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Vaccines; Party’s party planning; Ant and Alibaba; Manufacturing outrage campaigns
Gao Fu, director of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, caused a stir domestically and internationally over the weekend with comment…
Bill Bishop
3 hr ago
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Weekly Open Thread 2021 #11: Human rights; Taiwan, Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law
Happy Friday! As always the discussion is wide open, I have three topics to spur some comments but feel free to ignore them and bring up whateve…
Bill Bishop
Apr 9
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Cheng Lei case; More US export controls, Covid-19 origins; Financial risk
Today’s Essential Eight items: Economic coercion not really working against Australia? Cheng Lei case Worries about risks in local financial institutio…
Bill Bishop
Apr 8
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PLA ideological and political education; Xi calls Merkel; Taiwan; Demography
Today’s Essential Eight items: New guidelines on promoting ideological and political education in the PLA Xi works Merkel US-China Taiwan TSMC making c…
Bill Bishop
Apr 7
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Wang Yi warns Japan; Normal PRC international travel next year; Xinjiang; Poverty alleviati…
PRC officials sound very worried about the direction of the US-Japan relationship. President Biden and Prime Minister Suga meet in Washington DC next w…
Bill Bishop
Apr 6
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Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law and a Socialist rule of law culture; Financial risk; …
Monday was a holiday in China so today’s issue is a bit thin. Thanks to everyone who participated in the weekly thread that started Friday, and is stil…
Bill Bishop
Apr 5
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Weekly Open Thread 2021 #10: Gratitude; Narrative control; Xinjiang and social media
Happy Friday! It is Good Friday as well as the start of the Qingming / Tomb Sweeping Festival. Apologies to those who opened yesterday’s newslet…
Bill Bishop
Apr 2
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Hong Kong convictions; 20th anniversary of Hainan Island incident; Semiconductors
Today is a big day for Sinocism, we have been acquired by the China Media Group as part of its efforts to better tell China’s story globally and its de…
Bill Bishop
Apr 1
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Xi on studying Party history; Reaction to WHO report; Two journalists leave for Taiwan; Arm…
Today’s Essential Eight: Xi’s February 20 Party History Study Campaign kickoff speech Reaction to WHO-China mission report BBC and RTE journalists leav…
Bill Bishop
Mar 31
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WHO report; Hong Kong election system fixed; Taiwan; Useful foreigners
The WHO report is out, no one is happy, and we will probably never know the origins of COVID-19. WHO Director-General Tedros’ remarks at the press brie…
Bill Bishop
Mar 30
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WHO-China report on coronavirus origins; Wang Yi in the Middle East; Hong Kong
Thanks to everyone who participated in the weekly open thread that started last Friday. It is still ongoing, and is the most active one in a while. Tod…
Bill Bishop
Mar 29
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Weekly Open Thread 2021 #9: Sanctions; Cotton; Patriotism and MNCs
Happy Friday! I have some questions in the text below, but as always feel free to discuss whatever you want. Congrats/condolences to the new cla…
Bill Bishop
Mar 26
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