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

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...

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...

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...

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...

Special Chinese New Year Edition!

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...

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 ...

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....

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,...

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...