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...
Xi’s meeting with US VIPs - I can not ignore Xi’s audience last week with US business executives and Graham Allison. The meeting was likely quite useful for the American attendees and their b...
https://sinocism.com/p/march-politburo-meeting-prc-philippines
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...