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Total: 368

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

AI + The State Department

2024/3/4

How can AI change diplomacy?To discuss the State Department’s options for AI integration, we intervi

India's Chip War

2024/2/25

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

Pottinger on Trump 2.0

2024/2/14

Matt Pottinger reported for years out of China, served as a US Marine Corps intelligence officer in

Is the NSC Unwell?

2024/2/1

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 the Navy Learned to Fight

2024/1/18

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

Best Chinese Music of 2023

2023/12/27

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