Podcast Episodes

Rethinking Industrial Policy...and Everything Else

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5 years, 4 months ago

Chinese Cooking Demystified

Chinese Cooking Demystified is my favorite English language Youtube cooking channel. I chat with creators Chris and Steph about how they create their…

5 years, 4 months ago

Richard Fontaine on CNAS and US-China

Richard Fontaine, CEO of CNAS, discusses what it's like to run what very well may be the hottest think tank in the Asia policy game (full disclosure:…

5 years, 4 months ago

Taiwan! Pigs, Politics, and Pop Music

Maggie Lewis (Seton Hall) and Lev Nachman (UC Irvine) talk Biden's Taiwan policy, pork trade politics, the future of the KMT, third parties, academic…

5 years, 4 months ago

A User's Guide to US Industrial Policy

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5 years, 5 months ago

WWII's Legacy in China with Rana Mitter

Rana Mitter, professor of Chinese history at Oxford University, discusses his book from earlier this year, China’s Good War: How World War II Is Sha…

5 years, 5 months ago

China's Spies

Matt Brazil discusses his new book co-written with Peter Mattis, 'Chinese Communist Espionage, An Intelligence Primer.'  We talk about the role spies…

5 years, 5 months ago

Great Power Competition with Richard Danzig

On the second joint episode of Acquisition Talk and ChinaTalk, Richard Danzig, a Secretary of the Navy under Clinton, discusses US-China relations an…

5 years, 5 months ago

DIU's Michael Brown on US-China Tech Competition

Kicking off a series on US-China defense-related issues with Eric Lofgren of the podcast AcquisitionTalk, we host Defense Innovation Unit head Michae…

5 years, 5 months ago

KFC, The Toilet Revolution, and the Business of Propaganda

Why is KFC so big in China? What is the “Toilet Revolution” and why does it matter? How does Chinese propaganda work? How have bicycles’ role in Chin…

5 years, 5 months ago