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
Imperial Japan + Export Controls = Pearl Harbor!?
What can US-China relations learn from US-Japan relations in the leadup to WWII? To discuss, I’m joined by Stony Brook University’s Michael Barnhart, author of the 1987 Japan Prepares for Total War: T...
9 Jan 202251min
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
Sci-fi Mecha Wu Zetian, YouTube on China and C-drama Fails
NYT bestselling YA author Xiran Jay Zhao (@XiranJayZhao) joins me to talk about her new book, Iron Widow, a Pacific Rim meets Handmaiden's tale sci-fi retelling of the story of Wu Zetian. Co-hosting i...
23 Dec 202131min
US-China Science Relations and the PhDs Caught in the Middle
What's it like to live across the US-China scientific divide? Yale Law School postdoc, particle physicist and essayist Yangyang Cheng (@yangyang_cheng) joins me alongside undergrad Alex Liang to talk ...
13 Dec 20211h 2min
