Sinica
Kaiser Y Kuo, Andrew Methven, Mark Leon Goldberg, Eric Olander, James Carter, Andrew Polk, Calvin QuekPodcasts, columns, and essays about current affairs in China
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Daily |
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| Issues | 1442 | Founded | 3 years ago | Last Issue | 4 days ago |
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Transcript | Agile Governance: Tsinghua's Xue Lan on How China Regulates What It Can't Fully Predict
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Podcast | 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 of Sinica tackles the "pacing problem": the widening gap between how fast AI moves and how slowly re...
"The Card Master" — Phrase of the Week
Artwork by Zhang Zhigang for RealTime Mandarin
Our phrase of the week is: “The Card Master” (卡牌大师 kǎ pái dà shī)
Context
At the 2026 World Cup, which kicked off on June 11, China's national team is absent again. In fact, Team China...
China as a Platform State, with Angela Zhang and Alex Yang
China is often described as a command economy — the state picks winners, directs capital, and calls the shots. But that picture keeps colliding with an inconvenient reality: in sector after sector where China now leads — EVs, solar, and inc...
Agile Governance: Tsinghua's Xue Lan on How China Regulates What It Can't Fully Predict
What happens when technology moves faster than the rules meant to govern it? Xue Lan, Dean of Schwarzman College at Tsinghua University and one of China's leading voices on AI policy, has spent years thinking through exactly that problem. I...
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Authors
The writers behind this newsletter.
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.
Creator of RealTime Mandarin, a resource helping you learn contemporary Chinese in context, and stay on top of the latest language trends in China.
Mark Leon Goldberg is a veteran international affairs journalist who writes the Global Dispatches Substack and hosts the Global Dispatches podcast. https://www.globaldispatches.org/
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
Andrew Polk is a co-founder at Trivium China and oversees the firm's macroeconomic and markets research.
Calvin Quek is Executive Director for Nature Finance, at the Oxford Sustainable Finance Group, and Director at Transition Asia
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