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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China's Solar Industry
How did Chinese firms come to dominate the global solar industry? Now that the Biden administration has banned imports for some key components of solar panels made in Xinjiang, how will global solar buyers adapt? Andy Klump, CEO of Clean Energy...
50 min
227
Larry Summers on China
Is China different? Does secular stagnation apply?  How have Chinese economic policymakers changed over time? Should industrial policy be a thing? What should American academia navigate its relationship with China? To discuss, ChinaTalk welcomes...
39 min
228
After Xi: How Past CCP Successions Can Teach Us...
Xi Jinping will not rule China forever. What have CCP leadership transitions looked like in the past, and what can we expect when Xi exits stage left? To discuss we have today Richard McGregor, an Aussie journalist with decades of experience in East...
60 min
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China's Cyber Strengths + How to Analyze Policy
Dave Aitel, who started his career at NSA and spent the past twenty years in offensive cybersecurity,  comes on ChinaTalk to discuss What he's learned in his quest to read every cyber policy paper What blindspots remain in the field How China...
50 min
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DARPA and How to R&D Right
, an independent researcher and robotics PhD, discusses Why DARPA has so many hits to its name Why NASA wasted the past two decades What needs to be subtracted from the US research ecosystem Sci-fi book recommendations Please consider supporting...
39 min
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In-Q-Tel on Chips, CFIUS, and The Valley of Death
Dr. Yan Zheng, senior technical staff specializing in microelectronics at In-Q-Tel, discusses What it's like to invest in startups for the CIA and the rest of the US intelligence community What's broken in the early stage chip ecosystem and how to...
55 min
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How to Solve America's R&D Bottlenecks
And an Endless Frontier Update!
51 min
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Emergency Pod! Endless Frontier Act Butchered!
The Endless Frontier Act, the most important piece of legislation no one's heard of, got blown to bits in committee this week. Sam Hammond of the Niskanen Center joins to discuss.  My recent coverage in the ChinaTalk newsletter Sam's coverage:...
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How Beijing Sees Korea
Why hasn’t North Korea emulated Deng’s Opening & Reform? Are China’s wealthy, educated, urbane youth liberals? Could the PLA cooperate with the U.S. military in the event of Korean reunification? of the Asia-Pacific Center for Security...
41 min
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600 Years Of Sino-Korean Relations
Odd Arne Westad joins ChinaTalk to discuss his latest book . Westad’s work is a diplomat’s handbook that connects the sweeping currents of history to the geopolitics of today. Co-hosting today is Danny Crichton of Techcrunch. We explore how Korea,...
49 min
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Industrial Policy: How the Green New Deal's Arc...
For Part Three of ChinaTalk's industrial policy series, we are joined by two leading lights of the American left: , AOC's former Chief of Staff, and of the 2016 Bernie campaign. (Don't forget to check out and .) Co-hosting is Vishnu Kannan, a junior...
86 min
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Elon Musk, TSMC, Open Source, Endless Frontier ...
of the fantastic newsletter, and formerly of Commerce and the Obama White House, ran through a grab bag of some of the hottest topics in US-China tech. We got into the politics of Tesla in China, what Morris Chang of TSMC thinks about the future of...
49 min
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Can China Win a War Over Taiwan? Plus Eve Online
The evolving military balance in the Pacific, and how Eve Online explains modern warfare
54 min
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China's Anti-Monopoly Moment
Fascinated (or stunned) by China’s recent anti-monopoly moves against tech giants Ant and Meituan? Want to get inside the head of Chinese regulators as they plan their moves against the globe’s largest corporations? ChinaTalk has you covered. This...
46 min
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China's Booming Podcast Ecosystem
Enzo Chen, author of the Substack , and , the host of and the superb newsletter , discuss all things podcasting in China and Taiwan. We get into the best Chinese-language shows, what makes China's leading podcast app so special, the demographics of...
38 min
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Why Are Chinese TV Dramas So Bad?
What as the rise of streaming, idols, and increased censorship done to Chinese TV?   Co-hosting is , one of the founders of the Chinese-language podcast . We discuss Chinese dramas with , the intrepid YouTuber who has an encyclopedic...
40 min
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How Huarong Explains China's Creaky Financial S...
Why hasn't a financial crisis hit yet?
74 min
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Bo Xilai and How Xi Learned from the Chongqing ...
What was the Chongqing Model and why does it still matter? Yueran Zhang, a PhD student in sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, discusses. We talk about how Bo Xilai utilized mass mobilization against his enemies in the central...
60 min
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'Invisible China': How the Urban-Rural Divide T...
Scott Rozelle (legend, Stanford professor, co-director of the ) joins ChinaTalk to discuss his recent book , co-authored with Natalie Hell. We discuss how China’s 900 million-strong low-income population will decide China’s future development...
52 min
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Japan's China Challenge
How is Japan processing Xinjiang, supply chain security, 5G, and worries about Taiwan?
47 min
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Baijiu!
Derek Sandhaus is the author of  and part of the team behind , the first (good) Baijiu created especially for the international market. We discuss AA in china, Baijiu's origins, different varieties of Baijiu, the drink's evolving role in modern...
48 min
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US-China Ideological Competition
Can anyone make this topic both entertaining and informative? ChinaTalk is up for the challenge!
87 min
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China's Chip Dreams
John Verwey of the Substack “Semi-Literate" (and formerly of Commerce’s BIS, USITC, and USTR) talks the history and future of China's chip industry. We get into government guidance funds, the CHIPS Act, “Fabs not Labs,” export controls,...
59 min
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Michèle Flournoy on "Affecting the Strategic Ca...
Michèle Flournoy joined AcquisitionTalk's and me for another crossover episode of China-AcquisitionTalk. Flournoy is a former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, co-founder and new board chair of CNAS (where I'm a fellow), and currently the...
41 min
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Te-Ping Chen's Short Stories of Modern China
In her years as a Wall Street Journal foreign correspondent in Hong Kong and Beijing, Te-Ping Chen came across a lifetime of remarkable characters and events. Most of these didn’t make her newspaper articles, so she began collecting them in...
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