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
China's judicial decisions database and what it means
By the end of 2019, Chinese courts had uploaded some 80 million court cases to a massive, centralized database — a gold mine not only for people working in the legal professions in China, but also for...
14 Jan 202156min
Ryan Hass on the Biden administration's China direction
This week on Sinica, Kaiser welcomes back former National Security Council China director Ryan Hass, who offers his perspective on the likely direction that the incoming Biden administration will take...
7 Jan 202155min
