Organizational Design

MOFCOM's New Rules and the Future of Chinese AI

Oct 21 • Quinn Ennis, Irene Zhang, Lily Ottinger, and Aqib Zakaria

Can AI Beat the Pentagon’s Bureaucracy?

Garrett Berntsen was last seen on ChinaTalk in his role as Deputy CDAO at the State Department.

Sep 22 • Jordan Schneider and Phoebe Chow

State Capacity for the AI Era

Mar 27 • Jordan Schneider and Phoebe Chow

CCP Wartime Decisionmaking

Why leaders undermine their own foreign policy

Nov 3, 2025 • Jordan Schneider and Eleanor Randolph

Anduril's Christian Brose on American Defense

Oct 13, 2025 • Jordan Schneider and Phoebe Chow

$10k defense grants + divorce reality tv + where immigration reform goes to die

Dec 13, 2024 • Jordan Schneider

Deepseek: From Hedge Fund to Frontier Model Maker

Part 2 of our AI Lab translation series

Dec 9, 2024 • Lily Ottinger

When RAND Made Magic + Jason Matheny Response

Did the magic stop, or just get classified?

Nov 25, 2024 • Jordan Schneider and Pradyumna Prasad

Makers of Modern Strategy with Hal Brands

Standing on the shoulders of giants

Nov 18, 2024 • Jordan Schneider and Lily Ottinger

R&D Renaissance with Kumar Garg

Philanthropic R&D for human flourishing and national competition

Sep 17, 2024 • Jordan Schneider and Lily Ottinger

NIC Chair on The IC's Pivot to Asia

Can intelligence really bend the arc of history?

Sep 9, 2024 • Jordan Schneider and Lily Ottinger

The Pentagon’s Innovation Insurgents

How to lose a war with China

Aug 5, 2024 • Jordan Schneider and Lily Ottinger

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