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China’s push into Eastern Europe: A conversation with Martin Hála
16+1, a new Chinese initiative, takes its name from 16 countries of Central and Eastern Europe plus China. It held a summit in November 2016 attended by Premier Li Keqiang and prime ministers or depu…
Published on 8 years, 8 months ago
Trump and Xi Jinping: What lies ahead?
Earlier this month, Kaiser recorded a discussion in front of a live audience at the 1990 Institute in San Francisco with three luminaries of the China-watching scene: Yasheng Huang, MIT Sloan Profess…
Published on 8 years, 9 months ago
Chris Buckley: The China journalist’s China journalist
Chris Buckley is a highly regarded and very resourceful correspondent for The New York Times, who is based in Beijing. He has worked as a researcher and journalist in China since 1998, including a st…
Published on 8 years, 9 months ago
Big Daddy Dough: Hip-hop and macroeconomics in China
By day, Andrew Dougherty is a macroeconomist who manages a China research team for Capital Group, one of the world’s largest actively managed mutual funds. By night, he is Big Daddy Dough, creator of…
Published on 8 years, 9 months ago
Jane Perlez: Chinese foreign relations in a new age of uncertainty
Jane Perlez has been a reporter at The New York Times since 1981. She won a Pulitzer Prize in 2009 for coverage of the war against the Taliban and al Qaeda in Pakistan and Afghanistan. She has report…
Published on 8 years, 9 months ago
Rhino horn and organized crime, from Africa to China and Vietnam
John Grobler is a Namibian investigative reporter who has devoted more than two years of his life to examining the complex webs of organized crime funneling rhino horn from Africa to east Asia. Shi Y…
Published on 8 years, 10 months ago
Africa-China journalism
In November 2016, Sinica co-host Jeremy Goldkorn attended a conference in his native South Africa called the Africa-China Journalists Forum. The forum was convened to discuss the often-polarized medi…
Published on 8 years, 10 months ago
Susan Shirk: The fragile superpower and trepidation over Trump
A top diplomat during the Clinton administration, author of the influential book China: Fragile Superpower: How China’s Internal Politics Could Derail Its Peaceful Rise, research professor and chair …
Published on 8 years, 10 months ago
John Zhu retells the Three Kingdoms story
In the last three years, John Zhu has embarked on a mission to build a bridge between Chinese and Western cultures by retelling one of China’s great classics in accessible audio episodes. He has rele…
Published on 8 years, 10 months ago
Sidney Rittenberg on solitary confinement and more
Sidney Rittenberg is a labor activist from Charleston, South Carolina, who went to China as a translator for the U.S. Army in 1945 and stayed until 1980. In this episode, Sidney talks about the condi…
Published on 8 years, 11 months ago