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China policy and the American presidency
With the United States now in a presidential election year, how should an incoming administration — whether a Democratic presidency or a second Trump administration — approach China policy? This week…
Published on 5 years, 10 months ago
Former NSC official Jeff Prescott on China-Iran relations
In the aftermath of the targeted killing of Qasem Soleimani in early January, Kaiser talked to Jeff Prescott, a veteran China-watcher who now serves as a senior advisor to the Penn Biden Center. Jeff…
Published on 5 years, 10 months ago
Observing Taiwan’s presidential election
Maggie Lewis, a law professor at Seton Hall University, discusses the recent presidential election in Taiwan, where she and other Chinese and Taiwanese legal scholars took part as independent observe…
Published on 5 years, 11 months ago
Military modernization in Xi Jinping’s China
This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Professor Tai Ming Cheung of the University of California, San Diego. Tai is the director of the UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC) and also…
Published on 5 years, 11 months ago
The Hong Kong protests: The view from campus
On this week’s show, Kaiser chats with Alejandro Reyes, an associate professor at the University of Hong Kong and a former senior policy adviser to Canada’s assistant deputy minister for Asia Pacific…
Published on 5 years, 11 months ago
Gary Rieschel of Qiming Venture Partners on VC, tech, and the U.S.-China relationship
In a show taped in Seattle, Kaiser chats with Gary Rieschel, founding managing partner of Qiming Venture Partners. With 30 unicorns and over 30 exits, Qiming has been one of the most successful VCs i…
Published on 5 years, 11 months ago
A conversation with Gary Locke
Gary Locke served as the U.S. ambassador to China from 2011 to 2014. Locke was not only the first Chinese-American ambassador to China, but also the first Chinese-American state governor and secretar…
Published on 6 years ago
Yangyang Cheng Live at NEXT China
In a show taped in front of a live audience at SupChina’s NEXT China conference, Kaiser and Jeremy chatted with particle physicist Yangyang Cheng, one of the boldest new voices writing on science and…
Published on 6 years ago
Big Brother and big data at work in Xinjiang
Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian, who covers China for Axios, was the lead reporter on an explosive leak of documents detailing the ongoing repression of Uyghurs and other Muslims in China’s Xinjiang Autonom…
Published on 6 years ago
Dynasty warriors: Ming vs. Qing smackdown
Sinica brings you a little levity for this Thanksgiving weekend: In one of the last live events taped at the storied Bookworm in Beijing, which shut its doors this month, the Royal Asiatic Society of…
Published on 6 years ago