Xi: Failed Reformer?
Why does Xi govern like he's running out of time? Rhodium's Dan Rosen and CSIS' Jude Blanchette discuss their recent Foreign Affairs pieces recapping the past years of Xi's rule from an economic and p...
10 Jul 202146min
China's Solar Industry
How did Chinese firms come to dominate the global solar industry? Now that the Biden administration has banned imports for some key components of solar panels made in Xinjiang, how will global solar b...
7 Jul 202150min
Larry Summers on China
Is China different? Does secular stagnation apply? How have Chinese economic policymakers changed over time? Should industrial policy be a thing? What should American academia navigate its relationsh...
1 Jul 202139min
After Xi: How Past CCP Successions Can Teach Us What Happens Next
Xi Jinping will not rule China forever. What have CCP leadership transitions looked like in the past, and what can we expect when Xi exits stage left? To discuss we have today Richard McGregor, an Aus...
27 Jun 20211h
China's Cyber Strengths + How to Analyze Policy
Dave Aitel, who started his career at NSA and spent the past twenty years in offensive cybersecurity, comes on ChinaTalk to discuss What he's learned in his quest to read every cyber policy paper ...
19 Jun 202151min
DARPA and How to R&D Right
Ben Reinhardt, an independent researcher and robotics PhD, discusses Why DARPA has so many hits to its name Why NASA wasted the past two decades What needs to be subtracted from the US research ec...
9 Jun 202140min
In-Q-Tel on Chips, CFIUS, and The Valley of Death
Dr. Yan Zheng, senior technical staff specializing in microelectronics at In-Q-Tel, discusses What it's like to invest in startups for the CIA and the rest of the US intelligence community What's b...
4 Jun 202155min
How to Solve America's R&D Bottlenecks
Bell Labs is dead, long live Bell Labs! This week's guest, Ilan Gur, the CEO of Activate.org, has a plan to improve America's R&D apparatus: fund start-ups that allow entrepreneurial researchers to pu...
29 Mai 202152min
