Where should US-China tech relations go? What should “Competitive when it should be. Collaborative when it can be. Adversarial when it must be” actually mean in practice?To discuss, on this episode we have John Bateman, a newly minted senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and my Rhodium colleague Charlie Vest as co-host.We get into- Analyzing the China tech threat and current tech policy- US public strategy on China and tech and why it’s not very clear.- How LCD panels made it onto the list of critical tech in mid-nineties but mobile phones didn’t. - Why it’s so difficult for intelligence analysts to assess and predict the behavior of a foreign leader. John's report: https://carnegieendowment.org/2022/04/25/u.s.-china-technological-decoupling-strategy-and-policy-framework-pub-86897What American policymakers read: https://scholars-stage.org/american-policy-makers-do-not-read-books/ Outro music: Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues by Bob Dylan, live at Carnegie Hall 1963https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5Xn9YOKPcQ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Policy expert John Bateman from the Carnegie Endowment for Peace discusses the challenges of disinformation in the age of TikTok and social media. Topics include data access, national security risks of Chinese-owned platforms, and the balance between combating disinformation and upholding free speech. The episode concludes with the importance of promoting media literacy and supporting local journalism in navigating the digital information landscape.