Conversations exploring China, technology, and US-China relations. Guests include a wide range of an
Why has China and its foreign ministry struggled to communicate with the world? In his book, China’s
What can US-China relations learn from US-Japan relations in the leadup to WWII? To discuss, I’m joi
See here for the Year in Review in text form with lots of links: https://chinatalk.substack.com/p/20
NYT bestselling YA author Xiran Jay Zhao (@XiranJayZhao) joins me to talk about her new book, Iron W
What's it like to live across the US-China scientific divide? Yale Law School postdoc, particle phys
Dewey Murdick, director of CSET, discusses how the organization has brought a new level of rigor to
Can eating your sons be morally justified? Stratagems of the Warring States is a collection of stori
What does the 6th Plenum communique tell us about where Xi wants to take China? What can you learn b
Winner of the inaugural Rhodium and China Talk essay contest, recent college grad Maggie Baughman di
Red Roulette, Desmond Shum’s memoir of a fast life, deep in the bowels of Chinese politics, is the b
China's energy problems are back in the news. Joining me to discuss them is Yan Qin, lead analyst at
Lisa Porter joins me with Eric Lofgren from AcquisitionTalk as cohost to reflect on how R&D work
Hosts of the Dongfang Hour (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3UXwB0UbUIg4z4vssUHPBw), a podcast foc
Logan Wright of the Rhodium Group returns to the pod to discuss Evergrande's implosion, how we got h
Julia Lovell, author of Maoism: A Global History and The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of
How did Russian imperial ambitions and expansionism eastward change over time?Joining me on this epi
I was a guest on the Compounding Curiosity podcast, a new show founded by a ChinaTalk fan that focus
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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