Substacks recommended by ChinaTalk

Recommended by ChinaTalk

Arnon Mishkin

Rising Tide

By Helen Toner

Intermittent thoughts on navigating the transition to a world with extremely advanced AI systems

It’s Helen, self-recommending

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Green Tape

By Thomas Hochman

Ideas and resources on all things permitting

Tech Taiwan 胡說科技

Exclusive and in-depth semiconductor trend analysis, covering technological breakthroughs, supply chain shifts, with a strong focus on Taiwan's strategic position :exclusive insights from tech columnist Liang-rong Chen in Taiwan.

on a scale from 1 to 10

By vlad chituc — on a scale

understanding how we understand minds

水瓶纪元

多元共生，重返对话。

Value Added

By JS Tan

Value Added is a newsletter about the political economy of innovation.

Recent Works by Chang Che

Recent Works by Chang Che arrives in your inbox sparingly. It's sole purpose is to notify you of new articles by Chang Che.

Leapfrog

By Rita Liao

Documenting migrant founders outside the American-centric bubble

Shakespeare News

By Kate Pitt

A weekly newsletter about the world's most popular playwright.

Peking Hotel

By Liu He

Stories of what China used to be and what it is capable of becoming.

Deep interviews with lifelong China watchers--Liu He spends over twenty hours each with each subject, painting a fascinating window into modern China through the foreigners who have invested most into understanding its evolution. One of the best new China newsletters of 2024 can't wait to see what he does with it.

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Conflict

By Stephen Roach

Can the US and China avoid accidental conflict?

High Capacity

By Kyle Chan

Industrial policy, clean technology, EVs, infrastructure, and development, particularly in China and India.

kyle chan's coverage of industrial policy is second to none

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This Week in Rural China

By Nathan Whittaker

This Week in Rural China explores the landscapes, lives, and quiet revolutions shaping China's countryside. Each week, discover sharp analysis, evocative storytelling, and reflections illuminating China beyond the skylines.

Asterisk Magazine

Substack mirror of Asterisk Magazine. New pieces on Mondays and occasional archives.

Eating Policy

By Jennifer Pahlka

In business, culture eats strategy. In government, culture eats policy. Here we'll talk about the problems of state capacity (government's ability to achieve its policy goals) and how to fix them. From the author of Recoding America.

Mind of Things

By Justin Mc

Retired Special Forces soldier’s thoughts on defense, technology, parenting, and other things that catch my interest.

varied meditations on mil-adjacent topics from a super thoughtful former SOF

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Emerging Technology Observatory

By ETO

News, demos, and analysis from the Emerging Technology Observatory (https://eto.tech), CSET's public platform for data and insight on critical emerging tech issues.

Foreign Policy Expertise

By Dan Spokojny

We walk like experts, we talk like experts, but does that really mean we know what we're doing? This substack explores the nature of expertise in foreign policy in the 21st century.

Stanford SCCEI China Briefs

A biweekly brief series from the Stanford Center on China’s Economy and Institutions that translates data-driven research on China into evidence-based insights

Fantastic digestible breakdowns of policy-relevant academic research on China

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Daniel Petkevich

History, geopolitics, technology, and culture.

Directed Divergence

Weekly updates on numbers, news, and nations. Making sense of Kondratiev, Kuznets, and Kitchin cycles

Hanson hurts my brain he's very smart.

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Culpium, by Tim Culpan

Culpium: noun [U] — a cure for lack of knowledge, understanding or clarity. *taken by those seeking to improve comprehension of technology, semiconductors, and supply chains especially in Asia. *See your therapist if stupidity persists

The Counteroffensive with Tim Mak

A war correspondent's open notebook, reporting live from Kyiv. Human stories that illustrate what’s happening during the war in Ukraine, and elsewhere on the frontlines for democracy. Issues 3x a week!

Supervised

By Matthew Lynley

Covering innovation and emerging technology in big data and AI.

Moly’s Substack

By Chinese Doom Scroll

A translation of all the hottest Weibo posts!

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Yes, I give a fig... thoughts on markets from Michael Green

By Michael W. Green

Thoughts on financial markets and economics from Simplify's Chief Strategist

really sharp and engaging perspectives on macro

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Global Cyber Digest

By Justin Sherman

Leading analysis of technology, policy, and geopolitics—from Global Cyber Strategies, a Washington, DC-based research and advisory firm.

Justin Sherman is the first person I turn to for cyber policy questions

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The Business of Power

By Miquel Vila

Political elites and geopolitical visions

Chip Capitols

By Arrian Ebrahimi

Analyzing semiconductor policy by governments around the world

Arrian is the hardest working semiconductor policy analyst on the internet. His coverage impressively spans the US, Asia and Europe, with particularly deep China coverage you cannot find elsewhere.

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by sam eng

By by Sam Eng

I write here to remind myself what it is all about: how much I want it, how much I need it. How much it hurts to make a video game.

McFaul's World

By Michael McFaul

Analyzing the fight between democrats and autocrats around the world. Cheering for the democrats to win.

The Scholar's Stage

By Tanner Greer

Researching the Communist Party of China is my day job. Here I write long reads on international politics, ancient history, and American conservatism.

tanner is the best read and most thoughtful essayist out there. Has forgotten more than I'll ever know about history and China

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Silver Bulletin

By Nate Silver

Essays and analysis about elections, media, sports, poker, and all the other things I care about.

One Useful Thing

By Ethan Mollick

Trying to understand the implications of AI for work, education, and life. By Prof. Ethan Mollick

Strategic Translation Updates

By Center for Strategic Translation

The Center for Strategic Translation is a non-profit research institute that locates, translates, and analyzes strategic Chinese texts to inform scholarship and policymaking.