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1 week ago | 
chinatalk.media | Lily Ottinger
We’re looking for part-time help with the podcast and newsletter! Spend ~10 hrs/week editing shows and putting together enhanced transcripts starting at $35/hr. All you need is enthusiasm for our content—no prior audio experience required (we use this software called Descript which is easy to learn and a pleasure to use). Respond to this email if you’re interested with a little background on yourself.
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1 week ago | 
chinatalk.media | Jordan Schneider |Lily Ottinger
Can studying Mao Zedong help explain Donald Trump? To find out, ChinaTalk interviewed the legendary sinologist Orville Schell, who visited China during the Cultural Revolution and is currently at the Asia Society.
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3 weeks 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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4 weeks 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 month 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.
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1 month 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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1 month 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.
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1 month ago | 
chinatalk.media | Angela Shen
Created by the United States Congress in 2022, the National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology (NSCEB) is an independent, bipartisan body tasked with assessing biotech’s national security implications. Modeled after the earlier AI Commission, the NSCEB recently released its report of recommendations to ensure the US's future leadership in biotechnology. Their report signals something important: biotech is moving from policy background noise to strategic priority.
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1 month 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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1 month 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.