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...

, 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...

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...

And an Endless Frontier Update!

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:...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

The evolving military balance in the Pacific, and how Eve Online explains modern warfare

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...

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...

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...

Why hasn't a financial crisis hit yet?

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...

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...

How is Japan processing Xinjiang, supply chain security, 5G, and worries about Taiwan?

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...

Can anyone make this topic both entertaining and informative? ChinaTalk is up for the challenge!

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,...

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...

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...

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....

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...

Was Stalin a Hamilton Fan? And Other Questions of Political Economy