Welcome to the Cynica podcast, with the discussion of current affairs in China, produced in partnership with the China Project.

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but to all of the original writing on our website at theChinaproject.com. We've got reported stories,

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library of podcasts. We cover everything from China's fraught foreign relations to its ingenious entrepreneurs,

from the ongoing repression of Uyghurs and other Muslim peoples in China's Xinjiang region

to Beijing's ambitious plans to shift the Chinese economy onto a post-carbon footing.

It's a feast of business, political, and cultural news about a nation

that is reshaping the world. We cover China with neither fear nor favor. I'm Kaiser Gualt,

coming to you from Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Back in May, a little over six months ago,

a young woman who'd spent a bunch of time in China approached

our editorial team with an interesting proposal.

She wanted to create an official TikTok channel for our company, which was then still called

SubChina.

She was already running her own China-focused TikTok feed with a ton of subscribers.

You should check that out.

Just add Dear China to TikTok.

Anyway, as I watched those videos, I was really impressed with her presentation, with her

scripting, as well as her wit and her sense of humor. But above all, I was impressed with her

overall approach to talking about China, which for me ticked all the boxes. It was empathetic, knowledgeable,

very balanced, interested in introducing context and approaching all these complicated issues

from a whole bunch of different angles. So all of us who looked at her stuff agreed. We liked it for, you know, very much the same reasons.

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