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The Caixin-Sinica Business Brief, ep. 244: China’s sweeping property rescue
This week on the Caixin-Sinica Business Brief: Beijing launches a sweeping policy package to rescue the property market, China extends income tax breaks for foreigners...
China’s indispensable role in Africa’s railway renaissance
Over the past 20 years, tens of thousands of kilometers of new railway lines have been built across Africa – much of it constructed and...
The Rise and Fall of the EAST: MIT’s Yasheng Huang on his new book
This week on Sinica, MIT professor Yasheng Huang joins Kaiser to talk about his brand new book The Rise and Fall of the EAST: How...
[Podcast] The ‘near miracle’ that was China’s first modern treaty with a European state
The Treaty of Nerchinsk established a border between Manchu China and Romanov Russia. It was negotiated in a remote region between two sides that distrusted...
China and the politics of global climate diplomacy
The failure of G20 countries last month to agree on a plan to triple renewable energy capacity by 2030 highlights a key problem in the...
Africa’s prominent role in the new “BRICS6”
The once lifeless BRICS bloc got a big boost of energy this week with the addition of six new members including two additional African states...
China Stories summer special: The best of This Week in China’s History
Something different this week on Sinica: A selection of “This Week in China’s History” columns by James Carter, all narrated by Kaiser with a little...
[Podcast] China’s ‘southern disaster’: France lays waste to a Qing fleet
A French sneak attack in 1884 led to a fundamental misunderstanding of Qing technological prowess. It’s time to reexamine the popular — but simplistic, if...
China’s new, slimmed-down Belt and Road Initiative
China’s critics contend the Belt and Road Initiative is dead or dying due to a mix of gross mismanagement and hubris. The data, however, reveals...