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.
The war in Ukraine, criticism of World Trade Organization sanctions, support for Africa, and words such as “dialogue,” “peace,” and “cooperation”: Let’s take a closer look at the recent China-Russia joint statement.
Resentment at the Chinese-funded port development at Gwadar in Pakistan’s Balochistan Province has been building for several years and one man is leading an ongoing protest movement.
The Chinese-mediated détente between Saudi Arabia and Iran represents a significant milestone in China's global footprint and strategic competition with the United States. At the same time, it underscores why both superpowers' contributions are needed to maintain regional peace and stability.
Chinese miners are vulnerable as the CAR’s weak government, Russia’s Wagner Group, and a number of rebel groups fight it out for domination of the poor country’s rich mineral resources.
The strongmen of China and Russia talked for over four hours in Moscow today.
A 300-year old poem captures the essence of a new phrase used by Xi Jinping during the “Two Sessions.”
A Chinese state-owned company has controlled a lead and zinc mine in Duddar in Pakistan’s Balochistan Province since 2014. The mine gives steady work to some locals, paying around $100 a month, which is good for the impoverished area. Other residents just feel exploited.
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.