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...

On the second joint episode of Acquisition Talk and ChinaTalk, Richard Danzig, a Secretary of the Navy under Clinton, discusses US-China relations and military innovation. Richard is a Senior Fellow at Johns Hopkins APL, a former Secretary of the...

Kicking off a series on US-China defense-related issues with Eric Lofgren of the podcast AcquisitionTalk, we host Defense Innovation Unit head Michael Brown. We touch on a number of topics, including: Industrial espionage and foreign investment The...

Why is KFC so big in China? What is the “Toilet Revolution” and why does it matter? How does Chinese propaganda work? How have bicycles’ role in Chinese society evolved over time? Neil Thomas of MacroPolo takes on this grab bag.  Note...

walks us through his favorite Chinese rap songs of 2020, taking us everywhere from soul rap and R&B to drill and Caribbean-inspired beats. Please consider supporting ChinaTalk at www.glow.fm/chinatalk Songs in order played in the show, all...

How the US weaponizes trade, sanctions, and export bans

Featuring The Strategic Shiraz Reserve and the Mutual Trade Defense Pact

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...

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...

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...

Crossover ep with the China in the Caribbean Podcast!

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...

Also, Seinfeld and George Clinton!?

What Will US-China Look Like Come 2021?

How ready is the PBOC?

If you're looking for a break from politics...

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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...

ChinaTalk Phonebanking Sat + Sun

'' 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...