Best SupChina Podcasts (2025)

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Caixin Deep Dive: Key Challenges China’s Next Five-Year Plan Needs to Tackle 7:18

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Caixin collects the views of five prominent policy experts on China’s priorities like innovation and high-quality growth, as the country drafts its next Five-Year Plan amid global uncertainty. Note: The conversation segment of this episode was generated using AI and has been edited for accuracy. It is based on this Caixin story: In Depth: Key Chall…

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Adam Tooze Climbs the China Learning Curve 1:05:21

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I'm in Shaxi, a wonderful little town in the Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, and I was joined here by the Columbia economic historian Adam Tooze, who shared his thoughts on what he sees happening on the ground in China. Adam's been in China for the last month and reflects on his experiences learning about the country — and even attempting the langu…

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Caixin Deep Dive: Chinese Companies’ Route to Wall Street Faces SEC Scrutiny 7:08

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Chinese companies listed in the U.S. may face tighter regulations as the U.S. securities watchdog seeks to update decades-old rules on foreign private issuers. Note: The conversation segment of this episode was generated using AI and has been edited for accuracy. It is based on this Caixin story: In Depth: Chinese Companies’ Route to Wall Street Fa…

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Carnegie's Tong Zhao on the Expansion of China's Nuclear Arsenal 1:10:21

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This week on Sinica, in a show taped in early June in Washington, Kaiser chats with Tong Zhao (赵通) of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a leading expert on Chinese nuclear doctrine, about why the PRC has, in recent years, significantly increased the size of its nuclear arsenal. Zhao offers a master class in the practice of strategic e…

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Caixin Deep Dive: Why China Is Taking In Less Tax Despite Steady GDP Growth 9:26

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Deflation, tax breaks and industrial shifts are reshaping the country’s fiscal landscape. Note: The conversation segment of this episode was generated using AI and has been edited for accuracy. It is based on this Caixin story: In Depth: Why China Is Taking In Less Tax as GDP Growth Stays Steady Subscribe now to unlock all coverage from Caixin Glob…

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Radio Davos & Caixin Global: What to Expect From ‘Summer Davos’ and What the West Gets Wrong About China 50:14

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Caixin Global partners with Radio Davos to produce a podcast ahead of next week’s World Economic Forum Annual Meeting of the New Champions in Tianjin. The Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2025 — AMNC25 — will bring together leaders from government, business and academia, along with innovators and representatives from international organizations,…

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The Strange Afterlife of an American Football Story from China 45:20

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In 2014, the writer Christopher Beam published a humorous, heartwarming story in The New Republic about an unlikely team of American football enthusiasts in Chongqing who went on to defeat their archrivals in Shanghai to win a championship. The piece was optioned by Sony Pictures, and had some big names attached, but was ultimately never made — not…

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Caixin Deep Dive: Beijing Taps Hong Kong Exchanges to Convert Seized Crypto 9:53

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Chinese mainland police are leveraging Hong Kong’s licensed exchanges to sell seized digital assets — a compliant workaround to the mainland’s strict crypto ban. Note: The conversation segment of this episode was generated using AI and has been edited for accuracy. It is based on this Caixin story: Hong Kong Offers Beijing Legal Route to Sell Seize…

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The Raider: China and the Life of Evans Carlson, with Historian Stephen Platt 1:22:06

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This week on Sinica, I chat with Stephen Platt, historian at UMass Amherst and author, most recently, of the book The Raider: The Untold Story of a Renegade Marine and the Birth of U.S. Special Forces in World War II. Like his previous works, Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom and Imperial Twilight, it offers a compelling narrative history of an overlo…

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Industrial Policy, "Overcapacity," and U.S.-China Trade: A Conversation with Cambridge's Jostein Hauge 1:08:02

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This week on Sinica, I chat with Jostein Hauge, political economist and an Assistant Professor in Development Studies at the University of Cambridge, based at the Centre of Development Studies and the Department of Politics and International Studies, and author of the book The Future of the Factory: How Megatrends are Changing Industrialization. 3:…

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Seeking the Next DeepSeek: the Chinese Generative AI Algorithm Registry, with Kendra Schaefer 1:03:57

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This week on Sinica, I speak with Kendra Schaefer, the partner at Trivium China who heads their tech practice. She recently published a fascinating paper looking at the Cyberspace Administration of China's comprehensive database of generative AI tools released in China, and she shares the insights and big takeaways from her research on that databas…

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Bonus Ep: Rubio's Visa Revocations, with Jeremy Goldkorn [Explicit] 49:42

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Jeremy Goldkorn joins for this largely unedited throwback to the early, sweary days of the show. We talk about the announcement made on Wednesday, 28 May 2025, on the "aggressive" revocation of Chinese student visas for students with Party "connections" or who study "critical fields." You've been warned! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/priv…

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Caixin Deep Dive: Inside China’s Overseas IPO Revival 12:29

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Hong Kong leads as Chinese firms list overseas amid U.S. tensions and mainland bottlenecks. Note: The conversation segment of this episode was generated using AI and has been edited for accuracy. It is based on this Caixin story: In Depth: China Gears Up for Overseas IPO Bonanza Subscribe now to unlock all coverage from Caixin Global and The Wall S…

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#109 How Chinese stories are going to the Cannes Festival 41:13

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Send us a text As the Cannes festival ends, we interviewed some key player regarding how the biggest film festival in the world impacts Chinese cinema. Featuring - Cao Liuying : Parallax Films - Sales Agent - Clément Magar : Fortissimo Films - General Manager - Qu Zhizheng : Director & Cinematographer To go further - Middle Earth episode #44 Does C…

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Ukraine, China, and the Emerging Geopolitics of Resource Security 1:28:57

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A bonus episode this week. On May 22, I moderated a panel organized by Vita Golod and the UNC Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies. The focus was on the U.S.-Ukraine Mineral Security Partnership, and it features Ivan Us, Chief Consultant at the Center for Foreign Policy at the National Institute for Strategic Studies; Jim Mullinax…

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House of Huawei: Eva Dou of the Washington Post on Her New "Secret History" of Huawei 1:08:40

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This week on Sinica, I chat with Eva Dou, technology reporter for the Washington Post, about her terrific new book about Huawei. From its prehistory to its fight for its life under tremendous U.S. pressure, she tells its story in a way that's both deeply engaging and very evenhanded. 04:53 – Meng Wanzhou’s case and its impact on media interest in H…

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NEW! China Talking Points Ep. 1: Trade Truce, J-10C Dogfight, and What Comes Next 1:04:49

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The Sinica Network proudly presents a new podcast: China Talking Points, featuring Kaiser Kuo (host of the Sinica Podcast), Eric Olander (host of the China-Global South Podcast and China In Africa Podcast) and Andrew Polk, co-founder of Trivium China and host of its podcast. We'll be joined regularly by Lizzi Lee, Fellow on Chinese Economy at the A…

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China's DeepSeek Moment — a talk given April 17 2025 at Carnegie Mellon 30:45

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I had scheduled a show to record while I was in Providence last week, but it fell through and had to be rescheduled, so please give this talk I delivered at Carnegie Mellon last month a listen! Hope you enjoy. Kaiser 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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Caixin Deep Dive: How China Can Counter Trump’s Tariff Shock 15:34

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The trade war forces Beijing to double down on domestic demand and rethink its global strategy. Note: The conversation segment of this episode was generated using AI and has been edited for accuracy. It is based on this Caixin story: In Depth: How China Can Counter Trump’s Tariffs Subscribe now to unlock all coverage from Caixin Global and The Wall…

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Broken Engagement: Veteran China reporter Bob Davis on his new collection of interviews 1:15:47

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This week on Sinica, I chat with veteran Wall Street Journal reporter Bob Davis, who has covered the U.S.-China relationship for decades. He recently published a new book called Broken Engagement, which consists of interviews with U.S. policymakers who were instrumental in shaping American policy toward China from the George H.W. Bush administratio…

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The EU-China Relationship in the Age of Trumpian Disruption, with Finbarr Bermingham of the SCMP 1:06:46

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This week on Sinica, I chat with SCMP Senior Europe Correspondent Finbarr Bermingham, who joins from Brussels where he's been covering the EU-China relationship in fantastic depth and with great insight. 3:17 – EU-China relations in early 2025: the effect of the 2021 sanctions, who advocated for engagement versus confrontation with China, and the i…

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Live at Pitt: CMU's Benno Weiner on the Evolution of China's Minzu Policy 52:07

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This week on Sinica, in a show recorded at the University of Pittsburgh, I speak with Benno Weiner, Associate Professor of History at Carnegie Mellon University, about how China's policy toward its minority nationalities (or minzu) have shifted from their older, Soviet-inspired form to the policies of assimilation we now see. 2:29 – How the so-call…

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Sinica Live at Columbia University, with Yawei Liu and Yukon Huang 58:15

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This week on the Sinica Podcast, I chat with Yawei Liu, Senior Advisor for China at the Carter Center in Atlanta, Georgia, and Yukon Huang, former China country head of the World Bank and now Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. The show was taped live at the 2025 Columbia China Summit at Columbia University, put on by t…

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#108 - The Memorabilia Economy: Why Some Can’t Stop Dreaming of the 90s 33:35

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Send us a text Nostalgia isn’t just a feeling—it’s also a powerful selling tool. Right as China's GDP growth slows and the future feels uncertain, consumers are increasingly drawn to products and stories that evoke the past. Whether it’s retro snacks or hit TV shows reviving bygone eras, some are tapping into a deep emotional connection. Featuring …

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Life, Love, and Loss in China: Hazza Harding's story of resilience 1:19:20

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This week on Sinica, I chat with Hazza Harding, a young Australian who began learning Chinese and made his way to China where he became a pop singer with hits on Chinese pop charts and a state media newscaster — and also lost his husband tragically, suffered through the COVID lockdowns while grieving for his loss. Yet he remains committed to furthe…

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Caixin Deep Dive: China Tables Fiscal Salvo for Flagging Domestic Demand 11:37

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Will China shore up domestic consumption with greater fiscal spending, including a record-high deficit ratio? Note: The conversation segment of this episode was generated using AI and has been edited for accuracy. It is based on this Caixin story: Analysis: China Tables Fiscal Salvo for Flagging Domestic Demand Subscribe now to unlock all coverage …

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Is China Gaining Ground in Technology Diffusion? A Conversation with Jeffrey Ding 45:52

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This week on Sinica, I chat with Jeffrey Ding, author of Technology and the Rise of Great Powers, a book that argues that a nation's ability to invent foundational technologies matters ultimately less in its overall national power than its ability to diffuse those "general purpose technologies," like electricity, digital technology, the internet, a…

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Caixin Deep Dive: How BYD Is Transforming China’s Auto Market 11:14

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The EV giant is making smart cars more accessible and accelerating the shift to new-energy vehicles. Note: The conversation segment of this episode was generated using AI and has been edited for accuracy. It is based on this Caixin story: In Depth: How BYD Lowered the Bar for Buying a Smart Car in China Subscribe now to unlock all coverage from Cai…

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Evolutionary Psychology and International Relations, with Jeremy Garlick 1:26:24

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This week on the Sinica Podcast, I chat with Jeremy Garlick, Director of the Jan Masaryk Centre for International Studies, Prague University, and a scholar of China’s international relations. Jeremy is the author of the book Advantage China: Agent of Change in an Era of Global Disruption, but the book we're talking about this week is his new Cambri…

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Caixin Deep Dive: Trump Tariff Tweak Shakes Shein and Temu 14:17

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The U.S. ends tax exemptions for Chinese small-parcel imports, shaking Shein, Temu and others. Note: The conversation segment of this episode was generated using AI and has been edited for accuracy. It is based on this Caixin story: In Depth: Trump Ends an Era for Shein and Temu Subscribe now to unlock all coverage from Caixin Global and The Wall S…

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Live in Berkeley: Jessica Chen Weiss and Ryan Hass on the U.S. and China in 2025 1:02:08

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This week, a special episode taped live at the University of California, Berkeley — my alma mater — on March 6 and featuring Jessica Chen Weiss of Johns Hopkins SAIS and Ryan Hass of the Brookings Institution, both well-known to people who follow U.S.-China relations. This episode was made possible by the Center for Chinese Studies at UC Berkeley's…

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Introducing the Trivium Podcast, now on the Sinica Network 1:18:29

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This week, I'm proud to announce a new collaboration with Trivium, a China-focused strategic advisory firm you've probably heard of. They've got offices in DC, London, Shanghai, and Beijing, and they focus on analyzing and forecasting Chinese policy developments for multinational companies and institutional investors across a range of verticals -- …

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Caixin Deep Dive: Meituan’s Gulf Gambit 8:56

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Internet giant targets Middle East takeout expansion with a focus on Saudi Arabia, drone delivery and navigating local competition Note: The conversation segment of this episode was generated using AI and has been edited for accuracy. It is based on this Caixin story: In Depth: Meituan Hopes Middle East Expansion Will Deliver Growth Subscribe now t…