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 Juli 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 Juli 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 Juli 20251h 40min
Trump and Japan
Why has Japan fallen out of Trump’s good graces? Will Japan close a deal with the US before tariffs take effect? And how will the upcoming Japanese election impact relations? To find out, ChinaTalk i...
18 Juli 20251h 12min
Xi Zhongxun: The Party's Interests Come First
Joseph Torigian’s The Party’s Interest Comes First: The Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping is a monumental scholarly achievement — easily a contender for one of the best China books of the deca...
10 Juli 20251h 26min
Overfit: AI and Media, America's Deepseek, Plots
Nathan Lambert (https://www.interconnects.ai/), Jasmine Sun (https://jasmi.news/) and I kick off a new series 'Overfit' to talk how AI is shaping the future of media, why Nathan just needs $100m to ta...
9 Juli 20251h 18min
