Lily Ottinger

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.

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.

1 week ago | chinatalk.media | Arrian Ebrahimi |Lily Ottinger

Arrian Ebrahimi is a J.D. candidate at Georgetown Law and a former Yenching Scholar at Peking University. Today, he’ll attempt to quantify China’s state equity investments in semiconductor manufacturing equipment. You can read more of Arrian’s writing on the excellent Chip Capitols Substack. Special thanks to Lily Ottinger for assisting with the charts.

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.

1 week ago | chinatalk.media | Lily Ottinger

Mary Clare McMahon is an incoming Schwarzman Scholar (‘26) and former Winter Fellow at the Centre for the Governance of AI, where she researched compute governance and U.S.-China AI competition. Previously, she worked in the National Security and Cybercrime Section of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York. Last month, emerged that DeepSeek was running a distilled version of its R1 reasoning model on Huawei’s Ascend chips.