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China's Best Music of 2025 (So Far)
Jake Newby, author of the China music substack Concrete Avalanche, presents his official playlist of China’s best new music. It includes ADHD-inspire…
1 year, 3 months ago
Wagner, Two Years On (Kamil on Coups and Power)
How does Russia prevent uprisings, and what can other authoritarians learn from Moscow’s methods of coup control?
For the second anniversary of the W…
1 year, 4 months ago
Are We Cooked? Q2 Check In
Is America cooked? We check in on what clarity the past three months have given us on the long term dynamic between the US and China.
Guests include:…
1 year, 4 months ago
Doug, Dylan and Jon on Lip-Bu, Labubu, AI Salaries, and Bees
Also, somehow, the Third Temple, twink human sacrifice for the AI labs, and the SemiAnalysis Desi Waifu 3000.
Outtro Music (sounded like a let's ge…
1 year, 4 months ago
Apple in China
Patrick McGee is the author of Apple in China: The Capture of the World’s Greatest Company. Our discussion led us through a detailed history of Apple…
1 year, 4 months ago
The House of Huawei
Eva Dou is the author of The House of Huawei, an excellent book covering the personal, economic, and geopolitical arc of Huawei, China’s most importa…
1 year, 4 months ago
Can Donors Save Science?
Renaissance Philanthropy — in my opinion, the most exciting S&T philanthropic venture in the US — is getting a one-year check-in. Kumar Garg first ap…
1 year, 4 months ago
Josh Wolfe on Elon v. Trump, R&D, Immigration
Josh Wolfe of Lux Capital joins ChinaTalk to talk:
Elon, Trump and the tech right The future of the R&D base and importance of immigrants Why …1 year, 4 months ago
Dylan, Doug, Jon on AI Mandate of Heaven + Ezra Beef
Two weeks in a row what has gotten into us.
Jordan tries to save the NSF and immigrant visas with an AI researcher letter Our quarterly AI manda…1 year, 5 months ago
Doug, Dylan and Jon on Nvidia + Saudi/UAE
Dylan bonds with Nvidia's CFO and I try to keep the GPUs in actual democracies.
Outtro Music: FaceTime, Karencici, 2018. https://open.spotify.com/tra…
1 year, 5 months ago