Taiwan War + Grand Strategy for Cold War II
Is Cold War II upon us? What should America do to prevent it from becoming a hot war? To discuss, ChinaTalk interviewed Dmitri Alperovitch. Dmitri emigrated from Russia in 1994 at age 13. He co-found...
17 Kesä 20241h 30min
The Best Chinese Songs of 2024 - with Concrete Avalanche
Jake Newby is the author of Concrete Avalanche, a free newsletter about music from China. Today, he's here to play you some of his favorite tracks from 2024 thus far — including everything from psyche...
14 Kesä 20241h 9min
Shakespeare and Power
Are politicians and actors two sides of the same coin? Can you become a better public speaker by studying soliloquies? What can Shakespeare teach us about the nature of power? To discuss, ChinaTalk in...
10 Kesä 20241h 15min
Why America Didn't Invade Taiwan: WWII Lessons for Xi's Invasion
One does not simply invade Taiwan — but George Marshall once thought long and hard about it. In 1944, in the middle of the island-hopping campaign, American war planners set their sights on Japanese-c...
6 Kesä 202451min
Preventing an Invasion of Taiwan
Taiwan’s government agencies are battered by 5 million cyberattacks every day. China is holding invasion drills at a replica of Taiwan’s presidential palace in Inner Mongolia. Last week, the PLA openl...
3 Kesä 20241h 32min
Sovereign AI
Good AI is good and bad AI is bad, but how do lawmakers tell the difference? Will AI bring the world together or balkanize the internet beyond repair? Why do governments even need cloud computing anyw...
28 Touko 20241h 12min
AI Roundup: GPT4o, SCSP AI Expo, Open vs Closed
Nathan Lambert of the Interconnects substack and Allen Institute joins for a roundup where we get into: What DC should understand about the Bay Area AI engineer psyche What GPT4o and Google's AI Dev...
17 Touko 202442min
250 Years of US Trade Policy
We're taking one out of the archives! Douglas Irwin is a Dartmouth professor and the author of Clashing Over Commerce: A History of US Trade Policy. On this episode, Irwin provides an overview to the ...
17 Touko 20241h 7min
