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Minh Tran (https://www.couldabeenatthe.club/), Afra Wang (https://afra.work/) and Lauren Teixeira (https://lrntex.substack.com/) join me to talk about Chinamaxxing — the growing fascination among youn...
Military Revolutions with Ed Luttwak (02:51:20)
Today’s guest is the legendary strategist Edward Luttwak — the Machiavelli of Maryland. He’s consulted for presidents, prime ministers, and secretaries of defense, and authored magnificent books on By...
Second Breakfast: Invading Canada, Benedict Arnold, Iran (01:03:19)
whole gang is here. Also a little Minnesota and 30 seconds of NDS (which is all it deserves)
suno: https://suno.com/s/SJ0FoEPMVZ3QS441
'He couldn’t capture Canada, but captured infamy—
The only gene...
EMERGENCY POD: PLA Purges Continue! (00:56:03)
Jon Czin, former CIA analyst and NSC staffer, returns to talk purges. We have far too much fun.
The disney take on PLA purges: https://suno.com/s/Wv1yQyxdUhWBzyA0
08:50 Deep read into the WSJ nuke ...
Overfit: Claude Code is Everything, Trump Vibe Codes (01:10:41)
Jasmine Sun of https://jasmi.news/ and Nathan Lambert of https://www.interconnects.ai/ report for duty. Athena makes a brief guest appearance before dipping for pilates.
Jordan's flower app: https://...
Second Breakfast: Battleships, Golden Dome, Greenland, Kash, Presidential Comedy (01:12:50)
Bryan Clark (former submariner at Hudson), Eric Robinson, and Justin McIntosh report for duty.
Davos disco: https://suno.com/s/2SpR62beigk2JeDr
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The Future of Economic Security with Dan Kim and Chris Miller (01:20:29)
Is there such a thing as MAD in economic warfare? How should we measure the effectiveness of our industrial policy tools, and what outcomes should we be aiming for anyway?
Our guest today is Dan Kim,...
Party Time! Jon Czin on US-China in 2025 and 2026 (01:01:41)
Jon Czin spent years as a top China analyst at the CIA, served as China Director on Biden’s National Security Council, and now works at the Brookings Institution. We talk through:
Xi, Trump, and w...
Richard Danzig on Cyber and AI (01:44:16)
Richard Danzig, national treasure, joins the podcast to discuss the national security implications of AI in the cyber context.
Do note we conducted this interview in July of 2025.
We discuss Richard...
The China Commission Reports! (00:59:58)
The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission late last year released its annual report to Congress. ChinaTalk welcomes two commissioners to the pod to discuss.
Before joining the Hoover Ins...
Ben Buchanan on AI and Cyber (01:22:19)
Happy New Year! This is your reminder to fill out the ChinaTalk audience survey. The link is here. We’re here to give the people what they want, so please fill it out! ~Lily 🌸
Ben Buchanan, now a ...
Second Breakfast: Iran, $500B for Defense...and should we pity RTX? (00:55:46)
Bryan Clark joins.
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Transistor Radio: WFE and Doug's Claude Code Psychosis (00:56:04)
but in a nice way
happy new year!
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Are We Cooked? Q1 2026 (01:08:30)
We check in on the state of the republic and allied scale with Peter Harrell, former Biden official and host of the excellent new Security Economics podcast, Kevin Xu, who writes the Interconnected ne...
Emergency Second Breakfast: Venezuela (01:12:19)
The gang (Justin Mc, Tony Stark and Eric Robinson) and I talk about what the hell just happened this past weekend and what it all means.
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Japanese Economic Security Policy with A REAL LIFE METI OFFICIAL (00:49:01)
Nishikawa Kazumi, Principal Director for Economic Security Policy at the legendary Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), joins China Talk. Cohosting is Charles Lichfield of the Atla...
ChinaTalk 2025 Year in Review (00:39:56)
ChinaTalk Audience survey: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScQ99GAL0m_8iBqZDiKoEjRZiyX6544QvaCNtd1cVkc826n7A/viewform?usp=dialogFeatured coverage on Substack:
Industrial diamonds: https:/...
Joe Weisenthal and I do a Show About Nothing (01:03:22)
A festivus special!
Joe Weisenthal, host of Odd Lots and my podcast host alter ego, come to celebrate his ten years of hosting, reflect on the medium and China.
01:21 following your podcasting bliss...
Second Breakfast: Arctic Warfare Christmas Special! (00:55:13)
Steve Gagnon joins the show!
Book: Thousand Mile War https://www.amazon.com/Thousand-Mile-War-Aleutians-Classic-Reprint/dp/0912006838
Outtro music:
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Rahm Returns to Chat Trump and China: “He is the worst negotiator.” (01:00:59)
Rahm Emanuel returns to ChinaTalk with a characteristically blunt assessment of U.S.-China relations, delivering an unsparing verdict on the first year of Donald Trump’s second term.
We discuss:
...
Détente 2.0 with Mike Froman of CFR (01:01:00)
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:
Why his 1992 dissertation on détente is sudden...
Second Breakfast: Habemus NDAA! (01:04:09)
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 logistics, Xi's money)
Tony has an amazing tv pi...
Overfit: NeurIPS Vibes, Research Doesn't Matter, OpenAI Cooked? (01:00:25)
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/dkulmuRvScACxObX
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Emergency Pod: H200s to China with Dmitri Alperovich (00:43:14)
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 to china.
outtro music, a fan song to Jameison Gre...
Second Breakfast: Trump's National Security Strategy + Hegseth's Second Strike (00:58:12)
First half on the national security strategy you can read here https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2025-National-Security-Strategy.pdf
26:18 we get into the second strike
Tony's Ta...
