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Wargaming a Taiwan invasion scenario: Lyle Goldstein on the CSIS wargame “The First Battle of the Next War"
This week on Sinica, Kaiser welcomes back Lyle Goldstein, director for China engagement at the think tank Defense Priorities and previously a professor at the U.S. Naval War College, where he taught …
Published on 2 years, 4 months ago
The state of play of generative AI in China, with Paul Triolo
This week on Sinica, Paul Triolo returns to the show to give us a rundown on what’s happening in the exciting arena of generative AI in China. The veteran China tech watcher, who is now Senior VP for…
Published on 2 years, 4 months ago
Is the Biden administration resetting U.S.-China relations?
This week on Sinica, with Kaiser on holiday we're running a terrific Twitter Spaces conversation convened by Neysun Mahboubi of UPenn's Center for the Study of Contemporary China. He's gathered a gre…
Published on 2 years, 4 months ago
The CFR Taiwan task force report: advice and dissent, with Maggie Lewis and Paul Heer
This week on Sinica, Kaiser is joined by Margaret (Maggie) Lewis, professor of law at Seton Hall University and veteran Taiwan observer, and Paul Heer, former national intelligence officer for East A…
Published on 2 years, 5 months ago
Transnational repression and China's "overseas police stations," with Jeremy Daum of Yale's Paul Tsai China Law Center
This week on Sinica, Kaiser welcomes back Jeremy Daum, senior research scholar in law and senior fellow at the Paul Tsai China Law Center. Jeremy has a well-deserved reputation as a debunker of myths…
Published on 2 years, 5 months ago
China after COVID: UPenn's Neysun Mahboubi reports on scholarly exchange in a tightening political space
This week on Sinica, UPenn legal scholar Neysun Mahboubi talks about his recently-concluded trip back to China — his first time back since the outbreak of the pandemic. Neysun talks about the importa…
Published on 2 years, 5 months ago
China's Military-Civil Fusion program: CNAS fellow Elsa Kania on the myths and realities
This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Elsa Kania, a Ph.D. candidate in Harvard University's Department of Government and adjunct fellow at the Center for a New American Security who researches China…
Published on 2 years, 5 months ago
Mr. Blinken goes to Beijing, with former NSC China Director Dennis Wilder
With Secretary of State Antony Blinken's two days of meetings in Beijing just concluded, Kaiser spoke with Dennis Wilder, managing director for the Initiative for U.S.-China Dialogue on Global Issues…
Published on 2 years, 6 months ago
Economist Keyu Jin on her new book, "The New China Playbook"
This week on Sinica, Kaiser is joined by Keyu Jin, associate professor of economics at LSE, who talks about her new book, The New China Playbook: Beyond Socialism and Capitalism, a wide-ranging, ambi…
Published on 2 years, 6 months ago
David Ownby of ReadingtheChinaDream.com on the intellectual mood in China
This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with David Ownby, the University of Montreal historian who runs the excellent ReadingTheChinaDream.com website — a trove of translations of writings by mainstream Ch…
Published on 2 years, 6 months ago