This week on Sinica, Kaiser speaks with Kishore Mahbubani about how the U.S. could appeal to the countries of ASEAN more effectively by not framing its contest with China as one between democracy and authoritarianism and not trying to force countries to choose sides.
This week on Sinica, something different: Kaiser asks over a dozen scholars of various facets of China studies to talk about their work and make some recommendations! You’ll hear from a variety of scholars, from MA students to tenured professors, talking about a bewildering range of fascinating work they’re doing.
The Maoist legacy in Chinese private enterprise is the subject of the latest Sinica Podcast interview with Chris Marquis, professor at Cambridge University’s Judge Business School. He talks about the book he co-authored with Kunyuan Qiao, Mao and Markets: The Communist Roots of Chinese Enterprise.
This week on Sinica, Harvard’s eminent sinologist William Kirby joins Kaiser to talk about his book 'Empires of Ideas: Creating the Modern University from Germany to America to China,' and to share his views on the state of higher education in China and the U.S.
This week on Sinica, Kaiser welcomes Tuvia Gering of Israel’s Institute of National Security Studies, where he focuses on China’s relations with Israel and other countries of the Middle East. Tuvia breaks down the agreement to normalize relations between Riyadh and Tehran, which Beijing brokered during secret talks that were only revealed, along with the fruit they bore, on March 10.
This week, a bonus episode to keep you caught up on the week's biggest China story: Xi Jinping's two days of meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Maria Repnikova, a Latvian-born native Russian speaker who is also fluent in Chinese and who teaches Chinese politics and communications at Georgia State University, joins the show again to talk about what each side hoped for, what each side got, and the asymmetries of power on conspicuous display in Moscow.
This week on the Sinica Podcast, Kaiser is joined by The China Project's CEO Bob Guterma, who just so happens to have served at Chief Compliance Officer (and later Managing Director for Europe and the U.S.) for the expert network Capvision.
This week on Sinica, Kaiser welcomes Taisu Zhang, professor of law at Yale University, who discusses his recent work on the expansion of the administrative state down to the subdistrict and neighborhood level — changes that are far-reaching, and likely permanent along with Beijing's shift from “performance legitimacy” as the foundation of political rule, and more toward legality — not to be confused with the rule of law.
This week on Sinica, Kendra Schaefer, a partner specializing in technology at China-focused consultancy Trivium, and Jeremy Daum, Senior Research Scholar in Law and Senior Fellow at the Paul Tsai China Center. discuss the new draft regulations published in April by the Cyberspace Administration of China that will, when passed, govern generative AI in China. Will it choke off innovation, or create conditions for the safe development of this world-changing technology?