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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Premier Li at Summer Davos; Rare earths; President Lai's second speech; MSS mocks CIA
EU pain over rare earths - Wang Yi met with diplomatic envoys to China from the EU and member states in Beijing. According to Bloomberg, EU Ambassador…
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Sharp China: The PRC and the Past Two Weeks in Iran; Ten Speeches in Taiwan; London Framework Faltering?; All Eyes on the EU
On today's show Andrew and Bill begin with PRC perspectives on the past two weeks of attacks on Iran. Topics include: dispelling notions that U.S…
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Xi to skip BRICS Summit?; September 3 military parade; UK on China; DeepSeek
More on DeepSeek’s embedded bias - Alex Colville at Lingua Sinica has another fascinating look at DeepSeek and how claims that censorship and embedded…
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China and the Iran-Israel conflict; Lai: "Taiwan is of course a country"; Rickety "London Framework"; Curbing “involution-style” competition
“Taiwan is of course a country” - Taiwan President Lai has launched a series of ten speeches with the theme of uniting Taiwan. He gave the first one…
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Xi-Putin call; Rare earths and the EU; Opening exit paths for tech firms; TikTaco
TikTaco: Trump again illegally extends TikTok deadline - President Trump again chickened out in the face of ByteDance and PRC official intransigence and…
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