The Platform State: Angela Zhang and Alex Yang on How China Really Governs Its Economy
This week on Sinica, in a special episode recorded at the Davos On Air booth at the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting of the New Champions in Dalian, I sat down with Angela Huyue Zhang, professor ...
8 Juli 1h 4min
Agile Governance: Tsinghua's Xue Lan on How China Regulates What It Can't Fully Predict
Recorded live from the Davos on Air booth at the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting of the New Champions in Dalian, this special episode of Sinica tackles the "pacing problem": the widening gap bet...
30 Juni 53min
China Shock 2.0: This Time It's Europe, with Adam Tooze
Last week in Brussels, EU leaders held their first sustained debate on China policy in three years, and were so wary of Beijing’s reaction they wouldn’t print the word “China” on the agenda. The trigg...
24 Juni 46min
"But China!": Robert Wright on the AI Race and Our Coming Cosmic Reckoning
This week on Sinica I'm joined by Robert Wright, author of The Moral Animal, Nonzero, and The Evolution of God, for a conversation that runs a little outside our usual beat, though China sits closer t...
17 Juni 1h 53min
The Texas Paradox: How the Most Anti-China State Is Building America's China Capacity
The summit in Beijing produced a "constructive strategic stability" framework and a warming of tone between the two presidents. But heads of state can announce a multi-year horizon; somebody else has ...
3 Juni 1h 41min
The View from Everywhere Else: Eric Olander on how the Global South is reading the Beijing summits
Eric Olander on how the Global South is reading the Beijing summitsThis week I'm joined again by Eric Olander, founder of the China Global South Project, which runs the most indispensable English-lang...
26 Maj 1h 20min
To Rule All Under Heaven: Andrew Meyer on His New Popular History of the Warring States
This week on Sinica, I speak with Andrew Seth Meyer, professor of history at CUNY Brooklyn College and the author of a remarkable new book from Oxford University Press, To Rule All Under Heaven: A His...
21 Maj 1h 20min
"Constructive Strategic Stability": Ali Wyne of the International Crisis Group on the Trump-Xi Summit
This week on Sinica, I chat with Ali Wyne, Senior Research and Advocacy Adviser for U.S.-China at the International Crisis Group, just hours after President Trump's plane left Chinese airspace at the ...
17 Maj 1h 6min
