Sinica Podcast Network updates: April 13, 2020
Sinica Early Access: China’s Venezuelan vicissitudes
In a show taped on March 2, before the full force of COVID-19 had hit the U.S., Kaiser and Jeremy chatted with Parsifal D’Sola Alvarado about China’s strategy in the resource-rich but economically devastated Venezuela. Parsifal is a co-founder of the Andres Bello China-Latin America Research Foundation and a foreign policy adviser to Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido.
- Sinica Early Access is an ad-free, full-length preview of this weekโs Sinica Podcast, exclusively for The China Project Access members. Members can learn how to download the show at supchina.com/access.
Sinica Podcast: R.I.P. Liu Dehai, pipa virtuoso
In this Sinica Podcast Extra, Jeremy talks to classical composer and avant-garde guzhengย performer Wu Fei about Liu, his legacy, and the amazing โAmbush From All Sides.โ
China in Africa Podcast: An unprecedented crisis in China-Africa relationsย
The widespread evictions and mistreatment of African migrants in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou have caused a serious rupture in China-Africa relations. Chinese ambassadors across Africa have been called in to various foreign ministries to explain why so many of their nationals in Guangzhou have been visibly mistreated by authorities and rendered homeless by the evictions from their homes and hotels.
Roberto Castillo, an assistant professor at Lingnan University in Hong Kong, is one of the world’s foremost scholars on the African diaspora in China, where he’s done extensive research on the African population in Guangzhou in particular. He joins Eric to share his initial reactions to what’s going on in southern China and what he thinks it will take for Beijing to resolve the crisis.
Tech Buzz China by Pandaily: Episode 65 (Extra Buzz Special): Luckinโs luck ran out
Episode 65 ofย Tech Buzz Chinaย is a special one โ a reading of the seventh issue of Extra Buzz, our new biweekly newsletter written by co-host Rui Ma. Listen (and read along) to follow Ruiโs thoughts on the biggest story in China tech last week:ย the alleged fraud of Chinaโs on-demand coffee company, Luckin Coffee ็ๅนธๅๅก. At its core, we at Tech Buzz believe Luckin is a story of information asymmetry, with voices on either side of the Pacific at times seeming to be telling different stories altogether. Rui explains why investors and other observers who did the proper digging would never have been bullish, or mistaken Luckin for Starbucks.
