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Music from China: The Year That Was

2023 in Review

RAND's Matheny on the Science & Art of Public Policy

Reflections from NeurIPS, The World’s Premier AI Conference

AI in Chains

EU-China Summit: The Quiet Turning Point + Antisemites of the World Unite

RAND's Matheny on AI, X-Risk, & Bureaucracy

Putting China’s Top LLMs to the Test

Chipmaking Amid War in Israel

Kissinger + Communist Quaaludes, Tang Dynasty Animated

Rep. Gallagher: Can a Scholar-Soldier Solve Congress?

‘Kidney Slicers’: The Nasty Business of China-Myanmar Telecom Fraud

How Rep. Gallagher Would Fix Congress and Beat China

Seeing Xi + APEC Readout Deep Read

Matheny on RAND’s Legacy and Future

$6k Contest + AI Exec Order Bites: Immigration, Diffusion, and Cyber Threats

Why Science Dominates China’s Political Culture

How Tight AI Regs Hurt Chinese Firms

AI Executive Order: Takeways + Deep Dive

Litho World & Commerce: Lost in Translation?

Purge Baby Purge, Jordan Wrong on China AI, Osnos Wrong on ‘China Malaise,’ Brain-Inspired AI Algos Won’t Work

Karl Marx Meets Confucius on Hunan TV

PLA Purges! What does it all mean for Xi and Taiwan Risk?

Beijing’s Vision of Global AI Governance

New Export Controls! SemiAnalysis, Fabricated Knowledge, and Asianometry with Only the Hottest Takes

Hugging Face Blocked! “Self-Castrating” China’s ML Development + Jordan at APEC

Deep Tech VC on AI, Chips, & US-China Competition

CHIPS China Guardrails: Labor Hawks VS Industry Doves

China’s Blunder in the Middle East

Beijing Wishes Away Hamas Terrorism

How Oct 7 Went Down, AI Avatars, Farewell My Concubine

The Average Chinese City

Kurt Campbell on Grand Strategy

How Diffusion Will Win The AI Race

EU-China EV Slugfest: Are the Gloves Coming Off?

Purges! The Curious Case of the Disappearing Commanders

Huawei, SMIC, and Future of Export Controls: SemiAnalysis and Fabricated Knowledge in Conversation

Export Control Drama + Anime Industrial Policy

Huawei’s Breakthrough: The Strategic Implications

How ERNIE, China's ChatGPT, Cracks Under Pressure

Taiwan’s AI Courts + Taipei Meetup Sept 5

Smart Cities Deep Dive: AI-Powered Urbanization

Outbound Investment Controls: A Deep Dive

A New Cold War? Biden, Russia, and China’s Geopolitical Alignment

AI Competition: China’s Strategy, Biden’s Wavering Response, and the Implications for AI Safety

Taiwan’s 2024 Elections: A Primer

Qin Gone! What Really Happened to the Foreign Minister

CIA Cold War China Forecasting

Elite CCP Power Struggles

Revealing Chinese Comments On French Unrest, Jordan in Aspen

Friday Bites: Semicon + CHIPS Act, NEPA, and China’s Smart Homes

AI Race: Why The US Has to Compete

How to Enforce The Chip Ban

GPTs and the Rise and Fall of Great Powers

Schumer on AI, Green Tea, ChinaTalk Hiring!

Why Nvidia Keeps Winning: The Rise of an AI Giant

H1 2023 Media Diet: Best Books, Movies, TV, Podcasts, YouTube Videos, and Video Games

Black Market A100s and Twitter’s China Tech Connection

Kamil on Russia's Post-Putsch Future

Xi Closes the Door for the Next Generation of Analysts

Blinken in Beijing: China Reacts

Blinken’s Trip to China

Manga Makeover for Taiwan Conscription

The AI Challenge: Balancing Open and Closed Ecosystems

CCP Sex Scandal + Tsinghua Polling on Foreign Policy

Chinese Navy-USN Near-Collision in Taiwan Strait: Chinese Internet Reacts

The ChinaTalk Podcast: Where to Start

Lessons from the Ultimate China Watcher: László Ladány

Schell on US-China: Engagement, Tragedy, and Penetrating the Veil

OpenAI: How Do They Do It? Lessons from Jiu-Jitsu Innovation and for S&T Policy

The PLA on Generative AI + NYC Meetup!

China’s Top Gun: It’s No Maverick + 2024 Taiwan Election Slate Is Set!

PLA Can't Take a Joke + Beijing’s Last LGBT NGO Shuts Down

J. Edgar Hoover: Bureaucracy, Autocrats, and Xi Parallels

China’s Data Crackdown + ChatGPT Crime

Making Mechanical Keyboards in China

Xi Talks AGI + The UK’s S&T Policy Renaissance

Kotkin on China: Cold War 2.0, Reagan, and Stalin vs. Mao

Sen. Warner on the RESTRICT Act, AI, Bipartisanship on China, and a New Era of Intelligence

What Huawei’s CEO Thinks of America

Commerce’s NSTC Strategy: An Unfinished Puzzle

Chips Avengers! CHIPS Act, AI, and Beijing’s Revenge

Top 10 NPC Delegate Proposals: AI, Escape Rooms, Baby Making, and Taiwan

China’s New AI Regulations: Are They Enforcable?

Tsai-McCarthy + Military Drills

Roach: US-China Couples Therapy

The CCP’s Taiwan Strategy

China Responds to Tsai’s US Visit

RIP Gordon Moore: The Law That Inspired an Industry

Chinese Delivery Worker Reflects: “When you call, they want you knocking. When you knock, they want you calling.”

ERNIE Fails + Pirating Compute + Taiwan Foreign Relations

CHIPS Act China Guardrails: The Goldilocks Challenge

TikTok Hearing: The End of an Era

TikTok Hearing Show Live in 10 Minutes!

TikTok Live Show + AI’s Regulatory Future: EU vs. China

Kotkin on China: Communism’s Achilles’ Heel, Deterrence, and Learning from the USSR

Baidu's ERNIE: China Reacts

GPT-4: AI Unleashed?

Countdown to ERNIE: Chinese Media on Baidu’s AI Chatbot

China’s Chip Industry Dismayed by Multilateral Export Controls

Friday Bites: Tsai to Cali, CHIPS Act China Guardrails, Matsu Back on the Menu?

AI’s Regulatory Future

AI Proposals at ‘Two Sessions’: AGI as ‘Two Bombs, One Satellite’?

US vs. China Semis Industrial Policy: Tale of the Tape

China’s Censors Are Afraid of What AI Chatbots Might Say

ChatXiPT, Tweets of the Week, Three Body Problem, Trudeau Troubles, Palo Alto Meetup, Baidu vs Xiaohongshu in Search?

China CHIPS Act Guardrails—The Next Great US Policy Innovation?

How Ancient Chinese Exceptionalism Shapes China's Worldview Today

Will Xi Arm Putin? Has a Cold War Already Begun?

China's Elite on Ukraine War Anniversary

Friday Bites: ‘Asylum-Worthy’ Stand-Up, Canadian Election Interference, Fred Again in MSG

Compute and the Future of US-China Relations

AI Compute 101: The Geopolitics of GPUs

China's ChatGPT Fever

Friday Bites: China's Breaking Bad, Chaoyang Trap, Gaokao Factory, and NYC's Best Uyghur Food

BalloonTalk 2.0: What Are These Objects? US-China Relations and The Balloon Industrial Complex

China's Best New Novels According to China's Goodreads

How to Deter a War for Taiwan + The Burdens of Occupation if China Wins

War for Taiwan: What If China Wins? The Economic and Political Consequences

War in Taiwan: Could Emerging Tech Tip The Scales?

War in Taiwan: Could China Win?

Elite China Reacts to Export Controls: Japan, the Netherlands, and Huawei

BalloonTalk: Emergency Edition

Weekly Reads! Chinese AI Investment, State Dpt Memos, Peter Hessler, Tianjin and the Spring Gala

CHIPS Act: The Battle for R&D Dollars

CHIPS Act: Strategic Dilemmas in Manufacturing Incentives

Rep. Khanna on AI, China, and Industrial Policy

China’s Data Policy and Digital Governance Future

China + AI = Military Advantage? Plus: DC Meetup!

Life After Zero Covid: Two Chinese Anthropologists Reflect

Semi Stories of the Year

Living with Generative AI

Cowen on China

Tyler Cowen on AI and China

ChinaTalk's 2022 Year in Review

2022 Media Diet: TV, Movies, Chess, Elden Ring, Podcasts and YouTube