China Decode: Taiwan's Record Defense Budget, Evergrande's Life Sentence, and China's Robot Boom

Support for the show comes from Odu. Running a business shouldn't feel like surviving a software group project. One app for accounting, another for inventory, another for sales, and somehow none of them talk to each other. That's where O do comes in. An all-in-one business management software that brings every part of your business together, from sales and accounting to inventory and marketing, all in one powerful platform. No messy integrations, no bouncing between tabs, and best of all, no spreadsheets. Stop managing software and start managing your business with one unified system. Try for free today at ODU.com slash propg. That's O D O O slash Prop G. Support for the show comes from alumni ventures. Your financial advisor may be perfectly happy keeping you in public index funds and spending the afternoon golfing hoping you don't call. But public markets are not the whole market anymore. Alumni Ventures have spent over a decade building a way for individual accredited investors to assemble their own blue chip venture portfolio.

Backed by professional diligence and co-investment alongside leading BC firms, Time and CB Insights both rank Alumni Ventures a top 20 U.S. venture firm. You can sign up for free, see the weekly deal flow, and decide for yourself, or write one check under the Alumni Ventures Foundation fund for a diversified portfolio of about 25 private venture deals. Go to av.vc slash profg. Not an offer to sell securities. Venture capital involves substantial risk, including loss of capital invested. See disclosures and fund offering materials for more information. I'm pretty confident talking into a mic. Hey, I'm doing it right now. But home projects, I second guess everything.

Is that noise normal? Is that water damage? And who should I even call? That's where Thumbtack comes in. Upload a photo or voice note, and their AI-powered search helps diagnose the issue and match you with the right top-rated local pro. Instead of second guessing or searching for hours, you get clarity and can hire the right pro with confidence. For your next home project, try Thumbtack. They know homes. Hire the right pro today.

We already have this episode, so unlocking it is cheap and permanent: the full transcript, segment and word-level timestamps, and .txt, .srt, .vtt and word-level JSON downloads, as many times as you like, forever.

10 free credits is 10 episodes like this one a month. Episodes nobody has transcribed yet cost their length in hours, because we have to actually transcribe them.