Xi’s Hunan inspection tour - Xi has completed his tour of Hunan that ran from Monday to Thursday. The abridged Xinhua English readout hits some of the key themes. It says “Xi urged Hunan to b...
Schedule update: There will no newsletter or podcast the week of March 25th. It is our kids’ Spring Break, an as they likely are off to different colleges in the Fall this may be our last Sprin...
Show Notes: On today’s show Andrew and Bill begin with the Ministry of State Security providing its interpretation of the Cybersecurity Law. Topics include: The odd timing of this message as de...
Hong Kong’s LegCo has passed the Safeguarding National Security Ordinance 維護國家安全條例, aka Article 23, much faster than anyone expected. The South China Morning Post explained that...
Summary of today’s Essential Eight: 1. MSS interprets the Cybersecurity Law - In its latest WeChat post the Ministry of State Security provides its interpretation of key parts of the Cybersecur...
Happy Friday! A few starter questions from me today, and feel free to discuss whatever you would like, here or in the always open Chat or on Not…
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Summary of today’s Essential Eight: MoFa: ‘Freedom of Speech' in the United States: Truth and Facts - The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has released another in its occasional series of “Truth...
https://sinocism.com/p/freedom-of-speech-in-the-united-states
Summary of today’s Essential Eight: Li Qiang inspects Autonomous driving, chips and AI in Beijing - Premier Li visited an autonomous driving zone and met with Baidi CEO Robin Li. He also visite...
Show Notes: On today’s show Andrew and Bill begin with a week of surprising progress for the Protecting Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act. With the House set to vote Wednesday, they...
It is a bit of a slow day, I think everyone needs a break from the Two Sessions. Yesterday I turned out a beta feature that was supposed to help with the flo when the email runs too long. It was ...
Summary of today’s Essential Eight: The Two Sessions conclude - The NPC and the CPPCC meetings have concluded. The last day was a bit of a letdown without the Premier’s press conference. This...
Xi met with NPC delegates from the PLA and People’s Armed Police . The theme was “strategic capabilities in emerging fields”. Six delegates spoke and they “offered opinions and suggestion...
https://sinocism.com/p/xi-meets-with-pla-and-pap-npc-delegates-ef8
Summary of today’s Essential Eight: 1. Xi’s CPPCC breakout session - Last year Xi’s first visit to a CPPCC breakout session was with delegates from the China National Democratic Constructio...
Listen now | This episode of Sharp China is free for everyone. Show Notes: On today's show Andrew and Bill begin with takeaways from the Two Sessions, including the work report from Premier Li Qi...
Summary of today’s Essential Eight: Li Qiang delivers his first government work report - Li delivered his first work report as Premier. I will highlight some of the key targets and tasks, inclu...
Summary of today’s top items: Two Sessions - Tuesday is opening day for the National People’s Congress, and we will get the draft government work report and the draft plan for national econom...
Summary of today’s Essential Eight: February Politburo meeting - The Politburo met Thursday to discuss the draft government work report. The readout was short and the language used to discuss t...
Summary of today’s Essential Eight: Xi meets with the president of Sierra Leone - Xi met with President Bio Tuesday. Bio is on a six day visit to the PRC. We got the first images of Xi since Fe...