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Notes on Egypt
A dispatch from Egypt's new capital city in the desert. $58 billion, Chinese-financed, almost entirely empty.
6 hrs ago
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Nick Corvino
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Sen. Slotkin: NDAA, AI guardrails, and banning China's cars
+ does Jordan "need a life"?
Jun 12
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Jordan Schneider
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Paul Kennedy on Great Powers
What a profound honor to have Paul Kennedy on the ChinaTalk podcast.
Jun 10
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Jordan Schneider
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Phoebe Chow
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A Night at the UFC
Zhang Weili and agony
Jun 7
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Jordan Schneider
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WarTalk: The View from AFRICOM
with LTG John Brennan
Jun 5
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Jordan Schneider
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Render Unto Caesar, Not Unto Claude
Pope’s AI takes
Jun 2
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Aqib Zakaria
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Adventures in Vibecoding Policy
can policy microsites save America?
May 29
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Jordan Schneider
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Arizona's Abundance Playbook
a view from the governor's office
May 28
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Jordan Schneider
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Aqib Zakaria
, and
Lily Ottinger
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China's Robotics Dream Began in 1972
a history!
May 27
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Irene Zhang
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WarTalk: Ukraine War Tactical Update
with Rob Lee
May 26
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Jordan Schneider
68
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'To the Success of our Hopeless Cause'
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May 24
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F. Ichiro Gifford
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China’s AI optimism isn’t what it seems
The enthusiasm seems real. But for a population that lived through the mass layoffs of the 1990s, optimism and fear can look identical from the outside.
May 22
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Zilan Qian
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Doing Big Things in Policy
A guide, of sorts
May 21
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Jordan Schneider
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Phoebe Chow
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The Empire of Wuxi
*Not* the TSMC of biotech
May 19
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Nick Corvino
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Media Diet Q1 2026
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Jordan Schneider
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Top 10 Books of the Year of the Snake
Happy new year everyone!
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Our Year in Review
Year in recap + 25 biggest US-China events of the century
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Chinese AI in 2025, Wrapped
A year for the history books for the Chinese AI beat.
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Sen. Slotkin: NDAA, AI guardrails, and banning China's cars
+ does Jordan "need a life"?
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Render Unto Caesar, Not Unto Claude
Pope’s AI takes
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Adventures in Vibecoding Policy
can policy microsites save America?
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China’s AI optimism isn’t what it seems
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WarTalk: The View from AFRICOM
with LTG John Brennan
Jun 5
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Jordan Schneider
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WarTalk: Ukraine War Tactical Update
with Rob Lee
May 26
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Jordan Schneider
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WarTalk: Iran War with Jack Shanahan
'Love Tap' edition
May 9
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Jordan Schneider
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WarTalk: Still Out of Ammo
Two weeks into the US-Iran ceasefire, CENTCOM is requesting Dark Eagle hypersonics, the 82nd Airborne is flowing into theater, and the wargames keep…
May 1
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No Jensen, Not All Compute is Created Equal
+ Nick in Cape Town!
Apr 28
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Aqib Zakaria
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Notes on Jensen v Dwarkesh
MATCH Act, kobe energy, cyber as shiny object, Jensen's inner fire, lawyers v engineers
Apr 21
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Jordan Schneider
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Fixing the GaN Problem
Before Another Supply Chain Emergency
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Aqib Zakaria
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Should the US Buy from CXMT?
Or is it Exactly What America Needs?
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