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China’s draft regulations on generative AI, with Kendra Schaefer and Jeremy Daum

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?

Kaiser Kuo

Politics & Current Affairs

The United States’ China-centered existential crisis

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.

Kaiser Kuo

Business & Technology

The rise and struggles of Tencent

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.

Kaiser Kuo

Politics & Current Affairs

The ugly side of the race to ‘go green’

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

Kaiser Kuo

Politics & Current Affairs

Curtain-raiser on the Shangri-La Dialogue, with the man who runs the show: James Crabtree of IISS

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.

Kaiser Kuo

Politics & Current Affairs

China and the Ukraine War: one year after the invasion

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.

Kaiser Kuo

Politics & Current Affairs

China in the Eurasian heartland

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?

Kaiser Kuo

Politics & Current Affairs

A closer look at ‘balloon-gate’

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.

Kaiser Kuo

Politics & Current Affairs

Sinica Live with Ian Johnson

In a live recording from the Rizzoli Bookstore in New York, Ian Johnson, the veteran Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist, shares the wisdom he accumulated over 35 years of covering China.

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