The Raider: China and the Life of Evans Carlson, with Historian Stephen Platt
This week on Sinica, I chat with Stephen Platt, historian at UMass Amherst and author, most recently, of the book The Raider: The Untold Story of a Renegade Marine and the Birth of U.S. Special Forces...
11 Juni 20251h 22min
Industrial Policy, "Overcapacity," and U.S.-China Trade: A Conversation with Cambridge's Jostein Hauge
This week on Sinica, I chat with Jostein Hauge, political economist and an Assistant Professor in Development Studies at the University of Cambridge, based at the Centre of Development Studies and the...
10 Juni 20251h 8min
Seeking the Next DeepSeek: the Chinese Generative AI Algorithm Registry, with Kendra Schaefer
This week on Sinica, I speak with Kendra Schaefer, the partner at Trivium China who heads their tech practice. She recently published a fascinating paper looking at the Cyberspace Administration of Ch...
4 Juni 20251h 3min
Ukraine, China, and the Emerging Geopolitics of Resource Security
A bonus episode this week. On May 22, I moderated a panel organized by Vita Golod and the UNC Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies. The focus was on the U.S.-Ukraine Mineral Security...
22 Maj 20251h 28min
House of Huawei: Eva Dou of the Washington Post on Her New "Secret History" of Huawei
This week on Sinica, I chat with Eva Dou, technology reporter for the Washington Post, about her terrific new book about Huawei. From its prehistory to its fight for its life under tremendous U.S. pre...
21 Maj 20251h 8min
NEW! China Talking Points Ep. 1: Trade Truce, J-10C Dogfight, and What Comes Next
The Sinica Network proudly presents a new podcast: China Talking Points, featuring Kaiser Kuo (host of the Sinica Podcast), Eric Olander (host of the China-Global South Podcast and China In Africa Pod...
15 Maj 20251h 4min
China's DeepSeek Moment — a talk given April 17 2025 at Carnegie Mellon
I had scheduled a show to record while I was in Providence last week, but it fell through and had to be rescheduled, so please give this talk I delivered at Carnegie Mellon last month a listen!Hope yo...
14 Maj 202530min
