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Beijing brokers a Saudi-Iranian rapprochement, with Tuvia Gering
This week on Sinica, Kaiser welcomes Tuvia Gering of Israel's Institute of National Security Studies, where he focuses on China's relations with Israel and other countries of the Middle East. Tuvia b…
Published on 2 years, 9 months ago
The Xi-Putin meetings, with Maria Repnikova
This week, a bonus episode to keep you caught up on the week's biggest China story: Xi Jinping's two days of meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Maria Repnikova, a Latvian-born native Rus…
Published on 2 years, 9 months ago
The expansion of China's administrative state during COVID, with Yale Law's Taisu Zhang
This week on Sinica, Kaiser welcomes Taisu Zhang, professor of law at Yale University, who discusses his recent work on the expansion of the administrative state down to the subdistrict and neighborh…
Published on 2 years, 9 months ago
Jude Blanchette on the Select Committee and the American moral panic over China
A second full episode this week for you Sinica listeners! Jude Blanchette joins to talk about the House Select Committee on United States Competition with the Chinese Communist Party, and all that is…
Published on 2 years, 9 months ago
Inside Tencent's "Influence Empire," with Bloomberg's Lulu Chen
This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Lulu Chen, who has reported on tech in China for over a decade and is the author of the book Influence Empire: The Inside Story of Tencent and China's Tech Ambi…
Published on 2 years, 9 months ago
China and the electric vehicle battery supply chain, with Henry Sanderson
This week on Sinica, Kaiser and Jeremy speak with Henry Sanderson, a former AP and Bloomberg reporter who was based in China for many years, about his book Volt Rush: The Winners and Losers in the Ra…
Published on 2 years, 9 months ago
China and the Ukraine War one year after the invasion, with Evan Feigenbaum and Alexander Gabuev
It's been one year now since Vladimir Putin launched his assault on Ukraine, and China has sought to maintain the same difficult, awkward straddle across a difficult year. Did Beijing's efforts to pr…
Published on 2 years, 10 months ago
Sinostan: Raffaello Pantucci on China's inadvertent empire in Central Asia
This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Raffaello Pantucci, co-author of the 2022 book Sinostan: China's Inadvertent Empire, which examines China's presence in Central Asia. Based on extensive travel …
Published on 2 years, 10 months ago
CSIS analyst Gerard DiPippo deflates the balloon hype and brings the discussion back to earth
This week, we've got a short show focused on the Chinese balloon that became the obsessive focus of American attention from Thursday through Sunday, February 5, when an F-22 shot it out of the sky of…
Published on 2 years, 10 months ago
Live in New York City with veteran China journalist Ian Johnson
This week on Sinica, our live recording from the Rizzoli Bookstore in the Flatiron district of Manhattan with the legendary Ian Johnson, who has covered China for a host of publications spanning 35 y…
Published on 2 years, 10 months ago