ChinaTalk

EMERGENCY POD: Are We Cooked?

EMERGENCY POD: Liberation Day with Tanner Greer of Scholarstage

The Soviet Cold War Machine: Inside the Sino-Soviet Rivalry

Superintelligence Strategy with Dan Hendrycks

SemiAnalysis + Asianometry on Intel, Gemini 2.5, and Chinese Robots

The Soviets' Bid for Global Power

Building Compute in America

Manus: A DeepSeek Moment?

This podcast discusses the emergence of Manus, a Chinese AI agent, and its implications for the AI industry. The panelists compare Manus to Western competitors like Operator, noting Manus's surprisingly strong performance in real-world tasks and its successful product launch. They debate the reasons for Western compa...

EMERGENCY POD: Trump's Pivot to Putin, AGI + The Future of Warfare

Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare

Innovation Emergency: The Role of IP

China's Great Power Wars: Lessons from Imperial History for Today

This podcast episode challenges the Eurocentric “Thucydides Trap” theory of inevitable war between rising and declining powers, using East Asian history as a counter-example. The discussion analyzes the surprisingly peaceful relations between China, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam over centuries, attributing this stability ...

SemiAnalysis + Asianometry on the AI Mandate of Heaven

Anthropic's Dario Amodei on AI Competition

This episode explores the implications of rapid AI progress, particularly focusing on the competitive landscape between the US and China. Against the backdrop of concerns about a potential AI arms race, Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, discusses the emergence of DeepSeek as a major Chinese AI player and its impact on t...

GREAT EPISODE: DeepSeek: What It Means and What Happens Next

EMERGENCY POD: DeepSeek r1 and the Future of Export Controls

Patents and National Power

ChinaTalk in the Year of the Dragon + What Comes Next

In this episode of ChinaTalk, Lily Oettinger interviews Jordan Schneider about the podcast's accomplishments in 2024 and future plans. Jordan discusses the origins of ChinaTalk, its mission to provide in-depth analysis of US-China relations and technology, and the expansion of the team. They review favorite and underra...

Noah Smith: Trump 2.0's Impact on Asia + The New Tech Right

yup, more export controls....foundry, DRAM, and reflections