Taiwan elections; Liu He coming to DC; Spring Festival travel starts Friday
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The Chinese have officially confirmed that Vice Premier Liu He is leading a delegation to Washington DC on January 13 for the January 15 signing of the phase one trade deal. There have been a lot of hot takes about how weak the deal is but I am still in the dark about what is actually in it. I will make a courageous, wild guess that both sides will have domestic criticism, however muted it may be in the PRC, and that in fact the reason the Chinese side has been so relatively quiet about the details is that they conceded more than they wanted to, because Xi decided it was time to try to stabilize the relationship, however narrowly and temporarily.
As I understand it, it were netizens who took the original Tsai Ing-wen ad and made it splitscreen with added Hongkong footage. The original version I've seen did not have the contrasting footage.
As I understand it, it were netizens who took the original Tsai Ing-wen ad and made it splitscreen with added Hongkong footage. The original version I've seen did not have the contrasting footage.
Teo Chee Hean has been to Liangjiahe when he was still Singaporean Deputy Prime Minister.