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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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Hong Kong's Protests One Year On
This week’s ChinaTalk featured going deep with me on the origin, meaning, and legacy of the 2019 Hong Kong protests. We drew parallels and contrasts throughout between HK and Black Lives Matter. If you'd like to help keep the show going, please...
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Evan Osnos on Tiananmen, Protests in America an...
Evan Osnos is a correspondent for the New Yorker. We discussed his pieces on and .  See here for .
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GM Corn Smuggled in Popcorn Bags: An Industrial...
What do you get when you take a Chinese national, a rental car, rural Iowa, and a $52 billion seed business hanging in the balance? Said one review, "not since Alfred Hitchcock's in North by Northwest has a cornfield produced so much excitement." 's...
47 min
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AI Basic Research in China and the US
Who's spending big? Does it matter? Zach Arnold and Ashwin Acharya join the show to discuss their reports on and . Do note this episode was recorded in late February.  Exit music by NINEONE / CREAM D / Yoken_Official / YYKBZ / WR/OC .
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Health QR Codes and the rise of a 'Digital Levi...
Dan Grover joins the show to discuss his on how Chinese tech firms have handled coronavirus, I read from a recent newsletter on how some mainland commentators fear that QR Health Codes will create a 'digital leviathan,' and Ravish Bhatia of the ...
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Coronastories 3: Nanjing, Nepal, and Singapore
The legendary discusses how Coronavirus played out in cross-continent conversations with her mother. We'll also hear from Asmod in Nepal and Lambert in Singapore. In case you haven't heard, I write a .  Recent posts are on US-China and AI chips....
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Forging an Innovation Base Alliance
America has allies with solid tech. But can the US leverage these relationships to help preserve its technological edge over China? In this conversation, building off a recent , Dan Kliman, Kristine Lee and Joshua Hitt dive deep into international...
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Coronastories 2: Philippines, Russia, Taiwan
We're continuing our Coronastories series this week with personal reflections and analysis from friends of ChinaTalk on the current situations in the Philippines, Russia, and Taiwan.  Oh and by the way I have a and .
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Coronastories: Dispatches from Shanghai, Beijin...
This week I'm trying something different. I've been interviewing my friends across China about their Coronavirus experiences, . We start off with Dev from Shanghai who lived through the entire lockdown and has interesting reflections on the lasting...
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Domestic Coronavirus Propaganda and China-Austr...
and are two former Australian government officials who together write (内参), a fantastic new newsletter on Chinese policy and China-Australia relations.  We talk about how the CCP is trying to convince its population that post-coronavirus all...
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How the Party Takes its Propaganda Global
What are the CCP's international propaganda goals? How is it faring in the battle to define COVID-19's winners and losers? of the German Marshall Fund's Alliance for Securing Democracy brings the mirth in these dark times. We also go into tech and...
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Sinocism's Bill Bishop on the Politics of Coron...
Bill Bishop, author of the newsletter, comes on the show to discuss the new low in US-China relations. We start off talking about what China's response to coronavirus has taught us about the CCP and then go into the deeper forces behind why the...
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How Chinese Governance Fundamentals Impact Heal...
How has the distinct nature of local-central relations in the Chinese system impacted its response to coronavirus? To discuss, we have on Ryan Manuel, managing director of , a consultancy that goes deep into CCP regulations and policy. Ryan previously...
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Outraged by the outbreak: Citizen journalism an...
Tony Lin is a producer at Quartz for the web series Because China and an avid observer of Chinese online communities, such as Weibo. After the outbreak of the novel coronavirus in Wuhan, Tony noticed commentary being widely shared that, in other...
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Tesla’s future in China, technology tensions, a...
Gordon Orr is a senior adviser at McKinsey & Company and a non-executive board member at both Lenovo and Meituan-Dianping. In this week’s episode of China EconTalk, he and Jordan examine collateral economic damages as a result of the trade war,...
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Out of the Gobi: Weijian Shan on the Cultural R...
How does a bookish Beijing teenager, who found himself stuck for six years planting potatoes in the Gobi Desert, grow up to study with former chair of the Federal Reserve Janet Yellen, teach at Wharton, and now lead one of Asia's most successful...
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The changing nature of U.S.-China tech competition
Adam Segal, director of the Digital and Cyberspace Policy Program at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), joins Jordan to talk about technology competition between the United States and China. In this episode, they discuss a recent report by CFR...
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Online discourse and censorship in China
Jane Li, a Chongqing native and a technology reporter for Quartz, talks through some of the differences between Twitter and its Chinese equivalent, Weibo. She also discusses the website Douban, the lively and open discussion among its young users, and...
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A walk down Chang’an Avenue, with Jonathan Chatwin
Can one street tell China’s story? Jonathan Chatwin, author of , takes listeners on a tour of Chang’an Avenue, a major artery for traffic in central Beijing, which was also the scene of several critical moments in China’s modern history. Jordan...
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China tech policy and competition, with Paul Tr...
Paul Triolo, practice head of geotechnology at the Eurasia Group, sat down with Jordan to address some of the questions at the center of the U.S.-China tech relationship: the future of 5G research and innovation, persecutions of researchers and...
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Reinterpreting Beijing and its history
Jeremiah Jenne, history teacher, writer, and the man behind , is in the guest seat this week. He speaks with Jordan about the changes — both tangible and intangible — that Beijing has undergone in the last few decades. They chat about how Chinese...
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Chasing the dragon: Fentanyl, China, and the op...
Puzzled by rising drug deaths at raves in the United States, author and investigative journalist Ben Westhoff set out to find answers. A Google search for “Buy fentanyl in China” took him down a rabbit hole that led to a face-to-face meeting with...
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Hashing out China tech with Lulu Chen
Bloomberg technology reporter Lulu Chen gives the scoop on the tech world in China: what’s to come for Alibaba under newly minted CEO Daniel Zhang, the long-standing grudge Meituan CEO Wang Xing holds against Jack Ma, the Communist Party’s growing...
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An Alternative Vision of U.S.-China Relations w...
Jake Sullivan served in the Obama administration as National Security Advisor to Vice President Joe Biden and Director of Policy Planning at the U.S. State Department. He currently teaches at Yale Law School. In this episode, Sullivan discusses his...
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U.S. Foreign Policy in Asia
Mira Rapp-Hooper, senior fellow at the Council of Foreign Relations, provides an overview of the history of U.S. foreign policy from Washington’s farewell address to the modern day. She also discusses the implications of a rising China for the...
51 min