Philanthropy in China, with Scott Kennedy of CSIS

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

🗓️ 7 November 2019

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

This week on Sinica, Kaiser talks about the state of charitable giving in China with Scott Kennedy, senior adviser and Trustee Chair in Chinese Business and Economics at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Has philanthropy kept pace with the growth of wealth? And how have charities fared under Xi Jinping and China’s new laws governing NGOs and charity?

6:36: How has charity fared under Xi Jinping?

13:04: Party apprehensions about philanthropic giving

20:18: Red lines for foreign philanthropy in China

29:28: Where is Chinese funding going abroad?

34:52: How philanthropy in China has changed over time

Recommendations:

Scott: The China Hustle, by Magnolia Pictures.

Kaiser: A birthday letter to the People’s Republic, by Yangyang Cheng. She also writes the Science and China column for SupChina.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Cynical podcast, the weekly discussion of current affairs in China, produced in partnership with SubChina.
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0:30.9	from the Belt and Road to local entrepreneurship and innovation in China, from the travails of
0:35.1	ethnically Chinese researchers in the U.S. in this age of creeping
0:37.8	McCarthyism to China's ongoing extra-legal internment of hundreds of thousands or by some estimates
0:43.5	over a million Uyghurs and other Muslims in China's Xinjiang region.
0:48.3	Where sure you'll agree, it's a feast of business, political, and cultural news about a nation
0:52.8	that is reshaping the world.
0:55.2	I'm Kaiser Guo, and I am in Washington, D.C. today at the Center for Strategic and International
0:59.4	Studies, CSIS. Over the past few decades, as China's economy has continued to expand
1:04.9	charitable activity by corporations and foundations has also increased philanthropic activity by
1:10.7	individuals, too, has grown,
1:12.2	as we should hope and expect it to. After all, China now boasts the world's largest number of
1:17.1	billionaires, 55, I think it was in 2017. Once in a while, we read about surges of volunteerism,
1:23.1	like after the 2008 Windchuan earthquake, for instance, or another natural disaster here or there.
1:29.0	International media will focus on somebody like Ali Balas Jack Ma for, you know, the large
1:33.6	donations to environmental NGOs that he's made.
1:36.1	But we'll also read about scandals that have caused many ordinary Chinese to be very skeptical.
1:40.3	And we read routinely about the casual brutality, the callousness, the pitifully low levels
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