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Riding Solo in Santiago

Where is China’s Groq?

Take Ten-Thousand: Egocentric Data Collection for Humanoid Robots

MOFCOM's New Rules and the Future of Chinese AI

The Lithography Lever

Drone Dominance

Fake it and you’ll make it

The Case for DUV Controls

Why a Chinese AI Lab’s Product Lead Thinks AGI is “Inevitable”

“I Will Complain to the EU!”

WarTalk: AutoWarCom and Project Meridian

10 Takeaways from Q3

Kevin Roose on the AGI Believers: Oppenheimer with Equity

The Spice Trader vs. the Tariffs

China, the FCC, and the Logic of Transceivers

Data is the Hard Part

China’s AI Safety Money Problem

CWN#15: The best Chinese short fiction of 2026 (so far)

In Case You Missed It...

Building China’s Two Starlinks

China's Starlink Response

Logan Wright on Broken China

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WarTalk: Potemkin Pacific, Midterm Budget Woes

Xi Descends on DC

Can AI Beat the Pentagon’s Bureaucracy?

I Went to Kyrgyzstan to Find China’s Silent Nomads

How Chinese AI Radicalizes

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Can Taiwan Build Drones? Part 2

ModelTalk: Pacing the Frontier

GWOT at 25 with Wesley Morgan

The King of Unitree

Can Taiwan Build Drones?

US-China Biorisk Cooperation: Yes, It’s Possible

Open Models are the United Front of AI

How Trump and Xi Can Do AI Safety

China on the Hugging Face Incident

Cyber Apocalypse, Now?

China's Rare Earths Duopoly

good books so far this year

How the U.S. and China Are Meme-ifying Modern War

NdFeB Magnets: The Material Bottleneck Behind Humanoid Robotics

How AI Becomes a Political Crisis

How AI Becomes a Political Crisis

Overcaffeinated in Indonesia

Lessons from the American Civil War

North Korean Messiah

North Korea's Messiah

Why China’s AI Bubble Is Also Industrial Policy

ChinaTalk's Contests

The Rise of China’s Electric Vehicle Industry

The Rise of China’s Electric Vehicle Industry

China's Best Music in 2026 (So Far)

China's Best Music in 2026 (So Far)

The DeepSeek Thesis

China's Quantum Flywheel

AI Evals for the Situation Room, Explained

$25k Contest: Evals for the Situation Room

$75k Contest Launch! ChinaTalk Hiring + Evals for the Situation Room

WarTalk: Odyssey Edition

WarTalk: Out of Ammo for Real + Are CCAs Dumb?

WarTalk: Ammo + CCAs Are Dumb?

The FCC's New Robot Rules

FCC’s Adam Chan on the New Robot Rule

$50k ChinaTalk Submission + Hiring Contest!

Jordan talks AI with Sebastian Mallaby on his show 'The Spillover'

Cold War Lessons for a Constrained America

China's Other Minerals Monopoly

WarTalk: Odyssey Edition

China and the Iran War Oil Shock That Wasn’t

China's 'dying' companies

Prove You're Human

WarTalk: Ancient Greece Edition

The Iran War Oil Shock That Wasn’t...(Yet?)

WarTalk: Groundhog Day in Iran, Rogue AI, Ukraine

WarTalk: Iran War Back On, Rogue AI, Ukraine Civ-Mil

Chinese Labs' Latest Product? Roleplay

Kimi and Xi

Kimi K3, Xi's Speech, and China's Mythos Moment

WarTalk: Ancient Greece Edition!

China's Mythos Moment

China’s Mythos Moment

China's Mythos Moment

The Monkey Supply Chain

WarTalk: Randy Schriver on Asian Defense

WarTalk: Iran + Randy Schriver on Asian Defense

“Eastern Data, Western Compute” is Fake

Does Mythos change cyber risk on Chinese hardware?

We're Hiring to Make Great Video!

The Chemistry of Chips

The Chemicals Powering the Chip Industry

The 20 Most Interesting Ideas We've Found in 2026

The Robots Are Here

Unitree and the Humanoid Robot Revolution

Taiwan's War on Renewables

Taiwan's War on Renewables [Fully Produced Radio Show!]

What Is Economic Resilience?

Economic Security Megapod

WarTalk: Jack Murphy of Team House on Donahue + SOF

WarTalk: The BS Détente

AI + Nukes $20k Essay Contest!

Economic Security Megapod!

Rare Earths

Critical Mineral Security: The Endgame

Rare Earths: What is To Be Done?

Transmission Dominance with Chinese Characteristics

Yes, Transformers Are a Problem...

WarTalk with Ely Ratner on Iran War Peace + the 'BS' US-China Stalemate

How Chinese make sense of the AI future

Blaming China for Datacenter NIMBYism Is Cope

Will the MATCH Act Change Chip Controls?

AI for Science!

Emergency Pod: Claude Fable

Emergency Pod: Claude Fable Fried + What's Going on at BIS?

Notes on Egypt

ModelTalk: Claude Fable (Nathan's pissed), is AI actually productive, advice for graduates

Sen. Slotkin: NDAA, AI guardrails, and banning China's cars

Sen. Slotkin on NDAA, AI Nukes, Chinese Cars, and Taiwan

Paul Kennedy on Great Powers

Paul Kennedy on Great Powers, Past and Present

A Night at the UFC

WarTalk: The View from AFRICOM

WarTalk: The View from AFRICOM with LTG Brennan

Render Unto Caesar, Not Unto Claude

The Pope has AI Takes

Adventures in Vibecoding Policy

WarTalk: NatSec in Congress + AI Evals for War

Arizona's Abundance Playbook

Arizona's Abundance Playbook

China's Robotics Dream Began in 1972

WarTalk: Ukraine War Tactical Update

WarTalk: Ukraine's Forward Drone Line with Rob Lee

'To the Success of our Hopeless Cause'

Doing Big Things in Policy: It's All White Space

China’s AI optimism isn’t what it seems

Doing Big Things in Policy

The Empire of Wuxi

Prestige on the Cheap

Trump's China Visit: Prestige on the Cheap

A U.S. Economic Security “Latency Fund”

Xi-Trump to talk AI Safety, Huh?

Macartney to Mar-a-Lago

The Stalemate Summit: Xi-Trump in the Long Sweep of US-China Relations

WarTalk: Iran War with Jack Shanahan

WarTalk: Iran War 'Love Tap' Edition feat. Jack Shanahan

(Audio Fixed!!) Ken Liu on AI, Daoism, and Freedom

Ken Liu on AI and Freedom

How to Buy Cheap Claude Tokens in China

How to Score Economic Security

No Party, No Party

WarTalk: Still Out of Ammo

WarTalk: Still Very Much Out of Ammo!

The Quantum Industrial Base

China-Proofing the American Industrial Base

No Jensen, Not All Compute is Created Equal

Quantum 201: US v China Quantum Industrial Base

DeepSeek V4

WarTalk: Out of Ammo

WarTalk: No Ammo for Taiwan, Polymarket, Bye Phelan, Will Driscoll Go The Distance?

Sen. Chris Murphy on Corruption, China and AI

All In On Fusion

Notes on Jensen v Dwarkesh

Quantum 101

Quantum 101

Fixing the GaN Problem

Not Another Dev Tool

WarTalk: Is Mythos a Cyber Nuke? + The Blockade That Wasn't

Clinical Trial Abundance, Made in China

Should the US Buy from CXMT?

The Think Tank New Breed (IFP + FAI)

How Ukraine Scaled to Millions of Drones

Claude Mythos: China Reacts

Data Hacks and the US-China AI Race

Mythos and National Power

Notes from Ian Toll's Masterpiece on the Early US Navy, 'Six Frigates'

Claude Mythos and National Power

WarTalk: Who Won the War?

WarTalk: Who Won the Iran War? (Second Breakfast Rebranded...)

China’s AI Companies Are Going Closed Source

How Much Compute Does China Have? A Demand-Side Analysis

How Much Compute Does China Have?

How Ukraine Makes Drones

Media Diet Q1 2026

WarTalk: F-15, Pete's Purges and CENTCOM Hubris

Second Breakfast: F-15, Pete's Purges, CENTCOM Hubris, War of 1812

China's AI Education Experiment

Unitree Goes Public

China on AI Job Loss: “No ‘Matrix’ for us, thanks.”

The American Federal Civil Service: A History

Why Geothermal Failed in China

Civil Service: A History!

How China Hopes to Build AGI Through Self-Improvement

Jen Pahlka

Jen Pahlka on an Optimistic Vision for Government Renewal!

Fusion's DeepSeek Moment?

Second Breakfast: We Negotiate with Bombs, War by Brainrot

Chinese Titanium

Overfit is now ModelTalk! GPU Smuggling, OpenAI Cooked? + Open Models, AI Writing

Claude Just Opened the Strait

Iran: The Kharg Fantasy and How This Ends

Second Breakfast: Taking Kharg Island, Terrorism, Grift

China's technology long game

The Toymaker vs. the Tariffs

The Toymaker vs. the Tariffs

Nukes and AI

OpenClaw Emperors

WarTalk: AI, Nukes, Iran and Autonomous War

It's Time

Iran

Iran: No Save Point

Why it Sucks to Work in AI in China + Open Source with Kevin Xu

Making Money in Chinese AI Safety

Goodbye, Taiwan

Software Abundance for Government

Software Abundance for Government With Cognition's Russell Kaplan

Iran and the DIB with SecAF Frank Kendall

Second Breakfast: Iran and the DIB with Fmr SECAF Frank Kendall

Autonomous Weapons 101 + Dario v Hegseth

Autonomous Weapons 101 + Anthropic v DoW

China Reacts to Anthropic-DoW

EMERGENCY POD: Iran + Anthropic

Emergency Pod: Iran + Anthropic

Anthropic v DoW

Second Breakfast: Anthropic, SecDefs being weird

Lawrence Freedman Part 2

Lawrence Freedman on Strategy

Lawrence Freedman on Strategy and Nuclear War

What Are Chinese People Vibecoding?

EMERGENCY POD: SCOTUS Slashes Tariffs!

Emergency Pod: SCOTUS Scraps Tariffs!

Second Breakfast: Iran, Munich + European Defense Tech, Anthropic

Chinese Peptides

How Much AI Does $1 Get You in China vs America?

Chinese AI Rings in the Year of the Horse

How the US Won Back Chip Manufacturing

How the US Won Back Chip Manufacturing

Top 10 Books of the Year of the Snake

Chinese Peptides (Reported Podcast Special Edition!)

Rickover’s Playbook: Building Hard Things Inside the State

Seedance, Kling and the Chinese AI Video Ecosystem

China’s Gaming Rise

Is China Cooking Waymo?

China's Gaming Landscape

We're Are All Wall Dancers Now

$3000 Essay Contest on Economic Security

Chinamaxxing

[EXCERPTS] Ed Luttwak

Ed Luttwak on Military Revolutions

Military Revolutions with Ed Luttwak

Second Breakfast: Invading Canada, Benedict Arnold, Iran

China’s AI Landscape: a free-for-all, not a central plan

Xi’s Military Meltdown

EMERGENCY POD: PLA Purges Continue!

Party Time! Jon Czin on US-China 2025 and 2026

Could Claude Code Work for ChinaTalk?

Write for ChinaTalk!

Overfit: Claude Code is Everything, Trump Vibe Codes

Second Breakfast: Battleships, Golden Dome, Greenland, Kash, Presidential Comedy

The China That Deng Built

Longing for the Cultural Revolution in China Today

The Future of Economic Security with Dan Kim and Chris Miller

The Future of Economic Security with Dan Kim and Chris Miller

China's Arctic Leverage

Zhipu and MiniMax IPO

Party Time! Jon Czin on US-China in 2025 and 2026

Richard Danzig on Cyber and AI

The China Commission's Report

The China Commission Reports!

Richard Danzig on AI and Cyber

Our Year in Review

Ben Buchanan on AI and Cyber

The All-Star Chinese AI Conversation of 2026

How China Courted Iran

Ben Buchanan on AI and Cyber

Second Breakfast: Iran, $500B for Defense...and should we pity RTX?

Why Deepseek Appeasing Karens is Key to CCP Stability

China's Rare Earths Chokehold: A Primer

Transistor Radio: WFE and Doug's Claude Code Psychosis

China and Taiwan on Venezuela

Are We Cooked? Q1 2026

Why Meta's AR/VR Dreams Need China's Goertek

Emergency Second Breakfast: Venezuela

Japanese Economic Security Policy with A REAL LIFE METI OFFICIAL

CWN#11: The best Chinese short fiction of 2025