The Lau China Institute are delighted to welcome Sinica podcast host, Kaiser Kuo, as the closing keynote for China Week 2025. Kaiser will be in conversation with guest chair, Elizabeth Ingleson, Associate Professor of International History, LSE to discuss the history and future of US-China relations. 

Join us in-person on Friday 24 October at 6.30pm for the talk and reception with music from the East-West Cultural Harmony Orchestra at UCL.

Registration is required. Those without tickets will not be admitted. 

About the speakers

Kaiser Kuo is the host of the Sinica Podcast, a weekly discussion of current affairs in China that has run since 2010. He was Head of Podcasts and Editor-at-Large for The China Project, and previously served as Director of International Communications for Baidu. In his over 20 years in China, his career ran the gamut from rock music to tech journalism to corporate communications. He is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, and holds an M.A. from the University of Arizona.

Elizabeth Ingleson is an Associate Professor of International History at the London School of Economics. She is the author of Made in China: When US-China Interests Converged to Transform Global Trade (Harvard University Press, 2024). Ingleson has published several articles and chapters on US-China relations and US capitalism and is currently writing a book under contract with Bloomsbury Academic, China and the United States Since 1949: An International History. Ingleson serves on the management committee of the LSE’s Phelan US Center and is the co-organiser of the LSE-Tufts Seminar in Contemporary International History. Prior to her appointment, she held fellowships at Yale University, the University of Virginia, and Southern Methodist University. She earnt her PhD in history from the University of Sydney.