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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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- EMERGENCY POD: Jensen and His Spy · 38 minTo make sense of it we have Chris McGuire, senior fellow for China and Emerging Technologies at the Council on Foreign Relations and a former NSC Deputy Senior Director for…
- Are We Cooking!? What Should Dems Do Next + Jensen's Affair · 1 h 5 minThe gang returns and rebrands! Note: we recorded this Friday afternoon, before the FT reported that 'US believes Nvidia’s Huang had romantic relationship with alleged Chinese…
- WarTalk: Lame Duck War, No Pete November, Bay of Tofu + Team Yankee · 1 h 17 minJoining me for WarTalk’s post-midterms edition are regulars Bryan Clark of the Hudson Institute, Special Forces veteran Justin McIntosh, and former House staffer Tony Stark. We…
- Roasting China's AI Industry (中文版) · 1 h 3 minYou can read a translation into English of this interview here: https://www.chinatalk.media/p/how-to-make-fun-of-chinese-ai Xianyu (咸鱼), the writer behind 葬AI — “Funeral AI” —…
- WarTalk: Pressing the War Button: Iran, Cuba, and Rubio 2028 · 1 h 8 minThe blockade is squeezing Iran. So why does it keep being easier to press the war button? WarTalk regulars Jordan Schneider, Justin McIntosh, Bryan Clark, and Tony Stark. Why…
- The Manhattan Project, Take Two · 46 minIn the new era of global competition, being at the forefront of Super Intelligence innovation equals geopolitical power. To maintain leadership and establish the next world…
- What's Broken About China's Economy + The Cost of Keeping China Out | Meg Rithmire · 1 h 34 minChinaTalk spends a lot of time on the leading lights of the Chinese economy... the MiniMaxes, ByteDances, Unitrees, and BYDs of the world. But what about the rest of the system…
- WarTalk: Kofman on Starlink + What Ukraine Can Teach the U.S. Military · 1 h 25 minUkraine and Russia have rebuilt their armies around drones, deception, and long-range strike. What should the U.S. military take from it? Michael Kofman joins WarTalk regulars…
- The MATCH Act and China’s DUV Imports · 1 h 17 minNick Brown is a co-founder of the Center for Technology and Statecraft (CTS), a new think tank spun out of IFP, that looks at long-term technology challenges and opportunities…
- Drone Dominance | Travis Metz - DIU Acting Director · 1 h 22 minHe was recently promoted to DIU’s acting director after spending the past year running the Drone Dominance Program. Co-hosting are Brian Clark, senior fellow at Hudson Institute…
- Why a Chinese AI Lab’s Product Lead Thinks AGI is “Inevitable” | Richard Bian · 1 h 13 minRichard Bian is the head of product operations for Ant Ling, the foundational LLM at Ant. If you don’t know Ant, they most famously make Alipay, which makes your money and your…
- From Posting to Policy: Saif Khan on DUV and the AI Balance · 60 minSaif Khan makes his ChinaTalk debut. He is perhaps my favorite example of posting-to-policy that I’ve seen over the course of my time following Washington. Saif wrote some truly…
- Matt Yglesias + Jerusalem Demsas + Jordan Crossover Pod · 1 h 7 minI join Matt and Jerusalem for an unhinged conversation (most entertaining of the year?) about China, AI, corruption, politics, and various other things. Check out their show The…
- AGI Believers: Kevin Roose on the Race · 1 h 10 minKevin Roose, formerly of the New York Times and Hard Fork, joins ChinaTalk to discuss AGI Chronicles, his new history of OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind, and the people who believed…
- Data is the Hard Part | Building AI Tools for the Military · 43 minEveryone wants AI that wins wars. Very few people want to collect, label, store, and test the data it runs on. Bharat Patel is currently Accenture’s AI and data lead for its…
- WarTalk: AutoWarCom + Project Meridian · 56 minIt's a new fiscal year with no new budget, and the Pentagon has a fresh batch of proposals. Two stand out: a four-star Autonomous Warfare Command, built to buy and field…
- Section 301 and the Spice Man who Sued Trump Over Them · 1 h 5 minIn February, the Supreme Court ruled Trump's IEEPA tariffs illegal. So why is everyone still paying them? Because the administration rebuilt them: first under Section 122, then…
- China's Economy is Broken | Logan Wright · 1 h 28 minAfter the global financial crisis, China added a third of global GDP to its bank assets in just eight years... the largest single-country credit expansion in at least a century…
- WarTalk: Potemkin Pacific, Midterm Budget Woes · 1 h 12 minWarTalk regulars Bryan Clark of the Hudson Institute, Justin McIntosh, and Tony Stark join Jordan. We discuss… The Potemkin Pacific — why Paparo has half the planet on his map…
- Julian Gewirtz on Trump-Xi Summit, AI, and Mao Dead Fifty Years Ago! · 1 h 6 minJulian Gewirtz, author and former Biden NSC China director, joins ChinaTalk days before Xi Jinping’s first White House visit since 2015. With little substantive agenda on the…
- Can AI Beat the Pentagon’s Bureaucracy? · 50 minGarrett Berntsen was last seen on ChinaTalk in his role as Deputy CDAO at the State Department. He then went to the Department of Defense for a little bit, and now makes a return…
- WarTalk: PLA, 2027, Nukes, and the Pivot to Asia Pirouette · 1 h 17 minIn the deserts of western China sit 320 brand-new missile silos, and for a while, by the Pentagon's account, some of them simply didn't work. The gap between the PLA on paper and…
- ModelTalk: Pacing the Frontier · 1 h 8 minModelTalk regulars Nathan Lambert, who writes Interconnects, and writer Jasmine Sun join to work through a week in which Dario asked the industry to slow down and Trump called…
- WarTalk: 9.11, Death of the Army, So Long Dan Driscoll · 1 h 11 minIn the week of the 25th anniversary of 9/11, the Secretary of the Army walked into the White House, told the president the force is breaking, and quit. Days earlier his boss had…
- WarTalk: GWOT at 25 with Wesley Morgan · 1 h 21 minTwenty-five years after 9/11, the Pech Valley represents the war in miniature: outposts meant to shield Afghan villages that instead drew the fighting to their doorsteps, built…
- Cyber Apocalypse, Now? Hugging Face and the Future of Cyber Risk · 1 h 10 minOpenAI models mid-training broke out of their sandbox, hacked internal infrastructure, and eventually compromised Hugging Face — the first headline-grade AI breakout, and one…
- WarTalk: USN Readiness Reckoning, Steampunk Navy, and AI Cyberwar with Shashank of the Economist · 1 h 4 minThe USS Abraham Lincoln is coming home after a deployment that stretched past 240 days, and the bill is about to come due: mechanical failures, rations down to the emergency…
- How AI Becomes a Political Crisis · 1 h 8 minThe political economy of AI — things are getting weird, it seems. We have models on the loose, open weights being dropped from the heavenly temple, and data center protests…
- Lessons from the American Civil War · 1 h 32 minNote: This episode was recorded in late 2024. Luckily, there haven't been any US Civil War updates since then, so the episode's content still holds up. Enjoy! During paternity…
- North Korea's Messiah · 1 h 59 minWhy is North Korea so weird? Is it Stalinism? Maoism? Japan-style emperor worship? Ancient Korean hermit kingdom energy? No, argues Jonathan Cheng, Beijing bureau chief for The…
- The Rise of China’s Electric Vehicle Industry · 1 h 54 minHow did China grow its EV industry? Hint: it wasn’t really central planning from Beijing. It was a magical concoction of entrepreneurs and local officials using their guanxi to…
- China's Best Music in 2026 (So Far) · 54 minJake Newby is the author of the Concrete Avalanche Substack, which covers the best music coming out of China. If you enjoy this playlist, check out Jake’s sets from 2025, 2024…
- $75k Contest Launch! ChinaTalk Hiring + Evals for the Situation Room · 49 minContest links: General $50k https://www.chinatalk.media/p/50k-chinatalk-submission-hiring-contest we're looking at submissions on a rolling basis! AI evals: Due Over the past…
- WarTalk: Out of Ammo for Real + Are CCAs Dumb? · 1 h 17 minSix months into the war with Iran, the United States has fired 850 Tomahawks, emptied its LRASM and JASSM-ER inventories, expended essentially every ATACMS and PrSM in the…
- The FCC's New Robot Rules · 52 minThe FCC has spent the past year quietly rewiring the American import market, first routers, then drones, next undersea cables, and as of last week, robots. Adam Chan is national…
- Jordan talks AI with Sebastian Mallaby on his show 'The Spillover' · 1 h 20 minDon't sorry I put two ChinaTalk Records songs at the end! their show notes: On this episode of The Spillover, Sebastian Mallaby sits down with Jordan Schneider of ChinaTalk to…
- WarTalk: Odyssey Edition · 1 h 28 minRoel Konijnendijk of Oxford returns to talk Nolan's Odyssey, ancient PTSD, siege warfare, and the choices we'd all make in adapting. Justin McIntosh cohosts. YoungBoy Never…
- The Iran War Oil Shock That Wasn’t...(Yet?) · 1 h 6 minThe biggest oil shock in modern history came and went without the catastrophe everyone expected. When Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz, analysts warned that oil could hit $200 a…
- WarTalk: Iran War Back On, Rogue AI, Ukraine Civ-Mil · 1 h 3 minFive months into the Iran campaign, the US has two carrier strike groups parked in the Arabian Sea, a blockade that may take months to bite, and a daisy chain of tankers…
- Kimi K3, Xi's Speech, and China's Mythos Moment · 60 minThe whole ChinaTalk gang gets together to discuss a big week in China AI with the release of Kimi K3 and Xi talking open source and safety at WAIC. We also discuss our latest…
- WarTalk: Ancient Greece Edition! · 2 h 0 minWhat do actual historians think about the Thucydides Trap? Does our 'low T' discourse all just come back to the movie 300? How the did ancient Greeks fight and why does Homer…
- China's Mythos Moment · 1 h 10 minClaude Mythos scrambled American AI policy, leaving us with what Dean Ball calls a de facto involuntary licensing regime from the administration that promised us the opposite…
- WarTalk: Iran + Randy Schriver on Asian Defense · 1 h 2 minBeijing just announced a persistent Coast Guard patrol east of Taiwan, the administration is calling arms sales a "bargaining chip," and the NDS doesn't mention Taiwan at all. Is…
- The Chemicals Powering the Chip Industry · 1 h 18 minWe cover: How the Iran War has exposed vulnerabilities in the semiconductor industry’s chemical supply chains. The chemistry behind chip manufacturing — why advanced…
- Unitree and the Humanoid Robot Revolution · 52 minRobots are here, and they’re going to change the world, with Unitree currently in pole position. Joining me to discuss are Niko Ciminelli, longtime SemiAnalysis advisor, robot…
- Taiwan's War on Renewables [Fully Produced Radio Show!] · 1 h 15 minWelcome to another installment of the ChinaTalk radio show! Today, we’re diving into Taiwan’s war on green energy. Shenanigans abound in this episode, including: The lights-out…
- WarTalk: Jack Murphy of Team House on Donahue + SOF · 1 h 9 minJack Murphy — former special forces and Ranger Regiment, co-founder of The Team House, and author of the new novel The Most Dangerous Man — joins WarTalk to talk about the…
- Economic Security Megapod! · 1 h 19 minEarlier this year, we ran an essay contest on economic security. We gave entrants two prompts: What are the most important high level KPIs that policy should aim for? What is…
- Rare Earths: What is To Be Done? · 60 minTo discuss, we have Farrell Gregory, a researcher at the Foundation for American Innovation and winner of ChinaTalk’s Economic Security essay competition, and Joris Teer, a…
- WarTalk with Ely Ratner on Iran War Peace + the 'BS' US-China Stalemate · 1 h 17 minEly Ratner, former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs and now a principal at the Marathon Initiative, joins Jordan, Bryan Clark, and Justin to make…
