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China's Solar Industry
How did Chinese firms come to dominate the global solar industry? Now that the Biden administration has banned imports for some key components of sol…
4 years, 6 months ago
Larry Summers on China
Is China different? Does secular stagnation apply? How have Chinese economic policymakers changed over time? Should industrial policy be a thing? Wh…
4 years, 6 months ago
After Xi: How Past CCP Successions Can Teach Us What Happens Next
Xi Jinping will not rule China forever. What have CCP leadership transitions looked like in the past, and what can we expect when Xi exits stage left…
4 years, 6 months ago
China's Cyber Strengths + How to Analyze Policy
Dave Aitel, who started his career at NSA and spent the past twenty years in offensive cybersecurity, comes on ChinaTalk to discuss
What he's learn…4 years, 6 months ago
DARPA and How to R&D Right
Ben Reinhardt, an independent researcher and robotics PhD, discusses
Why DARPA has so many hits to its name Why NASA wasted the past two decades Wha…4 years, 7 months ago
In-Q-Tel on Chips, CFIUS, and The Valley of Death
Dr. Yan Zheng, senior technical staff specializing in microelectronics at In-Q-Tel, discusses
What it's like to invest in startups for the CIA and t…4 years, 7 months ago
How to Solve America's R&D Bottlenecks
Bell Labs is dead, long live Bell Labs! This week's guest, Ilan Gur, the CEO of Activate.org, has a plan to improve America's R&D apparatus: fund sta…
4 years, 7 months ago
Emergency Pod! Endless Frontier Act Butchered!
The Endless Frontier Act, the most important piece of legislation no one's heard of, got blown to bits in committee this week. Sam Hammond of the Nis…
4 years, 7 months ago
How Beijing Sees Korea
Why hasn’t North Korea emulated Deng’s Opening & Reform? Are China’s wealthy, educated, urbane youth liberals? Could the PLA cooperate with the U.S. …
4 years, 7 months ago
600 Years Of Sino-Korean Relations
Odd Arne Westad joins ChinaTalk to discuss his latest book Empire and Righteous Nation: 600 Years of China-Korea Relations. Westad’s work is a diplom…
4 years, 8 months ago