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June 2026

June Politburo meeting; CPC turns 105; Decent June economic data; Meituan's LLM; 30 years for Guo Wengui
Flood and drought risks must be especially acute right now. The June Politburo meeting had as its agenda “study and deploy flood control and drought…
 • Bill Bishop
Plane flies into Beijing’s tallest building; More export controls on Japanese firms; Pause in march towards EU-China trade war?; Premier Li…
small plane flew into Beijing’s tallest building - the CITIC Tower aka “China Zun” - killing the pilot and injuring 13 people. The authorities released…
 • Bill Bishop
Xi in Shandong; Premier Li on “China Opportunity 2.0”; Tightening Supply Chain Security; Long Arm of the Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and…
Li Qiang told the audience in Dalian used “steady, new, vibrant, integrated” to describe “both the overall profile of China’s economy at present and its…
 • Bill Bishop
Sharp China: Party Building and Xi's Dominance; Memory Chips and ASML Accusations; Germany's Puzzling Push for Plaza Accords
On today’s show Andrew and Bill begin with Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building and further signs that one year after from a summer of rumors and one…
 • Bill Bishop
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Wang Yi on lessons of US-Iran war; Selected Works of Xi Jinping on Party Building; Policy support for auto consumption; Liu Guozhong and…
Politburo member and Vice Premier Liu Guozhong inspected Wuxi and Nanjing on June 22-23, touring biopharmaceutical, AI, and cloud computing firms along…
 • Bill Bishop
Li Qiang inspects Dalian; Response to US expansion of China military companies list; Contaminated diapers; No "Plaza Accord" to help the EU…
Is a new “Plaza Accord” the EU’s latest China fantasy? - Last week’s European Council summit signaled growing concern about the PRC’s economic…
 • Bill Bishop
AI+ consumption; Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building; Network data security risk assessment
Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building 习近平党建思想, the newest branch of Xi Thought that we learned about at Monday’s national conference on Party building…
 • Bill Bishop
Wang Yi speaks with Iranian FM; Global governance white paper; Employment plan; G7; US holds back tech restrictions
Wang Yi said China welcomes the first-stage memorandum of understanding reached between Iran and the United States. The facts prove that force and power…
 • Bill Bishop
Xi Thought on Party Building; May economic activity; Myanmar President in Beijing; Wang Yi on the Iran deal
here is a new variant of Xi Thought - Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building. A national conference on Party building convened Monday in Beijing. Cai Qi…
 • Bill Bishop
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 • Bill Bishop
AI and workers' rights; Selected Works of Xi Jinping on Diplomacy; Busy regulators; Philippine Secretary of National Defense
Workers’ Daily, published and sponsored by the All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU), ran a four-part series over the last month under the…
 • Bill Bishop
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