Sharp China with Bill Bishop (Preview) New Language from Xi and Qin Gang; Competing Thoughts on DC Consensus; Trudeau and the UFWD; Lessons from Lee Teng-hui's 1995 US Visit
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Bill Bishop is the author of Sinocism
Bill will be on a virtual Brookings panel Friday morning to discuss “the recent policy shifts within China, their underlying causes, and potential implications for the future”. You can sign up here to attend. Ryan Hass is the moderator and the other panelists are John Culver, Cheng Li and Emily Feng.
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Two meetings; Around 5% GDP growth; Xi's vision; Xi on the private sector — Sinocism
Government restructuring; Qin Gang's press conference and a warning to the US; Support for private sector; TikTok — Sinocism
China warns of potential conflict with US over containment strategy — Financial Times
Washington has succumbed to dangerous groupthink on China — Washington Post
China to Create New Top Regulator for Data Governance — Wall Street Journal
At China political meeting, internet bosses are out, chip execs are in — Reuters
Did China mess with Canada? Trudeau says he has a plan to find out. — Politico
Magic Weapons: China's political influence activities under Xi Jinping — Wilson Center
China’s Overseas United Front Work: Background and Implications for the United States — U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission
Speaker Kevin McCarthy to meet Taiwan’s president in US to avoid China’s ire — Financial Times
Taiwan's President Tiptoes Around Politics at Cornell — New York Times
Averting Escalation and Avoiding War: Lessons from the 1995–1996 Taiwan Strait Crisis — National Defense University Press
What China can teach Latin America about Good and Bad Graft — Bloomberg
China's Gilded Age: The Paradox of Economic Boom and Vast Corruption — Yuen Yuen Ang
The Fugee, the Fugitive and the FBI — Bloomberg