ChinaTalk
Jordan Schneider, Irene Zhang, Lily Ottinger, Ethan Kessler, Phoebe Chow, Nick Corvino, Aqib Zakaria, Leia, Jay KimmelDeep coverage of technology, China, US policy, and war. We feature original analysis alongside interviews with leading thinkers and policymakers.
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Can Taiwan Build Drones? Part 2
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 on cross-Strait relations, critical te...
ModelTalk: Pacing the Frontier
ModelTalk regulars , who writes Interconnects, and writer join to work through a week in which Dario asked the industry to slow down and Trump called the whole thing a conspiracy.
- Why the Hugging Face hack broke through where years of...
GWOT at 25 with Wesley Morgan
At Combat Outpost Michigan, at the mouth of the Korengal, the company commander would tell a visiting reporter to expect the first barrage around 7 p.m. — two or three a day, like weather. Twenty-five years after 9/11, WarTalk marks the ann...
The King of Unitree
On August 31, Beijing-based Caijing Magazine 财经杂志 published “The King of Unitree,” a feature about CEO Wang Xingxing’s leadership at Unitree and the robotics company’s recent IPO travails.1 The details in it are amazing, and we’ve decided t...
Can Taiwan Build Drones?
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 real contribution to the discussion around...
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Irene works at ChinaTalk and writes about AI & China, broadly speaking.
I write about the political economy of authoritarian states. Editor and analyst for ChinaTalk.
Stuff I find interesting. Taiwan, China, industrial policy, etc.
ChinaTalk. Usually knitting.
Writer for ChinaTalk and researcher for Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Email: [email protected] Signal: @nickcorvino.35
Analyst at ChinaTalk. AI policy researcher, with a focus on the semiconductor industry, China, and Taiwan.
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace | Technology and International Affairs Program | China AI Initiative
Jay is a fellow with the Penn Project on the Future of U.S.-China Relations and a former U.S. diplomat
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