Archive - ChinaTalk

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.

12 mins ago • 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

$50k ChinaTalk Submission + Hiring Contest!

Proposals Due August 23rd

Aug 3 • Jordan Schneider

July 2026

Cold War Lessons for a Constrained America

The China Differential

Jul 31 • Richard Gray

China's Other Minerals Monopoly

autonomous mining!

Jul 30 • Lily Ottinger

China and the Iran War Oil Shock That Wasn’t

a five-million-barrel mystery

Jul 29 • Jordan Schneider and Phoebe Chow

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