‘Shaken Authority’: Party-speak, propaganda, and the Sichuan earthquake of 2008
This week on Sinica, Kaiser and Jeremy speak with Christian Sorace, assistant professor of political science at Colorado College. The three discuss his book, Shaken Authority: China’s Communist Party ...
29 Nov 201859min
Mythbusting China’s social credit system
This week on Sinica, Kaiser traveled across the Atlantic to host a live podcast at the Asia Society of Switzerland in Zurich. The topic of discussion is the social credit system (SCS) in China, a fier...
22 Nov 201859min
Shadow banking, P2P lending, and pyramid schemes: Lucy Hornby on China's gray economy
This week on Sinica, Kaiser speaks with Lucy Hornby, the deputy bureau chief of the Financial Times in Beijing and a veteran guest on the show. She has appeared on Sinica before to discuss professiona...
15 Nov 201851min
Introducing the Ta for Ta Podcast
In lieu of Sinica this week, we are proud to announce the newest addition to our network, Ta for Ta, hosted by Juliana Batista. Ta for Ta is a new biweekly podcast, which captures the narratives of wo...
8 Nov 201856min
Kevin Rudd on Xi Jinping’s worldview
This week on Sinica, Kaiser speaks with the Honorable Kevin Rudd, the 26th prime minister of Australia and the inaugural president of the Asia Society Policy Institute. He is also a doctoral student a...
1 Nov 20181h 10min
Danny Russel on the rebalancing and decoupling
This week on Sinica, Kaiser speaks with Danny Russel, career diplomat and former assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs from 2013 to 2017, and currently vice president for int...
25 Okt 20181h 24min
Kai-Fu Lee and the U.S.-China AI rivalry
This week on Sinica, Jeremy and Kaiser speak with Kai-Fu Lee 李开复, who has returned to discuss his new book, AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order. Kai-Fu is a prominent member...
18 Okt 201842min
Nury Turkel and the Uyghur plight
This week on Sinica, Kaiser and Jeremy are joined by Nury Turkel, a prominent voice in the overseas Uyghur community and the chairman of the Uyghur Human Rights Project, now based in Washington, D.C. ...
11 Okt 20181h 7min
