This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Lyle Goldstein, the director for China engagement at the think tank Defense Priorities. Goldstein offers his perspectives on an extensive wargaming exercise focusing on a Chinese amphibious assault on Taiwan and offers insight into the real value of the exercise, as well as some of its shortcomings.
This week on Sinica Kaiser welcomes back Paul Triolo, senior VP for China and technology policy lead at Dentons Global Advisors, to discuss the state of play in Chinese Generative AI.
American investments should not help China develop AI, semiconductors, and quantum computing, Biden says, but Congressional Republicans say his executive order is soft.
This week on Sinica, Kaiser is joined by Maggie Lewis and Paul Heer, who were members of the Council on Foreign Relations’s task force on U.S.-Taiwan policy and produced a report titled “U.S.-Taiwan Relations in a New Era: Responding to a More Assertive China.” Both also wrote dissents about some of its findings and recommendations.
Sino-U.S. science and technology partnerships can help or hurt both sides, depending if you’re talking to the faithful or the fearful.
This week on Sinica, Kaiser welcomes back Jeremy Daum, senior research scholar in law and senior fellow at the Paul Tsai China Law Center. Jeremy has a well-deserved reputation as a debunker of myths and misperceptions about China. This time, he takes on the much-discussed “overseas police stations,” and examines who they are and aren’t related to China’s transnational repression.
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn.
This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Elsa Kania, a Ph.D. candidate in Harvard University's Department of Government and an adjunct fellow at the Center for a New American Security who researches China's military strategy, defense innovation, and emerging technologies. Elsa joins the show to talk about China’s push for “Military-Civil Fusion,” debunking some of the myths about the program that U.S. pundits and policymakers have imbibed.
Former NSC China Director Dennis Wilder shares his thoughts on U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken's visit to China and what it could be for the future of U.S.-China relations.