America, China, and the Tech Cold War with Chris Miller

The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart

Comedy Central

Comedy, News Commentary, Politics, News

4.5 • 10.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2026

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Following Trump's return from his summit in China, Jon is joined by Chris Miller, author of "Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology." Together, they explore the supply chain for semiconductors that runs through Taiwan, discuss how the trade war between the US and China is reshaping technology development and production, and consider what this competition reveals about the emerging world order. Plus, Jon has to choose between Nixon and Trump! This episode is brought to you by: GROUND NEWS - Go to https://groundnews.com/stewart to see all sides of every story. Subscribe for 40% off the Vantage Subscription only for a limited time through our link https://groundnews.com/stewart AVOCADO - Go to https://AvocadoGreenMattress.com/TWS and check out their mattress and bedding sale! SURFSHARK - Go to https://surfshark.com/jonstewart and use code jonstewart at checkout to get 4 extra months of Surfshark VPN! UPWORK - Visit https://upwork.com/tws right now and post your job for free. Follow The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart on social media for more: > YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@weeklyshowpodcast > Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weeklyshowpodcast > TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@weeklyshowpodcast > X: https://x.com/weeklyshowpod > BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/theweeklyshowpodcast.com Host/Executive Producer – Jon Stewart Executive Producer – James Dixon Executive Producer – Chris McShane Executive Producer – Caity Gray Lead Producer – Lauren Walker Producer – Brittany Mehmedovic Producer – Gillian Spear Video Editor & Engineer – Rob Vitolo Audio Editor & Engineer – Nicole Boyce Music by Hansdle Hsu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the weekly show podcast.
0:10.9	My name is John Stewart.
0:12.0	It is a lovely date.
0:13.1	It is May 19th.
0:15.3	It is Tuesday.
0:17.3	I'm actually on Colbert tonight.
0:19.3	So if any, oh, well, this will be airing tomorrow. I'm actually on Colbert tonight. So if any, oh, well, this would be airing tomorrow.
0:21.9	I'm actually on Colbert yesterday. That's a strange way to promote that. It's my sadly final
0:30.6	appearance on the late show. And I'm, I just can't wait to spend some quality time with my friend,
0:37.1	hopefully to the pleasure of the audience
0:39.7	that we'll be watching. And so I urge all of you, if you are within the sound of my voice,
0:45.8	please do watch. And not just that. Watch on Wednesday and watch on Thursday. And, you know,
0:52.1	enjoy, celebrate what has been a remarkable run of a person and, you know, enjoy, celebrate what has been a remarkable run of a person and remove it from
0:59.4	the melancholy circumstances by which it occurs because his career in broadcasting, and it's
1:06.4	not over by any stretch of the imagination, but it deserves to be separated from whatever black hole
1:13.4	of perverse corruption snuffed it out in the first place. And I think that's what I'll be going
1:20.3	there to do tonight. And that's what I hope that everyone will be doing over these next few days.
1:26.6	Just truly a once in aetime broadcaster, performer,
1:32.0	and I can't wait to see him and give him a big old hug.
1:35.3	But on the way to that, I would be remiss if I did not also discuss the Taiwan ship war. This may be the worst segue I've ever done in the history
1:49.4	of this program. But it is an important. The President of the United States has just returned
1:54.6	from his historic trip to China where he got, what's the Chinese word for bupkis? We got bupkis. And we don't really know
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