Sinica Podcast

Kaiser Kuo
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Sinica Podcast podcast

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.

  1. 17 UUR GELEDEN

    Space Debris: How Can the U.S. and China Avoid the Tragedy of the Commons, with Nainika Sudheendra

    This week I continue my conversations with some of the outstanding Schwarzman Scholars who presented at the Capstone Showcase in late June. In this episode, I speak with Nainika Sudheendra about the problem of space debris and what can be done to reduce the creation of more of it or even begin removal of debris before it makes the launching of new satellites more costly or even impossible. 2:34 Nainika’s background and interest in the Schwarzman program 5:33 Why Nainika focused on space debris  7:23 Nainika’s prior knowledge about the Chinese space program and what she learned through the Schwarzman program 10:30 How space debris is measured, the Kessler syndrome, and the hazards that space debris poses  14:33 The obstacles Nainika encountered in her research  16:35 How political leaders in China and the U.S. are thinking about the space debris problem 20:02 How debris mitigation might [ought to?] be incentivized, who is working on the problem now, and the role of private insurers  24:03 The Wolf Amendment and Chinese private sector space companies  27:22 Technologies for mitigating and remediating debris  31:00 Lessons from another tragedy of the commons (the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer), and how the EU could take a leading role  34:59 The importance of data standardization and opportunities to negotiate fair use and safety precautions 38:17  How redundancy prevents public perception — the difficulty in going from “outage” to “outrage”  40:27 What Nainika has been doing since finishing at Schwarzman  Recommendations: Nainika: From Streets to Stalls: The History and Evolution of Hawking and Hawker Centres in Singapore by Ryan Kueh (another Schwarzman alum)  Kaiser: Journalist Andrew Jones on Twitter; the South Indian restaurant Viks Chaat in Berkeley, California  See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    47 min

  2. 4 DGN GELEDEN

    Priority Pluralism: Rethinking Universal Values in U.S.-China Relations

    I thought Sinica listeners might be interested in listening to an audio narration of my latest essay. I hope you enjoy and that it gives you some food for thought! If you prefer to read, you can find the essay — free for everyone this week — right here. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    39 min

  3. 12 SEP.

    The Chinese Game Industry’s Journey to the West — Rui Ma and Rob Wynne on the Success of Black Myth: Wukong

    The Chinese game studio Game Science has a hit on its hands! The game Black Myth: Wukong, an action role-playing game (ARPG) based on the Monkey King from Journey to the West, has sold extraordinarily well in China and is breaking new ground in the U.S. market as well. This week, I speak with Rui Ma, who runs Tech Buzz China and is one of the most highly-regarded China tech commentators in the U.S., and with Robert Wynne, an industry veteran with many years in China currently serving as COO of a new game start-up that's still under wraps. They share their insights into the strengths and weaknesses of Black Myth: Wukong and the future of Chinese games. 6:44 – The scale of the phenomenon of Black Myth: Wukong  12:01 – Rui and Rob’s thoughts about the game (so far) 17:23 – What Chinese players think of the game, and the difficulty in understanding its esoteric characters for Western players  24:23 – The appeal of mobile games versus console games in China  27:30 – The difficulty of attracting investment [or “How Game Science attracted investment”] 31:06 – Rob’s criticism of the game’s go-to-market strategy and its lost opportunities  35:46 – The party-state's response so far, and the politics surrounding the game 40:57 – Feng Ji, the founding of Game Science, and his criticisms of the gaming industry  46:01 – AAA Chinese games to look forward to 49:29 – The impressive success stats of Black Myth: Wukong Recommendations: Rui: Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Astrophysics for People in a Hurry Rob: The Chinese TV series Escape from Trilateral Slopes (Biān shuǐ wǎngshì 边水往事) (2024) Kaiser: Steve Stewart-Williams, The Ape that Understood the Universe: How the Mind and Culture Evolve See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    59 min

  4. 7 SEP.

    The Tragedy of Old School Beijing Hip-Hop with Olivia Fu

    This week on Sinica, I chat with Olivia Fu, who this spring completed her year at Schwarzman College and wrote her Capstone project — a research paper that is required of all Schwarzman Scholars — on the rise and fall of the Beijing hip-hop scene. We explore some of the parallels to Beijing's rock scene, and how many of the same factors that stifled rock in Beijing ultimately led to Beijing's relative decline as a hip-hop city. 3:16 – Olivia’s background and connection to China, and what drew her to the Schwarzman Program and studying hip-hop 6:13 – Olivia’s Schwarzman mentor, Paul Pickowicz  7:47 – How Olivia dealt with censorship in her Capstone project  10:24 – The parallels and differences between the hip-hop and rock scenes in China 12:27 – The dakou CDs and the origins of the hip-hop scene in China  17:03 – The influences of Japanese and Korean rap and hip-hop and Black American culture 18:30 – The importance of studying Beijing hip-hop  23:05 – The spirit of Beijing and societal commentary in Beijing hip-hop  27:38 – The phenomenon of Rap of China  29:50 – The divergence of PG One and GAI, and the regulatory influence of the State Administration on Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television 35:13 – Sinifying hip-hop  37:21 – What the burgeoning hip-hop scene in China was like in the early 2000s 40:10 – Critiques of the Beijing dialect in rap and the Beijing rap style  45:16 – Iron Mic rap battles and Shanghai, and Chinese hip-hop’s critique of the educational system  48:34 – Why Beijing rap declined  59:09 – What’s next for Olivia  See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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  5. 28 AUG.

    Does Beijing Really Want Trump?

    Hey folks! I took some time off to drive the kids to college and then flew to California to celebrate my brother John’s birthday. The upshot is there’s no interview this week, so in place of that, here’s my essay from this week. Hope you enjoy it. If all goes as planned, I’m back next week with regular interview for Sinica! You can find the text of the essay at sinicapodcast.com. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    16 min

  6. 15 AUG.

    The Swifts of Beijing, with Terry Townshend of Birding Beijing

    I was looking for a good episode to pull from the archive to run this week as I'll be traveling and I asked my good friend Deb Seligsohn for a recommendation. She went immediately to this one, and by God if it's not an oldie-but-goodie. This is from December 2015 and features Jeremy Goldkorn — I miss him dearly! — and Terry Townshend, an absolute institution in China's birding community. I'll likely have to run another re-run next week, and I welcome your suggestions! All best, Kaiser Recommendations and Links: Birding Beijing Action for Swifts British Trust for Ornithology Jonathan Franzen, Purity: A Novel Cement and Pig Consumption Reveal China's Huge Changes See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    58 min

  7. 14 AUG.

    Bonus: A Free-Range Father in a Tiger Mom World — Reflections on Chinese and American Education

    Here's a little bonus ep for you ahead of tomorrow's show, which will be a re-run of a really fun one from about 10 years ago! I'm driving the rest of this week to the Midwest to drop my kids off at their respective universities, and I've been thinking a lot about the education systems in China and the U.S. So here's my essay for this week. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    13 min

  8. 8 AUG.

    China's Response to U.S. Semiconductor Export Controls, with Paul Triolo and Kevin Xu

    This week on Sinica, Paul Triolo rejoins the show for a deep, deep dive into China's response to American export controls on advanced semiconductors and related technologies. How much hurt has the policy put on Chinese firms — and how far along is China in finding its way toward technological autonomy? Kevin Xu, author of the fantastic "Interconnected" newsletter, joins to talk about some of the big ideas he's written about in recent months and to play co-host as we grill Paul on China's efforts to get out from under American controls. 9:10 – The downplaying of generative AI in the Third Plenum’s decision document  18:25 – Why the Middle East is an appealing and important region for major AI players  26:20 – Why chip wars have evolved into to cloud wars  29:36 – How China has fared in trying to achieve its goal of indigenous advanced semiconductor manufacture 31:50 – Semiconductors: What lies within the “small yard” versus what products are unaffected under U.S. export controls 35:42 – The quality and reliability caveat to China’s goal of self-sufficiency in semiconductor manufacture  38:35 – The success of the Biden administration’s export controls and whether the controls have really put the hurt on anyone  46:00 – The Harmony operating system  47:47 – The importance of packaging  50:45 – Paul explains what he calls “China Semiconductor Industry Policy 3.0” and its predecessors 57:03 – China’s EUV lithography challenge 1:03:14 – DUV lithography and multi-patterning, and the importance of collaboration across the ecosystemin the process of making semiconductors at scale  1:11:50 – Huawei’s progress so far and remaining major hurdles and bottlenecks  1:18:42 – Paul and Kevin’s thoughts on whether the American strategic class will regret its approach to export controls and whether there is an off-ramp  Recommendations: Paul: Ed Conway’s Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization  Kevin: Thurston Clarke’s The Last Campaign: Robert F. Kennedy and 82 Days That Inspired America  Kaiser: The House of the Dragon (2022- ) TV series  See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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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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    Kaiser Kuo
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    2016 - 2024
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