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Taiwan; Trump on TikTok; IShowSpeed in China
Trump dangles Tariff cuts for TikTok deal - In a press conference today he said “TikTok is very popular, very successful, very good. And we're gonna…
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Bill Bishop
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Sharp China: Welcoming Foreign Enterprises; Ships are the New Chips; He Weidong and More PLA Rumors; Deep-Sea Cable Cutter
Show Notes:On today's show Andrew and Bill begin with the China Development Forum, including China's messaging to foreign investors, revisiting the…
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US closes some tech export control loopholes; Support for private business; DeepSeek
The action closes known loopholes remaining from the Biden Administration on sales of chips to Inspur and Sugon, which will hit revenue for big US chip…
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China Development Forum; Xi Economic Thought; WTO compliance; Wang Yi in Tokyo
Can ByteDance cram down Project Texas 2.0 to save TikTok in the US? - With the deadline for this first extension of the TikTok negotiations now just…
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Sinocism Live: A chat with Jon Czin about US-China, Xi Jinping & some other fun topics
Thanks to everyone who joined the live discussion tonight.
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Xi in Yunnan; Li Qiang in Fujian; TCM support; More transnational repression
Four Canadians executed for drug crimes - Canadian officials are not happy that four of their citizens were executed recently, and the PRC Foreign…
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Food Safety; IP dispute measures; Illegal data sales; Zambia river pollution
Baidu exec’s doxxing daughter opens pandora’s box of data sales - The 13 year old daughter of a Baidu executive got into an online spat and ended up…
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Sharp China: Renewed Tensions on Taiwan; Xi ‘Angered’ by Panama Canal Deal; TikTok Talks Heating Up; Multidimensional Trump Implications
On today’s show Andrew and Bill begin with Taiwanese President Lai Ching-Te designating the PRC a “foreign hostile force,” the initial response from the…
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Xi inspects Guizhou; BlackRock-CK Hutchinson ports deal under attack; TikTok; US ceding the global information battlefield
BlackRock-CK Hutchinson ports deal under attack - PRC policymakers are very unhappy with Li Ka-shing decision to sell CK Hutchinson’s non-PRC ports and…
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3.20 Sinocism Live discussion with Jon Czin about US-China, Xi Jinping & other topics
Thursday March 20th at 8Pm ET I will host a Sinocism Live conversation with Jonathan Czin, now the Michael H. Armacost Chair in Foreign Policy Studies…
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Special Action Plan for Boosting Consumption. 受权发布丨中共中央办公厅 国务院办公厅印发《提振消费专项行动方案》
On Sunday the General Office of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council issued the “Special Action…
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Tensions over Taiwan; EU corruption probe of Huawei; OpenAI rattled by DeepSeek; CK Hutchison deal with BlackRock slammed for "spineless…
I will not be surprised if the PRC launches a new round of exercises/rehearsals around Taiwan in response to President Lai Ching-te’s comments today…
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