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| Nov 30, 2022 | ChinaTalk: EMERGENCY PODCAST: China's Protests: What Happens Next | I talk about where I think these protests are heading and what they mean for Covid Zero and the international situation.
First voice memo is from @wstv_lizzi and the second is from @lichtspektrum.
The outtro singing is protesters in Shangha... |
| Nov 30, 2022 | ChinaTalk: EMERGENCY PODCAST: How will the CCP respond to the protests? | Ling Li, lecturer at the University of Vienna, comes on the pod to discuss:
The origins and evolution of Covid Zero
Different paths the CCP could take to cracking down
What the protests tell us about modern China
Intro sounds: https://twitt... |
| Sep 20, 2022 | ChinaTalk: Why Won't China Get Vaccinated? | Why aren't elderly people in China getting vaccinated? To talk all things vaccine from the early days of the PRC to Covid-19, this episode's guest is Cambridge University associate professor in global studies of science, technology and medi... |
| Sep 6, 2022 | ChinaTalk: AI and the Future of War | AI safety is having a moment. To discuss why AI safety matters for national security, today I have on Paul Scharre (@Paul_scharre). He’s the Vice President and Director of Studies at CNAS. He previously served in OSD Policy and as a U.S. Ar... |
| Aug 22, 2022 | ChinaTalk: Moneyball and US State Department | Wouldn't it be nice to have a world where important policy decisions were decided based on evidence and data rather than narratives and turf battles? Dan Spokojny thought so too, and that's why he's the founder of fp21, a think tank dedicat... |
| Jul 15, 2022 | ChinaTalk: Lessons from American Sovietology | When Churchill announced in 1946 that an iron curtain had descended over Europe, the US government only employed two dozen experts on the Soviet Union. Two years later, with the cold war well underway, the CIA only had 12 Russian speakers.
... |
| Jun 18, 2022 | ChinaTalk: How Corruption Works in China | I'm off getting married/honeymooning for the next couple of weeks so in my absence please enjoy this fine ChinaTalk vintage.
How can China be so corrupt and yet grow so fast? What's the relationship between corruption and competent governan... |
| Jun 10, 2022 | ChinaTalk: The Rise and Fall of a Suzhou Soft Serve Baron | I'm off getting married/honeymooning for the next couple of weeks so in my absence please enjoy this fine ChinaTalk vintage.
Mister Softee, the famed northeastern American ice cream brand, in Suzhou, China? Yes, that was a thing. Turner Spa... |
| Apr 29, 2022 | ChinaTalk: Global Standards: What's the Deal? | Standards. Who has them? From shipping containers to screws to tech gadgets, how is it that something made in China can have certain attributes identical to another product made by another company half a world away? And why does it matter?
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| Apr 15, 2022 | ChinaTalk: Shanghai Lockdown + Wang Huning's Unhappy Travels in America + Classics in China | In 1991, a young Chinese academic published America against America, a look at the contradictions and paradoxes he observed while traveling there. His book was largely forgotten until last year when it went viral for its observations on US ... |
| Apr 5, 2022 | ChinaTalk: How Chinese Ink Painting Survived the CCP | How did Chinese painting, arguably the elitist of arts, fare during the Cultural Revolution? To discuss ink paintings, socialist realism, oil paintings and the political upheavals that formed their backdrop, I’m joined by artist Arnold Chan... |
| Apr 1, 2022 | ChinaTalk: How Will Beijing Respond to the War in Ukraine? | CSIS' Bonny Lin joins to discuss how Beijing is responding to the war in Ukraine, potential future paths for Chinese policy, whether the IC could pull the same intelligence coups in Beijing as they did in Moscow, how the PLA may adapt to le... |
| Mar 31, 2022 | ChinaTalk: Taiwan Indie Music 101, the Taipei Underground and Tankie Rappers | Taipei-based DJ and New Bloom editor Brian Hioe (@brianhioe) takes us on a tour of the local indie music scene and explains what some of last year’s top tunes can tell us about Taiwanese politics and culture, from the influence of indigenou... |
| Mar 6, 2022 | ChinaTalk: Beijing to Britain: China in the U.K.'s Halls of Power | From then-PM David Cameron knocking back pints with Xi at the local pub to the Chinese ambassador being banned from Parliament: how has China's relationship with the UK changed since the so-called Golden Era?
This week we have on Sam Hogg (... |
| Oct 28, 2021 | Issuance of Export Licenses Reveals Strategic Limits on Economic Decoupling | As global supply chain disruptions continue amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, Congress released licensing data last week revealing that the U.S. Commerce Department issued more than $100 billion worth of export licenses for semiconduct... |
| Jul 26, 2021 | The Week that Was: All of Lawfare in One Post | Alexandra Stark assessed President Biden’s policy toward Yemen to encourage peace and stability.
Jen Patja Howell shared an episode of the Lawfare Podcast in Benjamin Wittes talked to Scott Anderson about the current U.S. withdrawal from Af... |
| Jul 20, 2021 | Today’s Headlines and Commentary | Thomas Barrack, an ally of former President Trump, was indicted on foregin lobbying charges, according to the Washington Post. He and two other defendants were charged with acting as agents of the United Arab Emirates between April 2016 and... |
| Jul 19, 2021 | ChinaTalk: Labs over Fabs: Why the US and EU Should Invest in the Future of Semiconductors | Chris Miller of Tufts and I discuss our report Labs over Fabs, our case for the US to be spending money more broadly than currently conceived by the CHIPS act. (https://chinatalk.substack.com/p/labs-over-fabs-risc-vs-promise)
Click here to ... |
| May 26, 2021 | Apple Faces Criticism Over Its Cooperation With China | Apple has faced heat in recent weeks over its compliance with Chinese laws in order to continue its operations in China. Obeying local law in China means that Apple shares consumer data with the government and censors content according to C... |
| May 1, 2021 | Is Washington prepared for a geopolitical ‘tech race’? | When Secretary of State Antony Blinken and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan sat down with Chinese officials in Anchorage, Alaska for the first high-level bilateral summit of the new administration, it was not a typical diplomatic mee... |
| Apr 20, 2021 | Is the WTO the Worst of Both Worlds for U.S.-China Tech Competition? | The World Trade Organization (WTO) was envisioned as a forum for countries to resolve sensitive trade disputes based on generally applicable rules without escalatory, unilateral measures. Such a forum could play a valuable role in mitigatin... |
| Feb 9, 2021 | The U.S.’s China Strategy Needs New Tools | On Jan. 20, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen committed to “use the full array of tools” to counter China’s “abusive, unfair and illegal practices.” But however determined Yellen and the rest of President Biden’s team may be, the toolbox they... |
| Feb 4, 2021 | The Lawfare Podcast: Lawfare Enters the Substack Discourse | On this episode of Arbiters of Truth, Lawfare’s miniseries on disinformation and misinformation, Quinta Jurecic sat down with Lawfare’s deputy managing editor Jacob Schulz, and Jordan Schneider, host of the ChinaTalk podcast, to talk about ... |
| Dec 15, 2020 | ChinaTalk: Wendy Cutler on U.S.-China Trade Policy | Wendy Culter, who served 28 years in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, discusses how President-elect Biden should address Beijing on trade. We talk about how he could leverage allies' frustration with Chinese behavior and specula... |
| Dec 1, 2020 | ChinaTalk: 5G in the Caribbean, Open Source Tech, CCP Twitter Bots, Chinese TV and Rap | I chatted this week with Rasheed Griffith of the China in the Caribbean Podcast. I highly recommend you check out his channel!
We discuss:
The possible future of US-China tech competition under the incoming Biden Administration
The nature o... |
| Oct 20, 2020 | What to Do About Xinjiang | Editor’s Note: The author will be taking questions live at 12:00 noon Eastern time on Wednesday, Oct. 21, as a part of our new project, Lawfare Live. Events under the Lawfare Live umbrella will be offered exclusively to Lawfare supporters o... |
| Aug 13, 2020 | Should Xi Prefer Trump or Biden? | Last week, the intelligence community came out with a statement that "China prefers that President Trump – whom Beijing sees as unpredictable – does not win reelection.”
It's hard to put much too much stock into this assessment. The Tr... |
| Aug 3, 2020 | The U.S. Is Right to Worry About TikTok | The U.S. is panicking over TikTok. After President Trump announced that he was considering “banning” the popular video-sharing app, Reuters reported that the administration has given Microsoft a 45-day deadline to finalize an acquisition of... |
| Jul 21, 2020 | ChinaTalk: How Sanctions Fail US Policymakers | Eddie Fishman, who worked in Obama's State Department's Policy Planning Staff, joins to discuss his recent articles on sanctions and the world order.
As always, the newsletter and Patreon!
Intro music: 一丢丢 by AR
Outtro music: a selection fr... |
| May 29, 2020 | ChinaTalk: An Industrial Espionage Parable | What do you get when you take a Chinese national, a rental car, rural Iowa and a $52 billion seed business hanging in the balance? Said one review, "not since Alfred Hitchcock's in North by Northwest has a cornfield produced so much ex... |
| May 14, 2020 | ChinaTalk: Coronastories 3—Nanjing, Nepal, and Singapore | The legendary Yangyang Cheng discusses how Coronavirus played out in cross-continent conversations with her mother. We'll also hear from Asmod in Nepal and Lambert in Singapore.
In case you haven't heard, I write a newsletter. Recent posts ... |
| May 1, 2020 | ChinaTalk: Forging an Innovation Alliance Base | America has allies with solid tech. But can the U.S. leverage these relationships to help preserve its technological edge over China? In this conversation, building off a recent CNAS report, Dan Kliman, Kristine Lee and Joshua Fitt dive dee... |
| Apr 24, 2020 | ChinaTalk: Coronastories Volume 2: Philippines, Russia, Taiwan | We're continuing our Coronastories series this week with personal reflections and analysis from friends of ChinaTalk on the current situations in the Philippines (despotism), Russia (hunger and looming economic collapse), and Taiwan (cell p... |
| Apr 10, 2020 | ChinaTalk: Domestic Coronavirus Propaganda and China-Australia Relations | Adam Ni and Yun Jiang are two former Australian government officials who together write Neican(内参), a fantastic new newsletter on Chinese policy and China-Australia relations.
We talk about how the Chinese Communist Party is trying to convi... |
| Apr 6, 2020 | ChinaTalk: How the Party Takes its Propaganda Global | What are the Chinese Communist Party's international propaganda goals? How is it faring in the battle to define COVID-19's winners and losers? Matt Schrader of the German Marshall Fund's Alliance for Securing Democracy brings the mirth in t... |
| ChinaTalk: Twilight Struggle: Cold War Lessons for US-China Today | Hal Brands (@HalBrands), professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, is the author of The Twilight Struggle: What the Cold War Teaches Us about Great-Power Rivalry Today. Along with co-host Emily Jin ... |
