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ChinaTalk: China's Wolf Warrior Diplomacy, Part 1
Jordan Schneider Wed, Jan 26, 2022, 8:42 AM
Why has China and its foreign ministry struggled to communicate with the world?
Jordan Schneider is the host of the ChinaTalk podcast and newsletter. He previously worked at Kwai, Bridgewater and the Eurasia Group. His Chinese landscape paintings "show promise."
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ChinaTalk: Imperial Japan + Export Controls = Pearl Harbor!?
Jordan Schneider Wed, Jan 12, 2022, 1:38 PM
What can U.S.-China relations learn from U.S.-Japan relations in the leadup to WWII? To discuss, I’m joined by Stony Brook University’s Michael Barnhart, author of the 1987 Japan Prepares for Total War: The Search for Economic Security, 1919–1941 and the more recent Can You Beat Churchill?: Teaching History through Simulations (https://www.amazon.com/Can-You-Beat-Churchill-Simulations/dp/1501755641), with Scholar’s Stage essayist Tanner Greer (@Scholars_Stage) cohosting.
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ChinaTalk: Year in Review + Future Plans for ChinaTalk
Jordan Schneider Wed, Jan 5, 2022, 10:47 AM
See here for the Year in Review in text form with lots of links: https://chinatalk.substack.com/p/2021-year-in-review-future-plans
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ChinaTalk: Sci-fi Mecha Wu Zetian, YouTube on China and C-drama Fails
Jordan Schneider Wed, Jan 5, 2022, 10:45 AM
NYT bestselling YA author Xiran Jay Zhao (@XiranJayZhao) joins me to talk about her new book, Iron Widow, a Pacific Rim meets Handmaiden's tale sci-fi retelling of the story of Wu Zetian. Co-hosting is ChinaTalk's editor Callan Quinn (@quinnishvili).
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ChinaTalk: U.S.-China Science Relations and the PhDs Caught in the Middle
Jordan Schneider Mon, Dec 20, 2021, 11:57 AM
What's it like to live across the US-China scientific divide? Yale Law School postdoc, particle physicist and essayist Yangyang Cheng (@yangyang_cheng) joins me alongside undergrad Alex Liang to talk about understanding the other, how the personal can be lost in the noise of geopolitical tension and science across borders.
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ChinaTalk: CSET: How to Break the Think Tank Mold
Jordan Schneider Wed, Dec 8, 2021, 9:10 AM
Dewey Murdick, director of CSET, discusses how the organization has brought a new level of rigor to hot topics ranging from chips to immigration and AI safety policy.
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ChinaTalk: Son Eating and Prince-Slaying: Stratagems of the Warring States
Jordan Schneider Thu, Dec 2, 2021, 1:33 PM
Can eating your sons be morally justified? Stratagems of the Warring States is a collection of stories compiled during the Han dynasty about the many states that fought for control of all under heaven in the Warring States Period between the fifth and third centuries BC.