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/
Doug, Dylan and Jon on Lip-Bu, Labubu, AI Salaries, and Bees
52 mins; June 26, 2025
Apple in China
70 hours 49 mins; June 24, 2025
The House of Huawei
76 hours 25 mins; June 16, 2025
Can Donors Save Science?
77 hours 57 mins; June 12, 2025
Josh Wolfe on Elon v. Trump, R&D, Immigration
73 hours 30 mins; June 06, 2025
Dylan, Doug, Jon on AI Mandate of Heaven + Ezra Beef
50 mins; June 03, 2025
Doug, Dylan and Jon on Nvidia + Saudi/UAE
33 mins; May 29, 2025
MAGA-Mao Connections with Orville Schell
78 hours 10 mins; May 23, 2025
The AI Attention War
61 hours 18 mins; May 16, 2025
Why the US Needs a Department of Competitiveness
61 hours 2 mins; May 14, 2025
Ezra, Derek, and Dan Wang on Abundance and China
69 hours 9 mins; May 09, 2025
China's Nuclear Shadow
120 hours 52 mins; May 06, 2025
America's R&D Reckoning
71 hours 52 mins; May 06, 2025
Will Everyone Get Nukes Now?
77 hours 1 min; April 30, 2025
Allied Scale: Rush Doshi on US-China Net Assessment
73 hours 33 mins; April 26, 2025
Chips: Liberated? Trump’s Semis Tariff Gambit
50 mins; April 20, 2025
Breaking Huawei + Tariffs Done Right with SemiAnalysis and Asianometry
34 mins; April 19, 2025
Breaking Beijing: Military Competition with Tony Stark
62 hours 11 mins; April 14, 2025
GreatDepressionTalk with SemiAnalysis and Asianometry
49 mins; April 08, 2025
EMERGENCY POD: Are We Cooked?
46 mins; April 07, 2025
EMERGENCY POD: Liberation Day with Tanner Greer of Scholarstage
101 hours 34 mins; April 04, 2025
The Soviet Cold War Machine: Inside the Sino-Soviet Rivalry
75 hours 34 mins; April 01, 2025
Superintelligence Strategy with Dan Hendrycks
74 hours 59 mins; March 30, 2025
SemiAnalysis + Asianometry on Intel, Gemini 2.5, and Chinese Robots
28 mins; March 26, 2025
The Soviets' Bid for Global Power
110 hours 46 mins; March 24, 2025
Building Compute in America
75 hours 41 mins; March 17, 2025
Manus: A DeepSeek Moment?
52 mins; March 10, 2025
EMERGENCY POD: Trump's Pivot to Putin, AGI + The Future of Warfare
119 hours 44 mins; February 28, 2025
Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare
98 hours 49 mins; February 26, 2025
Innovation Emergency: The Role of IP
68 hours 38 mins; February 19, 2025
China's Great Power Wars: Lessons from Imperial History for Today
89 hours 26 mins; February 13, 2025
SemiAnalysis + Asianometry on the AI Mandate of Heaven
36 mins; February 07, 2025
Anthropic's Dario Amodei on AI Competition
44 mins; February 05, 2025
DeepSeek: What It Means and What Happens Next
71 hours 54 mins; January 30, 2025
EMERGENCY POD: DeepSeek R1 and the Future of AI Competition with Miles Brundage
32 mins; January 24, 2025
Patents and National Power
55 mins; January 24, 2025
ChinaTalk in the Year of the Dragon + What Comes Next
34 mins; January 22, 2025
Noah Smith: Trump 2.0's Impact on Asia + The New Tech Right
69 hours 48 mins; January 20, 2025
yup, more export controls....foundry, DRAM, and reflections
34 mins; January 15, 2025
EMERGENCY POD: AI Diffusion Export Controls
62 hours 31 mins; January 14, 2025
Amb. Burns Reflects from Beijing
78 hours 3 mins; January 13, 2025
Tech Bros vs MAGA, Immigration, and Whether Tiger Parents Will Win Cold War 2.0
73 hours 45 mins; January 08, 2025
China's Best Music of 2024
54 mins; December 29, 2024
AI Geopolitics in o3's Age with Chris Miller + Lennart Heim
89 hours 35 mins; December 23, 2024
Chinese Pop Culture in 2024
66 hours 35 mins; December 18, 2024
Top AI Stories of 2024/2025 + How to Train a Model with Nathan Lambert
48 mins; December 09, 2024
EMERGENCY POD: Biden's Final Export Controls Misfire?
90 hours 32 mins; December 03, 2024
SemiAnalysis on Top Chip Stories of 2024
27 mins; November 26, 2024
Makers of Modern Strategy with Hal Brands
67 hours 49 mins; November 18, 2024
Data Wars and the DOJ
52 mins; November 12, 2024
Music Hour! Chinese Hip Hop Annual Roundup
64 hours 46 mins; November 03, 2024
Music Hour! Chinese Shoegaze: An Introduction
73 hours 39 mins; October 30, 2024
Soviet Ruins and China's Future
103 hours 5 mins; October 20, 2024
中文版：打造矽盾：台積電與台灣的未來
90 hours 56 mins; October 11, 2024
Imperial Legacy Part 2: 1949 to Xi's Death
124 hours 32 mins; October 02, 2024
Autocracy, Exams and Stagnation: Imperial China's Modern Legacy
75 hours 27 mins; September 23, 2024
R&D Renaissance with Kumar Garg
75 hours 38 mins; September 16, 2024
National Intel Council on The IC's Pivot to Asia
64 hours 29 mins; September 09, 2024
Competition Policy 2025
75 hours 32 mins; September 03, 2024
AI and the Rise and Fall of Great Powers
71 hours 30 mins; August 27, 2024
History and Future of Global Patent Policy
57 mins; August 19, 2024
Industrial Icebreaker Policy
66 hours 37 mins; August 13, 2024
The Pentagon’s Innovation Insurgents
75 hours 35 mins; August 06, 2024
The Pentagon’s Innovation Insurgents
75 hours 41 mins; August 05, 2024
The Chips Act and National Security
63 hours 50 mins; August 01, 2024
A BREATHER: Making Clothes in China
76 hours 0 mins; July 22, 2024
EMERGENCY POD: JD Vance's Economics + How to SPR Critical Minerals + Policy Entrepreneurship
89 hours 30 mins; July 16, 2024
Sen. Young on Tech Legislation
40 mins; July 15, 2024
EMERGENCY POD: Biden and Shakespeare
74 hours 38 mins; July 11, 2024
A National Vision for Competitiveness
47 mins; July 02, 2024
Scale's Alex Wang on the US-China AI Race
65 hours 8 mins; June 25, 2024
Taiwan War + Grand Strategy for Cold War II
90 hours 27 mins; June 17, 2024
The Best Chinese Songs of 2024 - with Concrete Avalanche
69 hours 17 mins; June 14, 2024
Shakespeare and Power
75 hours 26 mins; June 10, 2024
Why America Didn't Invade Taiwan: WWII Lessons for Xi's Invasion
51 mins; June 06, 2024
Preventing an Invasion of Taiwan
92 hours 57 mins; June 03, 2024
Sovereign AI
72 hours 12 mins; May 28, 2024
AI Roundup: GPT4o, SCSP AI Expo, Open vs Closed
42 mins; May 17, 2024
250 Years of US Trade Policy
67 hours 12 mins; May 17, 2024
EMERGENCY POD: Biden's Electric Curtain
77 hours 38 mins; May 14, 2024
MITRE on S&T Strategy
51 mins; May 13, 2024
TSMC Takes Arizona
45 mins; May 02, 2024
History and Future of India-China Relations
76 hours 0 mins; April 25, 2024
DOJ vs Data Espionage
62 hours 53 mins; April 18, 2024
Japan's Resurgent Tech Scene
46 mins; April 16, 2024
Japan's Economic Security Renaissance
82 hours 23 mins; April 10, 2024
A Gut Check on Intel and Nvidia with Asianometry, Fabricated Knowledge, and SemiAnalysis
33 mins; April 03, 2024
Amb. Rahm Emanuel on China and Japan
58 mins; April 02, 2024
Biotech 101
105 hours 56 mins; March 24, 2024
EMERGENCY POD: TikTok Ban!?
47 mins; March 13, 2024
Matt Clifford on China, AI Safety, and Entrepreneurship
134 hours 1 min; March 12, 2024
Doomscrolling Chinese Twitter
24 mins; March 10, 2024
AI + The State Department
74 hours 52 mins; March 04, 2024
India's Chip War
73 hours 19 mins; February 25, 2024
AI at the Frontier: What it Takes to Compete
80 hours 6 mins; February 18, 2024
Pottinger on Trump 2.0
54 mins; February 14, 2024
Is the NSC Unwell?
102 hours 42 mins; February 01, 2024
Taiwan Election Results and Implications for Beijing
