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Sinica Podcast

by Kaiser Kuo

A weekly discussion of current affairs in China with journalists, writers, academics, policymakers, business people and anyone with something compelling to say about the country that's reshaping the world. Hosted by Kaiser Kuo.

101 episodes
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1
Edge of Ruin: Mike Lampton and Wang Jisi’s Warning on U.S.-China Relations
1:33:24 Mar 19, 2026
2
Governing Digital China, with Daniela Stockmann and Ting Luo
1:08:24 Mar 12, 2026
3
Yi-Ling Liu on The Wall Dancers: China's Internet, Its Creative Spirits, and the Art of the Possible
1:17:46 Feb 25, 2026
4
Kyle Chan on the Great Reversal in Global Technology Flows
1:21:21 Feb 18, 2026
5
Brookings' Patricia Kim Takes Stock of Trump's Second-Term China Policy
1:04:36 Feb 11, 2026
6
Uneasy Calm: Ryan Hass on Three Pathways for U.S.-China Relations Under Trump
1:03:51 Feb 4, 2026
7
Afra Wang on "The Morning Star of Lingao" (????) and the Rise and Reckoning of China's "Industrial Party"
1:24:39 Jan 28, 2026
8
The Highest Exam: Jia Ruixue and Li Hongbin on China's Gaokao and What It Reveals About Chinese Society
1:15:57 Jan 21, 2026
9
Daniel Bessner on American Primacy, Cold War Liberalism, and the China Challenge
1:03:51 Jan 14, 2026
10
Eric Olander: After the Maduro Capture — Assessing China's Real Exposure in Venezuela
1:10:07 Jan 8, 2026
11
Michael Brenes and Van Jackson on Why U.S.-China Great-Power Competition Threatens Peace and Weakens Democracy
1:02:45 Jan 2, 2026
12
Paul Triolo on Nvidia H200s, Chinese EUV Breakthroughs, and the Collapse of the Sullivan Doctrine
1:24:50 Dec 26, 2025
13
Mark Sidel on China's Oversight of Foreign NGOs: Eight Years of the Overseas NGO Law
1:04:28 Dec 17, 2025
14
Guest Host Iza Ding with Deborah Seligsohn: Inside COP30 in Belem, Brazil, and China's Climate Leadership
2:05:54 Dec 10, 2025
15
Murder House: Zhong Na on the Silicon Valley Tragedy That Exposed the Cracks in China's Meritocracy
49:58 Dec 3, 2025
16
Finbarr Bermingham of the SCMP on Nexperia, Export Controls, and Europe's Impossible Position
51:01 Nov 20, 2025
17
We Were Right: Kaiser and Jeremy Reunite to Riff on the China Vibe Shift
54:07 Nov 11, 2025
18
Lizzi Lee on Involution, Overcapacity, and China's Economic Model
1:24:51 Nov 5, 2025
19
Foreign Affairs Editor Daniel Kurtz-Phelan on Shifting Views of China
1:05:08 Oct 30, 2025
20
The View from Behind Xi Jinping's Desk, with Jonathan Czin
1:19:43 Oct 21, 2025
21
The Symbolism of the Flying Tigers: Peking University's Wang Dong on the American Volunteer Group and its Historical and Diplomatic Usages
38:57 Sep 29, 2025
22
Jasmine Sun on Silicon Valley through a Chinese Mirror
1:11:18 Sep 22, 2025
23
Yascha Mounk on China and Western Liberalism
1:22:03 Sep 17, 2025
24
What Did the September 3 Parade Mean?
1:43:11 Sep 10, 2025
25
What Does China Want? The Authors of a New Paper Challenge the DC Consensus
1:29:32 Sep 2, 2025
26
Trump's India Tariff Tirade: A Gift to Beijing? With Evan Feigenbaum
1:03:36 Aug 27, 2025
27
The Engineering State and the Lawyerly Society: Dan Wang on his new book "Breakneck"
1:32:43 Aug 21, 2025
28
Chinese and U.S. AI Applications in Public Administration: Lessons and Implications for Ukraine
1:18:46 Aug 14, 2025
29
Nuclear Weapons, Ukraine, and Great-Power Competition
1:12:49 Aug 12, 2025
30
The World AI Conference in Shanghai: Two tech veterans share their impressions
1:26:01 Aug 6, 2025
31
Chinese Cooking Demystified: Chris Thomas and Stephanie Li visit Shaxi!
1:17:54 Jul 30, 2025
32
Adam Tooze Climbs the China Learning Curve
1:03:28 Jul 16, 2025
33
Carnegie's Tong Zhao on the Expansion of China's Nuclear Arsenal
1:10:21 Jun 25, 2025
34
The Strange Afterlife of an American Football Story from China
45:20 Jun 18, 2025
35
The Raider: China and the Life of Evans Carlson, with Historian Stephen Platt
1:22:06 Jun 11, 2025
36
Industrial Policy, "Overcapacity," and U.S.-China Trade: A Conversation with Cambridge's Jostein Hauge
1:08:02 Jun 10, 2025
37
Seeking the Next DeepSeek: the Chinese Generative AI Algorithm Registry, with Kendra Schaefer
1:03:57 Jun 4, 2025
38
Bonus Ep: Rubio's Visa Revocations, with Jeremy Goldkorn [Explicit]
49:42 May 29, 2025
39
Ukraine, China, and the Emerging Geopolitics of Resource Security
1:28:57 May 22, 2025
40
House of Huawei: Eva Dou of the Washington Post on Her New "Secret History" of Huawei
1:08:40 May 21, 2025
41
NEW! China Talking Points Ep. 1: Trade Truce, J-10C Dogfight, and What Comes Next
1:04:49 May 15, 2025
42
China's DeepSeek Moment — a talk given April 17 2025 at Carnegie Mellon
30:45 May 14, 2025
43
Broken Engagement: Veteran China reporter Bob Davis on his new collection of interviews
1:15:47 May 7, 2025
44
The EU-China Relationship in the Age of Trumpian Disruption, with Finbarr Bermingham of the SCMP
1:06:46 Apr 29, 2025
45
Live at Pitt: CMU's Benno Weiner on the Evolution of China's Minzu Policy
52:07 Apr 23, 2025
46
Sinica Live at Columbia University, with Yawei Liu and Yukon Huang
58:15 Apr 17, 2025
47
Life, Love, and Loss in China: Hazza Harding's story of resilience
1:19:20 Apr 3, 2025
48
Is China Gaining Ground in Technology Diffusion? A Conversation with Jeffrey Ding
45:52 Mar 27, 2025
49
Evolutionary Psychology and International Relations, with Jeremy Garlick
1:26:24 Mar 21, 2025
50
Live in Berkeley: Jessica Chen Weiss and Ryan Hass on the U.S. and China in 2025
1:02:08 Mar 12, 2025
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