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
AGI Believers: Kevin Roose on the Race
70 min
2
Data is the Hard Part | Building AI Tools for t...
42 min
3
WarTalk: AutoWarCom + Project Meridian
55 min
4
Section 301 and the Spice Man who Sued Trump Ov...
64 min
5
China's Economy is Broken | Logan Wright
87 min
6
WarTalk: Potemkin Pacific, Midterm Budget Woes
71 min
7
Julian Gewirtz on Trump-Xi Summit, AI, and Mao ...
65 min
8
Can AI Beat the Pentagon’s Bureaucracy?
49 min
9
WarTalk: PLA, 2027, Nukes, and the Pivot to Asi...
76 min
10
ModelTalk: Pacing the Frontier
67 min
11
WarTalk: 9.11, Death of the Army, So Long Dan ...
70 min
12
WarTalk: GWOT at 25 with Wesley Morgan
80 min
13
Cyber Apocalypse, Now? Hugging Face and the Fut...
70 min
14
WarTalk: USN Readiness Reckoning, Steampunk Nav...
63 min
15
How AI Becomes a Political Crisis
Unemployment, Data Center Backlash, and the Brewing Storm
68 min
16
Lessons from the American Civil War
I promise this is useful
91 min
17
North Korea's Messiah
American Protestant Christianity and the DPRK cult of personality
118 min
18
The Rise of China’s Electric Vehicle Industry
The Machine Behind BYD
113 min
19
China's Best Music in 2026 (So Far)
53 min
20
$75k Contest Launch! ChinaTalk Hiring + Evals f...
Nuke-happy models and an eval contest
48 min
21
WarTalk: Out of Ammo for Real + Are CCAs Dumb?
77 min
22
The FCC's New Robot Rules
51 min
23
Jordan talks AI with Sebastian Mallaby on his s...
79 min
24
WarTalk: Odyssey Edition
88 min
25
The Iran War Oil Shock That Wasn’t...(Yet?)
and China's five-million-barrel mystery
65 min