Sinocism

Sinocism

Home
Notes
Chat
Sharp China Podcast
Sinocism Live
Archive
Leaderboard
About
Xi in state media; Rumors of more real estate support; EU-China; PRC to surpass US in basic science research funding; FreeWeChat
Real estate stocks surge on rumors of more government support - Shares of PRC real estate companies surged Wednesday because of a rumor going around…
 • 
Bill Bishop
1
1:11:42
Sharp China: Wang Yi’s Message on Ukraine; Continued EU Tensions; Deflation and ‘Disorderly’ Competition; Extended Thoughts on Two Months of…
Listen now | This episode of Sharp China is outside the paywall. On today's show Andrew and Bill begin with a look at tensions between the PRC and the…
 • 
Bill Bishop
2
More on June Politburo meeting; Stabilizing employment; Trump's threat to bomb Beijing; EU's mindset needs "rebalancing"; TikTok
Did President Trump end “strategic ambiguity” over Taiwan? - The authors of “2024”, a new book about last year’s US Presidential campaign, obtained a…
 • 
Bill Bishop
Xi's Shanxi tour; VDL's tough on China speech; Rare earths; Kindergarten mass lead poisoning; "London Framework"
EU-China - European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen had very tough things to say about China in a speech to the European Parliament Tuesday…
 • 
Bill Bishop
Xi in Shanxi; 88th anniversary of start of War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression; New Xi Thought book; Liu Yuanchun on involution…
Xi in Shanxi - July 7th is the 88th anniversary of the 1937 Marco Polo Bridge Incident, the start of Second Sino-Japanese War. Xi went on an inspection…
 • 
Bill Bishop
1

Recent posts

View all
Li Qiang to BRICS; Fujian finance; The Dalai Lama; Q3 special bonds; RMB
Dalai Lama says he will be reincarnated - In a statement Wednesday His Holiness the Dalai Lama said:The process by which a future Dalai Lama is to be…
 • 
Bill Bishop
All about the RMB with Robin Brooks
Robin is a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and formerly Chief Economist at the IIF and Chief FX Strategist at Goldman Sachs. He writes an…
 • 
Bill Bishop
 and 
Robin J Brooks
3
57:35
Central Commission for Financial and Economic Affairs meets; Involution; Magnets; Yanhuang Chunqiu 炎黄春秋
It sounds like some companies may be getting guidance on price-setting and there will be a renewed push to “phase out backward production capacity in an…
 • 
Bill Bishop
1
Politburo meets; Party turns 104; Involution and deflation; Wang Yi to Europe; WHO report on Covid origins; Dalai Lama
Politburo study session - The theme of the 21st study session of this Politburo was “efforts to advance full, rigorous Party self-governance through…
 • 
Bill Bishop
June Politburo meeting and study session
The readout of the June Politburo meeting readout is quite short. The only disclosed agenda item was the deliberation of the “Regulations on the Work of…
 • 
Bill Bishop
2
US-China Deal?; Rare earths; Xi and the propaganda tea leaves; DeepSeek needs Nvidia; Gold diggers
Xi and the propaganda tea leaves - As I have discussed repeatedly recently, there has been a spate of rumors that Xi has lost power. And I have said…
 • 
Bill Bishop
4
The China video game market with Niko Partners
Watch now | A discussion with Lisa Hanson and Daniel Ahmad of Niko Partners about the China video game market and how Chinese game firms are going…
 • 
Bill Bishop
, 
Lisa Hanson
, and 
Daniel Ahmad
4
46:02
Sinocism
Sinocism
Get smarter about China
Top posts
Sharp China: Big Picture Questions for 2024; Taiwan and the Philippines and Tentative Stability; Our Favorite Memories from 2023
 • Bill Bishop and Andrew Sharp
3
Sharp China: The Taiwan Status Quo; Markets and GDP Go Opposite Directions; China and the Red Sea; Cannabis; Soccer Corruption
 • Bill Bishop and Andrew Sharp
Wang Yi at the UN; Fu Zhenghua sentenced; Nvidia China sales
 • Bill Bishop
1
Vanke in trouble; US politicians flip flop on TikTok; Xiaohongshu RedNote's fleeting moment?
 • Bill Bishop
7
Sharp China: Tesla’s Future in China; Chinese EVs Around the World; Moves to Stabilize the Markets; More Questions on the Red Sea
 • Bill Bishop and Andrew Sharp
3
© 2025 Sinocism LLC
Substack
Privacy ∙ Terms ∙ Collection notice
Start writingGet the app
Substack is the home for great culture