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
The Sinica Podcast turns 10
For our 10th anniversary show, Kaiser and Jeremy recorded live on Zoom, shared some reminiscences, reflected on how China and the podcast have changed in the years since they started the show, and too...
23 Apr 20201h 50min
China's Venezuelan vicissitudes
In a show taped on March 2, before the full force of COVID-19 had hit the U.S., Kaiser and Jeremy chatted with Parsifal D'Sola Alvarado about China's strategy in the resource-rich but economically dev...
16 Apr 202054min
