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Xi in Chongqing; MoFA on Blinken visit; Financial sanctions over support for Russia? QE talk again; Another alleged PRC spy in Germany
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…
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PLA's new Information Support Force; Blinken to PRC; TikTok; Swimming scandal; UK and Germany espionage arrests
Summary of today’s Essential Eight: 1. PLA reorg creates Information Support Force - The Strategic Support Force, created in the massive PLA reforms…
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Blinken to the PRC; New "axis of evil"?; Wang Yi in Indonesia; "Fingertip formalism"; TikTok
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…
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US trade actions; TikTok bill may pass in days; US-Philippines exercises
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…
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Sharp China: Germany’s Hopes for China; Q1 GDP Growth; National Security Day and Transnational Repression; Another TikTok Report
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…
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Q1 GDP; Xi-Scholz; National Security; Microsoft and G42; Donkeys
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…
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National Security Day; Nine guidelines for capital markets; Scholz in China; PRC on Iran attack; TikTok
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…
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2024 Weekly Discussion Thread #9: Overcapacity; US-Japan-Philippines; Xi-Ma meeting; Scholz to China
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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US-Japan-Philippines; Overcapacity; US-China flights; Fishing; Open source translations
Summary of today’s Essential Eight: US-Japan-Philippines Trilateral - Among many interesting items, the joint statement says that “We reiterate serious…
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Ma-Xi meeting; New guidelines for grassroots community workers; US-Japan Summit; More trouble for Vanke; Bytedance's Irish lies
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…
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Sharp China: Yellen’s Visit to Beijing; PRC Exports and Global Tensions; Finance with Chinese Characteristics; US-Japan-Philippines
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…
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Xi meets Lavrov; PRC-Russia relations; EU wind probe; Industrial upgrading plan; 江河之上
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…
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