ChinaTalk Podcast Transcripts
Jordan Schneider · 576 episodes with transcripts
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/
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Latest ChinaTalk transcripts
The MATCH Act and China’s DUV Imports
October 20, 2026
Nick Brown (0:00)
It is a button that lets you win the AI competition between the US and China. The US and Japan can jointly have the IF effect of controlling all immersion systems to China. But China has recognized that we have a big cannonball-sized hole, it's not really a loophole, we would call it a cannonball hole, in our export…
Aqib Zakaria (0:22)
But we have deposition and etching companies, and we've handcuffed our own with the expectation that Japan was going to follow suit and they haven't, right? So there's a fairness.
Jordan Schneider (0:30)
I don't know, Aqib, fairs got nothing to do with it. Fair ain't got nothing to do with it.
- The MATCH Act and China’s DUV Imports
- Drone Dominance | Travis Metz - DIU Acting Director
- Why a Chinese AI Lab’s Product Lead Thinks AGI is “Inevitable” | Richard Bian
- From Posting to Policy: Saif Khan on DUV and the AI Balance
- AGI Believers: Kevin Roose on the Race
- Data is the Hard Part | Building AI Tools for the Military
- WarTalk: AutoWarCom + Project Meridian
- Section 301 and the Spice Man who Sued Trump Over Them
- China's Economy is Broken | Logan Wright
- WarTalk: Potemkin Pacific, Midterm Budget Woes
- Julian Gewirtz on Trump-Xi Summit, AI, and Mao Dead Fifty Years Ago!
- Can AI Beat the Pentagon’s Bureaucracy?
- WarTalk: PLA, 2027, Nukes, and the Pivot to Asia Pirouette
- ModelTalk: Pacing the Frontier
- WarTalk: 9.11, Death of the Army, So Long Dan Driscoll
- WarTalk: GWOT at 25 with Wesley Morgan
- Cyber Apocalypse, Now? Hugging Face and the Future of Cyber Risk
- WarTalk: USN Readiness Reckoning, Steampunk Navy, and AI Cyberwar with Shashank of the Economist
- How AI Becomes a Political Crisis
- Lessons from the American Civil War
- North Korea's Messiah
- The Rise of China’s Electric Vehicle Industry
- China's Best Music in 2026 (So Far)
- $75k Contest Launch! ChinaTalk Hiring + Evals for the Situation Room
- WarTalk: Out of Ammo for Real + Are CCAs Dumb?
- The FCC's New Robot Rules
- Jordan talks AI with Sebastian Mallaby on his show 'The Spillover'
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