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 To email the show: email@sharpchina.fm Reopening; Transparency; Stimulating real estate demand; US-China — Sinocism Covid reopening and growing concerns about lack of transparency; Marcos meets Xi; Propaganda work — Sinocism Reopening; Testing PRC travelers; Wang Qishan in Brazil; More weak economic data; 辱华 — Sinocism China Condemns Its People to Relive the Nightmare of 2020 — Bloomberg China threatens ‘countermeasures’ over other countries’ Covid travel restrictions — The Guardian Battered by Covid, China Hits Pause on Giant Chip Spending Aimed at Rivaling US — Bloomberg China can see a ‘light of hope’ in Covid battle, says Xi Jinping in New Year’s message — SCMP Xi Jinping’s credibility ‘badly wounded’ as China’s Covid death toll mounts — Financial Times Update: 2023 Chinese Grand Prix return inches closer — RacingNews365 New Chinese foreign minister Qin Gang: What I learned in America — Washington Post Why China’s new foreign minister could be a problem for Biden — Politico Qin Gang 秦刚 on Twitter — @AmbQinGang EXCLUSIVE: TikTok Spied On Forbes Journalists — Forbes Biden signs TikTok ban for government devices, setting up a chaotic 2023 for the app — NBC News Leaked Audio From 80 Internal TikTok Meetings Shows That US User Data Has Been Repeatedly Accessed From China — Buzzfeed News China's Bayi Rockets vs NBA champions Washington Bullets in 1979 — 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 rising; CEWC postponed?; Kabul hotel attack; Chips — Sinocism Cases surging; WTO; US-China meeting; People's Leader; Jimmy Lai — Sinocism Twitter’s new China head makes spectacularly awkward debut — Washington Post How China became big business for Twitter — Reuters Ex-Twitter employee found guilty of spying on Saudi dissidents — The Guardian Japan to Join US Effort to Tighten Chip Exports to China — Bloomberg China sues US in WTO over chip export control measures — Global Times Biden Cements Trump-Era Steel, Aluminum Tariffs in WTO Snub — Bloomberg Alibaba: This Will Not End Well — Seeking Alpha Jack Ma quits as head of leading China business group — Financial Times Crosstalk: A window into the world of Chinese humor — 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 Reopening; Shifting the Covid messaging; Jiang Zemin; CEWC; Saudi Arabia — Sinocism Reopening; Jiang Zemin; Xi to Saudi Arabia; TikTok — Sinocism Rocky road to re-opening; Downplaying Omicron; Jiang Zemin, Xi meets Michel; Zhao Lijian — Sinocism 60 Minutes Archives: An interview with China's Jiang Zemin — YouTube Xi Awards Friendship Medal to Vietnam's Communist Party Chief — YouTube Beijing Mixes Messages Over Anti-Japan Protests — New York Times In Japan, Winnie the Pooh joins China's lockdown protests — NPR Engineers of the Soul: what Australia needs to know about ideology in Xi Jinping's China — Sinocism China’s high youth unemployment stokes student Covid protests — Financial Times Tesla cuts output plan for Shanghai plant for Dec -sources — Reuters Censorship, Surveillance and Profits: A Hard Bargain for Apple in China — New York Times The Man Behind China’s Aggressive New Voice — New York Times Wang Sir's News Talk | Zhao Lijian and his Sweetheart: The Paradoxical Life — 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 Covid; PCR testing troubles; Protests and cracking down; Huawei — Sinocism Protests; Covid; Xi's diplomacy; National security; Real estate support; Hong Kong law — Sinocism China Covid Unrest Boils Over as Citizens Defy Lockdown Efforts — Bloomberg Xi Jinping faces stiffest challenge to rule as Covid outrage sparks mass protests — Financial Times Chinese Protesters Use Tricks to Evade Censors, Vent Anger — Bloomberg New Symbol of Protest in China Roils Censors: Blank White Papers — Wall Street Journal China censors maskless crowd footage in World Cup broadcasts — The Guardian Twitter grapples with Chinese spam obscuring news of protests — Washington Post @PaulHaenle — Twitter

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 Biden-Xi meeting; Surging cases test of optimized Covid measures; Real estate rescue — Sinocism Biden-Xi meeting; Covid controls; Xi at the G-20; Ukraine — Sinocism China Won’t Be Able to Attack Taiwan in Near Future, US General Milley Says — Bloomberg Emboldened Xi Jinping steps back on to world stage with G20 summit — Financial Times U.S. Official Says China Is Uncomfortable With Russia’s Rhetoric, Activity in Ukraine — Wall Street Journal Biden's New Cold War Against China Could Backfire — New York Magazine Video of Xi Jinping and Justin Trudeau at the G-20 summit — Twitter: @debidwarditv

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 takes the CMC on an inspection; Covid in Guangzhou; China School of National Security — Sinocism Long road to reopening; Cases rising in Guangzhou and Beijing; Li Qiang speech; Weak trade data; Taiwan — Sinocism Germany’s Olaf Scholz Puts Business First in Beijing Visit — Wall Street Journal Instead of leading, Germany is muddling Europe's approach to China — Nikkei China’s Xi Jinping Plans Visit to Saudi Arabia Amid Global Reshuffling — Wall Street Journal Canadian intelligence warned PM Trudeau that China covertly funded 2019 election candidates: Sources — Global News ‘A brazen intrusion’: China’s foreign police stations raise hackles in Canada — The Guardian As Canada frees a Huawei boss, China lets two Canadians out of jail — The Economist A Chinese Spy Wanted GE’s Secrets, But the US Got China’s Instead — Bloomberg The Persistent Vaccine Hesitancy of China’s Elderly — Bloomberg China’s Ghost Cities Are Finally Stirring to Life After Years of Empty Streets — Bloomberg How We Would Know When China Is Preparing to Invade Taiwan — The Carnegie Endowment

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 Rumors of change in Covid policies; Lockdowns; Two Establishes 两个确立 vs. Two Upholds 两个维护 — Sinocism Xi's message to the PRC's youth; Busy week of foreign visitors; Covid lockdowns — Sinocism Workers flee China’s Covid restrictions at Foxconn’s largest iPhone factory — Financial Times Coronavirus: Chinese authorities race to contain new waves of ‘dire and complicated’ outbreaks — South China Morning Post ‘We’re on That Bus, Too’: In China, a Deadly Crash Triggers Covid Trauma — New York Times Young Chinese Are Despairing of a Zero-COVID Future — Foreign Policy Chinese city accused of ‘performative lockdown lifting’ — The Guardian "A Chinese business consultant in a Ted-style talk justified zero-Covid policy by saying that in 10 years the West will be brought to its knees b/c long-Covid" — Twitter: @YanzhongHuang Visitors to Shanghai Disneyland were blocked from leaving the compound as Chinese authorities imposed a snap lockdown — Twitter: @dw_hotspotasia COVID-19 Origins: Investigating a “Complex and Grave Situation” Inside a Wuhan Lab — ProPublica The Lab Leak Hypothesis — N.Y. Mag

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 20th Party Congress; Economic data; Stocks; US indictments and Huawei — Sinocism 20th Party Congress concludes; New Central Committee; Party constitution revisions; Hu Jintao — Sinocism Xi’s Power Grab Spurs Historic Market Rout as Foreigners Flee — Bloomberg Resounding victory cements Xi’s dominance — The Lowy Institute The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers — Amazon China’s wealthy activate escape plans as Xi Jinping extends rule — Financial Times A Former Chinese Leader Was Ushered Out, Leaving Many Questions — New York Times Xi Jinping Exposed — Council on Foreign Relations

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 Party Congress; Period of Strategic Opportunity; Taiwan; EU-China — Sinocism People’s Leader 人民领袖 ; Diplomacy in the New Era; “CCP Inc.” in Europe; Taiwan — Sinocism China Delays Indefinitely the Release of G.D.P. and Other Economic Statistics — The New York Times Chinese President Xi outlines vision for his nation’s role in the world — PBS News Hour China Abruptly Delays GDP Release During Communist Party Conference — Wall Street Journal US chip action against China may have ‘wide ramifications’ for the world: Singapore’s PM Lee — South China Morning Post Blinken Says China Wants to Seize Taiwan on ‘Much Faster Timeline’ — Bloomberg US Navy chief warns China could invade Taiwan before 2024 — Financial Times