Censored: Molly Roberts on how China uses deterrence, distraction, and dilution to control its internet
This week on Sinica, we continue with the ongoing California series of podcasts that Kaiser recorded last winter, and present a conversation taped in December, when he chatted with Margaret (Molly) Ro...
18 Juni 202051min
‘Superpower Interrupted’: A conversation with veteran China journalist Michael Schuman about his Chinese history of the world
This week, Kaiser and Jeremy speak with Michael Schuman, a reporter and writer who’s been covering China for 23 years, about his new book, Superpower Interrupted: The Chinese History of the World. The...
11 Juni 202054min
Max Fisher of the New York Times on media coverage of China, COVID-19, and Trump
This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Max Fisher, one of The Interpreter columnists for the New York Times, on what U.S. media coverage got right — and wrong — about the outbreak of COVID-19 in China...
4 Juni 202055min
Has China won? Part 2 of our conversation with Singapore’s Kishore Mahbubani
In this second half of our interview with Kishore Mahbubani, a former UN ambassador of Singapore, he talks to Kaiser about the perils of American exceptionalism, the poverty of strategic thinking in W...
28 Maj 20201h
Has China won? A conversation with Singapore’s Kishore Mahbubani
In the first part of this two-part conversation, Kishore Mahbubani, a former UN ambassador of Singapore, returns to Sinica to chat with Kaiser about his latest book, Has China Won? The Chinese Challen...
21 Maj 202058min
Kaiser interviews Gordon Chang!
No, not that Gordon Chang. The other one: the good one. Gordon H. Chang is a professor of American history at Stanford University, where he is also the Olive H. Palmer Professor in Humanities and the ...
14 Maj 202050min
Grounding China's drones: Leading drone maker DJI's Brendan Schulman on U.S. regulatory challenges
A congressional bill and a draft executive order threaten to prevent U.S. government agencies from using drones made in China or that contain Chinese components. Concerns over security issues may end ...
7 Maj 202059min
The pathogen and the prejudice: Jiwei Xiao on COVID-19 in China and in America
Literature professor and cineaste Jiwei Xiao, who grew up in Wuhan and whose mother still lives there, published a piece in the New York Review of Books about watching the coronavirus pandemic unfold ...
30 Apr 20201h 1min
