Summary of today’s top items: Putin-Xi meetings - From the readouts it looks like Putin has had a good visit with Xi, even if there has been no mention of the much discussed Power of Siberia 2 ...
Summary of today’s Essential Eight: 1. Putin in China - Putin has arrived in Beijing. He gave a long interview to Xinhua. It sounds like he is hoping for a lot out of this trip. 2. Reaction to ...
https://sinocism.com/p/putin-in-china-reactions-to-us-tariffs
Summary of today’s Essential Eight: 1. More US Tariffs - President Biden announced new tariffs as part of the review of the Trump Administration’s Section 301 tariffs, while taking a swipe at...
https://sinocism.com/p/us-tariffs-putin-to-china-april-credit
Summary of today’s Essential Eight: US tariffs announcement Tuesday - On Tuesday President Biden will announce new tariffs on products from China as USTR’s Section 301 four year review of the...
Summary of today’s top items: Xi finishing up his Europe trip - I think Xi has had a much more enjoyable time in Serbia and Hungary than he had in France, even with all the cognac. In Hungary X...
Show Notes: On today's show Andrew and Bill begin with takeaways from Xi Jinping’s visit to France, Serbia and Hungary, where topics included cognac, "so-called overcapacity", the war in Ukrain...
Summary of today’s Essential Eight: Xi has left France - How did Xi’s meetings with Macron and von der Leyen go? Was there any progress on reducing Xi’s support for Putin, or on addressing ...
I hope those of you who went away for the May 1 Holiday had a nice vacation. The newsletter is off again May 7 so I can attend Day 1 of the always excellent US Chamber of Commerce China conferenc...
Listen now | This episode of Sharp China is free for everyone. Show Notes: On today's show Andrew and Bill begin with a surprise, 24-hour trip to China for Elon Musk, and a Sunday meeting with Pr...
The PRC is now on the May 1 Holiday. There will not be a regular newsletter for the rest of this week, though we did record an episode of Sharp China this afternoon on the Politburo meeting and t...
The Politburo met today for its April meeting, and the topic was to analyze and study the current economic situation. The meeting also decided that the Third Plenum will meet in July, and the “...
There has been no announcement of the April Politburo meeting, so we should hear about it on Tuesday the 30th on the eve of the May 1 holiday. The assumption is that it will focus on the economy ...
Happy Friday! A few starter comments from me today, and feel free to discuss whatever you would like, here or in the always open Chat or on Notes As expected Xi Jinping met with visiting US Secre...
Summary of today’s Essential Eight: 1. Xi visits the Army Medical University - Xi’s inspection tours usually include a meeting with local PLA officers, and his visit to Chongqing was no diffe...
Summary of today’s Essential Eight: Xi in Chongqing - According to the CCTV package on his inspection Xi “emphasized that Chongqing should benchmark the central tasks of the Party in the new ...
Show Notes: On today's show Andrew and Bill begin with Secretary of State Anthony Blinken's trip to Beijing and Shanghai this week, including reports that the Blinken plans to warn PRC counterpar...
Summary of today’s Essential Eight: Xi in Chongqing - Xi is on an inspection tour in Chongqing. The full propaganda package around his inspection tour has not been released. On this trip he als...
https://sinocism.com/p/xi-in-chongqing-mofa-on-blinken-visit
Summary of today’s Essential Eight: 1. PLA reorg creates Information Support Force - The Strategic Support Force, created in the massive PLA reforms announced January 1, 2016, is no more. On Fr...
Summary of today’s top items: Blinken to China next week - Politico scooped that US Secretary of State Blinken will visit the PRC starting April 23. The PRC has not publicly confirmed the dates...
It is starting to feel like the US-China stabilization around the Xi-Biden meeting last November is getting very shaky. Here is an incomplete list of some of the issues that are heating up: the c...