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Overcaffeinated in Indonesia
ChinaTalk travel writing returns!
14 mins ago • Irene Zhang
North Korean Messiah
American Protestant Christianity and the DPRK cult of personality
Aug 19 • Jordan Schneider and Phoebe Chow
Why China’s AI Bubble Is Also Industrial Policy
Inside China’s Venture Capital Game
Aug 18
The Rise of China’s Electric Vehicle Industry
The Machine Behind BYD
Aug 17 • Jordan Schneider, Irene Zhang, and Phoebe Chow
China's Best Music in 2026 (So Far)
Jake Newby is the author of the Concrete Avalanche Substack, which covers the best music coming out of China.
Aug 14 • Jake
The DeepSeek Thesis
a very different kind of guy
Aug 13 • Irene Zhang
China's Quantum Flywheel
Six months of Party mobilization
Aug 12 • Lily Ottinger
AI Evals for the Situation Room, Explained
$25k contest to understand nuke happy models
Aug 11 • Jordan Schneider and Phoebe Chow
$25k Contest: Evals for the Situation Room
humanity needs you!
Aug 10 • Jordan Schneider and Lily Ottinger
WarTalk: Odyssey Edition
yes you need more odyssey content
Aug 8 • Jordan Schneider, Justin Mc, and Phoebe Chow
WarTalk: Ammo + CCAs Are Dumb?
what’s left in the magazine after six months of Iran
Aug 7 • Jordan Schneider
FCC’s Adam Chan on the New Robot Rule
import substitution as industrial policy
Aug 6 • Jordan Schneider
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