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December 2025

Does Manufacturing Matter?
Chris Miller with a guest post on goal-setting for industrial policy
 • Jordan Schneider and Chris Miller
The best albums from China in 2025*
Yet another end of year list
Published on Concrete Avalanche • 
Rahm on Trump and China: “He is the worst negotiator.”
Rahm Emanuel returns to ChinaTalk with a characteristically blunt assessment of U.S.-China relations and verdict on year one of Trump 2.0.
 • Jordan Schneider and Phoebe Chow
How China's Preparing for the Next Pandemic
Beijing doesn’t want COVID-2.0—but what have they learned?
 • Nick Corvino
Second Breakfast: Hegseth’s Second Strike
Tony Stark and Justin Mc return for Second Breakfast.
 • Jordan Schneider, Justin Mc, Tony Stark, and Eleanor Randolph
CFR's Mike Froman on Détente 2.0 and Running a Think Tank
Mike Froman is president of the Council on Foreign Relations, former U.S.
 • Jordan Schneider and Phoebe Chow
CCP Purges as Camp
A Bo Xilai Retrospective!
 • Lily Ottinger
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."
 • Irene Zhang
Chinese AI in 2025, Wrapped
A year for the history books for the Chinese AI beat.
 • Irene Zhang
EMERGENCY POD: Trump to Sell H200s to China
"There’s no way to sugarcoat this — it’s a disaster"
 • Jordan Schneider
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