Bonus Episode - coronavirus update with Yanzhong Huang
Sinica Podcast
Kaiser Kuo
4.8 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2020
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Kaiser and Jeremy chat with Yanzhong Huang, senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), where he directs the Global Health Governance roundtable series. In addition to his role at CFR, Yanzhong is also a professor at Seton Hall University’s School of Diplomacy and International Relations, making him an ideal guest to talk about a pathogen with major domestic and international political implications.
Recommendations:
Jeremy: Three pieces from SupChina: Kenyan students in Wuhan plead for evacuation, by April Zhu; The disappearance of Perhat Tursun, one of the Uyghur world’s greatest authors, by Darren Byler; and Chinese moms in America’s illicit massage parlors, by Teng Chen.
Yanzhong: Two movies, Outbreak and 28 Days Later.
Kaiser: The subtle muckrakers of the coronavirus epidemic, by Maria Repnikova.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this special bonus edition of the Cynica podcast, a weekly discussion of current affairs in China, produced in partnership with SubChina. |
| 0:16.8 | SubChina is simply the best way there is to keep on top of all the important news coming out of China. |
| 0:21.3 | Our indispensable daily newsletter features a roundup of the news from hundreds of sources, plus links to the original writing on our website. |
| 0:28.3 | Sign up for SubChina access and you get all that and much more, with stories on everything from the Belt and Road to Local Entrepreneurship and Innovation in China, |
| 0:36.1 | from the travails of ethnically Chinese |
| 0:38.0 | researchers in the U.S. in this age of creeping McCarthyism, to China's ongoing extra-legal |
| 0:43.2 | internment of hundreds of thousands or by some estimates over a million Uyghurs and other |
| 0:47.9 | Muslims in China's Xinjiang region. |
| 0:50.7 | We're sure you'll agree it's a feast of business, political, and cultural news about a nation that is reshaping the world. |
| 0:57.7 | I'm Kaiser Guo, coming to you today from the Seneca South Studio in downtown Durham, North Carolina. |
| 1:02.5 | Making his long-awaited return to Seneca is the man himself, that swab and debonair, South African, they call the Fabio of Joe Berg, Mr. Jeremy Goldcord, who joins us from |
| 1:12.7 | New York. Jeremy, please say hello. |
| 1:15.6 | Ciao, bello. |
| 1:17.5 | All right. |
| 1:18.8 | Okay. |
| 1:19.7 | But today we're not going to be talking about my alleged beauty, but about the novel |
| 1:24.8 | coronavirus that emerged probably in Wuhan and continues to ravage |
| 1:30.0 | Hubei province spreading to the rest of China and to other countries. |
| 1:35.0 | Today we are absolutely delighted to welcome as our guest, Yan Zhong Huang, who is a senior |
| 1:39.4 | fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations, where he directs the Global Health |
| 1:44.2 | Governance Roundtable Series. |
| 1:45.9 | He's also a professor at Seton Hall University's School of Diplomacy and International |
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