Substacks recommended by ChinaTalk

Recommended by ChinaTalk

Leapfrog

By Rita Liao

Documenting globalizing 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. Over 3,000 subscribers.

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

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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.

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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Tim Culpan’s Position

Analysis-based opinion & exclusive news. No fluff or padding. My beat is technology. This is what independent journalism looks like.

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!

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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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.

Interconnected

By Kevin Xu

On the intersections of tech, investing, geopolitics, and US-Asia relations

Kevin Xu does a fantastic job exploring China + tech

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Sinification

By Thomas des Garets Geddes

The world as viewed from China.

China News

By Phil Cunningham

Analyzing news, essays, articles

Concrete Avalanche

By Jake

A newsletter about music from China

The best English language entry point for contemporary Chinese music

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Active Faults

By Em

observing China's entertainment industry and celebrity fandom

an entertaining and thoughtful look into popular culture in China

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The Algorithmic Bridge

By Alberto Romero

A blog about AI that's actually about people

Observing Japan

By Tobias Harris

News and views on Japan's politics

Discourse Power

By Tuvia Gering

Tracking China's rise to the world's center stage.

Tuvia puts in that work! Fantastic weekly overview of what's happening in CCP discourse and mainland academia

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Natto Thoughts

By Natto Team

Stories, analysis and insights from the intersection of culture, technology, and security.

kamilkazani

Mein Freund, das grad' ist Dichters Werk, dass er sein Träumen deut' und merk'

Rough Drafts

By Charles Yang

Miscellaneous thoughts on climate, technology, theology, etc

Comment is Freed

By Sam Freedman

Politics, policy analysis, and foreign affairs from Sam and Lawrence Freedman

Vital Signs

By Jacob Effron

Health tech company, sub-sector and trend breakdowns

Jacob does a tremendous job exploring the present and future of health care. I did not care about this topic at all before discovering Vital Signs and now it’s one of my favorite industries to watch!

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Don't Worry About the Vase

By Zvi Mowshowitz

A world made of gears. Doing both speed premium short term updates and long term world model building. Currently focused on weekly AI updates. Explorations include AI, policy, rationality, medicine and fertility, education and games.

Zvi is a 1 of 1. His coverage of Covid-19 helped me think more clearly about the nature of knowledge and expertise. I've also enjoyed his new explorations into regulatory politics (ie this post about the dredge act of 1906 https://thezvi.substack.com/p/repeal-the-foreign-dredge-act-of)

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SatPost by Trung Phan

By Trungphan2

A Saturday email on the latest in tech, business and memes.

MEMES FOR DAYS

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TLDR Torah

By Byron

A weekly synopsis of the Torah portion, plus a question for wholesome conversation.

so much torah! fantastic conversation starters at the end of each post

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The Overshoot

By Matt Klein

Making sense of the global economy and financial markets

The Intrinsic Perspective

By Erik Hoel

Bridging the two cultures of science and the humanities

Erik is a deeply original thinker who is particularly strong on the impact of technology on society.

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The Upheaval

By N.S. Lyons (The Upheaval)

Exploring the shared upheavals of our era, including technological and cultural change, the ideological revolution consuming the West, the rise of China, and the crisis of liberalism.

An original deep thinker on China and technology, consistently brings timely and unique perspectives on a similar issue set to what I cover on ChinaTalk

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SemiAnalysis

By Dylan Patel

Bridging the gap between the world's most important industry, semiconductors, and business.

Dylan's ability to analyze the semi ecosystem and break news is truly unparalleled in the space. I've learned a ton from him over the years.

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DYNOMIGHT INTERNET NEWSLETTER

By dynomight

science and existential angst

Cogitations

By New post

Writing that excavates the social scaffolding.

The Honest Broker

By Ted Gioia

A trustworthy guide to music, books, arts, media & culture by Ted Gioia

RealTime Mandarin

By Andrew

A multimedia resource to immerse you in the latest Chinese language trends and inspire you to practice and improve your Mandarin every week | Sign up now to claim your free invite to a live webinar to help you dramatically improve your Mandarin

Tracking People's Daily

By Manoj Kewalramani

This blog primarily offers a breakdown of the weekday editions of the People's Daily.

A Letter from Paul

By Paul Podolsky

Practical, jargon-free description of what is going on in international affairs and financial markets that ties directly to my asset allocation, with full transparency into my wins and losses.