ChinaTalk

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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Overfit: Shenzhen vs SF Vibes, Model Progress, ...
70 min
27
Second Breakfast: RIP China Hawks, NDAA, Innova...
67 min
28
Nate Silver on AI, Politics, and Power
79 min
29
MP Materials, Intel, and Sovereign Wealth Funds
America’s Rare Earth Minerals Challenge
61 min
30
Second Breakfast: Department of War, Warrior Cu...
76 min
31
The Robotics Revolution
From Cybernetics to GPT-5
86 min
32
Emergency Pod: US-India-China Meltdown
61 min
33
Second Breakfast: Parades, U.S. Grant, JCIDS, W...
67 min
34
War in the Pacific with Ian Toll
118 min
35
Dan Wang on Modern China
“Beijing has been taking the future dead seriously for the past four decades. That is why they will not out-compete the United States.”
76 min
36
Second Breakfast: Drones, Silicon Shield, Waymo...
53 min
37
NVIDIA GPU Black Market Smuggling
56 min
38
Learning from Ukraine, Preparing for Taiwan
66 min
39
Transistor Radio: H20, GPT5, DUI Lawyers, Ajino...
62 min
40
EMERGENCY POD: H20s to China + 15% with Chris M...
71 min
41
Second Breakfast: A New Defense Pod
71 min
42
Dissent from Moscow to Beijing
The Many Lives of Soviet Dissidents
130 min
43
Betting on Chaos: Professionals in Prediction M...
How to predict catastrophe
73 min
44
Where Japan Goes Next
89 min
45
Xi Zhongxun's Second Act: 1949-1989
Power, Purges, and the Education of Xi Jinping
99 min
46
Trump and Japan
72 min
47
Xi Zhongxun: The Party's Interests Come First
85 min
48
Overfit: AI and Media, America's Deepseek, Plots
77 min
49
China's Best Music of 2025 (So Far)
61 min
50
Wagner, Two Years On (Kamil on Coups and Power)
39 min