China Tech Talk
Episodes
Episode 23: Initial look at Iran conflict
20 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This week, I welcomed back my friend Snek onto the show to talk about what we are seeing so far in the Iran conflict.We tried to look at it from the v...
Episode 22: Collaboration with China Research Collective - Embodied AI discussion
10 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
I have joined a project called the China Research Collective to look into providing English language translations of how China thinks about different ...
Episode 21
01 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This week, I invited my discord friend “Sagar” on the show to talk about his experience in moving back to China from his finance sector job in Ame...
Special Episode on Type 09V
14 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This is an emergency episode of my podcast and I invited Bora back to the show to talk about Type 09V submarine.In my mind, this is possibly the most ...
Episode 20: Discussion with Glenn Luk on China's investment priorities over past 30 years
06 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
I welcomed back Glenn to talk about something that he knows far better than me. How has China prioritized investment in different industries over the ...
Episode 19: Discussion with Bora at start of 2026
23 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This week, I welcomed back my friend Bora to talk about where things are at currently. The hot topic of this week is Trump’s capture of Maduro and h...
Episode 18: Open Source AI with Tiezhen Wang
10 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This week, I’m really excited to welcome Tiezhen/Tom Wang from Huggingface on my show. You can find him here on X.We talked about his background wor...
Special Christmas Episode
24 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As we hit the Christmas season of 2025, I have a special episode out to first talk about the 6 future industries that China said it will be focusing o...
Episode 17: Dan Collins and his experience in China
17 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, I welcomed my friend Dan on the show. You can find him on x https://x.com/DanCollins2011. He worked extensively in China’s auto industry ...
Episode 16: China's progress in traditional engineering
04 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, I asked my friend Mr. W to come on the show to talk about China’s progress in traditional industry like chemical and mechanical industry....
Episode 15: Rick Joe on Fujian Carrier and 9/3 parade
20 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, I invited Rick Joe onto my podcast to talk about the commissioning of the CV-18 Fujian carrier. Rick talked about the previous carriers and...
Episode 14: China's Rare earth move and tech breakthroughs
05 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, I decided to summarize the thread I have worked on for a while now since the announcement of China’s Rare earth export controls. I spent ...
Episode 13: Angelica Oung on Nuclear Energy and Cross Straits Relationship
17 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, I invited Angelica Oung on the show to talk about one of my favorite topics: Nuclear Energy. She is able to give us a very detailed explana...
Episode 12: China's recent move in Gold Market
08 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, I welcomed Eric Yeung (@KingKong9888) to talk about what’s been happening recently going on with China and gold. I asked Eric to discuss ...
Episode 11: AI competition with Alibaba and Huawei
01 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, I welcomed back Glenn Luk as well talked about the recent happenings with respect to Alibaba’s Great Leap Forward in its AI ecosystem, cl...
Episode 10 - A view from Brazil
24 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, I spoke with my friend Nelson, who is a Brazilian journalist currently living in and reporting from Beijing. We talked about how Chin...
Episode 8: Han Feizi on China
15 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, I’m happy to welcome Han Feizi on my show. He is a writer on Asiatimes and has very interesting and high quality view on China’s econom...
Episode 9: Initial thoughts on 9/3 Parade
05 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I am joined by Lei and Bora to discuss all the various interesting platforms that we saw in the recent parade. We didn’t talk about...
Episode 7: Thoughts from my China Trip
27 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode, Lei joins me as we discuss the things that I encountered during my trip to China, where I had a lot of thoughts about the overall econom...
Episode 6: AI Q&A
08 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, I decided to do a Q&A of AI related questions I have received on substack, Twitter, discord and forum.Open source models running on domesti...
Episode 5: AI infrastructure
29 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, I invited my friend Simon on the show to talk about AI infrastructure. This is a very interesting topic to think about. We talked about the...
Episode 4
24 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I was inspired to make an episode on manufacturing and why it is difficult to do manufacturing in America after I watched this video, I asked Lei to j...
Episode 3: China's High Speed Rail
17 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For the third episode, I invite Glenn Luk onto the show to talk China’s vast HSR. He helped us debunk many of the myths regarding China’s HSR econ...
Episode 2: Russian/Ukraine conflict
10 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, I welcomed Snek onto my podcast to talk about his thoughts on the ongoing Russian/Ukraine conflict. This is an area that I have not followe...
Episode 1: Recent conflicts and Chinese tech
04 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I invited Lei on the show for our first episode This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bo...