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Chris Miller of Chip War and Lennart Heim of RAND check in on the geopolitics of AI. We explore: Chi

Chinese Pop Culture in 2024

2024/12/18

We’ll be getting into the biggest tv show of 2024, a celebrity road trip “will they or won’t they di

Nathan Lambert of the excellent https://www.interconnects.ai/ newsletter and the Allen Institute joi

Commerce released its much-anticipated chip export-control updates yesterday, December 2. But today'

Dylan Patel, Doug O'Laughlin, Jon from Asianometry and I all chat the biggest semiconductor stories

Few books have influenced me as much as the Makers of Modern Strategy series. The three volumes (pub

Data Wars and the DOJ

2024/11/12

To discuss the Department of Justice’s new proposed rule on data security, we interviewed two brilli

Antoine, aka 多多底料, is a French Mandarin teacher by day and a Chinese rap enthusiast by night. Today,

ChinaTalk columnist Alexa Pan and Jake Newby of the China music substack Concrete Avalanche (https:/

Soviet Ruins and China's Future

2024/10/21

Why did the Soviet Union collapse? Which lessons from Cold War history are relevant for China’s futu

林宏文是《晶片島上的光芒》一書的作者,這本書深入探討了台積電的歷史、管理方法和國際角色。作為台灣最資

Welcome back to part two of our interview with Yasheng Huang 黄亚生, the author of The Rise and Fall of

Yasheng Huang 黄亚生 is the author of one of the decade’s greatest books about China — The Rise and Fal

To discuss America’s comparative advantages in national competition and the structural forces that d

Michael Collins is the acting chair of the National Intelligence Council (NIC). He has spent 28 year

Competition Policy 2025

2024/9/4

To discuss the post-election future of US competition policy, ChinaTalk interviewed Peter Harrell an

Jeffrey Ding is a professor at George Washington University, leading US scholar on China’s AI, and t

Thanks to The Innovation Alliance for sponsoring this episode. The Innovation Alliance is a coalitio

Industrial Icebreaker Policy

2024/8/13

Here at ChinaTalk, we break the ice on all things international relations, and today we are diving i

Chris Kirchhoff was a founding member of the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) and previously worked in