PJ Vogt

I will be there.

Alongside This American Life's Ira Glass, Emilia Clarke from Game of Thrones, fiction writer Kristen Rupenian.

It is a stacked lineup.

There's even more people.

I think it's going to be a special night.

The venue is Roulette in Brooklyn, June 16th.

Tickets are 25 bucks.

There will be a link in our show notes.

One night only.

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Welcome to Search Engine.

I'm PJ Vogt.

No question too big, no question too small.

President Trump met last week in China with President Xi Jinping.

They talked only a bit about one of the biggest points of contention between our two superpowers, the one I was listening for, Taiwan.

Taiwan is an independent democracy 100 miles southeast of China's coast.

China wants to take Taiwan for itself, but the U.S.

for decades has stood in the way.

Taiwan also happens to be where almost all of the high-quality graphics chips driving the AI race are made.

If either country controlled Taiwan, the AI race would be fundamentally over.