Business between Canada and China doesn’t happen in a closed corridor. Two most important factors that impact bilateral business are US-China relations and heightened technology competition. Our Fall 2020 Distinguished Speakers Series takes on these issues, featuring speakers who shine a spotlight on topics such as media coverage of China, 5G and Huawei, industrial espionage, data security, and AI.

Helping the West Read Between the Lines

September 10, 2020

12:00 pm – 1:00 pm ET

We kicked off the Distinguished Speakers series on September 10 with a pair well known to China hands, Jeremy Goldkorn and Kaiser Kuo of SupChina and the popular China-based Sinica Podcast. They were joined by CCBC Executive Director Sarah Kutulakos for a discussion on why it’s important for North America to have an “accurate, contextual understanding of China at a time when the need to understand China is higher than ever.”

This session was C$25+HST for CCBC members in good standing, C$50+HST for non-members.

Interested in watching the video recording of the presentation? Please contact your Chapter Director to request access for the link:

• Atlantic: Laura Markle
• Quebec: Philippe Jeanneau
• Ontario: Jeff Zhang
• Prairies: Philippe Jeanneau
• BC: Lotta Ygartua

• Beijing: Noah Fraser

• Shanghai: Edward Dai

About the speakers:

Jeremy Goldkorn
Editor-in-Chief and Sinica Podcast Co-Host

Jeremy Goldkorn is Editor-in-Chief of SupChina.com and Co-Host of the Sinica Podcast. He moved to China in 1995 and became managing editor of Beijing’s first independent English-language entertainment magazine. In 2003, he founded the website and research firm, Danwei, which tracked Chinese media, markets, politics and business. It was acquired in 2013 by the Financial Times.

While in China, Goldkorn published and edited several magazines, books, and websites. He also lived in a workers’ dormitory, produced a documentary film about African soccer players in Beijing, and rode a bicycle from Peshawar to Kathmandu via Kashgar and Lhasa. He moved to Nashville, Tennessee, in 2015. He is a graduate of the University of Cape Town.

Kaiser Kuo
Sinica Podcast Founder and SupChina Editor-at-Large

Kaiser Kuo is co-founder of the Sinica Podcast, the most popular English-language podcast on current affairs in China, which he hosts with Jeremy Goldkorn. The show has run since April 2010 and has published nearly 400 episodes. Until April 2016, Kaiser served as director of international communications for Baidu, China’s leading search engine. In 2016, Kaiser returned to the U.S. after a 20-year stint in Beijing, where his career spanned the gamut from music to journalism to technology. Kaiser also spent a year in Beijing from 1988 to 1989, when he co-founded the seminal Chinese heavy metal band Tang Dynasty as lead guitarist. He then served as editor-in-chief at ChinaNow.com, one of China’s first bilingual online magazines. He was China bureau chief for technology and business magazine Red Herring and worked as Director of Digital Strategy for Ogilvy & Mather in Beijing. In May 2016, he was honoured by the Asia Society with a leadership award for “revolutionizing the way people live, consume, socially interact, and civically engage.” He speaks frequently on topics related to politics, international relations, and technology in China. He lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, with his wife, two children, Goldendoodle « Potsticker, » and ever-expanding drum kit.