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How Can the Pentagon Trust AI?
How is the DoD thinking about deploying AI? What are the challenges and opportunities involved in building out AI assurance?
To discuss, I brought on …
2 years, 10 months ago
EMERGENCY POD: Qin Gone!
Until yesterday, Qin Gang 秦刚 was serving as China’s Minister of Foreign Affairs. But on Monday, July 24, the National People’s Congress Standing Comm…
2 years, 10 months ago
Taiwan’s Presidential Elections: A Primer
ChinaTalk welcomes Taiwan expert and Hoover research fellow Kharis Templeman. This episode is all things 2024 Taiwan elections — slated for January 1…
2 years, 10 months ago
Why Chinese EVs Will Take Over the World
• How did the Chinese EV industry become so dominant?
• What institutional and cultural factors shape China’s auto market?
• What can Western democraci…
2 years, 11 months ago
AI Beyond OpenAI
What companies beyond OpenAI matter to the future of AI? What is the relationship between closed and open source source? When will researchers lose …
2 years, 11 months ago
Moneyball for Foreign Aid
Foreign aid is dominated by just a few huge players that receive the bulk of grants from the US government. But is bigger better? And are local playe…
2 years, 11 months ago
PLA Invasion: Is Taiwan's Military Ready?
Paul Huang, Taiwan military expert and research fellow at the Taiwan Public Opinion Foundation, returns to ChinaTalk! Today he gives us an update on …
2 years, 11 months ago
EMERGENCY EDITION: Coup in Russia with Kamil Galeev
What happened over the past few days in Russia? What does this mean for the future of Putin and the war in Ukraine? To discuss, I recorded today a sh…
2 years, 11 months ago
Blinken to Beijing!
Blinken went to China to meet with Qin Gang, Wang Yi, and Xi himself!
What happened, why does it matter, and does this make it any less likely we'll b…
3 years ago
Chinese TV PilotTalk: Farmers, Murders, and Anime
We're talking Chinese TV this week on ChinaTalk! Hollywood writer Trey Kollmer and ChinaTalk editor Irene Zhang discuss farming reality tv, a dongbei…
3 years ago