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
How AI Becomes a Political Crisis
Unemployment, Data Center Backlash, and the Brewing Storm
68 min
2
Lessons from the American Civil War
I promise this is useful
91 min
3
North Korea's Messiah
American Protestant Christianity and the DPRK cult of personality
118 min
4
The Rise of China’s Electric Vehicle Industry
The Machine Behind BYD
113 min
5
China's Best Music in 2026 (So Far)
53 min
6
$75k Contest Launch! ChinaTalk Hiring + Evals f...
Nuke-happy models and an eval contest
48 min
7
WarTalk: Out of Ammo for Real + Are CCAs Dumb?
77 min
8
The FCC's New Robot Rules
51 min
9
Jordan talks AI with Sebastian Mallaby on his s...
79 min
10
WarTalk: Odyssey Edition
88 min
11
The Iran War Oil Shock That Wasn’t...(Yet?)
and China's five-million-barrel mystery
65 min
12
WarTalk: Iran War Back On, Rogue AI, Ukraine Ci...
63 min
13
Kimi K3, Xi's Speech, and China's Mythos Moment
59 min
14
WarTalk: Ancient Greece Edition!
119 min
15
China's Mythos Moment
69 min
16
WarTalk: Iran + Randy Schriver on Asian Defense
62 min
17
The Chemicals Powering the Chip Industry
78 min
18
Unitree and the Humanoid Robot Revolution
51 min
19
Taiwan's War on Renewables [Fully Produced Radi...
The Political Economy of Energy Poverty
74 min
20
WarTalk: Jack Murphy of Team House on Donahue +...
69 min
21
Economic Security Megapod!
79 min
22
Rare Earths: What is To Be Done?
59 min
23
WarTalk with Ely Ratner on Iran War Peace + the...
77 min
24
AI for Science!
48 min
25
Emergency Pod: Claude Fable Fried + What's Goin...
69 min