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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.

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

(Preview) New Language from Xi and Qin Gang; Competing Thoughts on DC Consensus; Trudeau and the UFWD; Lessons from Lee Teng-hui&#39;s 1995 US Visit 11:25 Share

Sharp China with Bill Bishop

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(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