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How much credit can the CCP claim post-1949 for the higher level of human development relative to th
How did SpaceX revolutionize the global space industry? To discuss SpaceX's origin story and secret
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In 2019, Thomas Colvin, Irina Liu and Shirley Han at the Science and Technology Policy Institute (ht
How do Roombas illustrate the promise and peril of translational research? Which valley of death is
Chris Miller of Tufts and I discuss our report Labs over Fabs, our case for the US to be spending mo
Why does Xi govern like he's running out of time? Rhodium's Dan Rosen and CSIS' Jude Blanchette disc
How did Chinese firms come to dominate the global solar industry? Now that the Biden administration
Is China different? Does secular stagnation apply? How have Chinese economic policymakers changed o
Xi Jinping will not rule China forever. What have CCP leadership transitions looked like in the past
Dave Aitel, who started his career at NSA and spent the past twenty years in offensive cybersecurity
Ben Reinhardt, an independent researcher and robotics PhD, discusses Why DARPA has so many hits to
Dr. Yan Zheng, senior technical staff specializing in microelectronics at In-Q-Tel, discusses What
Bell Labs is dead, long live Bell Labs! This week's guest, Ilan Gur, the CEO of Activate.org, has a
The Endless Frontier Act, the most important piece of legislation no one's heard of, got blown to bi
Why hasn’t North Korea emulated Deng’s Opening & Reform? Are China’s wealthy, educated, urbane y
Odd Arne Westad joins ChinaTalk to discuss his latest book Empire and Righteous Nation: 600 Years of
For Part Three of ChinaTalk's industrial policy series, we are joined by two leading lights of the A
