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  • WarTalk: Kofman on Starlink + What Ukraine Can Teach the U.S. Military

    October 25, 2026 · 1 hr 25 min

    Ukraine and Russia have rebuilt their armies around drones, deception, and long-range strike. What should the U.S. military take from it? Michael Kofman joins WarTalk regulars Jordan Schneider, Justin McIntosh, and Tony Stark. We…

  • The MATCH Act and China’s DUV Imports

    October 20, 2026 · 1 hr 18 min

    Nick Brown is a co-founder of the Center for Technology and Statecraft (CTS), a new think tank spun out of IFP, that looks at long-term technology challenges and opportunities facing the US. Nick was a physics major, spent a while as a…

  • Drone Dominance | Travis Metz - DIU Acting Director

    October 17, 2026 · 1 hr 23 min

    He was recently promoted to DIU’s acting director after spending the past year running the Drone Dominance Program. Co-hosting are Brian Clark, senior fellow at Hudson Institute and a retired submariner, and Justin McIntosh, a twenty-year…

  • Why a Chinese AI Lab’s Product Lead Thinks AGI is “Inevitable” | Richard Bian

    October 16, 2026 · 1 hr 14 min

    Richard Bian is the head of product operations for Ant Ling, the foundational LLM at Ant. If you don’t know Ant, they most famously make Alipay, which makes your money and your world run when you’re in China and sometimes beyond. Richard…

  • From Posting to Policy: Saif Khan on DUV and the AI Balance

    October 15, 2026 · 60 min

    Saif Khan makes his ChinaTalk debut. He is perhaps my favorite example of posting-to-policy that I’ve seen over the course of my time following Washington. Saif wrote some truly excellent deep dives into AI and semiconductors during his…

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  • Matt Yglesias + Jerusalem Demsas + Jordan Crossover Pod

    October 12, 2026 · 1 hr 8 min

    I join Matt and Jerusalem for an unhinged conversation (most entertaining of the year?) about China, AI, corruption, politics, and various other things. Check out their show The Argument, it's good. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit…

  • AGI Believers: Kevin Roose on the Race

    October 8, 2026 · 1 hr 11 min

    Kevin Roose, formerly of the New York Times and Hard Fork, joins ChinaTalk to discuss AGI Chronicles, his new history of OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind, and the people who believed in AGI long before it was cool and could make you trillions…

  • Data is the Hard Part | Building AI Tools for the Military

    October 6, 2026 · 43 min

    Everyone wants AI that wins wars. Very few people want to collect, label, store, and test the data it runs on. Bharat Patel is currently Accenture’s AI and data lead for its defense portfolio, a former enlisted Navy sailor, and a veteran…

  • WarTalk: AutoWarCom + Project Meridian

    October 5, 2026 · 56 min

    It's a new fiscal year with no new budget, and the Pentagon has a fresh batch of proposals. Two stand out: a four-star Autonomous Warfare Command, built to buy and field autonomous weapons fast, and Project Meridian, a future-of-warfare…

  • Section 301 and the Spice Man who Sued Trump Over Them

    October 2, 2026 · 1 hr 5 min

    In February, the Supreme Court ruled Trump's IEEPA tariffs illegal. So why is everyone still paying them? Because the administration rebuilt them: first under Section 122, then under Section 301, and now the 301 tariffs are in court too…

  • China's Economy is Broken | Logan Wright

    September 29, 2026 · 1 hr 28 min

    After the global financial crisis, China added a third of global GDP to its bank assets in just eight years... the largest single-country credit expansion in at least a century. Today investment is contracting, growth is less than a…

  • WarTalk: Potemkin Pacific, Midterm Budget Woes

    September 25, 2026 · 1 hr 12 min

    WarTalk regulars Bryan Clark of the Hudson Institute, Justin McIntosh, and Tony Stark join Jordan. We discuss… The Potemkin Pacific — why Paparo has half the planet on his map and nothing to fight with, and how the Iran blockade became…

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Conversations exploring China, technology, and US-China relations. Guests include a wide range of analysts, policymakers, and academics. Hosted by Jordan Schneider. Check out the newsletter at https://www.chinatalk.media/