Sinica Weekend Edition: Three Days Out and About in Beijing
Something different this week. Since I moved back to Beijing, the question I get most often has nothing to do with trade or tech or the 15th...
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20 of 564 episodesMr. China’s Great Enterprise: Tim Clissold and the Fight for a Chinese Civilisation A-level
This week on Sinica, I sit down in Beijing with Tim Clissold. If you read one book about doing business in China in the 2000s, there’s a fai...
Afra Wang on Liangzhu, China’s Vibe-Coding Capital, and the Anxious Optimism of the AI Boom
This week on Sinica, I’m joined again by Afra Wang, the Bay Area-based writer behind the AI newsletter Concurrent , who was last on the show...
From Barefoot Doctors to Biologics: Dr. Ruby Wang on China's Healthcare Revolution
This week on Sinica, I sit down with Dr. Ruby Wang, whose new book, China Cure: The Rise of a Biotech, AI Medicine and Global Health Superpo...
Not a Master Plan: The Real History of China's Rare Earth Dominance, with Gloria Xiong and Jessica Chen Weiss
This week I sat down with Gloria Xiong, Assistant Professor of Government at Colby College, and Jessica Chen Weiss, the David M. Lampton Pro...
Strategic Stalemate: Ryan Hass on How Beijing Sees America — and Trump
This week on Sinica, I’m joined once again by Ryan Hass, Director of the John L. Thornton China Center at Brookings, former NSC director for...
Talking Past Each Other: Pallavi Aiyar on India, China, and the Case for Cognitive Empathy
This week on Sinica, I sit down with the writer Pallavi Aiyar — at her own dining table in Beijing, where in recent months I’ve been the luc...
The Future, Made in China: Evan Osnos on America's Reckoning
This week on Sinica, I welcome back Evan Osnos of The New Yorker, whose marvelous new essay, “ The Future, Made in China ,” chronicles a tec...
Samm Sacks and Paul Triolo on WAIC 2026, Xi's AI Speech, and Kimi K3
This week on Sinica, a rare treat: an in-person recording from Beijing with two dear friends who happen to be two of the very best in the bu...
The Platform State: Angela Zhang and Alex Yang on How China Really Governs Its Economy
This week on Sinica, in a special episode recorded at the Davos On Air booth at the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting of the New Champio...
Agile Governance: Tsinghua's Xue Lan on How China Regulates What It Can't Fully Predict
Recorded live from the Davos on Air booth at the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting of the New Champions in Dalian, this special episode...
China Shock 2.0: This Time It's Europe, with Adam Tooze
Last week in Brussels, EU leaders held their first sustained debate on China policy in three years, and were so wary of Beijing’s reaction t...
"But China!": Robert Wright on the AI Race and Our Coming Cosmic Reckoning
This week on Sinica I'm joined by Robert Wright, author of The Moral Animal , Nonzero , and The Evolution of God , for a conversation that r...
The Texas Paradox: How the Most Anti-China State Is Building America's China Capacity
The summit in Beijing produced a "constructive strategic stability" framework and a warming of tone between the two presidents. But heads of...
The View from Everywhere Else: Eric Olander on how the Global South is reading the Beijing summits
Eric Olander on how the Global South is reading the Beijing summits This week I'm joined again by Eric Olander , founder of the China Global...
To Rule All Under Heaven: Andrew Meyer on His New Popular History of the Warring States
This week on Sinica, I speak with Andrew Seth Meyer, professor of history at CUNY Brooklyn College and the author of a remarkable new book f...
"The China Debate We're Not Having" | Part 4: The AI Race Reconsidered
This week I’m sharing the fourth and final installment from the day-long conference convened by the Institute for America, China, and the Fu...
"Constructive Strategic Stability": Ali Wyne of the International Crisis Group on the Trump-Xi Summit
This week on Sinica, I chat with Ali Wyne, Senior Research and Advocacy Adviser for U.S.-China at the International Crisis Group, just hours...
The Poetry of Zheng Xiaoqiong: A Conversation with Translator Eleanor Goodman
This week on Sinica, in a special episode recorded as a live joint webcast with NYRB/Poets and Equator Magazine , I sit down with Eleanor Go...
"The China Debate We're Not Having" | Part 3: Tech, Rivalry, and Competing Visions of the Future
This week I'm sharing the third installment from the day-long conference convened by the Institute for America, China, and the Future of Glo...