Are We Cooked? Q1 2026
We check in on the state of the republic and allied scale with Peter Harrell, former Biden official and host of the excellent new Security Economics podcast, Kevin Xu, who writes the Interconnected ne...
7 Jan 1h 8min
Emergency Second Breakfast: Venezuela
The gang (Justin Mc, Tony Stark and Eric Robinson) and I talk about what the hell just happened this past weekend and what it all means. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
6 Jan 1h 12min
Japanese Economic Security Policy with A REAL LIFE METI OFFICIAL
Nishikawa Kazumi, Principal Director for Economic Security Policy at the legendary Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), joins China Talk. Cohosting is Charles Lichfield of the Atla...
2 Jan 49min
ChinaTalk 2025 Year in Review
ChinaTalk Audience survey: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScQ99GAL0m_8iBqZDiKoEjRZiyX6544QvaCNtd1cVkc826n7A/viewform?usp=dialogFeatured coverage on Substack: Industrial diamonds: https:/...
30 Dec 202539min
Joe Weisenthal and I do a Show About Nothing
A festivus special! Joe Weisenthal, host of Odd Lots and my podcast host alter ego, come to celebrate his ten years of hosting, reflect on the medium and China. 01:21 following your podcasting bliss...
23 Dec 20251h 3min
Second Breakfast: Arctic Warfare Christmas Special!
Steve Gagnon joins the show! Book: Thousand Mile War https://www.amazon.com/Thousand-Mile-War-Aleutians-Classic-Reprint/dp/0912006838 Outtro music: Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megapho...
22 Dec 202555min
Rahm Returns to Chat Trump and China: “He is the worst negotiator.”
Rahm Emanuel returns to ChinaTalk with a characteristically blunt assessment of U.S.-China relations, delivering an unsparing verdict on the first year of Donald Trump’s second term. We discuss: ...
18 Dec 20251h
Détente 2.0 with Mike Froman of CFR
Mike Froman is president of the Council on Foreign Relations and former U.S. Trade Representative. He joins ChinaTalk for the first time to discuss: Why his 1992 dissertation on détente is sudden...
15 Dec 20251h 1min
