Emergency Pod: What's Driving Putin, Sanctions, Drugs, Echoes from History, Xi, Chips
Chris Miller of Tufts joins to discuss Why Putin invaded Why he humiliated his security council If Putin is on drugs US public opinion and the politics of sanctions Sanctions' impact on the Russi...
26 Feb 202245min
Emergency Pod: Russia and Cyber Operations
Justin Sherman of the Atlantic Council joins to discuss Putin's history of cyber operations How he sees the current state of play What is Putin thinking about as he considers escalating in the cyb...
26 Feb 202224min
Space Industry Literacy, NASA, and Elon versus the Taliban
What’s the point of NASA? Will Starlink end up funding Elon’s Mars dreams? To discuss the US space ecosystem in both the private and public sector, I am joined by Casey Handmer (@CJHandmer), former NA...
21 Feb 202256min
Rainbow Farts: Chinese Internet Slang You Need to Know
Do you know your breaking porcelain from your eating human-blood-soaked steam buns? Slow Chinese author Andrew Methven (@AndrewMethven) joins me to talk about some of the newest and most interesting C...
13 Feb 202239min
China's Wolf Warrior Diplomacy, Part 2
Author of China's Civilian Army: The Making of Wolf Warrior Diplomacy Peter Martin (@PeterMartin_PCM) and Schwarzman scholar Jason Zhou return to take us from the young diplomats venturing out of Chin...
4 Feb 202259min
China's Wolf Warrior Diplomacy, Part 1
Why has China and its foreign ministry struggled to communicate with the world? In his book, China’s Civilian Army: The Making of Wolf Warrior Diplomacy, Peter Martin (@PeterMartin_PCM) traces the his...
26 Jan 202254min
Year in Review + Future Plans for ChinaTalk
See here for the Year in Review in text form with lots of links: https://chinatalk.substack.com/p/2021-year-in-review-future-plans Support ChinaTalk on Patreon at https://patreon.com/chinatalk Fill ou...
2 Jan 202236min
