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/
The American Federal Civil Service: A History
58 mins; March 31, 2026
The American Federal Civil Service: A History
58 mins; March 30, 2026
Jen Pahlka on an Optimistic Vision for Government Renewal!
59 mins; March 27, 2026
Second Breakfast: We Negotiate with Bombs, War by Brainrot
53 mins; March 25, 2026
Overfit is now ModelTalk! GPU Smuggling, OpenAI Cooked? + Open Models, AI Writing
41 mins; March 23, 2026
Second Breakfast: Taking Kharg Island, Terrorism, Grift
78 hours 51 mins; March 20, 2026
The Toymaker vs. the Tariffs
33 mins; March 19, 2026
WarTalk: AI, Nukes, Iran and Autonomous War
119 hours 27 mins; March 16, 2026
Iran: No Save Point
69 hours 32 mins; March 13, 2026
Why it Sucks to Work in AI in China + Open Source with Kevin Xu
50 mins; March 12, 2026
Software Abundance for Government With Cognition's Russell Kaplan
56 mins; March 09, 2026
Second Breakfast: Iran and the DIB with Fmr SECAF Frank Kendall
75 hours 45 mins; March 06, 2026
Autonomous Weapons 101 + Anthropic v DoW
40 mins; March 04, 2026
Emergency Pod: Iran + Anthropic
79 hours 59 mins; March 02, 2026
Second Breakfast: Anthropic, SecDefs being weird
83 hours 42 mins; February 27, 2026
Lawrence Freedman on Strategy and Nuclear War
94 hours 25 mins; February 25, 2026
Emergency Pod: SCOTUS Scraps Tariffs!
34 mins; February 20, 2026
Second Breakfast: Iran, Munich + European Defense Tech, Anthropic
63 hours 23 mins; February 20, 2026
How the US Won Back Chip Manufacturing
99 hours 40 mins; February 17, 2026
Chinese Peptides (Reported Podcast Special Edition!)
40 mins; February 13, 2026
Rickover’s Playbook: Building Hard Things Inside the State
79 hours 34 mins; February 13, 2026
China's Gaming Landscape
47 mins; February 10, 2026
Chinamaxxing
56 mins; February 05, 2026
Military Revolutions with Ed Luttwak
171 hours 20 mins; February 01, 2026
Second Breakfast: Invading Canada, Benedict Arnold, Iran
63 hours 19 mins; January 30, 2026
EMERGENCY POD: PLA Purges Continue!
56 mins; January 27, 2026
Overfit: Claude Code is Everything, Trump Vibe Codes
70 hours 41 mins; January 25, 2026
Second Breakfast: Battleships, Golden Dome, Greenland, Kash, Presidential Comedy
72 hours 50 mins; January 23, 2026
The Future of Economic Security with Dan Kim and Chris Miller
80 hours 29 mins; January 21, 2026
Party Time! Jon Czin on US-China in 2025 and 2026
61 hours 41 mins; January 18, 2026
Richard Danzig on Cyber and AI
104 hours 16 mins; January 17, 2026
The China Commission Reports!
59 mins; January 17, 2026
Ben Buchanan on AI and Cyber
82 hours 19 mins; January 10, 2026
Second Breakfast: Iran, $500B for Defense...and should we pity RTX?
55 mins; January 09, 2026
Transistor Radio: WFE and Doug's Claude Code Psychosis
56 mins; January 07, 2026
Are We Cooked? Q1 2026
68 hours 30 mins; January 07, 2026
Emergency Second Breakfast: Venezuela
72 hours 19 mins; January 06, 2026
Japanese Economic Security Policy with A REAL LIFE METI OFFICIAL
49 mins; January 02, 2026
ChinaTalk 2025 Year in Review
39 mins; December 30, 2025
Joe Weisenthal and I do a Show About Nothing
63 hours 22 mins; December 23, 2025
Second Breakfast: Arctic Warfare Christmas Special!
55 mins; December 22, 2025
Rahm Returns to Chat Trump and China: “He is the worst negotiator.”
60 hours 59 mins; December 18, 2025
Détente 2.0 with Mike Froman of CFR
61 hours 0 mins; December 15, 2025
Second Breakfast: Habemus NDAA!
64 hours 9 mins; December 12, 2025
Overfit: NeurIPS Vibes, Research Doesn't Matter, OpenAI Cooked?
60 hours 25 mins; December 10, 2025
Emergency Pod: H200s to China with Dmitri Alperovich
43 mins; December 09, 2025
Overfit: Best Party at NeurIPS, Bubble Vibes, OpenAI Shook, China Winning?
65 hours 1 min; December 08, 2025
Second Breakfast: Trump's National Security Strategy + Hegseth's Second Strike
58 mins; December 05, 2025
Helen Toner Takes the CSET Reins
64 hours 26 mins; December 02, 2025
The Future of Secure Telecom
59 mins; November 25, 2025
Transistor Radio: OpenAI Loses the Mandate, Railroad Bubble = AI Bubble
50 mins; November 24, 2025
Second Breakfast: Witkoff and Putin's Peace Deal
59 mins; November 21, 2025
The Z.ai Playbook
76 hours 9 mins; November 21, 2025
Jake Sullivan on Playing the Long Game
70 hours 55 mins; November 18, 2025
Second Breakfast: Acquisition Reform? Are We Really Doing It?
64 hours 20 mins; November 14, 2025
Overfit: AI Lovers, Chinese Model Takeover, Vice Signalling, Hefei Model
59 mins; November 11, 2025
Second Breakfast: Colby's Pigpen, Counter-UAS, Training, Eat like a Trumper (or Iranian Spy?)
65 hours 38 mins; November 07, 2025
EMERGENCY POD: Tariffs on Trial
81 hours 1 min; November 06, 2025
CCP Bureaucracies in War
81 hours 22 mins; November 02, 2025
Second Breakfast: Xi-Trump, Taiwan Deterrence, Tibetan Buddhism, Antietam
53 mins; October 30, 2025
Ukraine's Drone War with Shashank and Rob Lee
94 hours 32 mins; October 29, 2025
Japan's New Prime Minister: What to Expect
74 hours 28 mins; October 29, 2025
Ukraine's Drone War with Shashank and Rob Lee
94 hours 32 mins; October 29, 2025
Second Breakfast: Venezuela, Shutdowns, PE + Army, E.B. Sledge
52 mins; October 23, 2025
PLA Purges and How Xi Rules with Jon Czin
114 hours 37 mins; October 22, 2025
Second Breakfast: Gaza, SOUTHCOM, AI Nuke Analogies Stink, Generals Using AI (with M. Horowitz and L. Kahn!)
64 hours 2 mins; October 17, 2025
Tarun Chhabra on the Stakes of AI Competition
67 hours 19 mins; October 15, 2025
Anduril's Christian Brose on the Dangers of Unseriousness
89 hours 21 mins; October 12, 2025
EMERGENCY POD: China's Rare Earth Export Controls
57 mins; October 09, 2025
AI Hardware Net Assessment: Why Huawei Can't Beat Nvidia
88 hours 28 mins; October 08, 2025
Second Breakfast: Putin's Drones, SecWar Patton, Wargaming, Finding Subs
61 hours 10 mins; October 06, 2025
RAND's Jeff Alstott on How Facts Can Shape Tech Policymaking
67 hours 36 mins; October 03, 2025
Transistor Radio: Intel, Dylan Falls in Love, Nvidia Captures Dylan, Slop City (our dumbest show yet)
51 mins; September 30, 2025
Second Breakfast: The Future of Intelligence
83 hours 13 mins; September 29, 2025
Overfit: Shenzhen vs SF Vibes, Model Progress, Jordan a Berkeley Bowl Hater
71 hours 29 mins; September 24, 2025
Second Breakfast: RIP China Hawks, NDAA, Innovation Kayfabe, Child Soldiers
67 hours 32 mins; September 19, 2025
Nate Silver on AI, Politics, and Power
79 hours 54 mins; September 17, 2025
MP Materials, Intel, and Sovereign Wealth Funds
61 hours 53 mins; September 16, 2025
Second Breakfast: Department of War, Warrior Culture, Sicario, Dick Winters, SEALs in North Korea,
77 hours 20 mins; September 14, 2025
The Robotics Revolution
86 hours 55 mins; September 11, 2025
Emergency Pod: US-India-China Meltdown
62 hours 13 mins; September 08, 2025
Second Breakfast: Parades, U.S. Grant, JCIDS, Warbots
67 hours 55 mins; September 05, 2025
War in the Pacific with Ian Toll
118 hours 45 mins; August 31, 2025
Dan Wang on Modern China
76 hours 33 mins; August 28, 2025
Second Breakfast: Drones, Silicon Shield, Waymo, FedFest, Bolton
54 mins; August 24, 2025
NVIDIA GPU Black Market Smuggling
56 mins; August 22, 2025
Learning from Ukraine, Preparing for Taiwan
67 hours 4 mins; August 20, 2025
Transistor Radio: H20, GPT5, DUI Lawyers, Ajinomoto
63 hours 21 mins; August 14, 2025
EMERGENCY POD: H20s to China + 15% with Chris Miller and Lennart
71 hours 9 mins; August 12, 2025
Second Breakfast: A New Defense Pod
71 hours 35 mins; August 09, 2025
Dissent from Moscow to Beijing
130 hours 42 mins; August 04, 2025
Betting on Chaos: Professionals in Prediction Markets
