Learning from Ukraine, Preparing for Taiwan
Mick Ryan is a retired major general in the Australian army and author of three books — War Transformed: The Future of Twenty-First-Century Great Power Competition and Conflict, White Sun War, which i...
20 Aug 20251h 7min
Transistor Radio: H20, GPT5, DUI Lawyers, Ajinomoto
Jon, Doug, Dylan and Wei join the chat to talk export controls and GPT5. Books Doug and I like: Jonathan Spence's Search for Modern China Gavan Daws' Shoal of Time Joseph Heinrich's The Sec...
14 Aug 20251h 3min
EMERGENCY POD: H20s to China + 15% with Chris Miller and Lennart
So we're selling AI chips to China now. Chris Miller, author of Chip Wars, and Lennart Heim at RAND join to discuss: What are the tradeoffs involved in selling Why China is talking like they d...
13 Aug 20251h 11min
Second Breakfast: A New Defense Pod
We talk AGI nihilism in the Taiwan fight, combined arms breach, and Palmer Luckey's Taiwan speech. Part 2 explores Detachment 201, the evolution of the Office of Strategic Capital, and the MP Material...
10 Aug 20251h 11min
Dissent from Moscow to Beijing
To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement — the Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Professor Ben Nathans — is perhaps the sharpest, richest, and funniest accoun...
4 Aug 20252h 10min
Betting on Chaos: Professionals in Prediction Markets
What does it take to make a living betting on politics? Can prediction markets offer insights about the future that other analyses cannot? To find out, ChinaTalk interviewed Domer, a professional pre...
29 Jul 20251h 13min
Where Japan Goes Next
Tobias Harris of the Observing Japan substack https://observingjapan.substack.com/ joins to discuss the latest Japanese election, how we got here, and what happens next. How Abe's assassination le...
23 Jul 20251h 29min
Xi Zhongxun's Second Act: 1949-1989
This is part two of our series with Joseph Torigian, author of the definitive biography of Xi Zhongxun. This episode traces the inner world of a man navigating power politics, exile, and reform, and t...
20 Jul 20251h 40min
