Second Breakfast: Invading Canada, Benedict Arnold, Iran
whole gang is here. Also a little Minnesota and 30 seconds of NDS (which is all it deserves) suno: https://suno.com/s/SJ0FoEPMVZ3QS441 'He couldn’t capture Canada, but captured infamy— The only gene...
30 Jan 1h 3min
EMERGENCY POD: PLA Purges Continue!
Jon Czin, former CIA analyst and NSC staffer, returns to talk purges. We have far too much fun. The disney take on PLA purges: https://suno.com/s/Wv1yQyxdUhWBzyA0 08:50 Deep read into the WSJ nuke ...
28 Jan 56min
Overfit: Claude Code is Everything, Trump Vibe Codes
Jasmine Sun of https://jasmi.news/ and Nathan Lambert of https://www.interconnects.ai/ report for duty. Athena makes a brief guest appearance before dipping for pilates. Jordan's flower app: https://...
25 Jan 1h 10min
Second Breakfast: Battleships, Golden Dome, Greenland, Kash, Presidential Comedy
Bryan Clark (former submariner at Hudson), Eric Robinson, and Justin McIntosh report for duty. Davos disco: https://suno.com/s/2SpR62beigk2JeDr Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/ad...
24 Jan 1h 12min
The Future of Economic Security with Dan Kim and Chris Miller
Is there such a thing as MAD in economic warfare? How should we measure the effectiveness of our industrial policy tools, and what outcomes should we be aiming for anyway? Our guest today is Dan Kim,...
21 Jan 1h 20min
Party Time! Jon Czin on US-China in 2025 and 2026
Jon Czin spent years as a top China analyst at the CIA, served as China Director on Biden’s National Security Council, and now works at the Brookings Institution. We talk through: Xi, Trump, and w...
19 Jan 1h 1min
Richard Danzig on Cyber and AI
Richard Danzig, national treasure, joins the podcast to discuss the national security implications of AI in the cyber context. Do note we conducted this interview in July of 2025. We discuss Richard...
17 Jan 1h 44min
The China Commission Reports!
The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission late last year released its annual report to Congress. ChinaTalk welcomes two commissioners to the pod to discuss. Before joining the Hoover Ins...
17 Jan 59min
