Substacks recommended by ChinaTalk

Recommended by ChinaTalk

One Useful Thing

By Ethan Mollick

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

by Zichen Wang

Writing that excavates the social scaffolding.

Weighty Thoughts

By James Wang

VC on AI, deep tech, startups. Former Bridgewater, Google[x], startup founder. Read by top engineers, fund managers, and policymakers.

Sharp deep tech investor's perspective primarily on AI and semis

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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!

Unlock Aid

We’re driving a campaign to unlock public resources for the world's hardest problems

Hello China Tech

By Poe Zhao

Decoding China tech for global minds

SatPost by Trung Phan

By Trungphan2

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

MEMES FOR DAYS

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Concurrent

By Afra

Understand the parallel and colliding tech and cultural currents shaping Silicon Valley, China, and beyond.

Unpopular Front

By John Ganz

the junk shop of history

Arnon Mishkin

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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on a scale from 1 to 10

By vlad chituc — on a scale

understanding how we understand minds

Noahpinion

By Noah Smith

Economics and other interesting stuff

Noah is one of the best in the game. He's really unparallelled in his ability to deep dive into econ and econ-adjacent questions. We explore similar themes around industry policy and technological progress. About once a month he puts out a really strong piece on China and, having previously lived in the country, is particularly good on Japan.

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The Intrinsic Perspective

By Erik Hoel

Natural philosophy, belles-lettres, polemics.

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

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Chips, Guns, and Money

By Paul

Writing about economics, technology, and geopolitics

Michael Kovrig's Strategic Narratives

Comment and analysis on the intersection of geopolitics, geoeconomics, global security, strategic communication and human values with a focus on China, the Indo-Pacific and great power rivalry from an ex-diplomat and current policy adviser.

Interconnects

By Nathan Lambert

The cutting edge of AI, from inside the frontier AI labs, minus the hype. The border between high-level and technical thinking. Read by leading engineers, researchers, and investors.

Recent Works by Chang Che

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

McFaul's World

By Michael McFaul

Explaining international politics, and especially the fight between autocrats and democrats in the world today.

Dwarkesh Podcast

By Dwarkesh Patel

Deeply researched interviews

Strange Loop Canon

By Rohit

“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.” ― Albert Einstein

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.

Natto Thoughts

By Natto Team

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

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.

Conflict

By Stephen Roach

Can the US and China avoid accidental conflict?

Faster, Please!

By James Pethokoukis: Faster

Discovering, creating, and inventing a better world through technological innovation, economic growth, and pro-progress culture.

following china there's so much that's a downer but Faster, Please!? comes at similar topics to what I cover with such energy and positivity! It's informative and infectious.

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Choosing Victory

By Ryan Fedasiuk

Decision points at the heart of technology, geopolitics, and U.S.-China relations.

Mind of Things

By Justin Mc

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

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

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WOMEN我们

“WOMEN我们”是一个想象的共同体，用免于审查的中文书写当代史的初稿。欢迎您订阅我们，并帮助防火墙内的朋友邮件订阅我们；也欢迎您捐助和分享我们的文章。请联系chugaofirstdraft@proton.me，为报道提供线索或加入我们，成为撰稿人。我们会努力保证您的信息安全。

Slow Boring

By Matthew Yglesias

Start your day with pragmatic takes on politics and public policy.

Matt is a one of one. He writes without fear and explores similar themes to ChinaTalk on innovation and industrial policy.

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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

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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Robert Sietsema's New York

I have been writing about New York City restaurants since the 1990s, and specialize in inexpensive eats.

this man taught me how to eat. so great to see robert sietsema on substack!

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Sinocism

By Bill Bishop

Get smarter about China

what can you say, Bill is the GOAT

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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.

Active Faults

By Em

an alternative China seen through its entertainment industry and celebrity fandom

an entertaining and thoughtful look into popular culture in China

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What Is Called Thinking?

By Zohar Atkins

Philosophy, Religion, and Culture

zohar's newsletter makes me think harder about more important topics than anything else that shows up in my inbox

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SpyTalk

By Jeff Stein

Intelligence for Thinking People

The best coverage on the US intelligence community

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The Overshoot

By Matt Klein

Making sense of the global economy and financial markets

Exponential View

By Azeem Azhar

"One of the best for understanding how tech can solve our biggest problems and shape our society." — Daniel Ek, CEO of Spotify

Career China Newsletter

By Savannah

Welcome! This is a free monthly jobs board for those interested in China-focused careers, or with China experience on their resume.

The Honest Broker

By Ted Gioia

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

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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Fabricated Knowledge

By Doug O'Laughlin

Let's learn more about the world's most important manufactured product. Meaningful insight, timely analysis, and an occasional investment idea.

Doug is one of the best in the game. I've learned a tremendous amount about semiconductors from him over the years.

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China Story

By Phil Cunningham

Commentary, photo essays, opinion, fiction

SemiAnalysis

By Dylan Patel

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

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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DeLong's Grasping Reality: Economy in the 2000s & Before

By Brad DeLong

One of the best ways to learn to make sense of money, work, communication, production, distribution, and more. Betting that in the course of human things the future must resemble even if it does not reflect the past, people being much the same over time.

a living legend! What I would give to know as much and think as synthetically as brad does...

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A Letter from Paul

By Paul Podolsky

Practical, jargon-free description of what is going on in international affairs and financial markets from the Founder and Chief Investment Officer of a global macro hedge fund, Kate Capital.