Sharp China with Bill Bishop

Subscribe to Stratechery Plus to get full episodes of Sharp China, plus Stratechery Updates and Interviews, Sharp Tech, Greatest of All Talk, and Dithering. 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. To email the show: email@sharpchina.fm 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

Subscribe to Stratechery Plus to get full episodes of Sharp China, plus Stratechery Updates and Interviews, Sharp Tech, Greatest of All Talk, and Dithering. Bill Bishop is the author of Sinocism To email the show: email@sharpchina.fm PRC-Ukraine; Xi and propaganda into the Two Meetings; Legal education guideline; Li Keqiang farewell tour — Sinocism PRC-Russia-Ukraine; US-PRC; Financial sector personnel and corruption — Sinocism China’s Position on the Political Settlement of the Ukraine Crisis — MoFA President Xi Jinping Had a Virtual Meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin — MoFA As China Calls for Peace, U.S. Believes Beijing Is Considering Artillery and Drone Deliveries to Moscow — Wall Street Journal Putin ally Lukashenko meets Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Beijing — CNN China releases key guideline on legal education, stresses firm stand to oppose Western erroneous views — Global Times Xi’s Law-and-Order Strategy — Foreign Affairs Lab Leak Most Likely Origin of Covid-19 Pandemic, Energy Department Now Says — Wall Street Journal The State of Dynamic Zero-COVID and Reactions to That ProPublica Report — Sharp China Australia rides out Chinese sanctions as exports boom — Financial Times House committee on China starts two-year drive to ‘decouple’ — Washington Post Missing Banker Bao Fan Is Cooperating in China Probe, His Firm Says — Bloomberg With Streaks of Gray Hair, Xi Jinping of China Breaks With Tradition — New York Times The Knockout EP01: Gao Qiqiang is Sent to the Police for Fighting | 狂飙 | iQIYI — YouTube

Subscribe to Stratechery Plus to get full episodes of Sharp China, plus Stratechery Updates and Interviews, Sharp Tech, Greatest of All Talk, and Dithering. Bill Bishop is the author of Sinocism To email the show: email@sharpchina.fm US-China meeting; Wang Yi in Europe; US warnings about aid to Russia; US hegemony; Bao Fan — Sinocism 2nd Plenum dates set, will deepen reform of Party and state institutions; Wang Yi in Russia; Global Security Initiative — Sinocism China Misreads the Room in Munich — GMF Wang Yi Meets with Pakistani Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari — MoFA US warns China not to send weapons to Russia for Ukraine war — AP U.S. Warnings to China on Arms Aid for Russia’s War Portend Global Rift — New York Times China’s top tech dealmaker Bao Fan goes missing — Financial Times Beyond the ballon: the US-China spy game — Financial Times Hedge Fund Billionaire Extracts Billions More to Retire — New York Times Covid Cap Forces United Airlines to Delay Extra China-US Services For Six Months — Bloomberg At Mandarin open mic stand-up shows in U.S., 'warmth' overcomes hate — Nikkei Asia

Subscribe to Stratechery Plus to get full episodes of Sharp China, plus Stratechery Updates and Interviews, Sharp Tech, Greatest of All Talk, and Dithering. Bill Bishop is the author of Sinocism To email the show: email@sharpchina.fm Xi meets Iran President; Football corruption; Document #1; Anti-US propaganda — Sinocism Document #1; Balloon mess expands; Blinken and Wang Yi may meet; Iran President to visit — Sinocism U.S. tracked China spy balloon from launch on Hainan Island along unusual path — Washington Post US should give responsible explanation on Nord Stream blasts: Chinese FM — Global Times Chinese State Media Persuades a Global Audience That the “China Model” is Superior: Evidence From A 19-Country Experiment — OSF Preprints The Oxford History of Modern China (Oxford Histories) — Amazon Wealth and Power: China's Long March to the Twenty-first Century — Amazon Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age — Amazon The World Turned Upside Down: A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution — Amazon Daughters of the Flower Fragrant Garden: Two Sisters Separated by China's Civil War — Amazon Xinjiang governor cancels EU visit amid Uyghur abuse blowback — Politico Surveillance State: Inside China's Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Control — Amazon ChatGPT frenzy sweeps China as firms scramble for homegrown options — CNBC ChatGPT Lookalikes Proliferate in China — Bloomberg

Subscribe to Stratechery Plus to get full episodes of Sharp China, plus Stratechery Updates and Interviews, Sharp Tech, Greatest of All Talk, and Dithering. Bill Bishop is the author of Sinocism To email the show: email@sharpchina.fm Balloon blowup; PRC-Russia; Hong Kong trial; Real estate — Sinocism Xi and Biden articulate views on systems competition; Balloon mess; AI bubble — Sinocism Xi schools new central committee members and officials on modernization; Two establishes; Balloon fallout; Tibet rail plans — Sinosicm Chinese balloon part of vast aerial surveillance program, U.S. says — Washington Post Agents of Subversion: The Fate of John T. Downey and the CIA's Covert War in China — John Delury Downed Chinese balloon was 200 feet tall, U.S. military says — NBC News GOP preps anti-China economic salvo — Politico China’s military keeps rivals on edge with balloon strategy — Financial Times China Has More ICBM Launchers Than U.S., American Military Reports — Wall Street Journal Chinese spy balloon furore puts focus on Xi Jinping’s leadership — Financial Times House votes to make it easier to report UFOs — Politico A Chinese Telescope Did Not Find an Alien Signal. The Search Continues. — New York Times The X files intro and opening theme — YouTube

Subscribe to Stratechery Plus to get full episodes of Sharp China, plus Stratechery Updates and Interviews, Sharp Tech, Greatest of All Talk, and Dithering. Bill Bishop is the author of Sinocism To email the show: email@sharpchina.fm High-Flying Balloon Seen as Part of Broader Chinese Spy Program — Bloomberg @TheInsiderPaper — Twitter Secretary Blinken’s Call with People’s Republic of China (PRC) CCP Central Foreign Affairs Office Director Wang Yi — United States State Department

Subscribe to Stratechery Plus to get full episodes of Sharp China, plus Stratechery Updates and Interviews, Sharp Tech, Greatest of All Talk, and Dithering. Bill Bishop is the author of Sinocism To email the show: email@sharpchina.fm Outbreak officially peaked; Blinken's PRC visit; War talk; Tech controls; Hu Xinyu — Sinocism Xi to visit Russia this year?; More on possible Huawei measures; State capitalism; 狂飙 “The Knockout” — Sinocism How arming Ukraine is stretching the US defence industry — Financial Times US, China spar in first face-to-face meeting under Biden — AP How it happened: Transcript of the US-China opening remarks in Alaska — Nikkei Asia China Urges Common Ground Ahead of Visit by Top US Diplomat — Bloomberg Air Force general predicts war with China in 2025, tells officers to prep by firing 'a clip' at a target, and 'aim for the head' — NBC News Xi Jinping’s visit to Russia to be main event in bilateral agenda for 2023 — Tass China Dismisses US Claims of Support for Russia as ‘Paranoia’ — Bloomberg Why Are Fewer American Students Going to China? — Asia Society Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson sparks ridicule online with Taiwan restaurant tweet — Hong Kong Free Press China Publishes, Then Deletes Report of Potential Alien Signals — Gizmodo

Subscribe to Stratechery Plus to get full episodes of Sharp China, plus Stratechery Updates and Interviews, Sharp Tech, Greatest of All Talk, and Dithering. Bill Bishop is the author of Sinocism To email the show: email@sharpchina.fm Newsletter Recommendations: Discourse Power Sinification Following the Yuan Wang Xiangwei's Thought of the Day on China Bert's Newsletter Concrete Avalanche Further Reading: China's Economy: What Everyone Needs to Know — Arthur R. Kroeber The China Expert and The Ten Commandments — China Heritage Watching & Warning — China Heritage China’s Global Mega-Projects Are Falling Apart — Wall Street Journal China’s Mad Dash Into a Strategic Island Nation Breeds Resentment — New York Times Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis calls out the Chinese Communist Party for buying giant chunks of farmland and property in his state, saying it's a 'huge problem' — Daily Mail Bill to ban Chinese citizens and government from buying Texas land gains steam among Republicans — ABC Dallas Don’t Ban Chinese Investment in US Farmland — Bloomberg Pentagon Prepares for a Kevin McCarthy Taiwan Visit — Punchbowl News One of the Most Influential Ambassadors in Washington Isn’t One — New York Times The Taiwan Long Game: Why the Best Solution Is No Solution — Foreign Affairs Qin Gang addresses the Wizards crowd — Twitter: @SpokespersonCHN

Subscribe to Stratechery Plus to get full episodes of Sharp China, plus Stratechery Updates and Interviews, Sharp Tech, Greatest of All Talk, and Dithering. Bill Bishop is the author of Sinocism To email the show: email@sharpchina.fm China's 2022 economic growth one of the worst on record, post-pandemic policy faces test — Reuters From Disciplinarian to Cheerleader: Why China Is Changing Its Tone on Business — New York Times Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built — Duncan Clark Biden and Kishida Vow to Bolster U.S.-Japan Alliance as China’s Power Grows — New York TImes Japan’s Shift to War Footing — War on the Rocks More Protests in China Over Japan and Islands — New York Times US-China Defense Talks Stalled Two Months After Biden-Xi Meeting — Bloomberg China's first population drop in six decades sounds alarm on demographic crisis — Reuters With F.B.I. Search, U.S. Escalates Global Fight Over Chinese Police Outposts — New York Times Patrol and Persuade - A follow up on 110 Overseas investigation — Safeguard Defenders China welcomes back Disney Marvel movies with ‘Black Panther,’ ‘Ant-Man’ sequels — Los Angeles Times 《蟻人與黃蜂女:量子狂熱》電影預告 Ant-Man and the Wasp Quantumania - Official Trailer — YouTube

Subscribe to Stratechery Plus to get full episodes of Sharp China, plus Stratechery Updates and Interviews, Sharp Tech, Greatest of All Talk, and Dithering. Bill Bishop is the author of Sinocism To email the show: email@sharpchina.fm Cases peaking?; Retaliation against travel measures; CCDI Plenum; Alibaba and Ant are out of the storm; US-China — Sinocism Reopening to the world; CCDI Plenum; Tech rectification over? Zhao Lijian — Sinocism China clashes with its neighbors after reopening to the world as Covid surges — NBC News China retaliates against travel restrictions by suspending short-term visas for Japanese and South Koreans — SMCP Merck, Pfizer Rebuff China’s Push for Deeper Price Cuts on Covid Drugs — Bloomberg China Likely to Name U.S. Specialist as Next Ambassador to Washington — Wall Street Journal The Man Behind China's Aggressive New Voice — New York Times China’s ‘wolf warrior’ foreign affairs spokesperson moved to new role — The Guardian Is ‘Made in China 2025’ a Threat to Global Trade? — Council on Foreign Relations Letter From Apple Supplier Foxconn’s Founder Prodded China to Ease Zero-Covid Rules — Wall Street Journal Foxconn Founder Terry Gou Wants to be Taiwan’s President—and a Go-Between for U.S. and China — Time China Warns U.S. It May Detain Americans in Response to Prosecutions of Chinese Scholars — Wall Street Journal Wolf Warrior 2 (2017) — YouTube