Archive - ChinaTalk

Why America Builds AI Girlfriends and China Makes AI Boyfriends

and what it all means

Oct 7, 2025 • Zilan Qian

An open letter to Secretary Hegseth

Mar 15 • Jordan Schneider

Deepseek: The Quiet Giant Leading China’s AI Race

Annotated translation of its CEO's deepest interview

Nov 27, 2024 • Jordan Schneider, Angela Shen, Irene Zhang, Yiwen, Nicholas Welch, and Alexa Pan

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

Second Breakfast

Apr 3 • Jordan Schneider

Claude Just Opened the Strait

the definitive tick-tock

Mar 22 • Jordan Schneider

Iran: The Kharg Fantasy and How This Ends

yeah, this is not great

Mar 21 • Jordan Schneider

Goodbye, Taiwan

Mar 11 • Lily Ottinger

DeepSeek: The View from China

China's takes are better than yours

Jan 28, 2025 • Jordan Schneider, Irene Zhang, Angela Shen, and Yiwen

DeepSeek: What the Headlines Miss

Posting will continue until the takes improve

Jan 26, 2025 • Jordan Schneider

Xi’s Military Meltdown

Jan 28 • Jordan Schneider and Lily Ottinger

Rickover’s Lessons

"The status quo has no absolute sanctity"

Mar 20, 2025 • Lily Ottinger and Charles Yang

Kotkin on China: Communism’s Achilles’ Heel, Deterrence, and Learning from the USSR

“You can’t be half Communist, just like you can’t be half pregnant.”

Mar 20, 2023 • Nicholas Welch and Jordan Schneider

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