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U.S. Foreign Service Officer Leland Lazarus on China-Caribbean relations
This week on Sinica, Kaiser and Jeremy chat with Leland Lazarus, an American diplomat stationed in Barbados. Leland is a China specialist, and the conversation focuses on the U.S. response to growing…
Published on 5 years, 4 months ago
Global Governance 2020: A discussion with Kaiser Kuo and Susan Thornton
Susan Thornton, former senior U.S. diplomat, returns to the Sinica Podcast this week. This conversation was recorded during the Princeton U.S.-China Coalition virtual event on August 1, 2020. Kaiser …
Published on 5 years, 4 months ago
Adam Tooze on the geopolitics of the pandemic
This week, Kaiser and Jeremy chat with Adam Tooze, professor of history at Columbia University and author of Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World, about the impact of the COVID…
Published on 5 years, 4 months ago
Sir Danny Alexander on AIIB in a time of crisis
This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Sir Danny Alexander, vice president and corporate secretary of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and former Liberal Democrat MP and chief secretary to th…
Published on 5 years, 4 months ago
‘Superpower Showdown’: A conversation with authors Bob Davis and Lingling Wei
This week on Sinica, Kaiser and Jeremy talk to Wall Street Journal reporters Bob Davis and Lingling Wei about their great new book, Superpower Showdown: How the Battle Between Trump and Xi Threatens …
Published on 5 years, 5 months ago
Huawei and the 5G ecosystem
This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Andy Purdy, chief security officer of Huawei USA, and Paul Triolo, practice head of geotechnology at the Eurasia Group. They explore the complexities of the 5G …
Published on 5 years, 5 months ago
Standoff in Ladakh: Ananth Krishnan on the China-India border conflict
Late on the night of June 15, a deadly melee erupted on the banks of the Galwan River, in a disputed region called Ladakh, high in the mountains between China and India. To help guide a discussion on…
Published on 5 years, 5 months ago
The controversy over Fang Fang’s ‘Wuhan Diary’: A conversation with the translator, Michael Berry
This week on Sinica, Kaiser speaks with Michael Berry, the translator of the Wuhan-based writer Fang Fang’s controversial Wuhan Diary: Dispatches from a Quarantined City. Michael discusses Fang Fang’…
Published on 5 years, 5 months ago
Why doesn't the China bubble pop? A conversation with Bloomberg’s chief economist, Tom Orlik
This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Bloomberg’s chief economist, Tom Orlik, about his new book, China: The Bubble That Never Pops. A longtime resident of Beijing, Tom wrote for the Wall Street Jou…
Published on 5 years, 6 months ago
Censored: Molly Roberts on how China uses deterrence, distraction, and dilution to control its internet
This week on Sinica, we continue with the ongoing California series of podcasts that Kaiser recorded last winter, and present a conversation taped in December, when he chatted with Margaret (Molly) R…
Published on 5 years, 6 months ago