
National Intel Council on The IC's Pivot to Asia
Michael Collins is the acting chair of the National Intelligence Council (NIC). He has spent 28 years in the intelligence community, starting as a career analyst in the CIA focused on East Asia before...
9 Syys 20241h 4min

Competition Policy 2025
To discuss the post-election future of US competition policy, ChinaTalk interviewed Peter Harrell and Nazak Nikakhtar. Nazak served in the Trump administration after a long career as a civil servant, ...
4 Syys 20241h 15min

AI and the Rise and Fall of Great Powers
Jeffrey Ding is a professor at George Washington University, leading US scholar on China’s AI, and the creator of the ChinAI Substack. In honor of the publication of his new book, Technology and the R...
28 Elo 20241h 11min

History and Future of Global Patent Policy
Thanks to The Innovation Alliance for sponsoring this episode. The Innovation Alliance is a coalition of research and development-based technology companies representing innovators, patent owners, and...
19 Elo 202457min

Industrial Icebreaker Policy
Here at ChinaTalk, we break the ice on all things international relations, and today we are diving into a topic that is snow joke — icebreakers! We interviewed William Henagan and Robert Obayda, both...
13 Elo 20241h 6min

The Pentagon’s Innovation Insurgents
Chris Kirchhoff was a founding member of the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) and previously worked in the Obama NSC. He recently published a book called Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are T...
6 Elo 20241h 15min

A BREATHER: Making Clothes in China
This is a show about globalization, fashion design, and the future of manufacturing-based economic growth. For a breather from the election chaos, ChinaTalk interviewed Will Lasry, Montreal-based desi...
22 Heinä 20241h 16min

EMERGENCY POD: JD Vance's Economics + How to SPR Critical Minerals + Policy Entrepreneurship
What does JD think about currency, tariffs, and industrial policy? How has the Strategic Patroleum Reserve evolved into new relevance with some fun new powers over the past few years, and how can Amer...
17 Heinä 20241h 29min





















