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Weekly Open Thread 2021 #2
Good morning. Some starter questions today, and of course please feel free to discuss anything else you want: How much of the Trump Administrati…
Bill Bishop
Jan 15
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Xi and Starbucks; Hebei outbreak; More US sanctions; Record trade surplus
Starbucks is in the middle of an effort to energize the US-China relationship as the Biden Administration takes over. PRC media is making a huge deal o…
Bill Bishop
Jan 14
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Outbreak; United States Strategic Framework for the Indo-Pacific; Tesla; PBoC signals
Commentary today is embedded in several of the essential eight items below. I also have included a couple of pages from a China-related draft president…
Bill Bishop
Jan 13
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Outbreak around Beijing; WHO investigation; "Is America collapsing?"; Like a flowing river
The Hebei outbreak continues, the pressure to contain it and prevent its spread into Beijing is intensifying. Spring Festival travel is going to be mas…
Bill Bishop
Jan 12
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Hebei outbreak; Political and legal affairs conference; Taiwan; WHO
Thanks to everyone who participated in the discussion thread that started Friday. It is still going, we have some very smart and interesting period in …
Bill Bishop
Jan 11
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Weekly Open Thread 2021 #1
Happy Friday! Some suggested topics for today, but as always we are wide open to whatever you want to discuss: How bad is this outbreak in Shiji…
Bill Bishop
Jan 8
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"The most beautiful sight"; Hebei Outbreak; Standing Committee Meeting; Hong Kong
The CCP has had a fun 24 hours reporting on the chaos in DC. Here is one example, and note that the post credits the images to Russia’s RT: I wish this…
Bill Bishop
Jan 7
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Hong Kong; Hebei outbreak; Propaganda meeting; Chaos in DC
Hi everyone, today’s newsletter is abbreviated as we are bit distracted here in DC watching our legislature being overrun. I hope we are back to normal…
Bill Bishop
Jan 6
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Death sentence for a corrupt official; Jack Ma; WHO's China visa problem; United Front
There has been a bit of frenzy over the last day about the whereabouts of Jack Ma, with many reports saying that he is “missing” and some speculating h…
Bill Bishop
Jan 5
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Sounding confident going into 2021; Politics in command; BRI not dead; 2021 foreign policy …
Happy New Year, I hope all of you had a wonderful holiday. It is always hard to restart the newsletter after a break, I know I have missed some things …
Bill Bishop
Jan 4
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The five fundamentals; National security; Power shortages; RIP Ezra Vogel
We are going to be hearing a lot more about the “five fundamentals “五个根本”. They make up one of the key themes in the propaganda since the Central Econo…
Bill Bishop
Dec 21, 2020
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Friday open thread: Central Economic Work Conference; SMIC entity listing; EU deal; Zoom Ch…
Happy Friday. I am trying a slightly different format for today’s discussion, as always please bring up anything else you would like to discuss.
Bill Bishop
Dec 18, 2020
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