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Jordan Schneider, Irene Zhang, Kevin Xu, Chris Miller, Matt Sheehan, Lily Ottinger, F. Ichiro Gifford, Guy Ward Jackson, Zilan Qian, Sergey Radchenko, Julian Gewirtz, Phoebe Chow, Nick Corvino, Aqib ZakariaDeep coverage of technology, China, US policy, and war. We feature original analysis alongside interviews with leading thinkers and policymakers.
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The writers behind this newsletter.
ChinaTalk Founder and EIC
Irene works at ChinaTalk and writes about AI & China, broadly speaking.
Founder of Interconnected Capital, Writer of Interconnected newsletter, ex GitHub, Obama White House
Chris Miller is author of Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology, a professor at the Fletcher School and a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
I write about the political economy of authoritarian states. Editor and Taiwan analyst for ChinaTalk.
Energy futurist building a crystal ball.
Tech | Industrial Strategy | Economic Security | Tony Blair Institute
Writing about US-China AI, to one day not write about US-China AI.
Wilson E. Schmidt Distinguished Professor Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies
China, Geopolitics, Technology, Poetry | Author of Never Turn Back: China & the Forbidden History of the 1980s & Your Face My Flag: Poems | Former White House & State Dept
ChinaTalk. Usually knitting.
I'm a reporter for ChinaTalk through the Tarbell AI Journalism Fellowship. Email: [email protected] . Signal: @nickcorvino.35
Analyst at ChinaTalk. AI policy researcher, with a focus on the semiconductor industry, China, and Taiwan.
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