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ποΈ 18 August 2022
β±οΈ 61 minutes
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This week on Sinica, Kaiser and Jeremy welcome Leroy Chiao, a NASA astronaut who flew three shuttle missions and served as commander of the International Space Station for over six months. Leroy is also very knowledgeable about China's space program and was the first American astronaut to visit the Astronaut Center of China outside of Beijing. He discusses the abortive history of Sino-American space collaboration, attitudes toward China's space program in the U.S., and China's impressive accomplishments and its grand ambitions for space.
4:27 β How Leroy became an astronaut
9:09 β The effects of long-term weightlessness
15:10 β Leroyβs access to the Astronaut Center of China
18:16 β The peak years of Sino-U.S. collaboration in space exploration
23:11 β The Wolf Amendment and the end of Sino-American space collaboration
26:36 β Leroy on the most impressive accomplishments of the Chinese space program
37:53 β U.S.-China competition as a driver of advances in space technologies
48:04 β Sino-Russian space cooperation?
49:12 β The weaponization of outer space
52: 58 β Recommendations
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Recommendations:
Jeremy: Nuremberg Diary by G.M. Gilbert.
Leroy: Old Henry, a micro-Western film
Kaiser: Putin by Philip Short; and a preview of a forthcoming paper about the Cyberspace Administration of China, CAC, written by Jamie Horsley
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0:37.1 | We cover everything from China's fraught foreign relations to its ingenious entrepreneurs. regular columns and, of course, a growing library of podcasts. |
0:37.6 | We cover everything from China's fraught foreign relations to its ingenious entrepreneurs, |
0:42.0 | from the ongoing repression of Uyghurs and other Muslim peoples in China's Xinjiang region, |
0:46.3 | to Beijing's ambitious plans to shift the Chinese economy onto a post-carbon footing. |
0:52.5 | It's a feast of business, political, and cultural news about a nation |
0:56.2 | that is reshaping the world. We cover China with neither fear nor favor. I'm Kaiser Guo, coming |
1:02.5 | to you from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, joining me from fabled Gold Corn Holler in the bushes |
1:07.6 | and brambles of Middle Tennessee, just back from his holiday with South Korean |
1:11.9 | President Yun Suk Yil, where he proved much more fun company than Nancy Pelosi would have been. |
1:18.2 | It's the one and only Jin Yuumi, otherwise known as Jeremy Goldcorn. |
1:22.2 | Jeremy, how are you, man? Greet the people, won't you? |
1:24.2 | Hey, Guy. I think that should be, what is it in Korean? |
1:28.3 | Kim, Jen is Kim. |
1:29.4 | It should be Kim Ogsusu or something like that. |
1:33.6 | Anyway, you guys got to be close buddies then, I suppose. |
1:36.5 | Oh, yeah. |
1:36.8 | Where's your holiday? |
1:39.7 | Just anything to dodge Pelosi. |
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