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Jordan Schneider
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ChinaTalk: Labs over Fabs: Why the US and EU Should Invest in the Future of Semiconductors
Chris Miller of Tufts and I discuss our report Labs over Fabs, our case for the US to be spending money more broadly than currently conceived…
ChinaTalk: Xi: Failed Reformer?
Why does Xi govern like he’s running out of time? Rhodium’s Dan Rosen and CSIS’ Jude Blanchette discuss their recent Foreign Affairs pieces recapping the…
ChinaTalk: China's Solar Industry and Forced Labor
How did Chinese firms come to dominate the global solar industry? Now that the Biden administration has banned imports for some key components of solar…
ChinaTalk: Larry Summers on China
Is China different? Does secular stagnation apply? How have Chinese economic policymakers changed over time? Should industrial policy be a thing? What should American academia…
ChinaTalk: China's Cyber Strengths + How to Analyze Policy
Dave Aitel, who started his career at NSA and spent the past twenty years in offensive cybersecurity, comes on ChinaTalk to discuss what he’s learned in…
ChinaTalk: DARPA and How to R&D Right
Ben Reinhardt, an independent researcher and robotics PhD, discusses why DARPA has so many hits to its name; why NASA wasted the past two decades;…
ChinaTalk: In-Q-Tel on Chips, CFIUS, and The Valley of Death
Dr. Yan Zheng, senior technical staff specializing in microelectronics at In-Q-Tel, discusses what it’s like to invest in startups for the CIA and the rest…
ChinaTalk: How to Solve America's R&D Bottlenecks
Bell Labs is dead, long live Bell Labs! This week’s guest, Ilan Gur, the CEO of Activate.org, has a plan to improve America’s R&D apparatus:…
ChinaTalk: Emergency Pod! Endless Frontier Act Butchered!
The Endless Frontier Act, the most important piece of legislation no one’s heard of, got blown to bits in committee this week. Sam Hammond of…
ChinaTalk: How Beijing Sees Korea
Why hasn’t North Korea emulated Deng’s Opening & Reform? Are China’s wealthy, educated, urbane youth liberals? Could the PLA cooperate with the U.S. military in…