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Exercises around Taiwan; President Lai depicted as a parasite; Wang Yi in Moscow talks "reverse Nixon" and US "extortion"; TikTok deal
TikTok US deal may be decided Wednesday - Multiple US media are reporting that President Trump’s TikTok deal team will present him with a final proposal…
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WTF2.0: Bill Bishop
I joined Jonathan V. Last on his show at The Bulwark to chat about China and the Trump Administration.
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Bill Bishop
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Politburo meeting; BlackRock-CK Hutchinson deal in trouble; Xi on S&T; DeepSeek opens up OpenAI
Beijing investigating BlackRock-CK Hutchinson deal - After more than a week of propaganda about the mooted deal, Beijing policymakers decided to use the…
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Xi Jinping is investing in China's science and technology research as Trump is gutting America's research foundations
Trump and his team want to destroy one of the key foundations of American strength, just as China is massively intensifying its efforts to catch up and…
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Taiwan; Trump on TikTok; IShowSpeed in China
Trump dangles Tariff cuts for TikTok deal - In a press conference today he said “TikTok is very popular, very successful, very good. And we're gonna…
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Show Notes:On today's show Andrew and Bill begin with the China Development Forum, including China's messaging to foreign investors, revisiting the…
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US closes some tech export control loopholes; Support for private business; DeepSeek
The action closes known loopholes remaining from the Biden Administration on sales of chips to Inspur and Sugon, which will hit revenue for big US chip…
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China Development Forum; Xi Economic Thought; WTO compliance; Wang Yi in Tokyo
Can ByteDance cram down Project Texas 2.0 to save TikTok in the US? - With the deadline for this first extension of the TikTok negotiations now just…
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Sinocism Live: A chat with Jon Czin about US-China, Xi Jinping & some other fun topics
Thanks to everyone who joined the live discussion tonight.
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Xi in Yunnan; Li Qiang in Fujian; TCM support; More transnational repression
Four Canadians executed for drug crimes - Canadian officials are not happy that four of their citizens were executed recently, and the PRC Foreign…
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Food Safety; IP dispute measures; Illegal data sales; Zambia river pollution
Baidu exec’s doxxing daughter opens pandora’s box of data sales - The 13 year old daughter of a Baidu executive got into an online spat and ended up…
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Sharp China: Renewed Tensions on Taiwan; Xi ‘Angered’ by Panama Canal Deal; TikTok Talks Heating Up; Multidimensional Trump Implications
On today’s show Andrew and Bill begin with Taiwanese President Lai Ching-Te designating the PRC a “foreign hostile force,” the initial response from the…
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