Live from Columbia: China tech triage with Samm Sacks

Sinica Podcast

Kaiser Kuo

Culture, China News, Hangzhou, Chinese, International Relations, Chongqing, Beijing, Sichuan, Currentaffairs, China, Politics, Chengdu, Shanghai, Guangzhou, China Economy, News, China Politics, Business, Film, Shenzhen

4.8 • 676 Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Samm Sacks, a Cybersecurity Policy and China Digital Economy Fellow at New America, speaks with Kaiser on Huawei’s nebulous role in the U.S.-China trade war, Beijing’s long march to technological self-reliance, and the growing U.S. Commerce Department Entity List. This episode was recorded live at the Columbia China and the World Forum 2019, on September 28, 2019, at Columbia University.

4:12: Trading Huawei for soybeans

11:24: The growing Entity List

22:16: Beijing’s retaliation

25:09: Silicon Valley’s varying views

27:21: Censorship on TikTok and Bytedance

Recommendations:

Samm: Novels by Irish millennial Sally Rooney, for her ability to invoke emotions you didn’t know you had.

Kaiser: Guitar nerd galore. Effects pedals by brand Mooer — the Radar Speaker CAB Simulator, and the overdrive pedal called the Hustle Drive — as well as the JAM BUDDY by JOYO.

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0:45.7	That's audible.com slash Wondery UK. Welcome to this special live edition of the Cynica podcast, a weekly discussion of current affairs in China, coming here today from the Columbia University 2019, China and the World Forum.
1:08.8	Hello Colombia!
1:13.6	Yeah. China and the World Forum. Hello Colombia! All right.
1:17.6	I am Kaiser Guo and today on the Cynica podcast we are going to revisit a topic that I suspect will be with us for the rest of this program's natural life and beyond.
1:26.6	And one where changes
1:28.2	happen with such frequency that I think it's important to come back to it fairly frequently.
1:32.6	I am talking, of course, about the U.S.-China technology relationship, which of course isn't just
1:38.7	about the U.S. and China, but really affects pretty much every major economy and most of the minor
1:43.5	ones to boot.
1:45.6	We are very glad to have with us one of, really, the one individual who I think explains these
1:50.7	things best of everyone I know with such clarity and with such tremendous insight.
1:55.6	My good friend Sam Sachs.
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