Introduction

The fallout from President Tsai Ing-wen's visit to the U.S., including sanctions on the Hudson Institute, Ronald Reagan Library and new PRC military drills around Taiwan. The second will be a conversation about French President Macron's visit to Beijing, what he said about strategic autonomy and France's very strange approach to diplomacy with the PRC. And then the third topic we'll discuss is an ongoing local bank crisis in China and what it says about the broader financial sector there.