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Xi meets Russian Prime Minister; Nexperia; Subsidized electricity for PRC AI chips; 4.17% GDP growth minimum through 2035
The Financial Times reports that some local governments are offering subsidies for electricity of up to 50% for data center operators who use domestic…
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Xi at APEC; US-China deal; Rare earths; Nvidia thwarted by Trump officials; UK university censors over Xinjiang
Nvidia almost got Trump to approve Blackwell sales to China - Late Wednesday word was going around that President Trump was going to tell Xi Jinping he…
Nov 3
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October 2025
Sinocism Live: Understanding China's Exam-centric Education System
This is a recording of my October 31, 2025 discussion with Ruixue Jia and Hongbin Li about their excellent and important new book The Highest Exam - How…
Oct 31
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Outcomes of Trump-Xi meeting; No deal yet for Nvidia chips; Gaokao
The Trump-Xi meeting in South Korea went as well as could have been hoped, both sides pulled back some of their recent actions and threats, with the…
Oct 30
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Sinocism Live: Rush Doshi on the Trump-Xi meeting and US-China Relations
Rush Doshi was deputy senior director for China and Taiwan on President Joe Biden’s National Security Council (NSC), where he served from 2021 to 2024…
Oct 30
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Xi-Trump meeting; US to sell Nvidia B30A chips to China?; Birth of the 15th Five-Year Plan recommendations
Xi and Trump will meet at 11 a.m. local time on Thursday. The PRC side confirmed the meeting Wednesday, saying the two will meet to “exchange views on…
Oct 29
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Sharp China: A Basic Consensus on Arrangements to Address US-China Concerns; The New Five-Year Plan Sounds Familiar; Nexperia as an Object…
On today’s show Andrew and Bill begin with the looming Trump-Xi meeting in Seoul, South Korea, and the “consensuses” agreed upon in Kuala Lampur this…
Oct 29
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Plenum recommendations and explanation; US-China consensus speculation; China and ASEAN; Third “Zhong Taiwen 钟台文” commentary
On Tuesday the Party released the Explanation of the Recommendations of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China for Formulating the 15th…
Oct 28
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Latest US-China "framework"; EU's rare earths stress; 80th Anniversary of Taiwan’s Restoration; Financial Street Forum; PLA; B30A chips
US and PRC negotiators met in Kuala Lumpur on October 25, the 75th anniversary of the Chinese People’s Volunteers going abroad to fight in the War to…
Oct 27
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Sinocism Live: The Fourth Plenum and US-China relations with Chris Johnson
This is a recording of my October 24, 2025 conversation with Chris Johnson, CEO of China Strategies Group and a former top China analyst at the CIA…
Oct 24
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Fourth Plenum communiqué; New CMC vice chair; US-China meetings; Nexperia mess; PRC AI in Global South
The Fourth Plenum concluded Monday. There were no announced personnel moves at the Politburo level, but the meeting did approve General Zhang Shengmin…
Oct 23
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US-China talks; Beijing Daily says America is a "failed state"; Waiting for the end of the Plenum; EU stressed about rare earths and auto…
Then later Wednesday President Trump said he thought the US and China would make a “deal on everything”:“We’ll make a deal on, I think, everything…
Oct 22
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