Sinica Podcast

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Podcast Sinica 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. -4 H

    The Case Against the China Consensus, with Jessica Chen Weiss of SAIS

    This week on Sinica, I chat with Jessica Chen Weiss, until recently at Cornell University but now the David M. Lampton Professor of China Studies at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, SAIS, in Washington D.C. Jessica, to those of you familiar with her work, has been at the forefront of the fight for a less strident, diplomacy-first approach to China, balancing deterrence with assurances to find a modus vivendi with China. She has challenged prevailing notions about China's intentions, and has called for the U.S. to advance an affirmative vision of how it wants to live in the world with China. We focus in this conversation about a recent piece in Foreign Affairs in which she challenges both the solidity and the logic of the "bipartisan consensus" on China, and holds out hope that a next administration might approach the relationship differently. 3:45 – How Jessica has settled into D.C.; her professorial namesake; and how she has become a leading voice for a less confrontational approach to China 9:30 – Where Jessica sees diverging views on China in the Republican and Democratic Parties  12:41 – What a more durable basis for coexistence should look like 14:46 – Credible deterrence and strategic ambiguity in the context of Taiwan  16:03 – Acknowledgements to limits on American power and the importance of being realistic  18:09 – Assurances on Taiwan and what threatens their credibility  21:13 – The question of engagement and the deterrent effect of economic integration 25:30 – How the U.S. can combat legitimate national security threats from China without undermining its own values, and the importance of not treating the Chinese in diaspora as a fifth column  31:31 – Electoral politics: the importance of welcoming and inclusive policies and creating space for debate and discernment 35:07 – The importance of testing our assumptions  38:30 – What another Trump presidency might look like  40:30 – How a Harris administration might differ from the Biden administration 44:13 – The U.S. and China-Russia relations Recommendations: Jessica: Valarie Kaur’s Sage Warrior: Wake to Oneness, Practice Pleasure, Choose Courage, Become Victory  Kaiser: BeaGo, an AI-powered search tool (download from your app store!) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    53 min

  2. 19 SEPT.

    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

  3. 16 SEPT.

    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

  4. 12 SEPT.

    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

  5. 7 SEPT.

    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.

    1 h 3 min

  6. 28 AOÛT

    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

  7. 15 AOÛT

    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

  8. 14 AOÛT

    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
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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
  • Années d’activité
    2016 - 2024
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    465
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    Sinica Podcast

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