Sinica Podcast

News & Politics Podcasts

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.

Episodes

Not a Master Plan: The Real History of China's Rare Earth Dominance, with Gloria Xiong and Jessica Chen Weiss

Strategic Stalemate: Ryan Hass on How Beijing Sees America — and Trump

Talking Past Each Other: Pallavi Aiyar on India, China, and the Case for Cognitive Empathy

The Future, Made in China: Evan Osnos on America's Reckoning

Samm Sacks and Paul Triolo on WAIC 2026, Xi's AI Speech, and Kimi K3

The Platform State: Angela Zhang and Alex Yang on How China Really Governs Its Economy

Agile Governance: Tsinghua's Xue Lan on How China Regulates What It Can't Fully Predict

China Shock 2.0: This Time It's Europe, with Adam Tooze

"But China!": Robert Wright on the AI Race and Our Coming Cosmic Reckoning

The Texas Paradox: How the Most Anti-China State Is Building America's China Capacity

The View from Everywhere Else: Eric Olander on how the Global South is reading the Beijing summits

To Rule All Under Heaven: Andrew Meyer on His New Popular History of the Warring States

"The China Debate We're Not Having" | Part 4: The AI Race Reconsidered

"Constructive Strategic Stability": Ali Wyne of the International Crisis Group on the Trump-Xi Summit

The Poetry of Zheng Xiaoqiong: A Conversation with Translator Eleanor Goodman

"The China Debate We're Not Having" | Part 3: Tech, Rivalry, and Competing Visions of the Future

Spain's China Gambit: Pedro Sánchez, Strategic Autonomy, and the European Turn to Beijing — with Mario Esteban Rodríguez

"The China Debate We're Not Having" | Part 2: What Does the United States Want?

"The China Debate We're Not Having" | Part 1: What China Wants

Adam Tooze is Chinamaxxing!