ChinaTalk
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/
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Episodes (522)
Overfit: NeurIPS Vibes, Research Doesn't Matter, OpenAI Cooked?
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Emergency Pod: H200s to China with Dmitri Alperovich
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Second Breakfast: Trump's National Security Strategy + Hegseth's Second Strike
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Helen Toner Takes the CSET Reins
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The Future of Secure Telecom
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Transistor Radio: OpenAI Loses the Mandate, Railroad Bubble = AI Bubble
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Second Breakfast: Witkoff and Putin's Peace Deal
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The Z.ai Playbook
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Jake Sullivan on Playing the Long Game
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Second Breakfast: Acquisition Reform? Are We Really Doing It?
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Overfit: AI Lovers, Chinese Model Takeover, Vice Signalling, Hefei Model
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Second Breakfast: Colby's Pigpen, Counter-UAS, Training, Eat like a Trumper (or...
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EMERGENCY POD: Tariffs on Trial
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CCP Bureaucracies in War
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Second Breakfast: Xi-Trump, Taiwan Deterrence, Tibetan Buddhism, Antietam
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Ukraine's Drone War with Shashank and Rob Lee
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Japan's New Prime Minister: What to Expect
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Ukraine's Drone War with Shashank and Rob Lee
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Second Breakfast: Venezuela, Shutdowns, PE + Army, E.B. Sledge
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PLA Purges and How Xi Rules with Jon Czin
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Second Breakfast: Gaza, SOUTHCOM, AI Nuke Analogies Stink, Generals Using AI (...
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Tarun Chhabra on the Stakes of AI Competition
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Anduril's Christian Brose on the Dangers of Unseriousness
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EMERGENCY POD: China's Rare Earth Export Controls
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AI Hardware Net Assessment: Why Huawei Can't Beat Nvidia
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Second Breakfast: Putin's Drones, SecWar Patton, Wargaming, Finding Subs
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RAND's Jeff Alstott on How Facts Can Shape Tech Policymaking
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Transistor Radio: Intel, Dylan Falls in Love, Nvidia Captures Dylan, Slop City (...
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Second Breakfast: The Future of Intelligence
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Overfit: Shenzhen vs SF Vibes, Model Progress, Jordan a Berkeley Bowl Hater
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Second Breakfast: RIP China Hawks, NDAA, Innovation Kayfabe, Child Soldiers
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Nate Silver on AI, Politics, and Power
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MP Materials, Intel, and Sovereign Wealth Funds
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Second Breakfast: Department of War, Warrior Culture, Sicario, Dick Winters, SEA...
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The Robotics Revolution
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Emergency Pod: US-India-China Meltdown
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Second Breakfast: Parades, U.S. Grant, JCIDS, Warbots
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War in the Pacific with Ian Toll
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Dan Wang on Modern China
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Second Breakfast: Drones, Silicon Shield, Waymo, FedFest, Bolton
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NVIDIA GPU Black Market Smuggling
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Learning from Ukraine, Preparing for Taiwan
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Transistor Radio: H20, GPT5, DUI Lawyers, Ajinomoto
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EMERGENCY POD: H20s to China + 15% with Chris Miller and Lennart
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Second Breakfast: A New Defense Pod
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Dissent from Moscow to Beijing
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Betting on Chaos: Professionals in Prediction Markets
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Where Japan Goes Next
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Xi Zhongxun's Second Act: 1949-1989
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Trump and Japan
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