The Sinocism China Newsletter

Can you construct a new world order using the structure of the existing world order? That increasingly seems to be Xi Jinping’s goal, couched amidst calls to “to safeguard the UN-centered int...

https://sinocism.com/p/xis-new-world-order-for-the-new-era

Today’s Essential Eight items: Xi visits Tsinghua University National Security Education day propaganda highlights PRC citizen working for foreign media AP interview with Le Yucheng, in which h...

https://sinocism.com/p/xi-visits-tsinghua-national-security

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https://sinocism.com/p/weekly-open-thread-2021-12-suga-biden/comments

Japanese Prime Minister Suga meets with US President Biden on Friday, and various media reports make it sound like the official comments about the PRC may be softer than the US wants. Has PM Suga...

https://sinocism.com/p/national-security-debt-radioactive

Today’s Essential Eight items: Tech rectification continues PRC leading the charge to oppose Fukushima water release Taiwan firms stop selling chips to Phytium Vocational education to ramp up t...

https://sinocism.com/p/tech-rectification-continues-fukushima

Gao Fu, director of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, caused a stir domestically and internationally over the weekend with comments that sure sounded like he was confirming t...

https://sinocism.com/p/vaccines-partys-party-planning-ant

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https://sinocism.com/p/weekly-open-thread-2021-11-human/comments

Today’s Essential Eight items: Economic coercion not really working against Australia? Cheng Lei case Worries about risks in local financial institutions Seven PRC entities added to US export c...

https://sinocism.com/p/cheng-lei-case-more-us-export-controls

Today’s Essential Eight items: New guidelines on promoting ideological and political education in the PLA Xi works Merkel US-China Taiwan TSMC making chips for PLA hypersonic weapons developmen...

https://sinocism.com/p/pla-ideological-and-political-education

PRC officials sound very worried about the direction of the US-Japan relationship. President Biden and Prime Minister Suga meet in Washington DC next week, and Foreign Minister Wang Yi has effect...

https://sinocism.com/p/wang-yi-warns-japan-normal-prc-international

Monday was a holiday in China so today’s issue is a bit thin. Thanks to everyone who participated in the weekly thread that started Friday, and is still ongoing. The Essential Eight Items: Xi J...

https://sinocism.com/p/xi-jinping-thought-on-the-rule-of-14e

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Today is a big day for Sinocism, we have been acquired by the China Media Group as part of its efforts to better tell China’s story globally and its desire to leverage the Substack platform for...

https://sinocism.com/p/hong-kong-convictions-20th-anniversary

Today’s Essential Eight: Xi’s February 20 Party History Study Campaign kickoff speech Reaction to WHO-China mission report BBC and RTE journalists leave Beijing for Taiwan US-China Ruili lock...

https://sinocism.com/p/xi-on-studying-party-history-reaction

The WHO report is out, no one is happy, and we will probably never know the origins of COVID-19. WHO Director-General Tedros’ remarks at the press briefing were surprisingly critical of China a...

https://sinocism.com/p/who-report-hong-kong-election-system

Thanks to everyone who participated in the weekly open thread that started last Friday. It is still ongoing, and is the most active one in a while. Today’s Essential Eight items: WHO-China repo...

https://sinocism.com/p/who-china-report-on-coronavirus-origins

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https://sinocism.com/p/weekly-open-thread-2021-8-sanctions/comments

The PRC may have done more in the last four days to damage PRC-EU relations in very deep ways than anything the Biden administration could have done. The destruction of H&M’s China business ove...

https://sinocism.com/p/xi-in-fujian-xinjiang-cotton-mess

Today’s Essential Eight items: Xi in Fujian- So far the key themes of the inspection tour include cultural confidence, ecological civilization, reform, and rural revitalization; PLA prep for CC...

https://sinocism.com/p/human-rights-criticism-china-russia

Thanks to everyone who participated in the weekly open thread that started last Friday. It is still ongoing, one of the more active ones in a while. China must be feeling very confident about its...

https://sinocism.com/p/sanctions-russia-china-us-china-meeting