This week on Sinica, Kaiser speaks with Lulu Chen, journalist and author of Influence Empire: Inside the Story of Tencent and China’s Tech Ambition, on her experience reporting on one of the most valuable internet companies in the world.
This week on Sinica Jude Blanchette joins to talk about the House Select Committee on United States Competition with the Chinese Communist Party, and how its focus on the CCP as an “existential threat” adds up to an embarrassing moral panic that distracts from the serious issues the U.S. confronts when it comes to China.
With the IISS Shangri-La Dialogue kicking off in Singapore on Friday, June 2, Kaiser chats with the organizer’s managing director for Asia, James Crabtree, about the history, structure, and significance of this Asian answer to the Munich Security Conference. James, who joined the Institute for International Strategic Studies in 2018, offers a great sneak peek and a curtain-raiser on the three-day event, which will bring ministers and secretaries of defense together from all over the region and beyond.
This week on Sinica, Kaiser and Jeremy speak with Henry Sanderson, a former AP and Bloomberg reporter who was based in China for many years, about his book Volt Rush: The Winners and Losers in the Race to Go Green
One year after Vladimir Putin launched his assault on Ukraine, Evan Feigenbaum, vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, is back on the Sinica podcast along with his colleague Alexander (Sasha) Gabuev, who headed the Carnegie Moscow Center, to talk about Russia's relationship with China.
Raffaello Pantucci, co-author of the acclaimed book Sinostan: China's Inadvertent Empire, has spent decades researching China’s power and presence in Central Asia. Why is Xinjiang so valuable to China’s plans in the region, and what role does the Belt and Road Initiative play?
Gerard DiPippo, a senior fellow with the Economics Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, CSIS, talks about “Balloon-gate” and what it could mean for U.S.-China relations.
Bert Hofman, former World Bank country director for China, talks about China’s shrinking population.
Rebecca Kuang discusses her best-selling historical fantasy novel: Set in the 1830s in England, the book weaves the story of a Chinese-born protagonist who sets out to prevent a war with China over the opium trade.