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1 day ago | 
chinatalk.media | Jordan Schneider |Lily Ottinger
What does the future of industrial policy in America look like, and what state capacity investments are needed to get there? How does China factor into the future of the U.S. semiconductor industry? And what do government affairs offices actually do? To explore these questions, we’re concluding our CSIS Chip Chat series with Bruce Andrews.
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6 days ago | 
chinatalk.media | Jordan Schneider |Lily Ottinger
Could America pursue an abundance agenda without the threat of the PRC? And can podcasters change the world? To discuss, ChinaTalk interviewed Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson, who need no introduction, as well as Dan Wang, who has written all those beautiful annual letters and is back in the US as a research fellow at Kotkin’s Hoover History Lab. He has an excellent book called Breakneck coming out this August, but we’re saving that show for a little later this year.
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1 week ago | 
chinatalk.media | Jordan Schneider |Lily Ottinger
Can China use military force to achieve its political goals, without triggering nuclear war? To find out, ChinaTalk interviewed Fiona Cunningham, a professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania and author of the new book, Under the Nuclear Shadow: China’s Information-Age Weapons in International Security. Co-hosting today is Michael Horowitz, Penn professor who served in Biden’s Department of Defense.
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2 weeks ago | 
chinatalk.media | Jordan Schneider |Lily Ottinger
How is Trump changing America’s extended deterrence regime? I got Polymarket to make a market on whether a US ally will acquire nuclear weapons in 2025. It’s currently trading at 6%. Are we buyers or sellers?
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2 weeks ago | 
chinatalk.media | Jordan Schneider |Lily Ottinger
How should America maximize its odds when competing with China? Can Trump’s approach to alliances succeed in strengthening deterrence? And what will it take for China to diplomatically capitalize? To find out, ChinaTalk interviewed Rush Doshi, author of The Long Game: China’s Grand Strategy to Displace American Order. Rush served as deputy senior director for China and Taiwan on Biden’s NSC and is now at CFR.
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2 weeks ago | 
chinatalk.media | Angela Shen |Jordan Schneider
Of all the policies Trump has rolled out, the two I’m most worried will have irreversible consequences for long term national power are undermining our alliance structure and the attractiveness of the country for high end international talent. Angela Shen (ChinaTalk’s robotics and biotech analyst) and I published a piece earlier this week in The Washington Post, arguing how America’s student visa system is critical for future science and tech success.
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3 weeks ago | 
chinatalk.media | Jordan Schneider |Lily Ottinger
Lily is representing ChinaTalk at ICLR this week! Send us a message if you’re going and would like to meet up. Liberation Day was just the beginning — Trump declared that he will be, “Taking a look at semiconductors and the whole electronic supply chain.” What could happen next and what would be the smart way to go about this? Welcome back to another CSIS Chip Chat.
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3 weeks ago | 
chinatalk.media | Jordan Schneider |Dylan Patel |Doug O'Laughlin
Dylan Patel and Doug O’Laughlin of SemiAnalysis explore Huawei new rack and its broader strategy of leveraging structural advantages to resist, circumvent, and nullify export controls — as well as how the U.S. government should respond. We also get into chip tariff policy. Semiconductors are exempt from Trump’s reciprocal tariffs for now, but the administration has signaled that chip-specific tariffs are coming soon.
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1 month ago | 
chinatalk.media | Jordan Schneider |Lily Ottinger |Kevin Xu
America, are we cooked? To discuss, we have Peter Harrell, former Biden official and host of the excellent new Security Economics podcast, Kevin Xu, who writes the Interconnected newsletter, and @overshootMatt Klein, author of Trade Wars Are Class Wars and substack.
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1 month ago | 
chinatalk.media | Jordan Schneider |Lily Ottinger |Nicholas Welch
On April 2nd, we had Liberation Day, a tariff salvo that doubled as a bid to completely reshape the global economic order. Simultaneously, Laura Loomer walked into the White House and fired competent NSC staff who served under Trump 1.0 but apparently weren’t MAGA enough for Loomer and the president. What is going on in the Trump administration, and what does it mean for America's relationship with China and its future place in the world?
