The monster of political corruption has been with us since the founding. But since the Progressive Eva, it has been cut with ...

Barnett Koven on American innovation and Super Intelligence ...

After Santiago, I took a day trip to the Southern city of Concepción, Chile’s second largest city. Santiaguinos hate Santiago ...

China does not ultimately need its own Groq; it needs its own ASML, TSMC, SK Hynix etc., the whole complex industrial ecosystem on which Western chip design startups can thrive. Interesting novel chip ...

What does Liang Wenfeng actually believe? The DeepSeek Thesis reconstructs DeepSeek’s strategy from leaked minutes of a four-hour meeting between Liang Wenfeng and investors. For Liang, general ...

Is China’s economy broken? Logan Wright, Jordan’s former boss (!) and a top expert on Chinese macroeconomics, says the financial system that powered China’s extraordinary growth is now constraining it ...

ChinaTalk is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. In the first part of this article on China’s responses to Starlink, ...

Paddy Stephens writes about space, security, and energy for The Wire China, Resilience Media and others. He’s based between London, Nice and Taipei. This is Part 1 of his two-part investigation of ...

This is Part 2 of our Taiwan drone series! Ethan Kessler was a 2025-2026 Boren Graduate Fellow for Mandarin Chinese in Taiwan. Before that, he was a graduate student and think tank researcher focusing ...

Over the course of this week, we are thrilled to share an in-depth, vivid journey through Taiwan’s drone industry in two parts. Ethan’s rigorous research and extensive on the ground reporting is a ...

Jay Kimmel is a seasonal fellow with GovAI, where he conducted this research, as well as a fellow with the Penn Project on the Future of U.S.-China Relations and a former U.S. diplomat. As the next ...

We finally have a more complete timeline of the OpenAI-Hugging Face attack in July. Safety researchers at METR and Redwood Research published their independent investigation on August 26. The same day ...