Standoff in Ladakh: Ananth Krishnan on the China-India border conflict
Late on the night of June 15, a deadly melee erupted on the banks of the Galwan River, in a disputed region called Ladakh, high in the mountains between China and India. To help guide a discussion on ...
9 Juli 202052min
The controversy over Fang Fang’s ‘Wuhan Diary’: A conversation with the translator, Michael Berry
This week on Sinica, Kaiser speaks with Michael Berry, the translator of the Wuhan-based writer Fang Fang’s controversial Wuhan Diary: Dispatches from a Quarantined City. Michael discusses Fang Fang’s...
2 Juli 202051min
Why doesn't the China bubble pop? A conversation with Bloomberg’s chief economist, Tom Orlik
This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Bloomberg’s chief economist, Tom Orlik, about his new book, China: The Bubble That Never Pops. A longtime resident of Beijing, Tom wrote for the Wall Street Jour...
25 Juni 20201h 9min
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
