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a year in podcasts
best of the year of the dragon
 • 
Jordan Schneider
1
Imperial Legacy: 1949 to Xi's Death
Was autocracy the key to China's economic miracle?
 • 
Jordan Schneider
, 
Lily Ottinger
, and 
Ilari Mäkelä
Best of Q2 2024
War in Taiwan, AI, Japan, Predicting the News
 • 
Nicholas Welch
1
H1 2024 in Books
Japan, War, England, Civil Service, Sci-Fi, Life in Olden Times
 • 
Jordan Schneider
1
Best of Q1 2024
Rahm, Pottinger, AI, Taiwan, Biotech, USN…
 • 
Nicholas Welch
 and 
Jordan Schneider
A Year in Books
Featuring RobertCaroGPT, Trench Warfare, Lincoln, and Proust
 • 
Jordan Schneider
Media Diet: Best TV, Movies, Podcasts, Games, and Music of the Year
Phil Schneider in Hamlet
 • 
Jordan Schneider
2
2023 in Review
A banner year for tech and China coverage
 • 
Jordan Schneider
3
RAND's Matheny on the Science & Art of Public Policy
What does Moneyball for policy look like?
 • 
Jordan Schneider
 and 
Ryan Hauser
Schell on US-China: Engagement, Tragedy, and Penetrating the Veil
A tour de force of the past thirty years inspired by Lu Xun, Hu Shih, Sophocles, Simon Leys, and Johann Sebastian Bach
 • 
Nicholas Welch
 and 
Jordan Schneider
Kotkin on China: Communism’s Achilles’ Heel, Deterrence, and Learning from the USSR
“You can’t be half Communist, just like you can’t be half pregnant.”
 • 
Nicholas Welch
 and 
Jordan Schneider
1
AI Compute 101: The Geopolitics of GPUs
“If systems continue becoming that powerful and that capable, we might not actually want them again as a society, as a democratic process; we might not…
 • 
Nicholas Welch
 and 
Jordan Schneider
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