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Adam Tooze Climbs the China Learning Curve
I'm in Shaxi, a wonderful little town in the Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, and I was joined here by the Columbia economic historian Adam Tooze, who shared his thoughts on what he sees happening on …
Published on 5 months, 1 week ago
Carnegie's Tong Zhao on the Expansion of China's Nuclear Arsenal
This week on Sinica, in a show taped in early June in Washington, Kaiser chats with Tong Zhao (赵通) of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a leading expert on Chinese nuclear doctrine, abo…
Published on 6 months ago
The Strange Afterlife of an American Football Story from China
In 2014, the writer Christopher Beam published a humorous, heartwarming story in The New Republic about an unlikely team of American football enthusiasts in Chongqing who went on to defeat their arch…
Published on 6 months, 1 week ago
The Raider: China and the Life of Evans Carlson, with Historian Stephen Platt
This week on Sinica, I chat with Stephen Platt, historian at UMass Amherst and author, most recently, of the book The Raider: The Untold Story of a Renegade Marine and the Birth of U.S. Special Force…
Published on 6 months, 2 weeks ago
Industrial Policy, "Overcapacity," and U.S.-China Trade: A Conversation with Cambridge's Jostein Hauge
This week on Sinica, I chat with Jostein Hauge, political economist and an Assistant Professor in Development Studies at the University of Cambridge, based at the Centre of Development Studies and th…
Published on 6 months, 2 weeks ago
Seeking the Next DeepSeek: the Chinese Generative AI Algorithm Registry, with Kendra Schaefer
This week on Sinica, I speak with Kendra Schaefer, the partner at Trivium China who heads their tech practice. She recently published a fascinating paper looking at the Cyberspace Administration of C…
Published on 6 months, 3 weeks ago
Bonus Ep: Rubio's Visa Revocations, with Jeremy Goldkorn [Explicit]
Jeremy Goldkorn joins for this largely unedited throwback to the early, sweary days of the show. We talk about the announcement made on Wednesday, 28 May 2025, on the "aggressive" revocation of Chine…
Published on 6 months, 3 weeks ago
Ukraine, China, and the Emerging Geopolitics of Resource Security
A bonus episode this week. On May 22, I moderated a panel organized by Vita Golod and the UNC Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies. The focus was on the U.S.-Ukraine Mineral Securit…
Published on 7 months ago
House of Huawei: Eva Dou of the Washington Post on Her New "Secret History" of Huawei
This week on Sinica, I chat with Eva Dou, technology reporter for the Washington Post, about her terrific new book about Huawei. From its prehistory to its fight for its life under tremendous U.S. pr…
Published on 7 months ago
NEW! China Talking Points Ep. 1: Trade Truce, J-10C Dogfight, and What Comes Next
The Sinica Network proudly presents a new podcast: China Talking Points, featuring Kaiser Kuo (host of the Sinica Podcast), Eric Olander (host of the China-Global South Podcast and China In Africa Po…
Published on 7 months, 1 week ago