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Curtain-raiser on the Shangri-La Dialogue, with the man who runs the show: James Crabtree of IISS
With the IISS Shangri-La Dialogue kicking off in Singapore on Friday, June 2, Kaiser chats with the organizer’s managing director for Asia, James Crabtree, about the history, structure, and significa…
Published on 2 years, 6 months ago
Harvard's William Kirby on China's higher education system and his book "Empires of Ideas"
This week on Sinica, Harvard’s eminent sinologist William Kirby joins Kaiser to talk about his book Empires of Ideas: Creating the Modern University from Germany to America to China, and to share his…
Published on 2 years, 7 months ago
Does the Capvision raid signal a crackdown on consultancies in China? The China Project's CEO Bob Guterma, formerly of Capvision, weighs in
This week on the Sinica Podcast, Kaiser is joined by The China Project's CEO Bob Guterma, who just so happens to have served at Chief Compliance Officer (and later Managing Director for Europe and th…
Published on 2 years, 7 months ago
China's draft regulations on generative AI, with Kendra Schaefer and Jeremy Daum
This week on Sinica, Kendra Schaefer, a partner specializing in technology at China-focused consultancy Trivium, and Jeremy Daum, Senior Research Scholar in Law and Senior Fellow at the Paul Tsai Chi…
Published on 2 years, 7 months ago
Xiong'an: Techno-natural utopia or authoritarian folly?
This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Andrew Stokols, a Ph.D. researcher at MIT who has been studying the “techno-natural utopia” that the Chinese government is now building a hundred kilometers sou…
Published on 2 years, 7 months ago
Earth Day episode: How can the U.S. and China cooperate on climate in this era of competition?
This week on Sinica, an Earth Day special: Kaiser chats with Marilyn Waite, managing director of the Climate Finance Fund; Alex Wang, a UCLA law professor who specializes in China climate and environ…
Published on 2 years, 8 months ago
Legendary CNN reporter Mike Chinoy on his book and documentary series "Assignment China"
This week on the Sinica Podcast, Jeremy and I chat with Mike Chinoy, the legendary award-winning TV newsman who helmed CNN in Beijing for many critical years. Mike talks about the video documentary s…
Published on 2 years, 8 months ago
As the U.S. and China part ways, the Global South finds its own path, with Kishore Mahbubani
This week on Sinica, Kishore Mahbubani, who served as Singapore's UN Ambassador and has written extensively on ASEAN and the U.S.-China rift, returns to the show to discuss his recent essay in Foreig…
Published on 2 years, 8 months ago
Sinica at the Association for Asian Studies Conference, Boston 2023: Capsule interviews
This week on Sinica, something different: Kaiser asks over a dozen scholars of various facets of China studies to talk about their work and make some recommendations! You'll hear from a variety of sc…
Published on 2 years, 8 months ago
The Maoist legacy in Chinese private enterprise, with Chris Marquis
This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Chris Marquis, a professor at Cambridge University’s Judge Business School, and formerly at Cornell’s business school, about the book he co-authored with Kunyua…
Published on 2 years, 8 months ago