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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
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Biden's Foreign Policy
What Will US-China Look Like Come 2021?
42 min
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Is a Chinese Financial Crisis Looming?
How ready is the PBOC?
55 min
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Trains!
If you're looking for a break from politics...
40 min
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Swing State Appreciation Hip Hop Minimix
(all music, explicit language)
16 min
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What To Do About Xinjiang
How should the US respond to the human rights crisis in Xinjiang? I was a guest on the Lawfare podcast this week, discussing my recent outlining how the U.S. can respond and push back on the Chinese government's abuses in the region. For the first...
43 min
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Why Xi Is All In On Climate Change
ChinaTalk Phonebanking Sat + Sun
27 min
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CCP Influence Ops in Japan: Everywhere Yet Nowh...
'' is the title of latest report. We discuss China's tactics in trying to influence Japanese politics and society as well as what makes Japan uniquely resistant to the CCP's charms. I made a 20-minute megamix of Japanese city pop and trap for you...
50 min
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What Does US-China Corruption Really Look Like?...
If you get 10 people to sign up using your referral link, you'll get a free ChinaTalk mug! is a staff writer at The Intercept. In this bitesize edition of ChinaTalk, we discuss pieces of hers on the (The Intercept) and (Wired). Intro and outtro...
19 min
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China and the NBA
Why, aside from Yao, have Chinese players had no success in the NBA? Post-NBA, what has Yao done to reform and professionalize the Chinese Basketball Association? One year on, how does the NBA's response to Houston Rockets GM Daryl Morey's tweet look...
47 min
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China's True Tech Ambitions
What the West Gets Wrong About S&T and the CCP
55 min
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Liberalism: The Light That Failed
How Liberalism Lost Its Appeal in the Post-Soviet Era
74 min
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TikTok, WeChat and Trump
It's been a wild few weeks with President Trump threatening to shut WeChat and TikTok out of the U.S. market and rip them out of the app stores. There have been lawsuits, a preliminary injunction—and a sudden deal to purchase TikTok and moot the...
44 min
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War in Taiwan
Is Taiwan Prepared?
36 min
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Adam Tooze on World Order, Then and Now
is my favorite economic historian. After writing a handful of books on and , he's now turned his eye to the present day, taking on and . In this conversation, we get into What we can learn from the diplomatic and economic modes of 1920s and 30s Why...
76 min
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The Mulan Debacle
Turning a beloved movie of female empowerment into a dull endorsement of the patriarchy, autocracy and mass forced labor is no easy feat, but Disney Magic is one hell of a drug. Think tanker and novelist/meme goddess join to discuss. Intro...
32 min
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Rise and Fall of a Suzhou Soft Serve Baron
(fan favorite repeat broadcast from back in the 'ChinaEconTalk' era) Mister Softee, the famed northeastern American ice cream brand, in Suzhou, China? Yes, that was a thing. , rising from humble beginnings as just another English teacher making his...
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Land Wars: China's Agrarian Revolution
In 1927, Mao wrote that "In a very short time...several hundred million peasants will rise like a mighty storm, like a hurricane, a force so swift and violent that no power, however great, will be able to hold it back." During the 40s and 50s, he was...
65 min
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Scholarstage on Xi, War in Taiwan, the CCP Tool...
100th episode!
73 min
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What China Wants
How do you even go about answering that question? Is there a consensus in Washington on how to confront China and does that consensus make any sense? and come on to discuss.  Currently, I make $4/hr from donations adding up all the time it...
42 min