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Economic Security Megapod!
Jun 24, 2026
1h 19m 38s
Rare Earths: What is To Be Done?
Jun 22, 2026
59m 34s
WarTalk with Ely Ratner on Iran War Peace + the 'BS' US-China Stalemate
Jun 19, 2026
1h 17m 51s
AI for Science!
Jun 17, 2026
49m 26s
Emergency Pod: Claude Fable Fried + What's Going on at BIS?
Jun 15, 2026
1h 10m 05s
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| 6/24/26 | ![]() Economic Security Megapod! | Earlier this year, we ran an essay contest on economic security. We gave entrants two prompts: What are the most important high level KPIs that policy should aim for? What is the analogy of the Fed’s ’2% inflation and full employment’ target for economic security? Where today would you put $10-50bn to get the most for your investment in economic security? Feel free to propose both defensive and offensive ideas, and either a portfolio of ideas or the one large idea you think will deliver the most value. We ended up with a literal four-way tie for first place, with each judge giving a different essay top marks. We heard from Farrell Gregory earlier about how to spend rare earths money, and here, we’ll be spotlighting the three others who went into the framework question. Joining us today — Jahara Matisek, a lieutenant colonel in the Air Force and fellow at the U.S. Naval War College; Naveen Krishnan at the Belfer Center and an intel officer in the Navy Reserve; and Guy Ward Jackson, senior policy analyst at the Tony Blair Institute in London. No one is speaking for the Air Force, the Navy, Harvard, the Naval War College, the Tony Blair Institute, or the Department of War. I’m speaking for ChinaTalk. Our conversation covers: Why economic security is really an insurance problem — you’re paying people to keep factories warm, workers trained, and capacity idle for a war that may never come — and why no democracy likes paying that bill. Why the U.S. can’t China-proof its economy alone — the case for a distributed allied industrial base and using allied leverage and counter-coercion as an offensive tool. What $6 billion and four years bought in artillery production, why it still wasn’t enough, and how Patriot missile economics expose the danger of having exquisite weapons without industrial depth. Why you can’t science your way out of a volume problem — AI, robotics, and frontier R&D are caffeine, but the U.S. is still short on food and water. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 1h 19m 38s | ||||||
| 6/22/26 | ![]() Rare Earths: What is To Be Done? | To discuss, we have Farrell Gregory, a researcher at the Foundation for American Innovation and winner of ChinaTalk’s Economic Security essay competition, and Joris Teer, a policy analyst at the EU Institute for Security Studies who authored Beijing’s critical raw material weapon – and how to dismantle it. Co-hosting is ChinaTalk’s Aqib Zakaria. Our conversation covers... China’s critical mineral weapon — How Beijing turned its dominance over rare earths into a tool of economic coercion and why the West is struggling to respond. 25 minerals that actually matter — Why policymakers should focus on the specific materials China can weaponize rather than spreading resources across broad critical mineral lists. Why subsidies alone won’t fix the problem — How China’s industrial policy, overcapacity, and ability to flood markets make it nearly impossible for Western supply chains to compete without coordinated action. Reshoring the industrial base — The tradeoffs behind rebuilding domestic capacity: higher end-product costs, environmental NIMBYism, skilled labor shortages, and the need for deeper US-European cooperation. The next resource race — How defense, AI, robotics, and energy demand are intensifying competition for critical materials and what the future of allied industrial power might look like. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 59m 34s | ||||||
| 6/19/26 | ![]() WarTalk with Ely Ratner on Iran War Peace + the 'BS' US-China Stalemate | Ely Ratner, former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs and now a principal at the Marathon Initiative, joins Jordan, Bryan Clark, and Justin to make sense of the Iran ceasefire and where US-China competition goes next. We discuss: Why the MOU reads as a loss: the blockade comes down first, Iran keeps its missiles and its "nuclear dust," and a younger, harder regime learns it can take American firepower and wield an oil weapon The "bullshit détente" with Beijing and whether reindustrialization can carry a China-competition message without sounding hawkish Output metrics over input metrics, the seven-year force-posture problem, and what Ratner wishes he'd moved into the "break glass" category at the Pentagon RoboCom: the pros and cons of standing up a new combatant command Plus Crassus at Parthia, and why chasing parades is a bad idea unless you're the ny knicks suno song: https://suno.com/s/scu8twGj01AIOYSL Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 1h 17m 51s | ||||||
| 6/17/26 | ![]() AI for Science! | AI will make ideas cheap. What does that mean for sicence? Charles Yang is a fellow at Renaissance Philanthropies and writes about AI and science here: https://republicofscience.substack.com. We discuss… Why AI will crack math but not science, and what Mendel's peas sitting ignored for 60 years says about a model that's smarter than everyone Why China never caught the West's lone-genius bug, and why that's about to pay off Tools over ideas, from Warren Weaver's six instruments to the thousands at CERN who proved a Higgs boson three guys took home the Nobel for How do spend a billion dollars to save higher education AI, souls, and whether your Claude gets into heaven Suno song: https://suno.com/s/3Q11kw74vQmH7eLN Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 49m 26s | ||||||
| 6/15/26 | ![]() Emergency Pod: Claude Fable Fried + What's Going on at BIS? | Chris McGuire, former civil servant in State and the Biden White House now at CFR, talk about the export control craziness of these past two weeks. We discuss: The 5:21 PM letter that took the world's most powerful model offline Why the "let it rip" administration pivoted to mandatory AI regulation overnight The incoherent export-control regime: regs that still say one thing while policy says another The overseas-subsidiary loophole, the Sunday emergency fix, and the foundry gap still left open outtro music: https://suno.com/s/UVeDiboPyj0jvIgO Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 1h 10m 05s | ||||||
| 6/12/26 | ![]() ModelTalk: Claude Fable (Nathan's pissed), is AI actually productive, advice for graduates✨ | AI productivitygraduate advice+1 | Nathan LambertJasmine Sun+1 | interconnects.aijasmi.news+1 | — | AIproductivity+3 | — | 55m 45s | |
| 6/11/26 | ![]() Sen. Slotkin on NDAA, AI Nukes, Chinese Cars, and Taiwan✨ | NDAAAI+5 | Elissa Slotkin | OSD PolicyAnthropic+1 | MichiganTaiwan+1 | NDAAAI Guardrails Act+5 | — | 31m 51s | |
| 6/8/26 | ![]() Paul Kennedy on Great Powers, Past and Present✨ | historymilitary power+3 | Paul Kennedy | The Rise and Fall of the Great PowersThe Rise of Anglo-German Antagonism, 1860 to 1914+3 | — | great powershistorian+3 | — | 1h 18m 40s | |
| 6/5/26 | ![]() WarTalk: The View from AFRICOM with LTG Brennan✨ | geopoliticsmilitary strategy+5 | LTG John W. Brennan Jr. | U.S. Africa CommandISIS+1 | AfricaUkraine+4 | AFRICOMcounter-VEO+6 | — | 1h 03m 14s | |
| 6/1/26 | ![]() The Pope has AI Takes✨ | AI ethicstheology+4 | Tim HwangJohn-Clark Levin+1 | Institute for Christian Machine IntelligenceKurzweil Technologies | Holy SeeUS+2 | Pope LeoAI+6 | — | 50m 50s | |
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| 5/29/26 | ![]() WarTalk: NatSec in Congress + AI Evals for War✨ | national securityAI evaluation+5 | Ike Harris | Frontier Security InstituteHouse Select Committee on the CCP+2 | ChinaUkraine+1 | AI modelsnational security+6 | — | 48m 46s | |
| 5/28/26 | ![]() Arizona's Abundance Playbook✨ | semiconductor productionindustrial policy+4 | Ian O’Grady | TSMCIntel+2 | ArizonaPhoenix | Arizonasemiconductors+7 | — | 59m 15s | |
| 5/26/26 | ![]() WarTalk: Ukraine's Forward Drone Line with Rob Lee✨ | Ukraine conflictdrone warfare+4 | Rob Lee | StarlinkHornet+3 | Ukraine | Ukrainedrone edge+5 | — | 1h 09m 26s | |
| 5/22/26 | ![]() Doing Big Things in Policy: It's All White Space✨ | policyemerging technology+3 | Kumar GargRemco Zwetsloot | Renaissance PhilanthropyHorizon Institute for Public Service+4 | Bulgaria | policy changeemerging tech+3 | — | 56m 09s | |
| 5/18/26 | ![]() Trump's China Visit: Prestige on the Cheap✨ | prestige politicsUS-China relations+4 | Sergey RadchenkoKevin Xu+1 | CIANSC+2 | Mar-a-LagoBeijing+1 | TrumpXi Jinping+6 | — | 1h 07m 53s | |
| 5/12/26 | ![]() The Stalemate Summit: Xi-Trump in the Long Sweep of US-China Relations | Julian Gewirtz, former Biden administration China official, now at Columbia, joins me to chat about the Xi-Trump visit and all things US-China. Matt Sheehan, senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, drops by to give his takes on the AI angle.We cover: What to expect (and not expect) from the Trump-Xi “stalemate summit” Historical echoes from the 1793 Macartney mission and the 1972 Nixon-Kissinger opening — summit optics, status games, and the choreography of power. Taiwan — arms sales, declaratory language, and Beijing's long game on Taiwanese morale and politics. The good and bad case for China in the Iran conflict, and how Chinese officials may be reading America's military commitments, political cohesion, and staying power. US-China AI safety conversation after Mythos, China's approach to frontier AI risks, and the control, harness, govern playbook for emerging technologies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 1h 19m 51s | ||||||
| 5/9/26 | ![]() WarTalk: Iran War 'Love Tap' Edition feat. Jack Shanahan | The White House says the war is over. The White House also says it's continuing in a new form. Two weeks after the launch of Project Freedom, only two Maersk ships took the offer. Roughly 900 ships remain trapped in the Persian Gulf, and the Saudis just declined to grant basing or overflight rights. Retired Lt. Gen. Jack Shanahan — founding director of the Pentagon's Joint AI Center and former head of Project Maven — joins Bryan Clark, Eric Robinson, Tony Stark, and Justin McIntosh to dig into the purgatory. We discuss… Why Project Freedom collapsed A leaked CIA assessment putting 70% of Iran's ballistic missile capability still intact The Anthropic supply chain risk designation, Mythos, and the "call me" moment Four F-15Es down, 30 MQ-9s shot down, and why Jack thinks the Air Force was one inch from a televised POW disaster song:https://suno.com/s/kBuJ4ruS5UkfTdY3 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 1h 20m 28s | ||||||
| 5/7/26 | ![]() (Audio Fixed!!) Ken Liu on AI, Daoism, and Freedom✨ | AIDaoism+4 | Ken Liu | Dandelion DynastyThree-Body Problem+3 | — | AIDaoism+6 | — | 1h 18m 12s | |
| 4/30/26 | ![]() WarTalk: Still Very Much Out of Ammo!✨ | US-Iran relationsmilitary strategy+4 | Becca Wasser | Dark Eagle hypersonicsJASSMs+2 | Strait of HormuzIran+2 | US-Iran ceasefiremilitary solution+4 | — | 1h 02m 54s | |
| 4/27/26 | ![]() Quantum 201: US v China Quantum Industrial Base✨ | quantum technologyUS-China relations+4 | Constanza Vidal Bustamante | dilution refrigeratorshelium-3+6 | moon | quantum supply chainsfault-tolerant quantum computer+6 | — | 1h 14m 39s | |
| 4/24/26 | ![]() WarTalk: No Ammo for Taiwan, Polymarket, Bye Phelan, Will Driscoll Go The Distance?✨ | military strategydefense technology+4 | Bryan ClarkJustin Mc+2 | PentagonHudson Institute+1 | TaiwanIran+1 | TaiwanPentagon+6 | — | 58m 12s | |
| 4/23/26 | ![]() Sen. Chris Murphy on Corruption, China and AI✨ | corruptionChina+3 | Chris Murphy | Pardon Penmegaphone.fm | — | corruptionChina+3 | — | 25m 01s | |
| 4/20/26 | ![]() Quantum 101✨ | quantum computingtechnology+3 | Zach YerushalmiChris Miller | Elevate Quantum | — | quantum computingqubits+5 | — | 1h 13m 02s | |
| 4/17/26 | ![]() WarTalk: Is Mythos a Cyber Nuke? + The Blockade That Wasn't✨ | cybersecuritydefense+4 | — | Five EyesDefense Production Act+1 | UkraineSouth Korea+1 | Mythoscyber nuke+5 | — | 1h 02m 18s | |
| 4/16/26 | ![]() The Think Tank New Breed (IFP + FAI)✨ | think tankspolicy impact+3 | Caleb WatneyMax Bodach | Institute for ProgressFoundation for American Innovation | — | think tankspolicy impact+3 | — | 1h 08m 00s | |
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