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ChinaTalk is a niche, analytically driven media outlet focused on China, technology, and geopolitics, with a particular emphasis on how technological change intersects with U.S.–China relations and global power dynamics.
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- Sep 25, 2026
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WarTalk: Potemkin Pacific, Midterm Budget Woes (opens the original)
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WarTalk regulars Bryan Clark of the Hudson Institute, Justin McIntosh, and Tony Stark join Jordan.We discuss…The Potemkin Pacific — why Paparo has half the planet on his map and nothing to fight with, and how the Iran blockade became the status quoThe midterm budget squeeze — what a Democratic Senate means for the defense topline, why Anduril won’t keep working at risk, and how a shipbuilding binge could hollow out the forceWho replaces Hegseth
Xi Descends on DC (opens the original)
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ChinaTalk book club is happening in SF! The first book we’re reading is Xiao Hai’s Adrift in the South, and we’ve partnered with a local bookstore to supply copies — in SF or online. You can RSVP and find out more on Luma. We hope to see you there!Julian Gewirtz, author and former Biden NSC China director, joins ChinaTalk days before Xi Jinping’s first White
Can AI Beat the Pentagon’s Bureaucracy? (opens the original)
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Garrett Berntsen was last seen on ChinaTalk in his role as Deputy CDAO at the State Department. He then went to the Department of Defense for a little bit, and now makes a return in his new role as Chief AI Officer at Accenture Federal Services.We’re going to talk about what the national security community needs — beyond just API access to wonderful models — in order to really change how it does its mission.<
I Went to Kyrgyzstan to Find China’s Silent Nomads (opens the original)
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On a rainy day at the beginning of September, I found myself standing under the giant sky at the foot of the mountains in rural Kyrgyzstan, shouting “add oil! (加油) from the sidelines of a horseback archery track. I was back in Central Asia for the World Nomad Games, an Olympics-style celebration of traditional sports where China reluctantly lets some of its minorities compete.As if that weren’t justification enough for a reporting trip, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization’s annual summit was h
How Chinese AI Radicalizes (opens the original)
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A DeepSeek researcher’s personal blog post recently went viral. On September 13, after DeepSeek V4.1-Flash was released, researcher Liu Shengyu 刘胜与 reflected on how humans might live alongside AI systems with superhuman abilities:As AI develops, future society may trend toward one of two extremes: communism, or Cyberpunk 2077. In the former, the productive forces are enormously liberated and people’s standards of livi
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