The China Project
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If you lead a developing country and want to borrow money from China, then listen to this podcast
The days of China easily handing out billions of dollars to build infrastructure in developing countries around the world are now over. The Chinese can’t...
[Podcast] Are Hollywood films losing appeal for Chinese audiences?
After years of strict management on cinematic imports and a pandemic-induced disruption, China’s film sector is reopening to the world again. But while the regulatory...
The Caixin-Sinica Business Brief ep. 238: China’s first homegrown jet sets sights on Airbus and Boeing
This week on the Caixin-Sinica Business Brief: The Comac C919 takes its maiden commercial flight, Beijing-based ChatGPT rival files for Hong Kong IPO, and China...
Curtain-raiser on the Shangri-La Dialogue, with the man who runs the show: James Crabtree of IISS
With the IISS Shangri-La Dialogue kicking off in Singapore on Friday, June 2, Kaiser chats with the organizer’s managing director for Asia, James Crabtree, about...
African Demand for Chinese Surveillance Technology
While many countries around the world, particularly G7 states, have largely outlawed the use of Chinese surveillance technology made by companies like Huawei, ZTE, and...
[Podcast] What really happened at the Battle of Luding Bridge?
The Battle of Luding Bridge is part of the founding lore of the Chinese Communist Party. People outside China first learned of the incident through...
[Podcast] Emotional storytelling and modernized folktales power a new era of Chinese animation
From exploring personal subjects to reimagining ancient stories in a contemporary context, a new generation of Chinese creatives are elevating the world of animation beyond...
The Caixin-Sinica Business Brief ep. 237: HK allows retail crypto trade, Meituan launches food delivery in HK, Wanda unit’s IPO in question
This week on the Caixin-Sinica Business Brief: Hong Kong greenlights retail cryptocurrency trading, Meituan launches a food delivery app in Hong Kong, Dalian Wanda bonds...
[WEEK IN REVIEW] Chinese Hacking in Kenya & DRC President Goes to Beijing
This week CGSP Francophone Editor Geraud Neema joins Eric & Cobus to discuss DR Congo President Félix Tshiskedi’s state visit to China which comes at...
[Podcast] Lonely Planet: Imperial China, by Xu Xiake
Xu Xiake was China’s first, most popular, and most prolific travel writer. He visited 16 modern provinces over more than three decades, and the observations...
Key Lessons From Indonesia’s China-Backed Mining & Infrastructure Ventures
Indonesia is a pioneer among developing countries for its efforts in moving up the EV battery metal value chain. Whereas most other countries like the...
Harvard’s William Kirby on China’s higher education system and his book “Empires of Ideas”
This week on Sinica, Harvard’s eminent sinologist William Kirby joins Kaiser to talk about his book Empires of Ideas: Creating the Modern University from Germany to...
[Podcast] After a half-century, does panda diplomacy still work?
Last week, Ya Ya the panda returned to Shanghai after spending 20 years in Memphis. Her arrival marked the end of a drawn-out saga that...
[Podcast] Beijing LGBT Center shutters after 15 years, citing uncontrollable factors
“I don’t think the Center crossed a line, but rather the line crossed them.” Click here to read the article by Zhao Yuanyuan. Narrated by...
The Caixin-Sinica Business Brief Episode 236: Oppo shuts its chip design arm, PLA pun costs comedian cash
On this week’s episode, Oppo shuts down its chip-designing business, Baidu’s quarterly revenue exceeds market expectations, and a Chinese comedy producer takes $2 million hit...
South-South Cooperation in Economically Perilous Times
For 70+ years, development economists have been touting the idea that if lesser developed countries trade and invest collaboratively, it would serve as a pathway...
[Podcast] What atrocity looks like: John Magee’s Rape of Nanking footage
A Life magazine cover in 1938 sought to rally American public support for the war in the Pacific. The images inside that front cover were...
Does the Capvision raid signal a crackdown on consultancies in China? The China Project’s CEO Bob Guterma, formerly of Capvision, weighs in
This week on the Sinica Podcast, Kaiser is joined by The China Project’s CEO Bob Guterma, who just so happens to have served at Chief...
The Case for More U.S. Soft Power to Counter China in the Global South
China is one of the very few truly bipartisan issues in Washington today where there is near unanimous consensus that the U.S. must work to...
The Caixin-Sinica Business Brief episode 235: China expels Canadian diplomat, LinkedIn quits China, U.S. auditors find fault in first China inspection
On this week’s episode of the Caixin-Sinica Business Brief, a Softbank-backed Chinese robot startup has filed for a multimillion-dollar IPO in Shanghai, LinkedIn will scale...
Chinese Merchants Are Disrupting Kenya’s Business Cartels
In the old days, a small group of Kenyan elites dominated the business of importing low-cost products from China that they would then turn around...
[Podcast] Battle of Tunmen: The first clash between China and Europe
An age-old story of diplomatic misunderstanding and technology transference. Click here to read the article by James Carter. Narrated by Kaiser Kuo. China Stories is...
China’s Confusing, Contradictory Policy on Coal Power
In September 2021, President Xi Jinping announced at the United Nations that China would immediately halt all financing of coal power projects abroad as part...
WEEK IN REVIEW: Life & Art Converge With China’s Evacuations From Sudan
PLA Navy warships facilitated China’s third major evacuation from a war-ravaged MENA country this week when two vessels ferried more than a thousand Chinese and...
Xiong’an: Techno-natural utopia or authoritarian folly?
This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Andrew Stokols, a Ph.D. researcher at MIT who has been studying the “techno-natural utopia” that the Chinese government...
[Podcast] The Peking Express: A train heist for the ages
China’s greatest train hijacking, by a band of outlaws calling themselves the Autonomous Army, changed the Republic of China. Click here to read the article...
[Podcast] Sanmao and her ‘Stories of the Sahara’
Celebrating one of Taiwan’s greatest writers. Click here to read the article by Neocha. Narrated by Cliff Larsen. China Stories is published twice weekly, on...
The Caixin-Sinica Business Brief ep. 234: Evergrande debt restructuring hits snag, holiday travel rebounds in China, new CATL battery takes flight, Xi calls Zelenskyy
In this week’s episode: Evergrande’s offshore debt restructuring hits another roadblock, CATL’s revolutionary battery has its eye on electric flight, a Chinese city is paying...
Understanding China’s Role in the Developing World Debt Crisis (Part 2)
The widely debunked Chinese debt trap narrative re-surfaced again in Washington, D.C. when the top U.S. military commander for Africa General Michael Langley testified before...
[Podcast] Remembering the Yellow Flower Mound Uprising against the Qing
The Yellow Flower Mound Uprising, also known as the Second Guangzhou Uprising, may have failed, but its legacy is now celebrated in mainstream Chinese culture...
Earth Day episode: How can the U.S. and China cooperate on climate in this era of competition?
This week on Sinica, an Earth Day special: Kaiser chats with Marilyn Waite, managing director of the Climate Finance Fund; Alex Wang, a UCLA law...
Update on China’s Role in the Burgeoning Global South Debt Crisis
There was a lot of excitement earlier this month at the IMF and World Bank’s annual gathering in Washington, D.C. about rumors that the impasse...
The Caixin-Sinica Business Brief episode 233: Rosy Q1 GDP numbers, more AI mania, and Apple’s contract manufacturers diversify
This week on the Caixin-Sinica Business Brief: China’s 1Q GDP grew by a surprising 4.5%, ByteDance sticks to its strengths with release of products for...
Bright Simons on Africa in the Era of Great Power Competition
Many African countries are confronting unprecedented challenges from a convergence of forces far beyond their control. Africans are suffering disproportionately from the effects of climate...
Legendary CNN reporter Mike Chinoy on his book and documentary series “Assignment China”
This week on the Sinica Podcast, Kaiser and Jeremy chat with Mike Chinoy, the legendary award-winning TV newsman who helmed CNN in Beijing for many...
[Podcast] The complex legacy of the Doolittle Raid and U.S.-China allyship
In 1942, a band of American pilots conducted a daring bombing run over Japan, with the plan to land in airfields set up in China...
U.S.-China Technology Competition in the Global South
The U.S. and China are waging a hard-fought battle today for dominance of global technology standards, particularly in emerging sectors like 5G mobile telecommunications. While...
The Caixin-Sinica Business Brief episode 232 China’s energy giants expand in the Middle East and LatAm, lithium prices plummet
This week on the Caixin-Sinica Business Brief: China’s SINOPEC inks a deal to take a share in a major Qatar LNG producer, while China Southern...
The Far-Reaching Consequences of China’s Demand for African Donkeys
Elephants, rhinos, and lions usually come to mind first in discussions about the China-Africa animal trade, not donkeys. But surging demand for donkey hides used...
[Podcast] Titanic’s six Chinese survivors tell a story that goes far beyond a shipwreck
Eight Chinese passengers boarded the Titanic in Southampton, six survived. Their story — largely untold until Steven Schwarkert came across it during his research on Chinese...
The Risks and Rewards of China’s New Mideast Diplomacy
When China announced in March that it had brokered a landmark agreement between Iran and Saudi Arabia to restore diplomatic ties, it took a lot...
As the U.S. and China part ways, the Global South finds its own path, with Kishore Mahbubani
This week on Sinica, Kishore Mahbubani, who served as Singapore’s UN Ambassador and has written extensively on ASEAN and the U.S.-China rift, returns to the...
The Caixin-Sinica Business Brief episode 231: A new ChatGPT contender in China, airline losses, and auto price wars
This week on the Caixin-Sinica Business Brief, China’s ‘big three’ airlines post huge losses in 2022, table tennis superstar caught up in extortion scandal, and...
[Podcast] High-level talks between China and Japan, but no results
China and Japan are talking again, but relations will probably deteriorate over Beijing’s growing military presence in disputed territories, Tokyo’s crackdown on advanced chipmaking gear...