Substacks recommended by ChinaTalk

Recommended by ChinaTalk

writing, thinking, and interpreting technological modernity through a humanistic lens across china, silicon valley, and the global ai age.

DeLong's Grasping Reality Weblog

By Brad DeLong

Economy in the 2000s & Before: working, making, apportioning, talking, taking, & more. What I know and can learn about it, & related things.

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

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Observing Japan

By Tobias Harris

News and views on Japan's politics

Sinification

By Thomas des Garets Geddes

The world as viewed from China.

Knicks Film School

By Jonathan Macri

Where NBA fans learn about the Knicks.

Value Added

By JS Tan

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

Derek Thompson

A newsletter about abundance and building a better world.

CDR Salamander

National security, maritime challenges, naval issues with a flavoring of other things I find interesting.

DYNOMIGHT INTERNET NEWSLETTER

By dynomight

science and existential angst

Factory Settings

How to update the default settings of government, by former CHIPS Program Office leadership.

J Lee

No Crumbs

Oversharing

By Ali Griswold

More than you wanted to know about the sharing economy

Ali Griswold is the real deal. Deep global coverage of the sharing economy from the best in the business.

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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!

Hors d'Oeuvres of Battle

By Decker Eveleth

A blog involving nuclear weapons, alcohol, and whatever else crosses my mind.

Rough Diamonds

By Sarah Constantin

Underrated opportunities in science, technology, and society

The Mandarin Frontier

By Henryk_Wu

Notes from the borders of language, power and memory.

Eurasia Dispatch

By Daniel Balazs

Your weekly go-to source for analysis and data-informed insights on Europe-Asia relations. Views are personal.

Natto Thoughts

By Natto Team

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

Arnon Mishkin

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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Silver Bulletin

By Nate Silver

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

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.

之間書評 In-Between Review（原波士頓書評）

By 之間書評 In-Between Review (原波士頓書評）

在生命與思考「之間」、在個體與個體「之間」、在國家與公民「之間」、在作者與讀者「之間」，搭建一個溫暖、理性的公共讀書空間。

Chartbook

By Adam Tooze

A newsletter on economics, geopolitics and history from Adam Tooze. More substantial than the twitter feed. More freewheeling than what you might read from me in FT, Foreign Policy, New Statesman.

Adam Tooze is a modern marvel. His range and insightfulness across that range is inspiring and near incomprehensible. I've learned more from him about how to think about global trends, second order effects, and interactions across politics, economics, and society than any other modern thinker.

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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.

推播助栏 Enrich Podwave

By Enzo

访谈中文世界最好的新闻类/叙事类播客创作者。Reading the exclusive interview with the best Chinese podcasters.

SemiAnalysis

By Dylan Patel

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

Threading the Needle

By Anton Leicht

A publication about the political economy of AI.

Michael Kovrig's Strategic Narratives

Comment and analysis on geopolitics, geoeconomics, global security, communication, and human values with a focus on China, the Indo-Pacific and great-power rivalry. Posts explore the strategic narratives that shape perceptions and drive decisions.

Hello China Tech

By Poe Zhao

Decoding China tech for global minds

ChinArb

Three systems are tearing the old world apart: military-financial power, industrial metabolism, and the Silicon stack. I read the physics underneath the headlines. Atoms > Bits > Paper.

Erik Torenberg

By a16z

Explorations and inquiries into my curiosities: culture, politics, tech, business, and human nature

erik's a real lateral thinker and gets into some similar tech themes to chinatalk

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The Algorithmic Bridge

By Alberto Romero

A blog about AI that's actually about people

北海 Northward Seaside

By Chu

An Asian life in Denmark, the good, the cold, and everything in between.

The Body Problem

By Divyansh Kaushik

What happens when AI gets a body? My thoughts on robotics governance, supply chains, and the strategic competition. Follow me on X: @dkaushik96

Mind of Things

By Justin Mc

A retired Special Forces soldier's thoughts on defense, technology, foreign policy, parenting, and other things that catch my interest.

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

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Wang‘s Mineral Notes

@Jamestown Foundation

Abigail's Substack

By Abigail Schneider

My personal Substack

Chips, Guns, and Money

By Paul

Writing about economics, technology, and geopolitics

SatPost by Trung Phan

By Trungphan2

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

MEMES FOR DAYS

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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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AI, compute, econ

Consensus Drift is a newsletter about the politics and political economy of the digital stack, focusing on how government decisions are reshaping these markets over time.

Pekingnology

By Zichen Wang

China's opinion page A

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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Chill Crisp

By Xueci Cheng

Recipes and stories from a Sichuanese. Mostly Chinese food, old and new flavors.

New China Literacy

By Yaqi Li

A young Chinese IR scholar-practitioner's notebook — policy analysis, institutional observation, and firsthand dispatches from inside the system that trains a rising power to understand the world.

Leo Keay

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