| Date | Title | Description |
| 06.05.2023 | ChinaTalk: Crafting A National Tech Strategy and Reviving Net Tech Assessment | PJ Maykish, Abigail Kukura, and Will Moreland from the Future Technologies platform team of the Special Competitive Studies Project (SCSP) join the conversation to discuss critical technologies and the development of a national technology s... |
| 02.05.2023 | ChinaTalk: Sen. Warner on the RESTRICT Act, AI, Bipartisanship on China and a New Era of Intelligence | On Monday, May 1, I interviewed Virgina Senator Mark Warner.
We get into the RESTRICT Act, state capacity to analyze emerging technologies, the future of industrial policy, the nature and limits to bipartisanship around China, as well as th... |
| 26.04.2023 | ChinaTalk: Hoover, Communism, and the FBI | J. Edgar Hoover was a controversial figure who served as the director of the FBI for nearly five decades. In this episode, we explore his life and legacy with Beverly Gage, a professor of 20th-century U.S. history and author of the Bancroft... |
| 14.04.2023 | ChinaTalk: Schell on the Long Arc of US-China and Long Reach of Leninism | How did Xi Jinping’s formative years influence how he views the world today? Veteran China scholar Orville Schell, the Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations, looks back at decades of writing and working on China, weathe... |
| 09.04.2023 | Roach on US-China Couples Therapy | Stephen Roach is a Yale professor with extensive experience in China. He also taught the first China class I ever took, so it may be fair to say he's partially to blame for the entire ChinaTalk enterprise.
In our conversation (taped on Febr... |
| 02.04.2023 | ChinaTalk: AI Military Competition: Tactical, Operational, and Strategic Implications | Paul Scharre, Vice President and Director of Studies at CNAS, joins ChinaTalk to discuss AI, military, strategy, and US-China geopolitics.
Listen in for a discussion on:
How AI will impact the tactical, operational and strategic levels of w... |
| 01.04.2023 | ChinaTalk: What to Do About Foreign Interference | What actually is foreign influence, and how might Canada handle China’s interference in its domestic affairs? Akshay Singh is a research associate at the Centre for International Policy Studies at the University of Ottawa. We discuss:
How t... |
| 28.03.2023 | ChinaTalk: Chips Avengers 2023: Chips Act + AI Revolution | The Chips Avengers assemble once again! Reva Goujon of the Rhodium Group, JP Kleinhans of the European think tank SNV, Jay Goldberg of Digits and Dollars, and Dylan Patel, who writes SemiAnalysis.
In this episode of ChinaTalk, we all:
Deep ... |
| 23.03.2023 | ChinaTalk: Stephen Kotkin on China | Stephen Kotkin is a legendary historian, currently at Hoover, previously at Princeton. Best known for his Stalin biographies, his other works include Uncivil Society, Magnetic Mountain, and Armageddon Averted.
Our discussion on China is far... |
| 23.03.2023 | ChinaTalk: TikTok Hearing: The End of an Era | Kevin Xu, Obama-era White House official and creator of https://interconnect.substack.com/ comes on ChinaTalk to discuss:
Our impressions of the House's TikTok hearing
Continued cross-border reliances around batteries and cloud computing
Th... |
| 16.03.2023 | ChinaTalk: GPT4-AI Unleashed? | How will GPT4 change the world? What implications does it have for policy, economics, and society? How will US-China 'racing dynamics' play out and what are the implications for AI safety? To discuss, I've brought together the AI Justice Le... |
| 02.03.2023 | ChinaTalk: Will Xi Give Putin Arms? Has A Cold War Already Begun? | Today we’re going to do a show about the scariest US-China news story I’ve seen in years, that “The US has intelligence that the Chinese government is considering providing Russia with drones and ammunition for use in the war in Ukraine.”
W... |
| 02.03.2023 | ChinaTalk: AI's Regulatory Future in the US, China, and EU | With AI on the verge of transforming the world, how are regulators across the globe approaching the challenges the technology might pose?
Also, what does US-China AI collaboration look like today, and will it get caught up in broader tensio... |
| 02.03.2023 | ChinaTalk: How Does AI Actually Work, Anyways? | Data scientist Bryan Cheong breaks down how AI actually works, creating video using AI and how the technology is being used beyond image and language models.
Also, I've got a meetup March 7th in Palo Alto! https://partiful.com/e/dVY7k51xQX4... |
| 15.02.2023 | ChinaTalk: BalloonTalk: Alien Valentine Edition | William 'Balloon Guy' Kim returns for a roundup of the past few days of news around the Chinese spy balloon and unidentified object shooting. We share our favorite theories of what on earth is going on and what this all means for U.S.-China... |
| 09.02.2023 | ChinaTalk: Tech Policy Entrepreneurship + Chips Act + Talent Policy | What do we talk about when we talk about tech policy? What are the weird corners of the chips and science bill? How is talent policy broken and what can anyone do about it? And broadly, if you want to change the world through better regulat... |
| 07.02.2023 | ChinaTalk: BALLOONTALK: EMERGENCY EDITION | Chinese balloons over Wyoming!! To discuss, we have on today William 'Balloon Guy' Kim of the Marathon Initiative, Eric Lofgren of AcquisitionTalk, and Gerard Dipippo of CSIS.
Click here to listen to ChinaTalk in your favorite podcast app.
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| 25.01.2023 | ChinaTalk: China's Data Policy Future | This episode is sponsored by Policyware. Check out Samm's class at https://www.policyware.org/chinatalk.
How do Chinese cyber laws and regulations affect multinational companies, and US-China relations? Samm Sacks of Yale Law School walks u... |
| 19.01.2023 | ChinaTalk: Chips Act: A How To Guide | What can $52bn for semiconductors actually accomplish? To discuss the tensions and tradeoffs underlying the decisions that the US government is about to make on how to spend this money, I have on today Jacob Feldgoise, an analyst at CSET an... |
| 17.01.2023 | ChinaTalk: Knowledge and AI with a Rabbi and Substacker | As AI becomes increasingly sophisticated, we consider the question of whether there are limits to what computers can know and how this compares to human understanding.
Joining me on this episode is Sam Hammond, the director of social policy... |
| 10.01.2023 | ChinaTalk: Tyler Cowen on AI and China | Tyler Cowen of Marginal Revolution makes his ChinaTalk debut!
How AI is going to change art, education, politics and human relationships;
Why Tyler tried to write a book to explain America to the PRC;
How babies born in 2023 will see their ... |
| 06.01.2023 | ChinaTalk: Year in Review! | Before we get back to the interviews, I read from the newsletter I run which you should subscribe to at https://www.chinatalk.media/
If you're interested in advertising on ChinaTalk, reach out at Jordan@chinatalk.media!
Click here to listen... |
| 21.12.2022 | ChinaTalk: What to do About TikTok | Jordan Schneider discussed concerns about ByteDance’s commitment to transparency. Schneider also discussed the apparent access by ByteDance’s China-based employees to the data of American TikTok users, plans that ByteDance intended to track... |
| 30.11.2022 | 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... |
| 18.11.2022 | ChinaTalk: Can the U.S. and China Work Together on Anything? | Can the US and China play nicely enough with each other to not ruin the planet in the coming century? In particular, what prospects are there for cooperation around global challenges and biotech? For this episode, I'm joined by Scott Moore,... |
| 08.11.2022 | ChinaTalk: Export Controls for AI: Will They Work? | Do export controls work? And will they work for AI? Meet Emily Weinstein and Tim Hwang. They're research fellows at Georgetown's Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET) and have written a paper on the goals of export controls and... |
| 28.10.2022 | ChinaTalk: US-China Chip War | What will the Biden administration's new export controls mean for the US and Chinese semiconductor industries as well as the future of the US-China relationship?
To discuss, I assembled the Chips Avengers, consisting of Reva Goujon (Rhodium... |
| 20.09.2022 | 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... |
| 09.09.2022 | ChinaTalk: Paul Kennedy's Jonathan Spence Memories | Prepare a nice cup of tea and put your feet up for a special episode of stories and anecdotes about the late American historian and Sinologist Jonathan Spence, as told by his friend and colleague Paul Kennedy.
He takes us through:
Why the w... |
| 06.09.2022 | 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... |
| 06.09.2022 | ChinaTalk: Industrial Policy for Biotech? | Does America need an industrial policy to compete in biotech?
Today I'm joined by two guests, Ryan Fedasiuk (@RyanFedasiuk) and Gigi Gronvall (@ggronvall). Ryan is a fellow currently on leave from Georgetown's Center for Security and Emergi... |
| 22.07.2022 | ChinaTalk: Elite Power Struggles in the CCP and USSR | I HAVE A NEWSLETTER! Check it out!
Joseph Torigian’s “Prestige, Manipulation and Coercion, Elite Power Struggles in The Soviet Union and China After Stalin and Mao” is in pole position for my best China book of 2022. Books that deeply engag... |
| 15.07.2022 | 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.
... |
| 05.04.2022 | 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... |
| 06.03.2022 | 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 (... |
| 10.01.2022 | Podcast Advertising: 5 Experts Reveal Their Secrets | Are you one of the 7.8 million Americans who commute to work every day? If so, I'm guessing you've listened to a podcast or two. You're not alone. According to Infinite Dial, U.S. podcast audiences listen to an average of four to five podca... |
| 30.06.2021 | Add to Cart: Spotify’s Acquisitions | Launched in 2008, Spotify is the world’s most popular audio streaming subscription service with a staggering 356 million users, including 156 million subscribers and is available in 178 countries. In the past two years, the audio streaming ... |
| 12.11.2020 | Spotify will acquire Reston-based podcast tech company Megaphone for $235M | Swedish-based audio streaming and media services provider Spotify has entered into an agreement to acquire Reston, Virginia-based Megaphone for $235 million.
Founded in 2015, Megaphone is a podcast technology company that helps publishers w... |
| 10.11.2020 | Spotify is buying podcast ad startup Megaphone for $235 million | With billions of dollars in war chest, Spotify announced Tuesday that it is buying Washington D.C.-based Megaphone for $235 million. Megaphone offers the technology for podcast publishers and advertisers seeking targeted slots on podcasts. ... |
| 10.11.2020 | Spotify buying podcast hosting and ad company Megaphone for $235M | Spotify has come under fire of late over questions around musician compensation, but when it comes to podcasting, it has money to burn. This morning, the streaming service confirmed its acquisition of Megaphone for a reported $235 million.
... |
| 08.10.2020 | Podcast advertising has a business intelligence gap | Krystina Rubino Contributor
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| 08.10.2020 | These 3 factors are holding back podcast monetization | Krystina Rubino Contributor
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| - | 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 ... |
