Sitemap - 2023 - ChinaTalk
Music from China: The Year That Was
RAND's Matheny on the Science & Art of Public Policy
Reflections from NeurIPS, The World’s Premier AI Conference
Setser on US-China Trade, Lessons from USTR, Economics of Great Powers, and Panda Diplomacy
EU-China Summit: The Quiet Turning Point + Antisemites of the World Unite
RAND's Matheny on AI, X-Risk, & Bureaucracy
US-China Tech in 2023: Top 5 Stories of the Year
Putting China’s Top LLMs to the Test
Kissinger + Communist Quaaludes, Tang Dynasty Animated
Taiwan Election Showdown! A Blue Prof and Green Pol Explain
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
How Rep. Gallagher Would Fix Congress and Beat China
Emergency Pod: We Are So Back! OpenAI Drama and US-China
Xi-Biden at APEC + What It Takes To Compete
Seeing Xi + APEC Readout Deep Read
Matheny on RAND’s Legacy and Future
Peter Harrell on Bureaucratic Barriers to Competition
$6k Contest + AI Exec Order Bites: Immigration, Diffusion, and Cyber Threats
Why Science Dominates China’s Political Culture
RAND CEO Jason Matheny Gives a Masterclass on Risk and Organizational Design
London AI Summit + OpenAI Dev Day!
How Tight AI Regs Hurt Chinese Firms
AI Executive Order: Takeways + Deep Dive
Litho World & Commerce: Lost in Translation?
Emergency Pod: AI Executive Order!
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
Jason Furman on Inflation and Policymaking
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
EMERGENCY POD: Export Controls Dropped!
Deep Tech VC on AI, Chips, & US-China Competition
CHIPS China Guardrails: Labor Hawks VS Industry Doves
China’s Blunder in the Middle East
EMERGENCY POD: Two Views from Israel on Hamas + China-Middle East Relations
Beijing Wishes Away Hamas Terrorism
How Oct 7 Went Down, AI Avatars, Farewell My Concubine
Kurt Campbell on Grand Strategy and US-China
Kurt Campbell on Grand Strategy
Deep Tech VC On AI, Chips, and US-China Competition
How Diffusion Will Win The AI Race
EU-China EV Slugfest: Are the Gloves Coming Off?
Peak China with Noah Smith and Matt Klein
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
EMERGENCY POD: Huawei's Breakthrough, the Technical, Industrial and Strategic Implications
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
Culture Month! Painting in Premodern China
Outbound Investment Controls: A Deep Dive
"Emergency" Pod: Outbound Investment Screening!
A New Cold War? Biden, Russia, and China’s Geopolitical Alignment
Beyond Decoupling: NATO for Trade
AI Competition: China’s Strategy, Biden’s Wavering Response, and the Implications for AI Safety
Culture Month! Indie Chinese Music Hour with Concrete Avalanche
How Can the Pentagon Trust AI?
Taiwan’s 2024 Elections: A Primer
Qin Gone! What Really Happened to the Foreign Minister
Taiwan’s Presidential Elections: A Primer
CIA Cold War China Forecasting
Why Chinese EVs Will Take Over the World
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
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
PLA Invasion: Is Taiwan's Military Ready?
Black Market A100s and Twitter’s China Tech Connection
Kamil on Russia's Post-Putsch Future
EMERGENCY EDITION: Coup in Russia with Kamil Galeev
Xi Closes the Door for the Next Generation of Analysts
Blinken in Beijing: China Reacts
Manga Makeover for Taiwan Conscription
The AI Challenge: Balancing Open and Closed Ecosystems
Chinese TV PilotTalk: Farmers, Murders, and Anime
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
Flournoy on US-China and DoD Innovation
OpenAI: How Do They Do It? Lessons from Jiu-Jitsu Innovation and for S&T Policy
The PLA on Generative AI + NYC Meetup!
DoD Tech Strategy: How the Pentagon Hopes to Innovate
China’s Top Gun: It’s No Maverick + 2024 Taiwan Election Slate Is Set!
AI Implementation: The View From the Trenches
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
Jeff Ding on US vs China AI and Lessons from Past Industrial Revolutions
Making Mechanical Keyboards in China
Crafting A National Tech Strategy and Reviving Net Tech Assessment
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
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
Hoover, Communism, and the FBI
Top 10 NPC Delegate Proposals: AI, Escape Rooms, Baby Making, and Taiwan
China’s New AI Regulations: Are They Enforcable?
Schell on The Long Arc of US-China and Long Reach of Leninism
Tsai-McCarthy + Military Drills
Roach: US-China Couples Therapy
Roach on US-China Couples Therapy
China Responds to Tsai’s US Visit
AI Military Competition: Tactical, Operational, and Strategic Implications
What to Do About Foreign Interference
RIP Gordon Moore: The Law That Inspired an Industry
Chips Avengers 2023: Chips Act + AI Revolution
ERNIE Fails + Pirating Compute + Taiwan Foreign Relations
CHIPS Act China Guardrails: The Goldilocks Challenge
TikTok Hearing: The End of an Era
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
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?
Economic Warfare: Implications for Sanctions Today
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
China CHIPS Act Guardrails—The Next Great US Policy Innovation?
How does AI actually work, anyways?
How Ancient Chinese Exceptionalism Shapes China's Worldview Today
Will Xi Arm Putin? Has a Cold War Already Begun?
Will Xi Give Putin Arms? 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
AI's Regulatory Future in the US, China, and EU
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
BalloonTalk: Alien Valentine Edition
China's Best New Novels According to China's Goodreads
How to Deter a War for Taiwan + The Burdens of Occupation if China Wins
Mechanical Keyboards in China （中文版）
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?
Tech Policy Entrepreneurship + Chips Act + Talent Policy
Elite China Reacts to Export Controls: Japan, the Netherlands, and Huawei
BalloonTalk: Emergency Edition
BALLOONTALK: EMERGENCY EDITION
Weekly Reads! Chinese AI Investment, State Dpt Memos, Peter Hessler, Tianjin and the Spring Gala
AI Compute 101: The Geopolitics of Giant Models
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
War for Taiwan: What Happens If China Wins?
China + AI = Military Advantage? Plus: DC Meetup!
Rep. Ro Khanna on AI, the China Committee, and Industrial Policy
Life After Zero Covid: Two Chinese Anthropologists Reflect
Knowledge and AI with a Rabbi and Substacker
ChinaTalk's 2022 Year in Review
2022 Media Diet: TV, Movies, Chess, Elden Ring, Podcasts and YouTube