China's Best Music of 2024
Jake Newby is the author of Concrete Avalanche, a free newsletter about music from China. You might remember Jake from the Chinese shoegaze election playlist, or from the tracklist he presented on Chi...
29 Dec 202454min
AI Geopolitics in o3's Age with Chris Miller + Lennart Heim
Chris Miller of Chip War and Lennart Heim of RAND check in on the geopolitics of AI. We explore: Chinese labs' algorithmic progress (surprising to everyone but regular ChinaTalk listeners!) The geop...
23 Dec 20241h 29min
Chinese Pop Culture in 2024
We’ll be getting into the biggest tv show of 2024, a celebrity road trip “will they or won’t they divorce” show which is just as big of a hot mess as it sounds like, rigged nationalist singing competi...
18 Dec 20241h 6min
Top AI Stories of 2024/2025 + How to Train a Model with Nathan Lambert
Nathan Lambert of the excellent https://www.interconnects.ai/ newsletter and the Allen Institute joins the pod for a rundown of the biggest AI stories of this year and next. We also talk about what he...
9 Dec 202448min
EMERGENCY POD: Biden's Final Export Controls Misfire?
Commerce released its much-anticipated chip export-control updates yesterday, December 2. But today's guests are unimpressed. But are we right to have hoped for more? To discuss, I’m joined by Dylan P...
3 Dec 20241h 30min
SemiAnalysis on Top Chip Stories of 2024
Dylan Patel, Doug O'Laughlin, Jon from Asianometry and I all chat the biggest semiconductor stories of the year. We get into energy demands for datacenters, Intel, Samsung, Nvidia, SMIC, Huawei, Deeps...
26 Nov 202427min
Makers of Modern Strategy with Hal Brands
Few books have influenced me as much as the Makers of Modern Strategy series. The three volumes (published in 1942, 1986, and 2023) are indispensable to understanding statecraft, leadership, and the e...
18 Nov 20241h 7min
Data Wars and the DOJ
To discuss the Department of Justice’s new proposed rule on data security, we interviewed two brilliant guests from the ChinaTalk Hall of Fame — DOJ National Security Division attorneys Lee Licata and...
12 Nov 202452min
