Second Breakfast: Parades, U.S. Grant, JCIDS, Warbots
Our third defense pod, I guess we're really doing it now.
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Guests include:
Tony Stark, Army vet who writes https://www.breakingbeijing.com/
Justin McIntosh, former Green beret who writes https://justinmc.substack.com/
Eric Robinson, lawyer and Army vet who spent time in OSC, JSOC and the NCTC
Outtro Music: After going through twenty different John Brown's Body recordings this one was my favorite, an acapela rendition by Deborah Anne Goss https://open.spotify.com/track/20id0r7ZlSIFxKifoEFlfC?si=0d2a59f7dfe142fa
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War in the Pacific with Ian Toll
For the 80th anniversary of the Allied victory over Japan, ChinaTalk interviewed Ian Toll about his Pacific War trilogy, which masterfully brings America’s bloodiest war — and the world’s only nuclear war — to life. Ian’s detailed scholarship creates a multisensory historical experience, from the metallic tang of radiation after the bombs were dropped to the stench of Pacific battlefields.
Ian’s forthcoming book, The Freshwater War, will explore the naval campaign the US fought against Britain on the Great Lakes between 1812 and 1815.
Today our conversation covers….
How Ian innovates when writing historical narratives,
Whether Allied victory was predetermined after the US entered the war,
Why the Kamikaze were born out of resource scarcity, and whether Japanese military tactics were suicidal as well,
How foreign wars temporarily stabilized Japan’s revolutionary domestic politics,
How American military leadership played the media and politics to become national heroes,
Lessons from 1945 for a potential Taiwan invasion.
Cohosting is Chris Miller, author of Chip War. Thanks to the US-Japan Foundation for sponsoring this podcast.
Outro music: The Mills Brothers - Till Then (YouTube link)
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Dan Wang on Modern China
Dan Wang at long last makes his solo ChinaTalk debut! We’re here to discuss and celebrate his first book, Breakneck.
We get into…
Engineering states vs lawyerly societies,
The competing legacies of the 1980s in China, the decade which saw brutal repression via the One Child Policy and Tiananmen alongside intellectual debate, cultural vibrancy, and rock and roll,
Methods of knowing China, from the People’s Daily and Seeking Truth to on-the-ground research,
How to compare the values of China’s convenient yet repressive society with the chaotic pluralism of the USA,
What Li Qiang’s career post-Shanghai lockdowns can tell us about the value of loyalty vs competence in Xi’s China.
Outro music: Mozart - The Marriage of Figaro (YouTube link)
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Second Breakfast: Drones, Silicon Shield, Waymo, FedFest, Bolton
Israeli/Ukranian-style bolt from the blue drone attacks freak out Eric.
I don't buy Silicon Shield.
Lessons from Waymo on about the future of warfare.
Intertextual analysis of the Mick Ryan interview.
Fed Supernova, which is a terrible name for a conference, and counterintelligence.
Has John Bolton taken enough Ls already? I guess not.
Guests include:
Tony Stark, Army vet who writes https://www.breakingbeijing.com/
Justin McIntosh, former Green beret who writes https://justinmc.substack.com/
Eric Robinson, lawyer and Army vet who spent time in OSC, JSOC and the NCTC
Outtro Music: Bach, Chris Thile, Partita 1 in B Minor 1002: VI. Double https://open.spotify.com/track/780bh3MspPK19jVDD7EIKu?si=4809af67eda34c38
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NVIDIA GPU Black Market Smuggling
Are GPUs being smuggled into China? Nvidia says no. But Steve Burke, editor in chief of Gamer Nexus, has traced out the entire smuggling chain in an epic three-hour YouTube documentary. He filmed another three-hour documentary exploring the impact of tariffs on America’s supply chain ecosystem.
In today’s conversation, we discuss…
Steve’s investigative process, including how he found people in mainland China willing to speak on the record about black market GPUs,
The magnitude of smuggling, weaknesses in enforcement, and crudeness of US restrictions,
China’s role in manufacturing the GPUs they aren’t allowed to buy,
How Gamers Nexus monetizes content,
What it takes to stand up to Nvidia as an independent journalist.
Check out ChinaTalk's previous work on the history of Nvidia here.
As of August 21st, YouTube has removed the full documentary. Gamers Nexus is working on getting the video back on YouTube, but you can watch it here in the meantime.
Outro music: Jim and Jesse - Ballad of Thunder Road (YouTube Link)
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