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Second Breakfast: Arctic Warfare Christmas Special!
Steve Gagnon joins the show!
Book: Thousand Mile War https://www.amazon.com/Thousand-Mile-War-Aleutians-Classic-Reprint/dp/0912006838
Outtro music:
…3 weeks, 5 days ago
Rahm Returns to Chat Trump and China: “He is the worst negotiator.”
Rahm Emanuel returns to ChinaTalk with a characteristically blunt assessment of U.S.-China relations, delivering an unsparing verdict on the first ye…
4 weeks, 2 days ago
Détente 2.0 with Mike Froman of CFR
Mike Froman is president of the Council on Foreign Relations and former U.S. Trade Representative. He joins ChinaTalk for the first time to discuss:
…1 month ago
Second Breakfast: Habemus NDAA!
We've got a full house with Tony, Justin and Eric today. We get into:
The hottest NDAA takes on the airwaves (DFC, OSC, AUKUS, Taiwan, contested l…1 month ago
Overfit: NeurIPS Vibes, Research Doesn't Matter, OpenAI Cooked?
Nathan and Jasmine debrief from NeurIPS San Diego, where we of course threw the best party.
outtro music: we're on a boat https://suno.com/s/dkulmuR…
1 month, 1 week ago
Emergency Pod: H200s to China with Dmitri Alperovich
It's never over with Trump...Dmitri Alperovich of the Silverado Policy Accelerator comes on to discuss Trump's decision to allow the export of H200s …
1 month, 1 week ago
Second Breakfast: Trump's National Security Strategy + Hegseth's Second Strike
First half on the national security strategy you can read here https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2025-National-Security-Strategy.…
1 month, 1 week ago
Helen Toner Takes the CSET Reins
It's think tank director week at ChinaTalk! Helen Toner of CSET kicks us off to talk through where she's planning on taking the storied organization.…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
The Future of Secure Telecom
In the wake of Salt Typhoon, what does the future of secure telecom look like?
To find out, ChinaTalk interviewed John Doyle, a former Green Beret wh…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Transistor Radio: OpenAI Loses the Mandate, Railroad Bubble = AI Bubble
Doug, Dylan, and Wei of SemiAnalysis join me (Jon was sleeping at 5AM taiwan time...) for a pre-holiday get together.
01:00 AI Mandate--OpenAI slippi…
1 month, 3 weeks ago