ChinaTalk

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

Episodes

Total: 373

80 episodes and 145 newsletters later, we've made it through my first year working on ChinaTalk full

Brad Setser, fellow at CFR who spent a year during the Biden Administration in USTR, joins ChinaTalk

Kevin Xu of https://interconnect.substack.com/ and I run down our top five stories of the year in US

The Taiwanese populace will head to the polls to choose their next president on January 13, 2024 — a

This was a good episode. Mike Gallagher, Chair of the Select Committee on China, has some thoughtful

Rohit Krishnan of Strange Loop Canon and I kibbitz about this weekend's OpenAI drama as well as the

Matt Turpin, China NSC Director in the Trump administration currently at Hoover and Palantir, comes

Peter Harrell, who served as Biden's Senior Director for International Economics and Competitiveness

This interview was so good.Jason Matheny, Biden's former top tech + national security advisor, has r

Zvi Mowshowitz of Don't Worry about The Vase and Nathan Labenz of the Cognitive Revolution podcast c

Biden just dropped a 50 page executive order that's going to make the world safe for AI, hopefully?

Can AI Be Governed?

2023/10/27

In this episode, Jordan Schneider interviews Markus Anderling and Anton Korinek, two of the coauthor

Defense Minister Li Shangfu just got officially purged. To discuss, we brought on Joel Wuthnow, a fe

Jason Furman was Obama's CEA chair and a Harvard econ professor, while Kyla is the my favorite econo

How to Process Violence

2023/10/20

Two rabbis on ChinaTalk? What am I even doing?Zohar Atkins of the wonderful Meditations with Zohar p

BIS just released its revision to the Oct 7 2022 restrictions. Jon of Asianometry, Dylan of Semianal

Cities of Slaughter

2023/10/13

Israel is a country dear to my heart and I wanted to provide the ChinaTalk audience with one more pe

We discuss their experience of the past few days, China's response, its broader policy and aspiratio

Kurt Campbell is the Deputy Assistant to the President and the White House Coordinator for Indo-Paci

James Wang, partner at Creative Ventures, joins to discuss: Huawei breakthrough implications and why