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
R.I.P. Liu Dehai, pipa virtuoso
Liú Déhǎi 刘德海, master of the pipa, a type of Chinese lute, died at the age of 83 on April 11, 2020. Liu was born in Shanghai in 1937. He received his early music education there before the Communist v...
13 Apr 202016min
Will China save the planet? A climatic conversation with NRDC's Barbara Finamore
In a show taped in late February, Kaiser chats with Barbara Finamore, senior attorney and senior strategic director, Asia, for the Natural Resources Defense Council, who shares her perspective on Chin...
9 Apr 20201h 6min
Former U.S. ambassador Michael McFaul on democracy promotion in Russia and China
This week, we bring you another show from the California podcast series that Kaiser recorded back in December, before the ravages of COVID-19. Take a break from thinking about the virus to listen to M...
2 Apr 202050min
Dexter Roberts on ‘The Myth of Chinese Capitalism’
On this week's show, veteran reporter Dexter "Tiff" Roberts chats with Kaiser and Jeremy about his new book, The Myth of Chinese Capitalism: The Worker, the Factory, and the Future of the World.6:28: ...
26 Mars 20201h 10min
Janet Yang and Michael Berry on the state of cinema in a time of souring U.S.-China ties
This week on Sinica, Kaiser continues his California series with a conversation with Janet Yang, one of the legends of the U.S.-China film world, and Michael Berry, a professor at UCLA and a leading e...
19 Mars 202052min
USCBC President Craig Allen on trade in a time of disruption
In a show taped live at the China-U.S. Summit at Duke University on February 29, Kaiser chats with Ambassador Craig Allen, the longtime Asia-based diplomat who now serves as president of the U.S.-Chin...
12 Mars 202048min
UCLA's Alex Wang on where China leads and lags in climate change
In this episode, part of Sinica's California series, Kaiser chats with Alex Wang, a professor of law at UCLA and an expert on China's environmental law. Just back from the COP25 meeting in Madrid, Ale...
5 Mars 202047min
