Archive - ChinaTalk

Mythos and National Power

Has the A-bomb of cyber just been discovered?

11 hrs ago • Jordan Schneider

Notes from Ian Toll's Masterpiece on the Early US Navy, 'Six Frigates'

Iran War parallels everywhere in Ian Toll's epic history of Navy's early years

Apr 12 • Jordan Schneider

WarTalk: Who Won the War?

Second Breakfast Rebrands! Plus: Pope Fight

Apr 10 • Jordan Schneider

China’s AI Companies Are Going Closed Source

Apr 9 • Jordan Schneider and Nick Corvino

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

Media Diet Q1 2026

WWI Trenches, WWII Bombers, Columbus, Magellan, Nukes

Apr 5 • Jordan Schneider

F-15, Pete's Purges, CENTCOM Hubris, War of 1812

Second Breakfast

Apr 3 • Jordan Schneider

China's AI Education Experiment

Pilot schools in China are already using AI to grade children’s artwork, monitor their facial expressions during lectures, and screen them for…

Apr 3 • Lily Ottinger

Unitree Goes Public

robotics diffusion, AGI for the real world, and US-China entanglement

Apr 2 • Irene Zhang

China on AI Job Loss: “No ‘Matrix’ for us, thanks.”

“We’re a people’s republic after all.”

Apr 1

March 2026

Why Geothermal Failed in China

And is there still potential?

Mar 31 • Lily Ottinger

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