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 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

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