# week sinica (audio feeds) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover week sinica. Page: Feed: --- ## [Trivium China Weekly Recap | Beijing’s answer to weak demand?](https://www.sinicapodcast.com/p/trivium-china-weekly-recap-beijings) _2026-08-24 · Andrew Polk · Sinica_ If you’ve been waiting for Beijing to unveil a plan to fix China’s flagging consumption, we have an answer for you. ## [China’s BRI Is Bigger Than Ever. It Just Looks Very Different](https://www.sinicapodcast.com/p/chinas-bri-is-bigger-than-ever-it) _2026-08-23 · Eric Olander · Sinica_ After the pandemic, as Chinese state-backed lending to developing countries largely dried up, critics declared the Belt and Road Initiative effectively dead. [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/212389094/47e5dd975adf8c70ce1d436c6223c130.mp3) ## ["Handcrafted from scratch" — Phrase of the Week](https://www.sinicapodcast.com/p/handcrafted-from-scratch-phrase-of) _2026-08-23 · Andrew Methven · Sinica_ A new budget indie movie becomes a hit… because it’s made by hand ## [Another Grim Month for the Chinese Economy](https://www.sinicapodcast.com/p/another-grim-month-for-the-chinese) _2026-08-21 · Andrew Polk · Sinica_ Listen now (38 mins) | China’s July macro data just landed, and the title of our monthly macro note says it all: “A Grim Picture.” [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/212094991/8c0e941ad9f441b3070d467b4d000f65.mp3) ## [Talking Past Each Other: Pallavi Aiyar on India, China, and the Case for Cognitive Empathy](https://www.sinicapodcast.com/p/talking-past-each-other-pallavi-aiyar) _2026-08-19 · Kaiser Y Kuo · Sinica_ 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 lucky beneficiary of her and her husband Julio’s legendary hospitality. [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/211664490/6d419b91181c89a1317befae428dbec4.mp3) ## [Transcript | Talking Past Each Other: Pallavi Aiyar on India, China, and the Case for Cognitive Empathy](https://www.sinicapodcast.com/p/transcript) _2026-08-19 · Kaiser Y Kuo · Sinica_ Transcript (courtesy of the fantastic CadreScripts) further down the page. ## ["The breeze cannot read, so why, then, does it riffle through my book" — Phrase of the Week](https://www.sinicapodcast.com/p/the-breeze-cannot-read-so-why-then) _2026-08-16 · Andrew Methven · Sinica_ Huawei's war on a bamboo toy revives a Qing-era warning about abuse of power ## [The China Chokepoints Nobody's Watching](https://www.sinicapodcast.com/p/the-china-chokepoints-nobodys-watching) _2026-08-14 · Andrew Polk · Sinica_ Listen now | When it comes to China’s key nodes of economic leverage, rare earths get all the attention — because they’re the cheapest, easiest lever China has to pull. [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/211131317/8ff28447887a3920244fd8848eb78f13.mp3) ## [Trivium China Podcast | Beijing Stops Playing Coy](https://www.sinicapodcast.com/p/trivium-china-podcast-beijing-stops) _2026-08-14 · Andrew Polk · Sinica_ Listen now | On August 5th, China dropped a new batch of retaliatory economic measures against various US entities. [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/211130853/555b69ef45b1300c456a3c827b6e924d.mp3) ## [Transcript | The Future, Made in China: Evan Osnos on America's Reckoning](https://www.sinicapodcast.com/p/transcript-the-future-made-in-china) _2026-08-11 · Kaiser Y Kuo · Sinica_ Transcript (courtesy of the fantastic CadreScripts) further down the page. ## [Persona-led AI publishing (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/JZ6UeZnEH3r7) _2026-08-11 · **Sponsored**_ Generate drafts, schedule subdomain publishing, and keep human review where needed. ## [The Future, Made in China: Evan Osnos on America's Reckoning](https://www.sinicapodcast.com/p/the-future-made-in-china-evan-osnos) _2026-08-11 · Kaiser Y Kuo · Sinica_ This week on Sinica, I welcome back Evan Osnos of The New Yorker, whose marvelous new essay, “The Future, Made in China,” chronicles a tech-focused return trip to Beijing, where he lived from 2005 to 2013 — first for the Chicago Tribune, then as The New Yorker [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/210558221/fb0146680e8adcf96b1b500ab2e5f2cc.mp3) ## [China's View of India Has Changed. Is New Delhi Ready?](https://www.sinicapodcast.com/p/chinas-view-of-india-has-changed) _2026-08-10 · Eric Olander · Sinica_ China and India are entering a cautious period of diplomatic re-engagement after years of confrontation, but deep strategic mistrust, unresolved border disputes, and competing security interests continue to define the relationship. [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/210571521/99ecfb609d9c70756eb790cf8ae46e0c.mp3) ## [“Calm meltdown” — Phrase of the Week](https://www.sinicapodcast.com/p/calm-meltdown-phrase-of-the-week) _2026-08-09 · Andrew Methven · Sinica_ A viral song and a new phrase capture the mood in China ## [Law Versus Development](https://www.sinicapodcast.com/p/law-versus-development) _2026-08-08 · Kevin Byrne Keller · Sinica_ Chinese businesses are pouring into Ethiopia. When someone gets hurt, what happens? ## Samm Sacks and Paul Triolo on WAIC 2026, Xi's AI Speech, and Kimi K3 _2026-07-23 · Sinica Podcast_ 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 business on technology and China — Samm Sacks and Paul Triolo, fresh off the exhibition floor of the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai. We dig into Xi Jinping's first in-person WAIC appearance and his most extensive statement on AI to date,… [Listen](https://pdcn.co/e/rss.art19.com/episodes/809ac611-caa0-4610-9bf5-20b604654a90.mp3?rss_browser=BAhJIhRSU1NBbXBsaWZpZXJCb3QGOgZFVA%3D%3D--6345a2e4a0991d4cbe92da92e0fa95ff9d12de2e) ## The Platform State: Angela Zhang and Alex Yang on How China Really Governs Its Economy _2026-07-08 · Sinica Podcast_ 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 Champions in Dalian, I sat down with Angela Huyue Zhang, professor of law at USC's Gould School of Law and author of High Wire: How China Regulates Big Tech and Governs Its Economy , and S. Alex Yang, professor of management science and operations at London Business… [Listen](https://pdcn.co/e/rss.art19.com/episodes/7313398c-886f-4abc-b491-d3f6f9e66474.mp3?rss_browser=BAhJIhRSU1NBbXBsaWZpZXJCb3QGOgZFVA%3D%3D--6345a2e4a0991d4cbe92da92e0fa95ff9d12de2e) ## Agile Governance: Tsinghua's Xue Lan on How China Regulates What It Can't Fully Predict _2026-06-30 · Sinica Podcast_ 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 regulation can catch up. I sit down with Xue Lan, dean of Schwarzman College at Tsinghua University and one of the architects of China's concept of "agile… [Listen](https://pdcn.co/e/rss.art19.com/episodes/1ee1ef49-3182-47ba-a700-1147916a230f.mp3?rss_browser=BAhJIhRSU1NBbXBsaWZpZXJCb3QGOgZFVA%3D%3D--6345a2e4a0991d4cbe92da92e0fa95ff9d12de2e) ## China Shock 2.0: This Time It's Europe, with Adam Tooze _2026-06-24 · Sinica Podcast_ 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 they wouldn’t print the word “China” on the agenda. The trigger: a goods-trade deficit closing in on 360 billion euros, and, for the first time ever, all 27 member states in the red. Recorded at Summer Davos in Dalian, I sat down with economic historian Adam… [Listen](https://pdcn.co/e/rss.art19.com/episodes/d2ba6f68-e095-403f-9104-d2e009e72779.mp3?rss_browser=BAhJIhRSU1NBbXBsaWZpZXJCb3QGOgZFVA%3D%3D--6345a2e4a0991d4cbe92da92e0fa95ff9d12de2e) ## "But China!": Robert Wright on the AI Race and Our Coming Cosmic Reckoning _2026-06-17 · Sinica Podcast_ 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 runs a little outside our usual beat, though China sits closer to its center than you'd expect. The occasion is his new book The God Test: Artificial Intelligence and Our Coming Cosmic Reckoning , which reads the AI revolution as the latest turn in a story… [Listen](https://pdcn.co/e/rss.art19.com/episodes/87399f31-4c0c-4e8d-9d4e-93f572ca5589.mp3?rss_browser=BAhJIhRSU1NBbXBsaWZpZXJCb3QGOgZFVA%3D%3D--6345a2e4a0991d4cbe92da92e0fa95ff9d12de2e) ## The Texas Paradox: How the Most Anti-China State Is Building America's China Capacity _2026-06-03 · Sinica Podcast_ The summit in Beijing produced a "constructive strategic stability" framework and a warming of tone between the two presidents. But heads of state can announce a multi-year horizon; somebody else has to operationalize it. Does the United States have the people — the linguists, the regional experts, the long-haul institution-builders — to do that work? This week, I chatted with two Texans answering… [Listen](https://pdcn.co/e/rss.art19.com/episodes/8322f5a2-45f3-4de8-9c66-c4f1edf05e8e.mp3?rss_browser=BAhJIhRSU1NBbXBsaWZpZXJCb3QGOgZFVA%3D%3D--6345a2e4a0991d4cbe92da92e0fa95ff9d12de2e) ## [profullstack on Ko‑fi (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/3lpSHtEUftnz) _2026-06-03 · **Sponsored**_ Open the creator's Ko‑fi page. ## The View from Everywhere Else: Eric Olander on how the Global South is reading the Beijing summits _2026-05-26 · Sinica Podcast_ 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 South Project, which runs the most indispensable English-language operation going for understanding China's engagement with Africa, Latin America, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East. I came in with a plan: map, region by region, how the capitals of the… [Listen](https://pdcn.co/e/rss.art19.com/episodes/6d9a051e-6e2d-4af4-a7e1-c7bf0bba195f.mp3?rss_browser=BAhJIhRSU1NBbXBsaWZpZXJCb3QGOgZFVA%3D%3D--6345a2e4a0991d4cbe92da92e0fa95ff9d12de2e) ## To Rule All Under Heaven: Andrew Meyer on His New Popular History of the Warring States _2026-05-21 · Sinica Podcast_ 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 from Oxford University Press, To Rule All Under Heaven: A History of Classical China from Confucius to the First Emperor . Sixteen years in the making, it’s the first proper one-volume narrative history of the Warring States in English aimed at a general reader… [Listen](https://pdcn.co/e/rss.art19.com/episodes/88fd6e51-7c9a-4f37-842e-073296a6f4a6.mp3?rss_browser=BAhJIhRSU1NBbXBsaWZpZXJCb3QGOgZFVA%3D%3D--6345a2e4a0991d4cbe92da92e0fa95ff9d12de2e)