Xi Jinping
7 statements across 5 episodes · 0 bullish · 3 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Apr 6, 2025 by Dwarkesh Patel · said 79 times in 30 episodes since 2024 · across every show →
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2026 50 mentions in 10 episodes 5 per episode
- Trump-Xi Summit, Space Data Center Debate, Inflation Up | Diet TBPN
- FULL INTERVIEW: Bill Bishop Thinks China’s Military is Still Deeply Corrupt
- U.S. Bans New Chinese Humanoids, Zuck’s Op-Ed, eBay's $56M Lawsuit | Diet TBPN
- Swatch & AP Collab, Cerebras Boosts IPO Price, Trump to Visit China | Diet TBPN
- Thoma Bravo Loses Medallia, OpenAI Drops ChatGPT 5.5, Bob Iger Returns | Diet TBPN
- FULL INTERVIEW: Ethan Thornton: War With China Will Be Over in DAYS
- U.S. AI Execs Warn as China’s AI Push Grows, Substack Adds AI Detection Tool | Diet TBPN
- Binance’s CZ: We’ll Never Know Satoshi, and That’s Good
- 2 more episodes that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 21 mentions in 15 episodes 1 per episode
- Is America Losing the Tech War with China? | Jordan Schnaider on TBPN
- OpenAI Requesting Federal Backstop? | Diet TBPN
- Building GPUs Is Easier Than You Think | Aaron Ginn on TBPN
- Could AI TAKE OVER by 2027? | Morgan Housel on TBPN April 4th
- Dwarkesh Patel (Dwarkesh Podcast) on The Scaling Hypothesis, AI and China
- Paramount’s Deal Playbook, Trump Opens Nvidia’s China Door, Saudis Loosen Drinking Laws | Diet TBPN
- Google Makes MAJOR Cancer Research Breakthrough | Diet TBPN
- Weekly Recap: The Soham Parekh Drama, Meta Attacks OpenAI, Trump's Mega Bill
- 7 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
Everything said about Xi Jinping, oldest first
Apr 6, 2025 neutral
Patel: Human Brain Compute Limits Restrict Centralized Organizational Control
“Right now, you know it's really hard for, if you have an institution or organization company, it's really hard for the person at the center to have that much awareness of what's happening in the company to control it to any great extent. Xi Jinping has the sam…”
Apr 28, 2025 bearish
US risks losing STEM research advantage to China over immigration crackdowns
“Xi Jinping would cut off his left hand for the basic research university industrial complex, which America has, which no other country in the world can hold a candle to until 20 until late 20 25. Where every single good STEM PhD and STEM and STEM professor who…”
Feb 10, 2026 neutral
Bishop: Trump will delay $20 billion Taiwan arms sale until Xi meeting
“Over the weekend, you know, we saw, I think on Friday, the Financial Times reported, yes, there's a twenty billion dollar package in the works and it's something the Chinese don't want to have happen, and they have threatened to postpone or cancel Trump's visi…”
Feb 10, 2026 negative
Bishop: Purging dozens of generals impacts PLA combat readiness in the short term
“There's clearly the number of generals and senior officers who've been taken out over the last two plus years is quite shocking. It's in the dozens, and so it, it's hard to imagine in the short term it doesn't have some impact on the military's ability to figh…”
Feb 10, 2026 negative
Bishop: Military purges reduce China's Central Military Commission to two members
“The PLA has a top structure, it's called the Central Military, Military Commission, and it's got a chairman who's Xi Jinping, and then two vice chairmen and four members. So seven members. They're now two members, Xi and a vice chairman, because he's purged th…”
Apr 9, 2026 neutral