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Conversations exploring China, technology, and US-China relations. Guests include a wide range of analysts, policymakers, and academics. Hosted by Jordan Schneider.Check out the newsletter at https://www.chinatalk.media/

Episodes (522)

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WarTalk: Is Mythos a Cyber Nuke? + The Blockade That Wasn't

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The Think Tank New Breed (IFP + FAI)

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Episodes (522)

Quantum 101

WarTalk: Is Mythos a Cyber Nuke? + The Blockade That Wasn't

The Think Tank New Breed (IFP + FAI)

Claude Mythos and National Power

WarTalk: Who Won the Iran War? (Second Breakfast Rebranded...)

How Ukraine Makes Drones

Second Breakfast: F-15, Pete's Purges, CENTCOM Hubris, War of 1812

The American Federal Civil Service: A History

Jen Pahlka on an Optimistic Vision for Government Renewal!

Second Breakfast: We Negotiate with Bombs, War by Brainrot

Overfit is now ModelTalk! GPU Smuggling, OpenAI Cooked? + Open Models, AI Writi...

Second Breakfast: Taking Kharg Island, Terrorism, Grift

The Toymaker vs. the Tariffs

WarTalk: AI, Nukes, Iran and Autonomous War

Iran: No Save Point

Why it Sucks to Work in AI in China + Open Source with Kevin Xu

Software Abundance for Government With Cognition's Russell Kaplan

Second Breakfast: Iran and the DIB with Fmr SECAF Frank Kendall

Autonomous Weapons 101 + Anthropic v DoW

Emergency Pod: Iran + Anthropic

Second Breakfast: Anthropic, SecDefs being weird

Lawrence Freedman on Strategy and Nuclear War

Emergency Pod: SCOTUS Scraps Tariffs!

Second Breakfast: Iran, Munich + European Defense Tech, Anthropic

How the US Won Back Chip Manufacturing

Chinese Peptides (Reported Podcast Special Edition!)

Rickover’s Playbook: Building Hard Things Inside the State

China's Gaming Landscape

Chinamaxxing

Military Revolutions with Ed Luttwak

Second Breakfast: Invading Canada, Benedict Arnold, Iran

EMERGENCY POD: PLA Purges Continue!

Overfit: Claude Code is Everything, Trump Vibe Codes

Second Breakfast: Battleships, Golden Dome, Greenland, Kash, Presidential Comed...

The Future of Economic Security with Dan Kim and Chris Miller

Party Time! Jon Czin on US-China in 2025 and 2026

Richard Danzig on Cyber and AI

The China Commission Reports!

Ben Buchanan on AI and Cyber

Second Breakfast: Iran, $500B for Defense...and should we pity RTX?

Transistor Radio: WFE and Doug's Claude Code Psychosis

Are We Cooked? Q1 2026

Emergency Second Breakfast: Venezuela

Japanese Economic Security Policy with A REAL LIFE METI OFFICIAL

ChinaTalk 2025 Year in Review

Joe Weisenthal and I do a Show About Nothing

Second Breakfast: Arctic Warfare Christmas Special!

Rahm Returns to Chat Trump and China: “He is the worst negotiator.”

Détente 2.0 with Mike Froman of CFR

Second Breakfast: Habemus NDAA!