Podcast Episodes

Baijiu!

Derek Sandhaus is the author of Drunk in China: Baijiu and the World's Oldest Drinking Culture and part of the team behind Ming River Baijiu, the fi…

4 years, 9 months ago

US-China Ideological Competition

Are the US and China in ideological competition? How does one go about answering that question? Dan Tobin of the US Intelligence Community's National…

4 years, 9 months ago

China's Chip Dreams

John Verwey of the Substack “Semi-Literate" (and formerly of Commerce’s BIS, USITC, and USTR) talks the history and future of China's chip industry. …

4 years, 9 months ago

Michèle Flournoy on "Affecting the Strategic Calculus"

Michèle Flournoy joined AcquisitionTalk's Eric Lofgren and me for another crossover episode of China-AcquisitionTalk. Flournoy is a former Undersecre…

4 years, 9 months ago

Te-Ping Chen's Short Stories of Modern China

In her years as a Wall Street Journal foreign correspondent in Hong Kong and Beijing, Te-Ping Chen came across a lifetime of remarkable characters an…

4 years, 9 months ago

Rhodium's Dan Rosen on Hiring Me, 30 Years of China-Watching, Decoupling, and Debt

Dan Rosen is the founding partner of the Rhodium Group and leads the China team. He is also my boss!

We talk about our plans for China tech coverage,…

4 years, 10 months ago

To The Quad! The Origins of "Indo-Pacific"

Rory Medcalf, head of the National Security College at Australia National University discusses his new book 'Indo-Pacific Empire.'

We talk 15th-centu…

4 years, 10 months ago

Adam Tooze and Matt Klein Return!

Adam Tooze (now on Substack!) and Matt Klein, author of Trade Wars Are Class Wars, return to ChinaTalk and pick up right where they left off in Septe…

4 years, 10 months ago

Clubhouse and Feminism in China with Shen Lu

Shen Lu of Protocol discusses the magical world of Mandarin language Clubhouse before diving into the feminist movement in China. We cover the Xianzi…

4 years, 10 months ago

故事FM (China's "This American Life") Founder Talks Storytelling in Modern China

Aizhe, 故事FM's founder, runs the leading Chinese language podcast. His show gives a platform for everyday Chinese to tell their stories. We talked abo…

4 years, 10 months ago