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Sinica Podcast · 2025-09-22 · 71 min · 14,553 words

Jasmine Sun on Silicon Valley through a Chinese Mirror

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Welcome to the Seneca podcast, a weekly discussion of current affairs in China. In this program, we'll get books, ideas, new research, intellectual currents, and cultural trends that can help us better understand what's happening in China's politics, foreign relations, economics, and society. Join me each week for in-depth conversations that shed more light. and bring less heat to how we think and talk about China. I'm Kaiser Guo, coming to you this week from Beijing, where it is just great to be back.

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