Sir Danny Alexander on AIIB in a time of crisis
This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Sir Danny Alexander, vice president and corporate secretary of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and former Liberal Democrat MP and chief secretary to the...
30 Jul 202046min
‘Superpower Showdown’: A conversation with authors Bob Davis and Lingling Wei
This week on Sinica, Kaiser and Jeremy talk to Wall Street Journal reporters Bob Davis and Lingling Wei about their great new book, Superpower Showdown: How the Battle Between Trump and Xi Threatens a...
23 Jul 20201h 29min
Huawei and the 5G ecosystem
This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Andy Purdy, chief security officer of Huawei USA, and Paul Triolo, practice head of geotechnology at the Eurasia Group. They explore the complexities of the 5G e...
16 Jul 20201h 2min
Standoff in Ladakh: Ananth Krishnan on the China-India border conflict
Late on the night of June 15, a deadly melee erupted on the banks of the Galwan River, in a disputed region called Ladakh, high in the mountains between China and India. To help guide a discussion on ...
9 Jul 202052min
The controversy over Fang Fang’s ‘Wuhan Diary’: A conversation with the translator, Michael Berry
This week on Sinica, Kaiser speaks with Michael Berry, the translator of the Wuhan-based writer Fang Fang’s controversial Wuhan Diary: Dispatches from a Quarantined City. Michael discusses Fang Fang’s...
2 Jul 202051min
Why doesn't the China bubble pop? A conversation with Bloomberg’s chief economist, Tom Orlik
This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Bloomberg’s chief economist, Tom Orlik, about his new book, China: The Bubble That Never Pops. A longtime resident of Beijing, Tom wrote for the Wall Street Jour...
25 Jun 20201h 9min
Censored: Molly Roberts on how China uses deterrence, distraction, and dilution to control its internet
This week on Sinica, we continue with the ongoing California series of podcasts that Kaiser recorded last winter, and present a conversation taped in December, when he chatted with Margaret (Molly) Ro...
18 Jun 202051min
‘Superpower Interrupted’: A conversation with veteran China journalist Michael Schuman about his Chinese history of the world
This week, Kaiser and Jeremy speak with Michael Schuman, a reporter and writer who’s been covering China for 23 years, about his new book, Superpower Interrupted: The Chinese History of the World. The...
11 Jun 202054min
