Did tariffs make a difference in Trump’s trade war?
This week on Sinica: Did the Trump-era tariffs have their intended effects? In other words, did they prompt companies to pull up stakes in China...
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The Sinica Podcast, founded in 2010, is a weekly discussion of current affairs in China hosted by Kaiser Kuo and Jeremy Goldkorn. It is the flagship show of the Sinica Podcast Network.
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How Taiwan propelled China’s economic rise, with Shelley Rigger
This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Shelley Rigger, Brown professor of political science at Davidson College and author of the new book The Tiger...
Can China meet its ambitious emissions targets?
This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Michael Davidson, a leading scholar on China’s environmental policy, who holds joint appointments at UC San Diego as...
How the Chinese state handles labor unrest, with Manfred Elfstrom
This week, Kaiser chats with Manfred Elfstrom, an assistant professor in the Department of Economics, Philosophy, and Political Science at the University of British Columbia...
The benefits of engagement with China, defined: An audit of the S&ED
This week on the Sinica Podcast, Kaiser welcomes former Acting Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia and Pacific Affairs Susan Thornton to discuss a...
What’s the deal with the Red New Deal?
This week on Sinica, Kaiser and Jeremy welcome Lizzi Lee (李其 Lǐ Qi), SupChina contributor and host of the excellent Chinese-language YouTube channel Wall Street...
The state of the field: U.S. China programs, with Rosie Levine and Jan Berris of the NCUSCR
Last month, the National Committee on United States-China Relations (NCUSCR) published a report for the Carnegie Corporation of New York titled “American International Relations and...
The paradox of vast corruption and fast growth in China’s “Gilded Age”
If corruption is a drag on economic growth, why does China appear to have undergone some of its fastest growth during its periods of deepest...
Harvard’s William Overholt on Esquel, cotton sanctions, and forced Uyghur labor
This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with William (Bill) Overholt, senior research fellow at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and a veteran China-watcher whose...
Historian Adam Tooze on why China’s modern history should matter to Americans
This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with the Columbia historian Adam Tooze, who returns to the program a year after his first appearance. A prolific...