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Welcome back to the second part of my conversation with Nick Mulder and Lars Schönander.Picking the narrative up in 1935, get real in this episode:Why the Great Depression, counterintuitively, made importing commodities cheaper, and how that
Today we’re releasing part one of our a two-part conversation with Nick Mulder, a history professor at Cornell and author of The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War — a Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2022.With cohost L
India’s elections are underway! What does the future hold for the world’s largest democracy? Will the election results impact India-China relations? What about India-US relations?To discuss, ChinaTalk interviewed Dr. Raja Mohan, Director of th
The DOJ is now charged with protecting American data from foreign adversaries. This new proposed rule they recently issued is, according to one observer, “one of the most ambitious and sweeping new initiatives in national security law over the
Ryan Takeshita is the Chief Global Editor at PIVOT, a new media outlet in Japan focused on the emerging startup scene.We get into:A stroll through recent economic history leading to today's 'boom times'Why more people are looking to leave
To learn about Japan’s new economic national security policy, export controls, chip policy, lessons from history, and even space policy, we interviewed Kazuto Suzuki.Suzuki-san is a professor at the University of Tokyo. He serves as an advisor
Just minutes after the Taiwan earthquake yesterday, Dylan Patel of SemiAnalysis, Doug O'Laughlin of Fabricated Knowledge, Jon of Asianometry and yours truly had a brief hang where we got into:Intel's process progress and rocky financial road
Straight from Tokyo, Japan: an exclusive with Amb. Rahm Emanuel.Before his current posting as US ambassador to Japan, Rahm served as a senior advisor to Bill Clinton, multiple terms in the US House of Representatives, Obama’s first chief of st
Biotech. What is it? Why should you care? Does biotech really matter for national security? What are China’s biotech ambitions?To find out, ChinaTalk interviewed Jason Kelly, the Chair and Vice Chair of the National Security Commission on Emer
Is Congress for real this time?To discuss the US domestic politics of the dramatic rollout and broader social, national, and geopolitical implications of the House's passage of a bill that would force Bytedance to divest from TikTok US, Ben Sm
How do you stand up an effective national AI project? Is the world prepared for the Reformation-level societal change AI could bring?Matt Clifford, according to Politico Britain’s most powerful tech adviser, joins ChinaTalk to discuss! He serv
Chinese Doomscroll, which faithfully records happenings from the wild west that is Weibo (China’s Twitter/X equivalent), won the ChinaTalk award for best China-focussed Substack on 2023. Today we have on the brain behind the newsletter: Molly,
How can AI change diplomacy?To discuss the State Department’s options for AI integration, we interviewed the State Department's Deputy Chief Data and AI Officer, Garrett Berntsen. He served as an officer during two tours in Afghanistan and rec
Why can India design chips with the best of them but has completely failed to develop fabs, much less a broader electronics industry? To discuss, I have on Pranay Kotasthane, former chip designer at TI and Qualcomm who now works at the Takshash
What does it take to train a frontier model? What's the know-how, the secret sauce that makes firms lets OpenAI and Deepmind push the limits of what's possible? How much are Chinese firms benefitting from western open source, and in the long te
Matt Pottinger reported for years out of China, served as a US Marine Corps intelligence officer in Iraq and Afghanistan, and held several senior roles on Trump's NSC , concluding his time in the White House as the Deputy National Security Advi
Heart attacks, prostate cancer, Jake Sullivan awake for a home invasion attempt at 4 AM because he was just up working on a random Tuesday night?Is the national security bureaucracy in America unwell?To discuss, I have on today John Gans, a f
Kharis Templeman, research fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution, returns to ChinaTalk to break down the recent Taiwan elections, held on January 13.We discuss:The lack of surprises in the election results, the subdued vibes during the ca
How did the US Navy evolve over the first half of the 20th century from a bunch of unschooled violent sailors who couldn't shoot straight to the world's largest and most technologically advanced fighting force? What lessons around organizationa
How did Lai win, what does China think, and what’s at stake for the DPP?ChinaTalk editor Nicholas Welch reads his latest recap of the 2024 Taiwan elections: https://www.chinatalk.media/p/taiwan-election-results-how-lai-wonSubscribe to the new
Should AI be more open or closed? What does it mean to be open, anyway? And can France overtake China in AI??Today I'm running a crossover episode with the Retort AI, hosted by AI Ethicist Tom Gilbert and Nathan Lambert who writes the fantasti
New year, new PilotTalk! Ben Smith, editor-in-chief of Semafor, joins Jordan and editor Irene to watch Chinese and Taiwanese TV shows. Ben’s favorite genre is crime and police dramas, and we cover the following new-ish releases:A Date With T
Margaret Palmieri is the Deputy Chief Digital Artificial Intelligence Officer. I had her on to dicusss:Innovation vs diffusion in the DoD contextData issues making her life difficultHow CDAO sources and tests ideas for implementing AI int
Jake Newby of the substack Concrete Avalanche with an end of year ChinaTalk takeover!Here's his accompanying year in review post https://jakenewby.substack.com/p/2023-in-review?utm_source=activity_itemTracklist:Intro: 'Lost in China' (excerp
80 episodes and 145 newsletters later, we've made it through my first year working on ChinaTalk full time. Editor Ryan Hauser hosts a review episode where we reflect on the past year, get into my production function, what I think the point of a
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