ChinaTalk

Conversations exploring China, technology, and US-China relations. Guests include a wide range of an

Episodes

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Biden's Foreign Policy

2020/11/16

What will a Biden administration foreign policy look like? What’s going to happen on tech and trade?

The Chinese economy is perhaps the world's only economic bright spot. So that means we can stop worr

Trains!

2020/11/8

David Feng talks Chinese trains and subways. We get into the history and evolution of China's train

A thank you to everyone out there who helped make yesterday possible. "With full hearts and steady h

What To Do About Xinjiang

2020/10/28

How should the US respond to the human rights crisis in Xinjiang? I was a guest on the Lawfare podca

Xi wants China to reach peak emissions by 2030 and go carbon neutral by 2060. Why now? Can he do it?

'Everywhere Yet Nowhere in Particular' is the title of Devin Stewart's latest report. We discuss Chi

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China and the NBA

2020/10/16

Why, aside from Yao, have Chinese players had no success in the NBA? Post-NBA, what has Yao done to

How does the Chinese government's S&T spending differ fundamentally from America's and what does

In his memoir The World as It Is, Ben Rhodes, Barack Obama’s closest national security aide, confid

TikTok, WeChat and Trump

2020/9/29

It's been a wild few weeks with President Trump threatening to shut WeChat and TikTok out of the U.S

War in Taiwan

2020/9/25

Why would Xi invade and is the Taiwanese military up to the challenge? Paul Huang, freelance journal

Adam Tooze is my favorite economic historian. After writing a handful of books on the 1920s and Na

The Mulan Debacle

2020/9/11

Turning a beloved movie of female empowerment into a dull endorsement of the patriarchy, autocracy a

Mister Softee, the famed northeastern American ice cream brand, in Suzhou, China? Yes, that was a th

In 1927, Mao wrote that "In a very short time...several hundred million peasants will rise like a m

Tanner Greer of the blog Scholarstage joins the show in a wide-ranging discussion touching on Xi's i

What China Wants

2020/8/10

How do you even go about answering that question? Is there a consensus in Washington on how to confr

Lingling Wei and Bob Davis of the WSJ discuss their new book Superpower Showdown. We dive deep into