Sinica
Kaiser Y Kuo, Eric Olander, James Carter, Andrew Methven, Andrew Polk, René RuschmeierPodcasts, columns, and essays about current affairs in China
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Daily |
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| Issues | 1530 | Founded | 3 years ago | Last Issue | 2 days ago |
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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 Five Year Plan. People want to know what my life here is actually like. So I carried a mic and a po...
Transcript | Sinica Weekend Edition: Three Days Out and About in Beijing
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Transcript (courtesy of the fantastic CadreScripts) further down the page. Image by Keya Zhou. Listen in the embedded player above!
Trivium China Podcast | China’s Critical Minerals Off Switch Isn’t As Ironclad As Washington Thinks
During Xi Jinping’s late-September visit to Washington, the U.S. and China extended their trade truce — but more than a month later, there’s still no Federal Register notice or amended MofCom announcement formalizing it.
- Jessica DiCarl...
The U.S. Wants Global South Countries to Reject Chinese AI. Will They?
China’s AI competition with the United States is increasingly about more than building the most powerful models. For countries across the Global South, affordability, practical performance, customization, and control over data are often mor...
“Too much kindness breeds resentment” — Phrase of the Week
Artwork by Zhang Zhigang for RealTime Mandarin
Our phrase of the week is: “too much kindness breeds resentment” (升米恩，斗米仇 shēng mǐ ēn, dǒu mǐ chóu)
Context
On 22 October, Starbucks China introduced its new policy of “seats are reserv...
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Authors
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A weekly podcast about current affairs in China, hosted by Kaiser Kuo and featuring in-depth conversations about books, ideas, new research, intellectual currents, and cultural trends that can help us better understand what’s happening in China.
Historian of modern China at Saint Joseph's University, trained under Jonathan Spence. Most recent book: Champions Day: The End of Old Shanghai (WW Norton). www.jayjamescarter.com
Creator of RealTime Mandarin, a resource helping you learn contemporary Chinese in context, and stay on top of the latest language trends in China.
Andrew Polk is a co-founder at Trivium China and oversees the firm's macroeconomic and markets research.
René Ruschmeier is an economist, strategy adviser and founder of 理门 Limen China. Based in China since 2017, he writes about Chinese policy, geoeconomics and the strategic choices facing European businesses.
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