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PLA at the Two Sessions; US-China; Iran; OpenClaw
A relatively quiet day, at least when it comes to China, as we await the end of the Two Sessions. 1. PLA at the Two Sessions - The excellent YouTube…
 • Bill Bishop
Xi meets with PLA and PAP delegates; Wang Yi press conference; US-China; China and Iran; OpenClaw frenzy
The “OpenClaw” frenzy has is spreading, driven by a chaotic mix of grassroots FOMO, aggressive cloud vendor marketing, and local government industrial…
 • Bill Bishop
Sinocism Weekly - March 6, 2026
Welcome to the Sinocism Weekly, a free Friday newsletter highlighting the most important items from the Sinocism Essential Eight published Monday…
 • Bill Bishop
NPC; Government Work Report; Xi's breakout session; NDRC report; 15th Five-Year Plan; Iran; Chips
he message from Premier Li’s draft government work report he delivered Thursday is that things are on the right track in spite of a difficult external…
 • Bill Bishop
Sharp China: All Eyes on Iran; Two Sessions Questions; Alibaba, DeepSeek and Distillation; Another UK Spying Scandal
This episode of Sharp China is outside the paywall.
 • Bill Bishop
56:28
Two sessions; Iran; Another UK spy case; Qwen
Three British men have been arrested on “suspicion of assisting Chinese intelligence” under the National Security Act. All have ties to the Labour Party…
 • Bill Bishop
Reactions to Iran war; US-China; Two Sessions; DeepSeek and Qwen
There has been some speculation that because of the US attack on Iran, Xi would postpone or cancel his meeting with President Trump at the end of the…
 • Bill Bishop
Reactions to the US-Israel attack on Iran; Prepping for the Two Sessions; Science and technology insurance
This was supposed to be a fairly quiet week heading into the “Two Sessions”, with the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) opening…
 • Bill Bishop
Chinese Debates on a Fragmenting Global Order | Sinification: February 2026
Global Order & US-China Relations | Japan | Taiwan | Middle East | Europe | Latin America | Chinese Economy | Technology & Society - Commentary on the…
 • James Farquharson, Thomas des Garets Geddes, and Jacob Mardell

February 2026

NPC countdown; More PLA officers out; US-China; DeepSeek; Xi Thought on Diplomacy
Where is DeepSeek’s new model? - The world was expecting DeepSeek’s new model around the Lunar New Year. Is it delayed because, as some rumors suggest…
 • Bill Bishop
German Chancellor Merz in Beijing; Shanghai relaxes housing purchase restrictions; PLA purges; Cyberspace; US-China
PRC actors using OpenAI for information operations - OpenAI issued a report titled Disrupting Malicious Uses of AI that documented several case studies…
 • Bill Bishop
Ratcheting up the economic coercion on Japan; Mixed holiday economic data; Germany's Merz arrives in Beijing; US-China; AI; Political…
Welcome to the Year of the Horse. 1. Ramping up economic coercion on Japan - The Ministry of Commerce started its Year of the Horse work with a…
 • Bill Bishop
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