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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Rhodium's Dan Rosen on Hiring Me, 30 Years of C...
Dan Rosen is the founding partner of the Rhodium Group and leads the China team. He is also my boss! We talk about our plans for China tech coverage, lessons from thirty years of China-watching, how he thinks about decoupling, China's debt situation....
40 min
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To The Quad! The Origins of "Indo-Pacific"
Rory Medcalf, head of the National Security College at Australia National University discusses his new book '' We talk 15th-century Korean maps, the promise of the 1947 Asian Relations Conference, Australia and India's shifting conceptions of their...
52 min
253
Adam Tooze and Matt Klein Return!
Was Stalin a Hamilton Fan? And Other Questions of Political Economy
54 min
254
Clubhouse and Feminism in China with Shen Lu
of Protocol discusses the magical world of Mandarin language Clubhouse before diving into the feminist movement in China. We cover the Xianzi case, Bilibili's misogynist content, and the challenges that women face working in China's highest-flying...
29 min
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故事FM (China's "This American Life") Founder Tal...
Aizhe, 故事FM's founder, runs the leading Chinese language podcast. His show gives a platform for everyday Chinese to tell their stories. We talked about his show and the state of journalism in modern China. Aizhe is a personal hero of mine and I'm...
35 min
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Beyond Espionage: China's Quest for Foreign Tec...
Four contributors to the recent book China's Quest for Foreign Technology: Beyond Espionage discuss China’s foreign technology acquisition. Is it nefarious, or just typical behavior of an upwardly mobile nation? Is the myth of a stateless...
53 min
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Rethinking Industrial Policy...and Everything Else
I have a newsletter! If you listen to this podcast I can say with high confidence you'll enjoy it! Do subscribe at . Jose Luis Ricón Fernández de la Puente, an independent researcher who runs the blog , complicates our previous week's...
76 min
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Chinese Cooking Demystified
Special Chinese New Year Edition!
44 min
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Richard Fontaine on CNAS and US-China
Richard Fontaine, CEO of CNAS, discusses what it's like to run what very well may be the hottest think tank in the Asia policy game (full disclosure: I'm a CNAS adjunct).  We get into Biden and Asia and how the new president's foreign policy team...
87 min
260
Taiwan! Pigs, Politics, and Pop Music
Maggie Lewis (Seton Hall) and Lev Nachman (UC Irvine) talk Biden's Taiwan policy, pork trade politics, the future of the KMT, third parties, academic freedom, gay marriage, and asylum from Hong Kong. Please consider supporting ChinaTalk at ...
57 min
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A User's Guide to US Industrial Policy
I have a newsletter! If you listen to this podcast I can say with high confidence you'll enjoy it! Do subscribe at .  Rob Atkinson is the president of ITIF, the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, a non-partisan DC-based think tank....
61 min
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WWII's Legacy in China with Rana Mitter
Rana Mitter, professor of Chinese history at Oxford University, discusses his book from earlier this year, . Now seventy-five years after China’s victory over Japan, China is rethinking how it grapples with the legacy of WWII (see, for example,...
63 min
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China's Spies
Matt Brazil discusses his new book co-written with Peter Mattis, 'Chinese Communist Espionage, An Intelligence Primer.'  We talk about the role spies played in the creation and evolution of the CCP, run through some Zhou Enlai conspiracy...
60 min
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Great Power Competition with Richard Danzig
On the second joint episode of Acquisition Talk and ChinaTalk, Richard Danzig, a Secretary of the Navy under Clinton, discusses US-China relations and military innovation. Richard is a Senior Fellow at Johns Hopkins APL, a former Secretary of the...
56 min
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DIU's Michael Brown on US-China Tech Competition
Kicking off a series on US-China defense-related issues with Eric Lofgren of the podcast AcquisitionTalk, we host Defense Innovation Unit head Michael Brown. We touch on a number of topics, including: Industrial espionage and foreign investment The...
46 min
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KFC, The Toilet Revolution, and the Business of...
Why is KFC so big in China? What is the “Toilet Revolution” and why does it matter? How does Chinese propaganda work? How have bicycles’ role in Chinese society evolved over time? Neil Thomas of MacroPolo takes on this grab bag.  Note...
65 min
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Chinese Hip Hop in 2020 Radio Show
walks us through his favorite Chinese rap songs of 2020, taking us everywhere from soul rap and R&B to drill and Caribbean-inspired beats. Please consider supporting ChinaTalk at www.glow.fm/chinatalk Songs in order played in the show, all...
35 min
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America's New Tools of Coercion
How the US weaponizes trade, sanctions, and export bans
62 min
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Wendy Cutler on US-China Trade Policy
Featuring The Strategic Shiraz Reserve and the Mutual Trade Defense Pact
42 min
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Blockchain Chicken Farm: How Tech Changed Rural...
Xiaowei Wang discusses her . She explores Taobao villages where Snow White Halloween costumes get made, how one police station is sputtering towards digitization, parallels between Silicon Valley and Chinese tech culture, and pearl farming...
53 min
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How to Research China, Talent Programs, and Mil...
of CSET talks open source China research. We also sort truth from fact and fiction on Chinese talent programs and MCF. Buy an air filter at and use the code 'ChinaTalk' for a discount! Please consider supporting ChinaTalk at .  Music by Nujabes...
50 min
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The Blunder Down Under? How China-Australia Rel...
walks step by step through the past three years of deteriorating Australia-China relations.  I haven't sold an ad this calendar year. Please consider supporting ChinaTalk financially: Music by Taiwanese-Australian artist , song entitled Garden...
54 min
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5G in the Caribbean, Open Source Tech, CCP Twit...
Crossover ep with the China in the Caribbean Podcast!
29 min
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Incoming NSA Jake Sullivan on an Alternative Vi...
President-Elect Joe Biden just tapped Jake Sullivan to serve as his first National Security Advisor, the most important foreign policy role in the White House. In light of this announcement, I'm rerunning an episode we recorded in late 2019. Jake...
52 min
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HR McMaster on His Time as NSA, China, and Hist...
Also, Seinfeld and George Clinton!?
50 min