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Joe Weisenthal and I do a Show About Nothing
Second Breakfast: Arctic Warfare Christmas Special!
The best albums from China in 2025*
Rahm on Trump and China: “He is the worst negotiator.”
Rahm Returns to Chat Trump and China: “He is the worst negotiator.”
How China's Preparing for the Next Pandemic
Second Breakfast: Hegseth’s Second Strike
CFR's Mike Froman on Détente 2.0 and Running a Think Tank
Détente 2.0 with Mike Froman of CFR
Second Breakfast: Habemus NDAA!
Overfit: NeurIPS Vibes, Research Doesn't Matter, OpenAI Cooked?
EMERGENCY POD: Trump to Sell H200s to China
Emergency Pod: H200s to China with Dmitri Alperovich
Second Breakfast: Trump’s National Security Strategy
Second Breakfast: Trump's National Security Strategy + Hegseth's Second Strike
Helen Toner Takes the Reins at CSET
Helen Toner Takes the CSET Reins
Transistor Radio: OpenAI Loses the Mandate, Railroad Bubble = AI Bubble
Second Breakfast: Witkoff and Putin's Peace Deal
Jake Sullivan on Playing the Long Game
Why Chinese Elite Rùn to Japan
Second Breakfast: Acquisition Reform? Are We Really Doing It?
Silicon Oasis: How Abu Dhabi Plays Both Sides of US-China
The Myth of China's "AI Talent Pipeline"
Overfit: AI Lovers, Chinese Model Takeover, Vice Signalling, Hefei Model
AI Slopaganda in the KMT Election
Second Breakfast: Colby's Pigpen, Counter-UAS, Training, Eat like a Trumper (or Iranian Spy?)
EMERGENCY POD: Tariffs on Trial
EMERGENCY POD: Tariffs on Trial
Second Breakfast: Xi-Trump, Taiwan Deterrence, Tibetan Buddhism, Antietam
Ukraine's Drone War with Shashank and Rob Lee
Japan's New Prime Minister: What to Expect
Ukraine's Drone War with Shashank and Rob Lee
Second Breakfast: Venezuela, Shutdowns, PE + Army, E.B. Sledge
PLA Purges and How Xi Rules with Jon Czin
Diamonds are a Trade War’s Best Friend
Tarun Chhabra on the Stakes of AI Competition
Tarun Chhabra on the Stakes of AI Competition
China Reacts to Export Controls
Anduril's Christian Brose on the Dangers of Unseriousness
Race for Space Law: Inside the Sino-American Cosmic Rivalry
EMERGENCY POD: Rare Earth Export Controls
EMERGENCY POD: China's Rare Earth Export Controls
AI Hardware Net Assessment: Why Huawei Can't Catch Nvidia
AI Hardware Net Assessment: Why Huawei Can't Beat Nvidia
Why America Builds AI Girlfriends and China Makes AI Boyfriends
Second Breakfast: Putin's Drones, SecWar Patton, Wargaming, Finding Subs
RAND's Jeff Alstott on Facts and Policymaking
RAND's Jeff Alstott on How Facts Can Shape Tech Policymaking
CAC Stressed About China's Feelings, TikTok + Indonesia Protests, Chips in Costa Rica and Poland?
Launching our Defense Podcast! Silicon Shield is Fake, Drones + Future of War
Second Breakfast: The Future of Intelligence
Closing the Taiwan Strait Deterrence Gap
Overfit: Shenzhen vs SF Vibes, Model Progress, Jordan a Berkeley Bowl Hater
Second Breakfast: RIP China Hawks, NDAA, Innovation Kayfabe, Child Soldiers
Taiwan Confronts its WWII Legacy
Nate Silver on AI, Politics, and Power
Nate Silver on AI, Politics, and Power
MP Materials, Intel, and Sovereign Wealth Funds
MP Materials, Intel, and Sovereign Wealth Funds
Second Breakfast: Department of War, Warrior Culture, Sicario, Dick Winters, SEALs in North Korea,
Filling the Foundational Chip Gap
Emergency Pod: US-India-China Meltdown
Cheating Apps: China's Latest Tech Export
Engineering Victory Over Japan
Second Breakfast: Parades, U.S. Grant, JCIDS, Warbots
Xi and Putin Weaponize WWII's Legacy
War in the Pacific with Ian Toll
China's best short fiction of 2025
Second Breakfast: Drones, Silicon Shield, Waymo, FedFest, Bolton
Smuggling Nvidia GPUs to China
NVIDIA GPU Black Market Smuggling
War: Lessons from Ukraine and History for Taiwan
Learning from Ukraine, Preparing for Taiwan
Mourning for GPT-4o Boyfriends + Beijing Hates the H20?
Transistor Radio: H20, GPT5, DUI Lawyers, Ajinomoto
EMERGENCY POD: H20s to China + 15% with Chris Miller and Lennart
Second Breakfast: A New Defense Pod
The Long Shadow of Soviet Dissent
Dissent from Moscow to Beijing
AI Education: Understanding the Hype
Policy: An Early Career Guide REVISED!
Betting on Chaos: Professional Political Gamblers
Betting on Chaos: Professionals in Prediction Markets
So you want to be a yenching scholar
Trump's AI Action Plan: Observations
Xi Zhongxun's Second Act: 1949-1989
Xi Zhongxun: The Party's Interests Come First
China’s AI Gambit: Code as Standards
Overfit: AI and Media, America's Deepseek, Plots
How Hangzhou Spawned Deepseek and Unitree
China's Best Music of 2025 (So Far)
China's Best Music of 2025 (So Far)
Wagner, Two Years On (Kamil on Coups and Power)
Doug, Dylan and Jon on Lip-Bu, Labubu, AI Salaries, and Bees
Xi Zhongxun: China Book of the Year
Hovercraft Invasion, Labubu, Tea
Huawei Founder on US v China and Basic Research
Josh Wolfe on Elon and the Tech Right, R&D, and Parenting
Josh Wolfe on Elon v. Trump, R&D, Immigration
How to Use Banned US Models in China
Dylan, Doug, Jon on AI Mandate of Heaven + Ezra Beef
The Cold War History of Export Controls
Doug, Dylan and Jon on Nvidia + Saudi/UAE
MAGA-Mao Connections with Orville Schell
"Just Count the Server Racks"...
Why the US Needs a Department of Competitiveness
Chips Act Lore + a Department of Competitiveness
Ezra, Derek, and Dan Wang on Abundance and China
China’s SME Industrial Policy in 5 Charts
Can Huawei Take On Nvidia's CUDA?
Chinese AI Will Match America's
Allied Scale: Net Assessment with Rush Doshi
Allied Scale: Rush Doshi on US-China Net Assessment
Weapons of Cold War 2.0 + 'People's War' Invasion Fleet
Dylan Breaks Huawei and Tariffs Right
Chips: Liberated? Trump’s Semis Tariff Gambit
Breaking Huawei + Tariffs Done Right with SemiAnalysis and Asianometry
Breaking Beijing: Military Competition with Tony Stark
GreatDepressionTalk with SemiAnalysis and Asianometry
EMERGENCY POD: MAGA: A Guide for the Perplexed
EMERGENCY POD: Liberation Day with Tanner Greer of Scholarstage
How the Drive for Autarchy Caused WWII
The Soviet Cold War Machine: Inside the Sino-Soviet Rivalry
Superintelligence Strategy with Dan Hendrycks
SemiAnalysis + Asianometry on Intel, Gemini 2.5, and Chinese Robots
Pharma Access with Chinese Characteristics
Inside the Soviet Cold War Machine
The Soviets' Bid for Global Power
Energy: How to Build Compute in America
Humanoid Robots: The Long Road Ahead
Unitree CEO on China's Robot Revolution
Manus: China’s Latest AI Sensation
Ban the H20: Competing in the Inference Age
Taiwan on Trump-Zelenskyy, Getting Nukes, TSMC Deal
DeepSeek and Destiny: A National Vibe Shift
Manufacturing’s Missing Revolution
EMERGENCY EDITION: Trump's Pivot to Putin
EMERGENCY POD: Trump's Pivot to Putin, AGI + The Future of Warfare
The NSF, Seriously? + AI Safety's Death
American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare
Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare
Innovation Emergency with Trump 1.0's Patent Director
Innovation Emergency: The Role of IP
China on Dario, DeepSeeking Truth, Ali + DeepSeek, and a Procurement IP Manifesto
China's Great Power Wars: Lessons from Imperial History for Today
Gridlocked: Transformer Shortage Choking US Supply Chains
Strategic Ambiguity vs. Clarity
SemiAnalysis + Asianometry on the AI Mandate of Heaven
Anthropic's Dario Amodei on AI Competition
Anthropic's Dario Amodei on AI Competition
China’s Weird Chip Surplus, Explained
DeepSeek: what it means and what happens next
DeepSeek: What It Means and What Happens Next
DeepSeek: What the Headlines Miss
DeepSeek and the Future of AI Competition with Miles Brundage
EMERGENCY POD: DeepSeek R1 and the Future of AI Competition with Miles Brundage
Deepseek Meets Li Qiang, Data Labeling Subsidies, Taiwan's Debt, Automation Optimism
ChinaTalk in the Year of the Dragon + What Comes Next
Noah Smith on Trump 2.0 and Asia + Future of the New Tech Right
Noah Smith: Trump 2.0's Impact on Asia + The New Tech Right
RedNote, Uber Eats in Kinmen, Jimmy Carter's Taiwan Legacy, AI EO and More
MORE Export Controls: Foundry, DRAM, and Reflections on Biden
yup, more export controls....foundry, DRAM, and reflections
EMERGENCY EDITION: AI Diffusion Export Controls
EMERGENCY POD: AI Diffusion Export Controls
Amb. Burns Reflects from Beijing
Amb. Burns Reflects from Beijing
Tech Bros vs MAGA, Immigration, and Whether Tiger Parents Will Win Cold War 2.0
China’s GenAI Content Security Standard: An Explainer
AI Geopolitics in the Age of Test-Time Compute w Chris Miller + Lennart Heim