Archive - ChinaTalk

How Trump and Xi Can Do AI Safety

it may be possible!

2 hrs ago • Jay Kimmel

China on the Hugging Face Incident

Why Beijing seeks to re-narrate AI safety

Sep 3 • Irene Zhang

Cyber Apocalypse, Now?

The Hugging Face hack, crime, and nation states with AI cyber

Sep 2 • Jordan Schneider

China's Rare Earths Duopoly

Behind Beijing’s chokehold

Sep 1 • Aqib Zakaria and Nick Corvino

August 2026

good books so far this year

Homer, Shakespeare, and Kim Il Sung. Plus: nyc’s best fish head

Aug 31 • Jordan Schneider

How the U.S. and China Are Meme-ifying Modern War

"Glossy coat, shiny fur, I’m a beautiful little piggy"

Aug 28

NdFeB Magnets: The Material Bottleneck Behind Humanoid Robotics

TLDR: Humanoid robotics is often framed as a software race, but the binding constraint may be physical.

Published on CrossCurrents • Aug 25

How AI Becomes a Political Crisis

Unemployment, Data Center Backlash, and the Brewing Storm

Aug 24 • Jordan Schneider and Phoebe Chow

How AI Becomes a Political Crisis

Unemployment, Data Center Backlash, and the Brewing Storm

Aug 24 • Jordan Schneider

1:08:06

Overcaffeinated in Indonesia

ChinaTalk travel writing returns!

Aug 21 • Irene Zhang

Lessons from the American Civil War

I promise this is useful

Aug 21 • Jordan Schneider

1:31:40

North Korean Messiah

American Protestant Christianity and the DPRK cult of personality

Aug 19 • Jordan Schneider and Phoebe Chow

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