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Show Notes: On today's show Andrew and Bill begin with PRC messaging at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, including the US responses to new Defense Minister Dong Jun, how neighboring countries perceive the divergence between PRC rhetoric and PRC actions, and takeaways from Operation Joint Sword-2024A. From there: Parsing Xi's January speech on "New Quality Productive Forces" in advance of the Third Plenum, overcapacity is becoming a political problem more than an economic debate, and a Financial Times story sheds light on the state of Russia-China negotiations surrounding the Siberia 2 pipeline. At the end: Bill remembers his time in China during the spring of 1989, thoughts on the structural forces that have suppressed memories of June 4 inside China, and lessons that the Party has internalized in the decades that followed.
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Related Readings:
Joint Sword-2024A around Taiwan; Xi in Shandong; G7; Huawei -- Sinocism
China hits out at ‘aggressive’ Taiwan for military build-up -- Financial Times
Unleashing “new quality productive forces”: China’s strategy for technology-led growth -- Brookings -Arthur Kroeber
Russia-China gas pipeline deal stalls over Beijing’s price demands -- Financial Times
Watching China in Europe—June 2024 -- German Marshall Fund
China says it will not join Swiss peace conference on Ukraine -- Reuters
Zelenskyy accuses China of helping Russia sabotage peace summit -- Politico
China: Closing Off Memory of Tiananmen Massacre -- Human Rights Watch
Statement From the Tiananmen Mothers on the 35th Anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre by
Keeping the Memory of June Fourth Alive -
On the 35th Anniversary of Tiananmen Square -- U.S. State Dept
Giant pandas returning to DC’s National Zoo -- Fox 5 DC
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Sharp China: US-China Messaging in Singapore; New Quality Productive Forces; Putin and a Natural Gas Impasse; 35 Years After Tiananmen Square