Joan Kaufman on foreign nonprofits and academia in China
Joan Kaufman is a fascinating figure: Her long and storied career in China started in the early 1980s, when she was what she calls a “cappuccino-and-croissant socialist from Berkeley.” Today, she is t...
27 Juli 201750min
Straight talk on North Korea and China, with Lyle Goldstein
Lyle Goldstein, an associate professor and strategic researcher at the U.S. Naval War College’s China Maritime Studies Institute, is an expert on Chinese and Russian security strategies. He is also an...
20 Juli 20171h 10min
China’s Asian power play: Tom Miller on the future of Belt and Road
Tom Miller, senior Asia analyst and managing editor at Gavekal Research, joins Jeremy and Kaiser to discuss his new book, China’s Asian Dream: Empire Building Along the New Silk Road. Miller combines ...
13 Juli 20171h
Jerome A. Cohen on human rights and law in China
Professor Jerome A. Cohen began studying the law of what was then called “Red China” in the early 1960s, at a time when the country was closed off, little understood, and much maligned in the West. Le...
6 Juli 20171h 17min
Guo Wengui: The extraordinary tale of a Chinese billionaire turned dissident, told by Mike Forsythe and Alexandra Stevenson
The life and times of Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui 郭文贵 reads much like an epic play, so it is fitting that we have included with this podcast a dramatis personæ to explain the many characters in Guo...
29 Juni 201755min
David Rank, top U.S. diplomat, on why he resigned to protest Trump
David Rank became the leading diplomat for one of America’s most important embassies during the transition when Iowa governor Terry Branstad formally succeeded former Montana senator Max Baucus as U.S...
22 Juni 201748min
Islamophobia in China, explained by Alice Su and Ma Tianjie
Islamophobia isn’t a phenomenon limited to Trump’s America or the Europe of Brexit and Marine Le Pen. It has taken root in China, too — in a form that bears a striking resemblance to what we’ve seen i...
15 Juni 20171h 5min
How does investigative reporting happen in China? A conversation with Li Xin of Caixin
Li Xin 李昕 is the managing director of Caixin Global, the English-language arm of China’s most authoritative financial news source, Caixin. For over 10 years, she has worked closely with the editor-in-...
8 Juni 201745min
