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Sinocism Live

A Sharp Tech and Sharp China Crossover on the Chip Ban, Taiwan, TikTok and More

Sinocism Live

Sinocism live on US-China relations with the FT’s Demetri Sevastopulo

Sharp China Podcast

Sharp China: Beijing Kills Meta’s Manus Deal; April Politburo Takeaways; Foreign Forces Afflicting the Youth; US Countermeasures Mounting

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Iran FM in China; Trump China visit next week; EU losing patience?; DeepSeek; Xi on basic research; MU5735 crash investigation

All signs point to Trump traveling Beijing next week to meet Xi. Late last week Wang Yi and Marco Rubio had a call, as did He Lifeng and Scott Bessent…

May 6 • Bill Bishop

Triangles and Chokepoints | Sinification: April 2026

Global Order | US-China | Europe | Russia | East Asia | Trade and Resource Security | Economics | Artificial Intelligence

May 4 • James Farquharson, Thomas des Garets Geddes, and Jacob Mardell

Sharp China: Beijing Kills Meta’s Manus Deal; April Politburo Takeaways; Foreign Forces Afflicting the Youth; US Countermeasures Mounting

Listen now | Show Notes: On today’s show Andrew and Bill begin with the news that the Meta-Manus deal will likely be unwound in its entirety in the wake…

Apr 30 • Bill Bishop

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Politburo study session; Australian FM in Beijing; More on the Manus mess and AI; Chongqing corruption

Caixin has a long story titled “Prominent Female Lawyer Goes Missing: The Intersection Point of Chongqing’s Anti-Corruption Storm”. It is only available…

Apr 29 • Bill Bishop

April Politburo meeting; Manus mess; Hostile foreign forces encouraging "lying flat"; New US semiconductor restrictions?

The Wall Street Journal reports that Meta is planning to comply with the order to undo the Manus acquisition. Maybe they are happy to get a mulligan for…

Apr 28 • Bill Bishop

Managing new employment groups; NDRC wants Manus deal unwound; US-China AI discussion; Alleged MSS hacker extradited to US

Meta generates well over $10B USD a year in revenue selling ads to PRC firms for marketing globally ex-China, and while those firms buy those ads…

Apr 27 • Bill Bishop

Evaluation and Assessment Measures for Carbon Peaking and Carbon Neutrality; Crackdown on Cambodian scam centers?; AI distillation; US as a…

On Thursday the government publicly released the “Comprehensive Evaluation and Assessment Measures for Carbon Peaking and Carbon Neutrality…

Apr 23 • Bill Bishop

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Sharp China: Big Picture Questions for 2024; Taiwan and the Philippines and Tentative Stability; Our Favorite Memories from 2023

Dec 21, 2023 • Bill Bishop and Andrew Sharp

Trump delays China visit because Iran war likely will not be over by March 31; US-China trade talks; Xi on marine economy; Stabilizing…

Mar 16 • Bill Bishop

Sharp China: The Taiwan Status Quo; Markets and GDP Go Opposite Directions; China and the Red Sea; Cannabis; Soccer Corruption

Jan 19, 2024 • Bill Bishop and Andrew Sharp

Wang Yi at the UN; Fu Zhenghua sentenced; Nvidia China sales

Sep 22, 2022 • Bill Bishop

Engineers of the Soul: Ideology in Xi Jinping's China by John Garnaut

Jan 17, 2019 • Bill Bishop

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