U.S.-China Relations at a Crossroads — Serah Beran and Victor Shih
In this episode, recorded in November 2025, Victor Shih sits down with Sarah Beran to discuss key developments in U.S.-China relations and h...
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China 21 is produced by the 21st Century China Center at UC San Diego’s School of Global Policy and Strategy. We are a leading university-based think tank that produces scholarly research an...
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Bureaucracies at War, Featuring Tyler Jost
Center Executive Director Lei Guang recently sat down with Tyler Jost to discuss his new book, Bureaucracies at War. This podcast features h...
The Micro-Foundations of Capitalism
In this episode, UC San Diego Professor Barry Naughton talks globalization and economic development in China, Russia and India with Temple P...
Retrofitting Lenism - Dimitar Gueorguiev and Harris Doshay
21CCC Assistant Director Harris Doshay sits down with Syracuse Associate Professor and UCSD Alum Dimitar Gueorguiev to discuss his latest bo...
The DOJ's China Initiative: Where it went wrong, and why - Susan Shirk and Carol Lam
Susan Shirk, Chair of the 21st Century China Center, and former U.S. Attorney Carol Lam sit down to discuss the ways the China Initiative, f...
Xinjiang from Qing to Xi - James Millward & Micah Muscolino
Micah Muscolino interviews James Millward, a leading scholar on China and Central Asia at Georgetown University. They connect the history of...
Epidemic Control & Medical Diplomacy - Mary Brazelton & Micah Muscolino
This episode is an extended interview adapted from the China Throughlines web series , which features UC San Diego’s China historians in con...
Remembering June 4 - Perry Link & Paul Pickowicz
The 21st Century China Center is premiering a new web series: "China Throughlines" - featuring UC San Diego’s China historians in conversati...
Rural China Copes with Covid-19 - Scott Rozelle
Since the novel coronavirus outbreak in the megacity of Wuhan in December 2019, lockdowns were also implemented across China’s vast countrys...
Investing in US-China Relations - Weijian Shan and James Kralik
As we are living through a historic pandemic and ever more turbulent U.S.-China relations, we revisit a conversation recorded at our last pu...
Lessons from 1989 - Wang Dan and Victor Shih
Wang Dan 王丹 speaks with Victor Shih on the lessons from the 1989 student democracy movement. They discuss Wang’s journey as a young student...
Interpreting the Xi Dynasty - Geremie Barmé & Susan Shirk
Geremie Barmé is an esteemed historian, journalist, translator and film-maker. He spoke at UC San Diego in January on resistance movements i...
Defending Digital Rights - Rebecca MacKinnon & Molly Roberts
Rebecca MacKinnon is the director of Ranking Digital Rights , a program at New America promotes freedom of expression and privacy on the int...
China Tripping (Part 2) - Paul Pickowicz, Perry Link, Jeremy Murray
Paul Pickowicz, Perry Link and Jeremy Murray speaks with guest host Lazlo Montgomery in this special co-produced episode with China History...
China Tripping (Part 1) - Paul Pickowicz, Perry Link, Jeremy Murray
Paul Pickowicz, Perry Link and Jeremy Murray speaks with guest host Lazlo Montgomery in this special co-produced episode with China History...
Mobilizing Without the Masses - Diana Fu
Diana Fu describes the evolution of activism, citizenship and civil society in China, and how NGOs engage in unconventional mobilization und...
US-China Rivalry Roils Asia - Danny Russel & Steph Haggard
Steph Haggard speaks with Danny Russel about the intensifying U.S.-China rivalry that is ushering in new dynamic in the Asia Pacific region....
Will China Save the Planet? - Barbara Finamore
Barbara Finamore , who founded the National Resource Defense Council’s China program, discusses with China Focus editor-in-chief Charlie Ves...
AI, 5G, and the Race for Tech Supremacy - Elsa Kania
Elsa Kania discusses the potential and concerns of cutting-edge technologies that are underpinning the competition between the U.S. and Chin...
US-China Symbiosis - Joe Tsai & Susan Shirk
Alibaba’s Joe Tsai speaks with Susan Shirk in front of a live audience on a wide-ranging conversation about current trade disputes, security...