ChinaTalk

Conversations exploring China, technology, and US-China relations. Guests include a wide range of analysts, policymakers, and academics. Hosted by Jordan Schneider.

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News
Politics
Technology
1
WarTalk: PLA, 2027, Nukes, and the Pivot to Asi...
76 min
2
ModelTalk: Pacing the Frontier
67 min
3
WarTalk: 9.11, Death of the Army, So Long Dan ...
70 min
4
WarTalk: GWOT at 25 with Wesley Morgan
80 min
5
Cyber Apocalypse, Now? Hugging Face and the Fut...
70 min
6
WarTalk: USN Readiness Reckoning, Steampunk Nav...
63 min
7
How AI Becomes a Political Crisis
Unemployment, Data Center Backlash, and the Brewing Storm
68 min
8
Lessons from the American Civil War
I promise this is useful
91 min
9
North Korea's Messiah
American Protestant Christianity and the DPRK cult of personality
118 min
10
The Rise of China’s Electric Vehicle Industry
The Machine Behind BYD
113 min
11
China's Best Music in 2026 (So Far)
53 min
12
$75k Contest Launch! ChinaTalk Hiring + Evals f...
Nuke-happy models and an eval contest
48 min
13
WarTalk: Out of Ammo for Real + Are CCAs Dumb?
77 min
14
The FCC's New Robot Rules
51 min
15
Jordan talks AI with Sebastian Mallaby on his s...
79 min
16
WarTalk: Odyssey Edition
88 min
17
The Iran War Oil Shock That Wasn’t...(Yet?)
and China's five-million-barrel mystery
65 min
18
WarTalk: Iran War Back On, Rogue AI, Ukraine Ci...
63 min
19
Kimi K3, Xi's Speech, and China's Mythos Moment
59 min
20
WarTalk: Ancient Greece Edition!
119 min
21
China's Mythos Moment
69 min
22
WarTalk: Iran + Randy Schriver on Asian Defense
62 min
23
The Chemicals Powering the Chip Industry
78 min
24
Unitree and the Humanoid Robot Revolution
51 min
25
Taiwan's War on Renewables [Fully Produced Radi...
The Political Economy of Energy Poverty
74 min