Jordan Schneider

I’m an independent researcher based in New York with a background in history, economics, tech policy, and China.  You can contact me on Twitter, Linkedin, or at Jordan@chinatalk.media. I write the The ChinaTalk Newsletter where I comment on US-China tech issues and analyze popular articles from Chinese-language media on tech and politics.

• An essay on the long term implications of America’s semiconductor export controls
• What to do about TikTok
• a submission for Open Philanthropy’s Cause Exploration Prize entitled War Between the US and China: A case study for epistemic challenges around China-related catastrophic risk. In this essay, I argued for renewed investment in China Studies as a pathway to reduce catastrophic risk or, for that matter, increase US competitiveness.
• What To Do About Xinjiang
• Only a Financial NATO Can Win the Economic War
• A data-driven deep dive into the woeful inepititute of Chinese influence operations on Twitter.

I also have published 250+ episodes of the ChinaTalk Podcast, an interview-based show about Chinese tech, economics and politics. Here’s a best-of Spotify playlist. Great shows include:

• NSC Jake Sullivan on US-China relations
• Journalist Peter Hessler on Egypt and China
• Comedian Turner Sparks on his misadventures in Suzhou building a soft-serve ice cream empire

Advice posts:

• So you want to be a Yenching Scholar
• China Policy: an Early Career Guide

I had a pretty awful brain injury in 2016 and blogged about it here. I’m currently a research analyst at the Rhodium Group and fellow at CNAS. I previously worked at Chinese social media firm Kuaishou, the global macro hedge fund Bridgewater Associates, a Princeton University research organization Innovations for Successful Societies, and the political risk firm Eurasia Group. I have a BA in history from Yale, and an MA from Peking University, where I played Madison and Mulligan in a full production of Hamilton.