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...
Listen now | Show Notes: On today’s show Andrew and Bill begin with takeaways from the meeting between Xi Jinping and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, including muted messaging on overcapacity co...
Summary of today’s top items Q1 GDP beats expectations - First quarter real GDP growth was officially 5.3% year over year, versus estimates of 4.9%, so policymakers should be pleased that they ...
Summary of today’s Essential Eight: National Security Day - April 15th is National Security Day in the PRC, and every year we get some examples of model espionage cases. This year the MSS produ...
https://sinocism.com/p/national-security-day-nine-guidelines
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…
https://sinocism.com/p/2024-weekly-discussion-thread-9-overcapacity
Summary of today’s Essential Eight: US-Japan-Philippines Trilateral - Among many interesting items, the joint statement says that “We reiterate serious concern over the PRC’s repeated obstr...
Today’s newsletter did not come together as I hoped. It has been a distracting day, my wife and mother in law have come down with Covid. So today is very light on commentary, and I undoubtedly ...
Show Notes: On today's show Andrew and Bill begin with takeaways from Secretary of Treasury Janet Yellen's visit to China, including what her meetings may or may not accomplish and the likely nex...
Summary of today’s Essential Eight: Russian FM Lavrov meets Xi and Wang Yi - Lavrov is in Beijing in part to prepare for Putin’s visit next month. According to the official PRC readout Xi sai...
Summary of today’s Essential Eight: Yellen in China - US Treasury Secretary Yellen had what appears to have been a cordial visit with her PRC hosts and left with two new “exchange” mechanis...
Listen now | This episode of Sharp China is free for everyone. Show Notes: On today's show Andrew and Bill begin with takeaways from Tuesday’s phone call between President Biden and President X...
A long article in Study Times by the Office of the Central Financial Commission and the Central Financial Work Commission lays out how China plans to carve out a special model for financial super...
Summary of today’s Essential Eight: 1. Xi and Biden have a call - A call was expected but the date had not been announced in advance. Reading the respective readouts you might be excused for th...