Cheng Lei: The detention and arrest of an Australian CGTN reporter
In August 2020, the CGTN anchorwoman Chéng Lěi 成蕾, an Australian citizen, was detained in Beijing. Six months later, she was formally arrested and charged with violations of China’s expansive state se...
11 Mars 202147min
Getting Chinese politics wrong, with Jude Blanchette
This week on Sinica, Kaiser and Jeremy chat with Jude Blanchette, the Freeman Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, to talk about the faulty assumptions that American analysts a...
4 Mars 20211h 5min
Julie Klinger on China's rare earth frontiers
This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Julie Klinger, an assistant professor at the University of Delaware’s Department of Geography and Spatial Sciences, about rare earths — a family of 17 elements t...
25 Feb 20211h 13min
Journalist Te-Ping Chen on her short fiction collection, Land of Big Numbers
This week on Sinica, Kaiser is joined by Wall Street Journal correspondent Te-Ping Chen to talk about her just-released collection of short fiction, Land of Big Numbers: Stories. Featuring 10 short st...
18 Feb 202153min
The Xinjiang camps on Clubhouse
This week on Sinica, Kaiser and Jeremy chat with three of the guests in a remarkable room on the drop-in voice chat app Clubhouse, which ran for 14 hours on Saturday, February 6. The room, called “Is ...
11 Feb 20211h 12min
China’s struggle for tech ascendancy, with Dan Wang of Gavekal Dragonomics
This week on Sinica, Kaiser talks with Dan Wang, a Shanghai-based analyst at research firm Gavekal Dragonomics, who also contributes a regular opinion column to Bloomberg. Combining firsthand knowledg...
4 Feb 20211h 18min
Talking Taiwan with former national intelligence officer Paul Heer
This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Paul Heer about the conundrum of Taiwan — one of the thorniest and most fraught issues confronting the new Biden foreign policy team as it navigates the U.S.-Chi...
28 Jan 20211h 8min
A new U.S. strategy in East Asia, from the Quincy Institute
This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with the three authors of a new policy paper from the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, a relatively new D.C.-based think tank that advocates restraint in ...
21 Jan 20211h 28min
