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Publications ChinaTalk reads and thinks you should too.

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Consensus Drift

By Pablo Chavez

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.

Chips, Guns, and Money

Writing about economics, technology, and geopolitics

Eurasia Dispatch

By Daniel Balazs

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

Threading the Needle

By Anton Leicht

Essays about the political economy of advanced AI.

Machine Culture

Dispatches on AI Governance and Emergent Order

Emerging Technology Observatory

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.

Recode China AI

China AI Spotlight: Your weekly guide to China's AI breakthroughs, trends, and stories.

Conversations and advice about working in emerging tech policy, from the Horizon Institute for Public Service.

Concrete Avalanche

A newsletter about music from China

“The best English language entry point for contemporary Chinese music”

Insights and analysis on AI trends, developments, and research from Epoch AI.

“they do the thing”

Choosing Victory

By Ryan Fedasiuk

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

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

China. AI. Tech. Geopolitics.

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

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.”

Hello China Tech

Decoding China tech for global minds

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

A newsletter about abundance and building a better world.

By James Pethokoukis

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. ”

Daniel Petkevich

History, geopolitics, technology, and culture.

Strange Loop Canon

By Rohit Krishnan

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

Strategic Narratives

By Michael Kovrig

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.

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.

Silver Bulletin

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

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. ”

Until Zilan Finds a Better Name

Writing about US-China AI, to one day not write about US-China AI.

Factory Settings

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

The Great Changes

Sinology, statecraft, and history amid global geopolitical and technological transformation.

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

By Michael W. Green

Thoughts on financial markets and economics from the founder of Tier1 Alpha Asset Management -- the passive-aware asset manager

“really sharp and engaging perspectives on macro”

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”

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

Zixuan Ma’s Blog

A collection of essays on China’s political economy, aiming to improve the world’s understanding of China with holistic perspectives and broad-based analyses.

History Does You

By Secretary of Defense Rock

Mostly Musings on History but also Civil-Military Relations, Foreign Policy, and the Indo-Pacific.

UnderReported China

News and analysis on China: human rights, technology, and foreign influence

Amelia's Substack

By Amelia Michael

Robotics, AI, econ, etc.

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

Chris Miller's Newsletter

Technology, politics, supply chains, chips, AI, economics, history. And whatever else is on my mind.

Weighty Thoughts

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”

Moly’s Substack

By Chinese Doom Scroll

A translation of all the hottest Weibo posts!

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

Interconnects AI

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.

Warfare | Industry | Risks Management | Politics | Simulation and Exercises | Intelligence | Counterintelligence | History

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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”

Guy Ward Jackson

Tech | Industrial Strategy | Economic Security | Tony Blair Institute

Breaking Beijing

The Blueprint for How We Win the 21st Century

Center for Technology & Statecraft

CTS is a non-partisan policy research initiative with a mission to solve unexplored AI policy challenges through technical, forward-looking research.

By Andrew Stokols

Cities, China, Geopolitics, Technology, and everything in between. By: Andrew Stokols ; Phd, MIT Department of Urban Studies & Planning, Masters in Urban Planning, Harvard.

By Matthew C. Klein

Making sense of the global economy and financial markets

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”

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

“Kevin Xu does a fantastic job exploring China + tech ”

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