okt 20211h 18min
How Taiwan propelled China’s economic rise, with Shelley Rigger
This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Shelley Rigger, Brown professor of political science at Davidson College and author of the new book The Tiger Leading the Dragon: How Taiwan Propelled China’s Ec...
14 Okt 20211h 24min
Can China meet its ambitious emissions targets?
This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Michael Davidson, a leading scholar on China’s environmental policy, who holds joint appointments at UC San Diego as an assistant professor at the School of Glob...
7 Okt 20211h 5min
How the Chinese state handles labor unrest, with Manfred Elfstrom
This week, Kaiser chats with Manfred Elfstrom, an assistant professor in the Department of Economics, Philosophy, and Political Science at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan. Manfred’s new b...
30 Sep 20211h 5min
The benefits of engagement with China, defined: An audit of the S&ED
This week on the Sinica Podcast, Kaiser welcomes former Acting Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia and Pacific Affairs Susan Thornton to discuss a recently published audit of the Strategic and ...
23 Sep 20211h 32min
What's the deal with the Red New Deal?
This week on Sinica, Kaiser and Jeremy welcome Lizzi Lee (李其 Lǐ Qi), SupChina contributor and host of the excellent Chinese-language YouTube channel Wall Street Today, and Jude Blanchette, Freeman Ch...
16 Sep 20211h 17min
The state of the field: U.S. China programs, with Rosie Levine and Jan Berris of the NCUSCR
Last month, the National Committee on United States-China Relations (NCUSCR) published a report for the Carnegie Corporation of New York titled “American International Relations and Security Programs ...
9 Sep 20211h 11min
The paradox of vast corruption and fast growth in China's "Gilded Age"
If corruption is a drag on economic growth, why does China appear to have undergone some of its fastest growth during its periods of deepest corruption? This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Yuen Yue...
2 Sep 20211h 17min
