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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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326
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
327
Superpower Showdown: Tale of a Trade War
Lingling Wei and Bob Davis of the WSJ discuss their new book Superpower Showdown. We dive deep into the personal dynamics within the Xi and Trump administrations as well as what the twists and turns over the past few years reveal about the US-China...
59 min
328
TikTok, Tesla, Kanye and Open Source
Should the US ban TikTok? What role does open source play in the tech ecosystem and the Chinese government's plans for self-reliance? Why does tech occupy such a unique role in the US-China tech cold war? And what can Kanye teach us about foreign...
10 min
329
How Sanctions Fail US Policymakers
And What To Do About It
34 min
330
How Corruption Works in China
China's Gilded Age
63 min
331
The H1B Ban and National Security
This week Trump banned valid H1B holders from entering the country. What are the broader implications for America's technological ecosystem and national security? To discuss, Tina Huang and Remco Zwetsloot from talk about their recent research on...
43 min
332
China-India Clashes: What Happens Next?
On June 15th, dozens of soldiers died in clashes on the China-India border. What exactly happened up in the Himalayas? What's the historical background? What does this mean for the trajectory of China-India and US-India relations?  We also...
42 min
333
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...
77 min
334
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 .
43 min
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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
336
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 .
28 min
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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 ...
40 min
338
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....
48 min
339
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...
38 min
340
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 .
46 min
341
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...
35 min
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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...
40 min
343
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...
53 min
344
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...
41 min
345
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...
86 min
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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...
30 min
347
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,...
56 min
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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...
51 min
349
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...
39 min
350
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...
36 min