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Jordan Schneider was in cohort 3 (March 2019) with a grant to explain 'the rise of Chinese tech and its global ramifications.' What he built is ChinaTalk — a newsletter and podcast that has become one of the canonical English-language sources for analysis of Chinese technology policy. ChinaTalk covers chips, semiconductor policy, the CCP's tech regulation regime, Chinese AI labs, export controls — the topics that went from niche to geopolitically central over the course of the 2020s. The podcast features policymakers, academics, and engineers who don't appear in many other places. Schneider's project illustrates a particular EV pattern: identify someone covering an under-served topic that's about to become very important, give them a small grant, watch them become essential infrastructure for the discourse five years later.