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 Locks Information on the Country Inside a Black Box — Wall Street Journal China’s ‘men in black’ step up scrutiny of foreign corporate sleuths — Financial Times U.S. Chamber Statement on Concerns Over PRC Investment Climate — U.S. Chamber of Commerce China's exit bans multiply as political control tightens under Xi — Reuters New Report: Trapped - China’s Expanding Use of Exit Bans — Safeguard Defenders Xi calls Zelensky — Sinocism Xi-Zelensky call; Bain's Shanghai troubles; Counter-espionage law; Li Ganjie heads Organization Department; Employment measures — Sinocism Speak Plainly, Mr. Chairman — China Media Project America’s Bad Bet on India — Foreign Affairs Sinocism Podcast: Tania Branigan on her book Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution — Sinocism An excerpt from Tania Branigan's Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution — Sinocism

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 Lu Shaye creates a mess in the EU; Covid; PLAN turns 74; Guizhou debt; Dong Yuyu — Sinocism Macron and VDL brief Biden on their PRC trips; Yellen's China speech; “农管“, agricultural administrative law enforcers; BYD — Sinocism Baltics blast China diplomat for questioning sovereignty of ex-Soviet states — Politico China doesn’t want peace in Ukraine, Czech president warns — Politico The Man Behind China's Aggressive New Voice — New York Times Prominent Chinese journalist faces espionage charges — Washington Post China Accuses Newspaper Editor of Espionage After Meeting With Diplomat — Wall Street Journal Janet Yellen offers an olive branch to China — Financial Times Biden tells 60 Minutes U.S. troops would defend Taiwan, but White House says this is not official U.S. policy — CBS News One of the Most Influential Ambassadors in Washington Isn’t One — New York Times

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 Lula and Xi; National security cases; US indictments of PRC police officers; Yi Gang on the RMB; Spy balloon disclosures — Sinocism Lula vows partnership with China to ‘balance world geopolitics’ — Finanical Times Why China’s Leader Hasn’t Called the President of Ukraine — New York Times Europe must resist pressure to become ‘America’s followers,’ says Macron — Politico China starts ‘surgical’ retaliation against foreign companies after US-led tech blockade — Financial Times U.S. Arrests Two, Charges Dozens for Alleged Illegal U.S. Activities by Chinese Security Agents — Wall Street Journal China stalls Antony Blinken’s Beijing visit over ‘spy balloon’ concerns — Financial Times Leaked secret documents detail up to four additional Chinese spy balloons — Washington Post

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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-Putin; Ukraine; Reshaping the world order; Cloud loophole for US chip controls; Lula to China — Sinocism TikTok toast?; PRC-Russia; China Development Forum; National security rectification; Taiwan; Knowledge decoupling — Sinocism Xi Jinping-Vladimir Putin talks highlight Russia’s role as ‘junior partner’ to China — Financial Times China Is Starting to Act Like a Global Power — Wall Street Journal The world according to Xi — The Economist How TikTok Failed to Make the Case for Itself — Platformer US Regulator Warns About Data Security During TikTok Hearing — Bloomberg How TikTok Became a Diplomatic Crisis — New York Times Tech Shame in the "New Era" — China Media Project Chinese recommendations in the DMV? — Sinocism Chat

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 A country in flux: Recent and future policy shifts in Chin — Brookings Institute Premier Li’s first State Council Executive Meeting; National Data Bureau; AUKUS — Sinocism Two meetings; Xi to Russia; Update on PRC visas; AUKU — Sinocism Saudi Arabia, Iran Restore Relations in Deal Brokered by China — Wall Street Journal Exclusive: China's Xi plans Russia visit as soon as next week - sources — Reuters China’s Xi Plans to Speak With Zelensky for First Time Since Ukraine War Broke Out — Wall Street Journal Germany and the Netherlands signal weakening of Europe’s China tech ties — Fortune China looms large as Biden makes submarine moves with UK, Australia — CNN A Squabble About History Almost Killed Xi Jinping’s Father — Foreign Policy What Xi Jinping Learned—And Didn’t Learn—From His Father About Xinjiang — The Diplomat Simple, but not easy: After rejecting basketball for years, Zach Edey's Zen-like approach made him unstoppable — CBS Sports Let sleeping dogs lie — Tashi the Golden Doodle's Substack

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

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