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Clinical Trial Abundance, Made in China

Flying to China for cancer care

Apr 17 • Jacob Stern

Should the US Buy from CXMT?

Or is it Exactly What America Needs?

Apr 16 • Aqib Zakaria

How Ukraine Scaled to Millions of Drones

Ukrainian drone manufacturing.

Apr 15 • Jordan Schneider, Chris Miller, and Phoebe Chow

Claude Mythos: China Reacts

"collecting protection money makes money too"

Apr 14 • Irene Zhang

Data Hacks and the US-China AI Race

Trent Kannegieter is a JD candidate at Yale Law School.

Apr 14 • Trent Kannegieter

AI

Should the US Buy from CXMT?

Or is it Exactly What America Needs?

Apr 16 • Aqib Zakaria

Claude Mythos: China Reacts

"collecting protection money makes money too"

Apr 14 • Irene Zhang

Data Hacks and the US-China AI Race

Trent Kannegieter is a JD candidate at Yale Law School.

Apr 14 • Trent Kannegieter

Semiconductors

Should the US Buy from CXMT?

Or is it Exactly What America Needs?

Apr 16 • Aqib Zakaria

How Much Compute Does China Have? A Demand-Side Analysis

An estimate of China's AI usage

Apr 8 • Nick Corvino

How Much Compute Does China Have?

Apr 7 • Aqib Zakaria

Best Of

Media Diet Q1 2026

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Apr 5 • Jordan Schneider

Top 10 Books of the Year of the Snake

Happy new year everyone!

Feb 16 • Jordan Schneider

Our Year in Review

Year in recap + 25 biggest US-China events of the century

Jan 15 • Jordan Schneider

CCP

Making Money in Chinese AI Safety

Compliance-as-a-Service is China's unique and growing industry

Mar 12 • Nick Corvino

Seedance, Kling and the Chinese AI Video Ecosystem

China proposed new rules to label AI content, but enforcement is failing, driven by economic priorities and geopolitical propaganda

Feb 13 • Nick Corvino

Xi’s Military Meltdown

Jan 28 • Jordan Schneider and Lily Ottinger

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