A weekly discussion of current affairs in China with journalists, writers, academics, policymakers, business people and anyone with something compelling to say about the country that's reshaping the world. Hosted by Kaiser Kuo.
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COMMNTD is a podcast hosted by four friends where we talk about your favorite international & domestic movies, music, tv shows, & more! Join the crew as we review & recap our latest watches, noting our reactions, and dissect the meaning and the lasting impacts of various pop culture & events. We also love to explore our lives and share our individual experiences as Black women living in the States. Taking an initial from each host’s name, COMMNTD is a space for black girl joy and our various ...
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Getting China Right: Senator Andy Kim at the Hopkins SAIS Institute for America, China, and the Future of Global Affairs
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1:10:16I’m delighted to bring you today the first in a series of conversations from a remarkable day-long session put on by the Institute for America, China, and the Future of Global Affairs, or ACF, at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). The session was held on Monday, February 3, and was called “Getting China Right.” On today’…
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Back to the 80s: For Trump, is China the New Japan? with Andy Liu
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1:05:14This week on Sinica, I chat with economic historian Andrew B. Liu of Villanova University about how to understand Trump's thinking on China and tariffs. Andy wrote about this in an excellent piece on N+1 called "Back to the 80s? Trump, Xi Jinping, and Tariffs." Check it out and then listen to the show! 3:59 – How the U.S.’s current trade anxieties …
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Welcome to the start of our 2025 episodes coming to you every Wednesday!~ Hope you enjoy us chatting about this cult classic~ Intro & Outro Music by Magiksolo from PixabayBy Tory, Meron, Nia & Decoria
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Is the U.S. Experiencing a Narrative Shift on China?
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1:02:12This week as we enter the Year of the Snake, Sinica co-founder Jeremy Goldkorn makes a re-appearance on the show. It's been a year since his last, and much has changed — and indeed, if Jeremy is right, we may be at an inflection point in American attitudes toward China. With the "TikTok Refugees" on Xiaohongshu or "RedNote" taking in a view of Chin…
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The State of China, with Adam Tooze, Qing Wang, and Zichen Wang — Moderated by Finbarr Bermingham of SCMP
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48:49Happy Chinese New Year! This week, while I'm decompressing from 10 days in the Alps, my friends at the Asia Society of Switzerland have graciously offered to let me share a podcast recorded just after the U.S. presidential election in November at their annual State of Asia event. "The State of China" features three terrific guests: Wang Qing (王卿), …
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New Podcast Series – "Studying China in the Absence of Access: Rediscovering a Lost Art" from Johns Hopkins SAIS
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1:15:23This week, I bring you the first in a series of podcasts in conjunction with the China Research Center at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). The series, titled "Studying China in the Absence of Access: Rediscovering a Lost Art," ran from September to November 2021, and featured four eminent "Pekingologists," or speci…
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Sorry this is hella late. A lot of things have been happening but we should be back! Intro & Outro Music by Magiksolo from PixabayBy Tory, Meron, Nia & Decoria
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Xiaohongshu's "TikTok Refugees," with Ivy Yang and David Fishman
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1:03:52I know I'd said last time there would be no show this week, but that was before this fascinating episode involving TikTok users signing up en masse to Xiaohongshu. Hilarity ensued, and my two guests — Ivy Yang, who runs Wavelet Strategy, an expert in cross-cultural communication, and David Fishman, Shanghai-based senior manager at Lantau Group who …
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Lizzi Lee on China's Economy and the Trump Presidency
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1:20:52This week on Sinica, I'm joined by Lizzi Lee, fellow at the Asia Society Policy Institute and by my lights one of the most astute, well-informed people writing on China in the English-speaking world today. She has fascinating perspectives on China's preparations for the Trump administration, on China's reluctance to roll out large-scale cash stimul…
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Inside Shen Yun and the Epoch Times, with NYT's Nicole Hong and Michael Rothfeld
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1:08:09This week on Sinica, I speak with Nicole Hong and Michael Rothfeld, both investigative reporters at the New York Times, about a series of stories they've done, stretching between August and December 2024, on the Falun Gong-run performance troupe Shen Yun, and the Falun Gong-affiliated newspaper The Epoch Times. Read the latest two articles in that …
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Join us we look into the making, music & origins of the Disney original animated film A Goofy Movie Intro & Outro Music by Magiksolo from PixabayBy Tory, Meron, Nia & Decoria
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Under Pressure: Michael Cerny and Rory Truex on China Discourse in the U.S. Foreign Policy Community
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1:06:13This week on Sinica, I welcome back Michael Cerny — formerly of the Carter Center and now a Ph.D. student at Harvard — and Rory Truex of Princeton University to discuss a new working paper they've co-authored. They undertook a large-scale survey of foreign policy professionals at U.S. think tanks to ascertain whether there is a "consensus" on China…
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Australia, China, and the Economics-Security Nexus with Amy King of ANU
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1:21:57This week on Sinica I'm delighted to be joined by Amy King, Associate Professor in the Strategic & Defence Studies Centre at The Australian National University. She shares her ideas about how perceptions of insecurity can paradoxically motivate closer economic relations between two states, and she looks at not only the examples of China and Japan a…
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Join us as we discuss the pg13 thriller Trap...-_- Intro & Outro Music by Magiksolo from PixabayBy Tory, Meron, Nia & Decoria
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China's EV Explosion, with Ilaria Mazzocco of CSIS
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1:14:17China's rapid surge in electric vehicle manufacturing, adoption, and export has variously encouraged, delighted, impressed, frightened, and even enraged people around the world. What did China get right in facilitating the explosive development in this industry? Was is just subsidies, or were there other important policies that helped jumpstart it?…
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Jane Hayward of King's College on Teaching China through YouTube
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50:39This week on Sinica, I chat with Jane Hayward, lecturer at King's College London, about her excellent YouTube channel, Jane Hayward China, and her efforts to bring up-to-date scholarship on modern and contemporary China to audiences through internet video, slaying various bugbears along the way. 3:28 Why Jane started her YouTube channel, her intend…
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Join us for another fly-on-the-wall episode where we talk about our current obsessions, what we are watching, the FAFO acquisitions on TikTok, the city of Chongqing & more! Intro & Outro Music by Magiksolo from PixabayBy Tory, Meron, Nia & Decoria
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U.S.-China Crisis Management and Crisis Prevention, with Michael Swaine
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1:16:36This week on Sinica, I chat with Michael Swaine, Senior Research Fellow at the Quincy Institute for the last couple of years, prior to which he spent nearly two decades as a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he led extensive work on Chinese defense and foreign policy, U.S.-China relations, and East Asian interna…
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Deconstructing Disney: The Lion King (1994)
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57:04Join us we look into the making, music & origins of the Disney original animated film The Lion King Intro & Outro Music by Magiksolo from PixabayBy Tory, Meron, Nia & Decoria
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Granta's Chinese Literature Issue: A Chat with Editor Thomas Meaney
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1:09:23The British literary quarterly Granta has published a new issue dedicated to Chinese writers, featuring familiar mainstays of contemporary literature and some fresh new voices. This week on Sinica, I chatted with Thomas Meaney, editor of Granta, about what's happening in the literary scene in China today and how this fantastically interesting issue…
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We Hate Kpop: Hybe Internal Documents
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1:38:32We read the Hybe Weekly Industry Report so you don't have to! Join us as we discuss the most head-turning parts and gossip about the outcome. Intro & Outro Music by Magiksolo from PixabayBy Tory, Meron, Nia & Decoria
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Decoupling, De-risking, and the Great U.S.-China Disconnect, with Supply Chain Expert Cameron Johnson
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1:01:48This week on Sinica in a show taped live at China Crossroads, Shanghai's premier event series, I'm joined by my good friend Cameron Johnson, who is on the governing board of the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai, specializes professionally in supply chains in China, and teaches at NYU Shanghai. 4:20 – What makes up a supply chain ecosystem, …
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Join us as we duke it out, choosing SHINee's top ten songs in our opinion~ Intro & Outro Music by Magiksolo from PixabayBy Tory, Meron, Nia & Decoria
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Tsinghua's Da Wei: New Survey Research on Chinese Perceptions of Security
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58:39This week, in a show taped in Beijing at the Center for International Security and Strategy at Tsinghua University, I speak with Professor Da Wei about a new public opinion poll on China's perception of international security and review its important findings. We also discuss Chinese views on the Russo-Ukrainian War and the upcoming U.S. presidenti…
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Join the crew as they take a historical and supernautral look at the man made lake of Georgia Lake Lanier. Intro & Outro Music by Magiksolo from PixabayBy Tory, Meron, Nia & Decoria
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Xinhua's Liu Yang and Jiang Jiang of "Got China" Get Western Journalism
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55:15This week on Sinica, in a show recorded in Beijing, I speak with Liu Yang and Jiang Jiang, the authors of two excellent newsletters — The Beijing Channel and Ginger River Review, respectively — and two of the guys behind the YouTube show "Got China." They're making a great effort to bridge Chinese journalism with Anglophone reporting on China with …
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F***, FIGHT, FEAR! - Halloween MFK 2024 Edition
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43:23Join the crew as they have to decide which horror villans to F*** Fight or Fear! FFF Game template Intro & Outro Music by Magiksolo from PixabayBy Tory, Meron, Nia & Decoria
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Veteran China Ad Man Bryce Whitwam on China's Livestreaming e-Commerce Market
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57:51This week on Sinica, in a show recorded at Syracuse University on September 30, I chat with my old pal Bryce Whitwam about the remarkable rise of live-streaming e-commerce — and how it's already making its way to the U.S. 4:28 – Why Bryce chose to leave Shanghai and pursue a doctorate in the States 8:08 – How big livestream e-commerce has gotten an…
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Black Girls Watch "THE SHINING" for the first time.
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51:29Join us we look into the making & origins of the 80's cult classic The shining! Intro & Outro Music by Magiksolo from PixabayBy Tory, Meron, Nia & Decoria
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Retrofitting Leninism and Re-examining Hawkishness in China with Dimitar Gueorguiev
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1:11:31This week, a show taped live at Syracuse University on September 30 with Associate Professor Dimitar Gueorguiev, author of the excellent Retrofitting Leninism: Participation Without Democracy in China. We discuss his book, his recent paper exploring hawkishness in Chinese public opinion, and his thoughts about the upcoming U.S. presidential electio…
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Deconstructing Disney: The Nightmare Before Christmas
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50:44Join us we look into the making, music & origins of the Disney stop motion film The Nightmare Before Christmas Intro & Outro Music by Magiksolo from PixabayBy Tory, Meron, Nia & Decoria
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