Sinica Early Access

In this episode of the Sinica Podcast, taped live at the US-China Strong Foundation’s China Careers Summit in Washington, D.C., on May 31, Kaiser talks to former assistant secretary of state for East Asia and Pacific affairs Kurt Campbell about his career, his critique of engagement, and the fascinating events that happened on his watch — including the extrication of blind activist lawyer Chen Guangcheng and the attempted defection of Bo Xilai’s former police chief in Chongqing, Wang Lijun.

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This week’s show was recorded in Prague, where major developments in the continuing saga of a mysterious Chinese company called CEFC, with deep ties to the Czech president, Milos Zeman, unfolded during a recent visit by Kaiser. He spoke with Martin Hala of Charles University in Prague about the rise and fall of CEFC, and what this means not only for China’s efforts to expand its presence in Central and Eastern Europe, but also for China’s Belt and Road Initiative more broadly.

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This week’s Sinica Podcast features Andrew Chubb, a fellow at the Princeton-Harvard China and the World Program. Andrew writes extensively on Chinese foreign policy, especially topics related to maritime disputes in the South and East China seas, Chinese nationalism, and Chinese public opinion. Kaiser and Andrew discuss the question of how popular nationalism in China impacts and shapes China’s maritime behavior, and why the extent of nationalism's influence on policy is not as large as you may think.

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In this week’s episode of Sinica, Kaiser chats with Bonnie Glaser in a crossover show that will appear both on Sinica and on the ChinaPower Podcast from CSIS, the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Bonnie is a well-known specialist on China’s security issues, and this week, we tour several locations where the Chinese military has evolving plans: the Korean Peninsula, Japan, the South China Sea, and Taiwan.

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This week on Sinica, we bring you the recording of when Jeremy and Kaiser chatted with film industry legend Janet Yang live at our SupChina Women’s Conference on May 14 in New York City. Janet talks about trends in Chinese film, how she survived as an Asian-American woman in the notoriously sexist Hollywood film industry, the deep cultural differences and surprising similarities between China and the U.S., and some of her current projects. Recommendations: Janet: The Girl at the Baggage Claim, by Gish Jen, who discusses the differences between Eastern and Western culture; When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times, by Pema Chodron, a book on failure and resilience; and The Leavers, by Lisa Ko, which explores the lives of a mother and son after the son is adopted. Jeremy: Pleco, an English-Chinese dictionary app with special features, which is fantastic for language learners. Kaiser: The Overstory, a novel comprising many different short storylines rooted in trees.

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This week, it’s a crossover show! Zara and Hans from the terrific 996 Podcast with GGV Capital join Kaiser at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for a live recording with Yasheng Huang, professor of economics and management at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. Yasheng — never known for his delicate pulling of punches — talks about trade, technology policy, and Chinese and Indian entrepreneurship. This episode was recorded on April 7, 2018. 

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Today, we bring you a special live panel discussion from the 2018 Harvard College China Forum, on China's international relations. The panelists are: Jiang Changjian – Associate professor of International Studies, Fudan University; Host, “The Brain” (最强大脑 zuìqiángdànǎo) Ira Kasoff – Senior Counselor, APCO Worldwide; Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce Anthony Saich – Professor of International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School; Director, the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation The discussion of today's China and its influence in the world often centers around this question: How much has China's foreign policy changed since Deng Xiaoping famously advocated in the 1980s that the country "conceal its strengths and bide its time" (韬光养晦 tāoguāngyǎnghuì), and how much does the recent change originate from Xi Jinping? Our panelists have different interpretations of the question, and address it from many angles, including, of course, the big ones: U.S.-China trade, the Belt and Road, the South China Sea, and the Korean nuclear crisis. 

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This week's show was recorded on April 13 at the Yenching Global Symposium in Beijing. Kaiser and our old friend David Moser speak with Virginia Tan — co-founder and president of Lean In China, co-founder of She Loves Tech, and founding partner of Teja Ventures, all organizations working to empower women — about women and work in China. Be sure to check out the White Paper that Lean In China has recently published!

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Hey Sinica Early Access listeners, We’ve got a special treat for you today: The debut episode of a new podcast in our network, which we’re including at the top of this week’s show. It’s called TechBuzz China by Pandaily, and it was created by our friends at the Pandaily, a new China-focused tech news website. We think you’ll love the hosts, Rui Ma and Yingying Lu, who both live in San Francisco and have a great deal of experience in the China tech scene. They’re smart, insightful, and easy on the ears. They’ll be talking about big tech stories in the news each week. We will have all the right links for subscribing to TechBuzz China by Pandaily for you at the time of the public release of this episode of Sinica. This week’s Sinica, with Joanna Chiu of the AFP about how she went undercover to ferret out dealers in endangered wildlife in Hong Kong, follows right after the TechBuzz China podcast, so don’t miss it.

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This week on Sinica, Kaiser is live at the Princeton US-China Global Governance Forum, where he speaks with Gao Yutong (Tony Gao) about the wunderkind entrepreneur's experience as a Chinese student in the U.S. from age 16 to his present 23. Gao is the founder and CEO of Easy Transfer, which Chinese students use to pay their college tuition from Chinese bank accounts without all the hassle, paperwork, and expensive fees. He talks about his time amidst the cornfields (in his sophomore year of high school, he attended an all-boys Catholic boarding school in Lincoln, Nebraska), his stint as president of the Chinese Students and Scholars Association at the University of Southern California, and how students from China might prepare themselves better for the experience of study in the U.S.

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