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  • Can the US and China work together on anything?

    Can the US and China play nicely enough with each other to not ruin the planet in the coming century? In particular, what prospects are there for cooperation around global challenges and biotech? For this episode, I'm joined by Scott Moore, Penn's director of China programs and strategic initiatives and perhaps the nicest person on China Twitter.

    We discuss

    • Medical cooperation between China and the US during the Ebola outbreak.
    • Whether shared global challenges can be combatted without China.
    • Leapfrogging as a means of developing technologically versus innovation.
    • The scariest things that could happen as a result of biotech research.


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      Outro music: 杨和苏KeyNG - “王位” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2FsnXOKTZ8


      Episode cover art made using Midjourney with the prompt "US China reluctant cooperation in the style of john singer sargent"

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      41 min
    • Export controls for AI: Will they work?

      Do export controls work? And will they work for AI? Meet Emily Weinstein and Tim Hwang. They're research fellows at Georgetown's Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET) and have written a paper on the goals of export controls and whether what the US government is trying to achieve with them is clear.

      We discuss

      • Did the US inadvertently help China make better missiles?
      • How export controls have hurt some US industries' international competitiveness.
      • What export controls can - and can't - do to prevent technology from being developed abroad.
      • Important questions about the management of bowling alleys and churches.


        • Here's the paper we discussed: https://cset.georgetown.edu/publication/decoupling-in-strategic-technologies/

        Annotated bibliography: https://cset.georgetown.edu/publication/from-cold-war-sanctions-to-weaponized-interdependence/

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        Outro music: Noodles and Butter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlP-J5rssa0

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        47 min
      • US-China Chip War

        What will the Biden administration's new export controls mean for the US and Chinese semiconductor industries as well as the future of the US-China relationship?

        To discuss, I assembled the Chips Avengers, consisting of Reva Goujon (Rhodium Group), Jay Goldberg (Digits to Dollars), Doug O'Laughlin (Fabricated Knowledge), and Martin Chorzempa (PIIE). We got into

        • The second-order implications of the Biden Administration's moves for industry
        • What it would take for China to circumvent these controls
        • How Beijing might strike back
        • How the regulations could impact the risk of war


          • Outtro music by Chinese rapper and pop star 婁峻碩 called Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGl-s-FzsFI

          Image courtesy of midjourney from the prompt: "US China chip war EUV"

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          1 hr 2 min
        • How AI is Unlocking Creativity

          The AI revolution in art is coming, not in decades but months and years. What does this mean for creativity and how will it change the way artists work?

          Meet Campfire creative director Steve Coulson. He recently produced an entire comic book using images created by the midjourney AI art generator. Together with my brother Phil Schneider cohosting, we discuss:


          • Whether using tech to generate art is taking money from already struggling artists
          • How AI will end the stock photography industry
          • Why Xi Jinping is banned on midjourney
          • How young artists can get a leg up by learning to use AI
          • The challenge of using AI generator tools when you don't speak English


            • Check out Steve's comic Summer Island here: https://campfirenyc.com/summer-island/


            Outro music: Antonio Vivaldi "Vedro con mio diletto" from Il Giustino by Jakub Józef Orliński (counter-tenor) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yF4YXv6ZIuE


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            31 min
          • Life in Mao's China

            What was life actually like for people in rural China over the last seventy years?

            Brew up a nice cup of tea and find a comfy armchair, it's time for another special edition of ChinaTalk. In this episode, Stanford University graduate student Vivian Zhong tells the story of her grandfather's life, from his childhood in the early days of the People's Republic to today pieced together from conversations they've shared over the years.

            She talks about:

            • What it was like being a student in provincial China
            • Days long trips down the Yangtze
            • Why you shouldn't date in college
            • How her grandfather came to hate sweet potatoes


              • Outro music: Pengyou 朋友 by Emil Chau 周华健 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxaA94HGo9A

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              28 min
            • Kamil on Nukes and Civil War in Russia

              Kamil Galeev comes on the show to talk about the current situation in the war in Ukraine and what it means for:

              • prospects of nuclear war
              • Elite Russian politics and Putin's future viability
              • State stability
              • Moscow's grip on the regions

                • This show was recorded on October 6th.

                Outtro music is a tatar folk song with the google-translated title "Look at your eyelashes" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YY-axn5sk70

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                53 min
              • EMERGENCY PODCAST: New Tech Export Controls with Kevin Wolf

                The US Commerce Department just dropped 100+ pages of new export control regulations that have the potential to reshape the future of the global semiconductor industry. But will these regs stop China from getting below 14nm? Is that a goal even worth pursuing? Are they really enforceable? And what are the tradeoffs baked into taking a unilateral vs multilateral approach?

                To discuss, I have on today Kevin Wolf, partner at the law firm Akin Gump and former BIS official with thirty years' experience in the field, to explain what it all means. We recorded this show Sunday October 9th.

                Cover art was created by midjourney with the prompt: "cyberpunk bureaucrat managing an export control regime"

                I could not find any good supercomputer music so this week's outtro music is a puerto rican banger by Mora and Jhay Cortez, perhaps reflecting the emotions MIIT employees are feeling at the moment?

                https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vgyn7_e9ReQ

                The views I express in this show do not reflect those of my employer the Rhodium Group.

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                1 hr 12 min
              • China + AI = Military advantage?

                How advanced is China's AI ecosystem and how much of it has military applicability? For a Department of Defense perspective, former DOD staffer and current CSIS fellow Greg Allen talks us through AI technology in China.

                Co-hosting is Eric Lofgren of the podcast AcquisitionTalk.

                We discuss

                • AI usage in the war in Ukraine
                • China's strategy for AI up to 2030
                • The military applications of AI technology
                • How China's mixing of commercial and military tech makes international cooperation difficult


                  • Outro music: 谢帝 by 阿达娃 Adawa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcoIny3TD80


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                  1 hr 5 min
                • Why won't China get vaccinated?

                  Why aren't elderly people in China getting vaccinated? To talk all things vaccine from the early days of the PRC to Covid-19, this episode's guest is Cambridge University associate professor in global studies of science, technology and medicine Mary Brazelton (@brazelton_hps). She is also the author of the 2019 book Mass Vaccination: Citizens' Bodies and State Power in Modern China.

                  Co-hosting is Henry Li (@AliusHenricus), policy lead at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change.

                  We discuss

                  • Covid-19 vaccinations and why some citizens need incentives to get vaxxed
                  • Unit 731 and the history of biological warfare in China
                  • What China learned from SARS
                  • The role of Traditional Chinese Medicine in modern health


                    • Outro music: Love Will Prevail by Various Artists including Jackie Chan and Wang Leehom https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mt2-5NrWQbU

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                    1 hr 11 min
                  • Paul Kennedy's Jonathan Spence Memories

                    Prepare a nice cup of tea and put your feet up for a special episode of stories and anecdotes about the late American historian and Sinologist Jonathan Spence, as told by his friend and colleague Paul Kennedy.

                    He takes us through

                    • Why the worst thing about being stationed in Germany was the drunk British soldiers
                    • Conversations about Chinese history with Henry Kissinger
                    • How archaeological digs win you contracts with provincial governments
                    • Spence's approach to research and scholarship


                      • Outro Music: 'This Map' from the opera The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci (!!!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71cJopakfAw

                      Here's a video recording of the whole opera: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_susz11wE9Q

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                      53 min

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