Conversations exploring China, technology, and US-China relations. Guests include a wide range of an
Is Congress for real this time?To discuss the US domestic politics of the dramatic rollout and broad
How do you stand up an effective national AI project? Is the world prepared for the Reformation-leve
Chinese Doomscroll, which faithfully records happenings from the wild west that is Weibo (China’s Tw
How can AI change diplomacy?To discuss the State Department’s options for AI integration, we intervi
Why can India design chips with the best of them but has completely failed to develop fabs, much les
What does it take to train a frontier model? What's the know-how, the secret sauce that makes firms
Matt Pottinger reported for years out of China, served as a US Marine Corps intelligence officer in
Heart attacks, prostate cancer, Jake Sullivan awake for a home invasion attempt at 4 AM because he w
Kharis Templeman, research fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution, returns to ChinaTalk to break do
How did the US Navy evolve over the first half of the 20th century from a bunch of unschooled violen
How did Lai win, what does China think, and what’s at stake for the DPP?ChinaTalk editor Nicholas We
Should AI be more open or closed? What does it mean to be open, anyway? And can France overtake Chin
New year, new PilotTalk! Ben Smith, editor-in-chief of Semafor, joins Jordan and editor Irene to wat
Margaret Palmieri is the Deputy Chief Digital Artificial Intelligence Officer. I had her on to dicus
Jake Newby of the substack Concrete Avalanche with an end of year ChinaTalk takeover!Here's his acco
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