Sinica Early Access

This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Professor Tai Ming Cheung of the University of California, San Diego. Tai is the director of the UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC) and also a leading expert on Chinese national security and defense modernization. This show is part of a nine-part series of shows taped in California in December 2019, made possible by the Serica Initiative, SupChina's nonprofit arm.

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On this week's show, Kaiser chats with Alejandro Reyes, an associate professor at the University of Hong Kong and a former senior policy adviser to Canada's assistant deputy minister for Asia Pacific, about the ongoing Hong Kong protests and the spread of violence to some of Hong Kong's best-known universities in November. Alejandro offers his take on this phase of the protests, and on how half a year of incessant protests has impacted the mental health of young Hongkongers.

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In a show taped in Seattle, Kaiser chats with Gary Rieschel, founding managing partner of Qiming Venture Partners. With 30 unicorns and over 30 exits, Qiming has been one of the most successful VCs in China, investing in numerous companies that have gone on to become household names in the country. Gary reflects on his years in China and the folly of decoupling.

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Gary Locke served as U.S. Ambassador to China from 2011 to 2014. Locke was not only the first Chinese-American ambassador to China, but also the first Chinese-American state governor and Secretary of Commerce. This week on Sinica, he joins Kaiser in a show taped in Seattle, Washington. He reminisces about his early visits to his ancestral village in China's Guangdong Province, recalls the attempted defection of Chongqing police chief and erstwhile Bo Xilai underling Wang Lijun to the Chengdu Consulate, and provides rare detail about the flight of blind dissident lawyer Chen Guangcheng to the U.S. Embassy in Beijing. 

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In a show taped at SupChina's NEXT China conference, Kaiser and Jeremy chat with particle physicist Yangyang Cheng, one of the boldest new voices writing on science and contemporary China. Get to know the woman behind SupChina's Science and China column.

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Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian, the China reporter for Axios and the lead reporter of an explosive piece that details the Chinese government's ongoing oppression of Uyghurs in Xinjiang, is our guest this week. Her report, titled Exposed: China’s Operating Manuals for Mass Internment and Arrest by Algorithm, exposes what she describes as a "manual for operating the camps," and reveals how Chinese police are using big data to imprison those deemed dangerous in Xinjiang.

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Sinica brings you a little levity for this Thanksgiving weekend. In one of the last live events taped at the storied Bookworm in Beijing, which shut its doors this month, the Royal Asiatic Society of Beijing sponsored a debate over a simple proposition: The Ming was better than the Qing. Four seasoned China watchers battle it out for dynastic supremacy. Who will prevail?

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In a podcast taped live for the Asia Society of Switzerland in Zurich, Kaiser is joined by Kristin Shi-Kupfer, head of public policy and society research at The Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS) in Berlin, and Evgeny Morozov, contributing editor at the New Republic and the author of The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom and To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism. They discuss the shifting narratives about the relationship between technology and authoritarian politics, and how these shifts have been affected by China's rise as a technology power.

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Fuchsia Dunlop, the preeminent writer on Chinese cuisine in the English language, has published a completely revised and updated version of Land of Plenty, her classic book on Sichuan cookery, containing 70 new recipes. She joins Kaiser and guest host Jim Millward of Georgetown University in a discussion of this wildly popular cuisine — and how to get started as a Sichuan chef in your own kitchen.

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This week on Sinica, Kaiser talks about the state of charitable giving in China with Scott Kennedy, senior adviser and Trustee Chair in Chinese Business and Economics at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Has philanthropy kept pace with the growth of wealth? And how have charities fared under Xi Jinping and China's new laws governing NGOs and charity?

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