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by Jordan Schneider

Conversations exploring China, technology, and US-China relations. Guests include a wide range of analysts, policymakers, and academics. Hosted by Jordan Schneider.Check out the newsletter at https://www.chinatalk.media/

100 episodes
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1
Software Abundance for Government With Cognition's Russell Kaplan
56:56 Mar 9, 2026
2
Second Breakfast: Iran and the DIB with Fmr SECAF Frank Kendall
1:15:45 Mar 6, 2026
3
Autonomous Weapons 101 + Anthropic v DoW
40:53 Mar 5, 2026
4
Emergency Pod: Iran + Anthropic
1:19:59 Mar 2, 2026
5
Second Breakfast: Anthropic, SecDefs being weird
1:23:42 Feb 27, 2026
6
Lawrence Freedman on Strategy and Nuclear War
1:34:25 Feb 25, 2026
7
Emergency Pod: SCOTUS Scraps Tariffs!
34:02 Feb 20, 2026
8
Second Breakfast: Iran, Munich + European Defense Tech, Anthropic
1:03:23 Feb 20, 2026
9
How the US Won Back Chip Manufacturing
1:39:40 Feb 17, 2026
10
Chinese Peptides (Reported Podcast Special Edition!)
40:49 Feb 13, 2026
11
Rickover’s Playbook: Building Hard Things Inside the State
1:19:34 Feb 13, 2026
12
China's Gaming Landscape
47:26 Feb 11, 2026
13
Chinamaxxing
56:26 Feb 5, 2026
14
Military Revolutions with Ed Luttwak
2:51:20 Feb 1, 2026
15
Second Breakfast: Invading Canada, Benedict Arnold, Iran
1:03:19 Jan 30, 2026
16
EMERGENCY POD: PLA Purges Continue!
56:03 Jan 28, 2026
17
Overfit: Claude Code is Everything, Trump Vibe Codes
1:10:41 Jan 25, 2026
18
Second Breakfast: Battleships, Golden Dome, Greenland, Kash, Presidential Comedy
1:12:50 Jan 24, 2026
19
The Future of Economic Security with Dan Kim and Chris Miller
1:20:29 Jan 21, 2026
20
Party Time! Jon Czin on US-China in 2025 and 2026
1:01:41 Jan 19, 2026
21
Richard Danzig on Cyber and AI
1:44:16 Jan 17, 2026
22
The China Commission Reports!
59:58 Jan 17, 2026
23
Ben Buchanan on AI and Cyber
1:22:19 Jan 11, 2026
24
Second Breakfast: Iran, $500B for Defense...and should we pity RTX?
55:46 Jan 9, 2026
25
Transistor Radio: WFE and Doug's Claude Code Psychosis
56:04 Jan 8, 2026
26
Are We Cooked? Q1 2026
1:08:30 Jan 7, 2026
27
Emergency Second Breakfast: Venezuela
1:12:19 Jan 6, 2026
28
Japanese Economic Security Policy with A REAL LIFE METI OFFICIAL
49:01 Jan 2, 2026
29
ChinaTalk 2025 Year in Review
39:56 Dec 30, 2025
30
Joe Weisenthal and I do a Show About Nothing
1:03:22 Dec 23, 2025
31
Second Breakfast: Arctic Warfare Christmas Special!
55:13 Dec 22, 2025
32
Rahm Returns to Chat Trump and China: “He is the worst negotiator.”
1:00:59 Dec 18, 2025
33
Détente 2.0 with Mike Froman of CFR
1:01:00 Dec 15, 2025
34
Second Breakfast: Habemus NDAA!
1:04:09 Dec 12, 2025
35
Overfit: NeurIPS Vibes, Research Doesn't Matter, OpenAI Cooked?
1:00:25 Dec 10, 2025
36
Emergency Pod: H200s to China with Dmitri Alperovich
43:14 Dec 9, 2025
37
Overfit: Best Party at NeurIPS, Bubble Vibes, OpenAI Shook, China Winning?
1:05:01 Dec 9, 2025
38
Second Breakfast: Trump's National Security Strategy + Hegseth's Second Strike
58:12 Dec 5, 2025
39
Helen Toner Takes the CSET Reins
1:04:26 Dec 2, 2025
40
The Future of Secure Telecom
59:15 Nov 25, 2025
41
Transistor Radio: OpenAI Loses the Mandate, Railroad Bubble = AI Bubble
50:48 Nov 25, 2025
42
Second Breakfast: Witkoff and Putin's Peace Deal
59:08 Nov 21, 2025
43
The Z.ai Playbook
1:16:09 Nov 21, 2025
44
Jake Sullivan on Playing the Long Game
1:10:55 Nov 18, 2025
45
Second Breakfast: Acquisition Reform? Are We Really Doing It?
1:04:20 Nov 15, 2025
46
Overfit: AI Lovers, Chinese Model Takeover, Vice Signalling, Hefei Model
59:21 Nov 11, 2025
47
Second Breakfast: Colby's Pigpen, Counter-UAS, Training, Eat like a Trumper (or Iranian Spy?)
1:05:38 Nov 7, 2025
48
EMERGENCY POD: Tariffs on Trial
1:21:01 Nov 6, 2025
49
CCP Bureaucracies in War
1:21:22 Nov 2, 2025
50
Second Breakfast: Xi-Trump, Taiwan Deterrence, Tibetan Buddhism, Antietam
53:49 Oct 30, 2025
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