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China's technology long game

China's Five-Year Plans and its evolving tech strategy

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The Toymaker vs. the Tariffs

How Spike the Fine Motor Hedgehog took down Trump

Mar 19 • Jordan Schneider and Phoebe Chow

WarTalk launches!

Mar 18 • Jordan Schneider and Phoebe Chow

OpenClaw Emperors

From “Qigong Fever” to Running a Multi-Agent Cyber Bureaucratic Court

Mar 17 • JingYu

An open letter to Secretary Hegseth

Mar 15 • Jordan Schneider

AI

WarTalk launches!

Mar 18 • Jordan Schneider and Phoebe Chow

OpenClaw Emperors

From “Qigong Fever” to Running a Multi-Agent Cyber Bureaucratic Court

Mar 17 • JingYu

Making Money in Chinese AI Safety

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

Mar 12 • Nick Corvino

Semiconductors

How Much AI Does $1 Get You in China vs America?

And Does the H200 Change Anything?

Feb 19 • Aqib Zakaria

The Future of Economic Security with Dan Kim and Chris Miller

The CHIPS Act as case study

Jan 21 • Jordan Schneider and Phoebe Chow

H200s Sale: China Reacts

"It’s like a couple separated for a long time: even if they get back together, it’s hard to recapture the original passion."

Dec 12, 2025 • Irene Zhang

Best Of

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

Chinese AI in 2025, Wrapped

A year for the history books for the Chinese AI beat.

Dec 11, 2025 • Irene Zhang

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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