China's COVID-19 response and the virus's origins, with Deborah Seligsohn
This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Deborah Seligsohn, who served as the State Department’s Environment, Science, Technology and Health Counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing from 2003 to 2007. S...
1 Apr 20211h 13min
Ryan Hass on his new book, ‘Stronger’
This week on Sinica, Kaiser welcomes back Ryan Hass, the Michael H. Armacost Chair at the John L. Thornton China Center at the Brookings Institute, a senior adviser at the Scowcroft Group and McLarty ...
25 Mar 20211h 9min
The parallel world of Chinese tech, with Lillian Li
This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with ex-venture capitalist Lillian Li, who moved to China from the U.K. last year and has been looking at China’s tech ecosystem from a unique perspective — combining...
18 Mar 20211h 15min
Cheng Lei: The detention and arrest of an Australian CGTN reporter
In August 2020, the CGTN anchorwoman Chéng Lěi 成蕾, an Australian citizen, was detained in Beijing. Six months later, she was formally arrested and charged with violations of China’s expansive state se...
11 Mar 202147min
Getting Chinese politics wrong, with Jude Blanchette
This week on Sinica, Kaiser and Jeremy chat with Jude Blanchette, the Freeman Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, to talk about the faulty assumptions that American analysts a...
4 Mar 20211h 5min
Julie Klinger on China's rare earth frontiers
This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Julie Klinger, an assistant professor at the University of Delaware’s Department of Geography and Spatial Sciences, about rare earths — a family of 17 elements t...
25 Feb 20211h 13min
Journalist Te-Ping Chen on her short fiction collection, Land of Big Numbers
This week on Sinica, Kaiser is joined by Wall Street Journal correspondent Te-Ping Chen to talk about her just-released collection of short fiction, Land of Big Numbers: Stories. Featuring 10 short st...
18 Feb 202153min
The Xinjiang camps on Clubhouse
This week on Sinica, Kaiser and Jeremy chat with three of the guests in a remarkable room on the drop-in voice chat app Clubhouse, which ran for 14 hours on Saturday, February 6. The room, called “Is ...
11 Feb 20211h 12min
