Summary of today’s Essential Eight: Wang Yi at the UN - Among Wang YI’s meetings was one with Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov. There was nothing in the…
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Regular Sinocism readers are no doubt familiar with John Garnaut, one of the top journalists covering China before he joined the Australian government…
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Apologies for working on a Sunday, but the rumor frenzy over the last 48 hours has gotten out of control. For those who have not heard the rumors, Xi…
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The Party Congress has concluded. We will learn the makeup of the next Politburo and Standing Committee Sunday morning Beijing time. All indications are…
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Edgar Snow goes to meet Mao
Xi is full of surprises. In the Monday newsletter I wrote that “later this week Xi should make his annual pre-Spring festival inspection tour”, a tour…
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Now that the balloon is down here are some of the things I think are worth considering going forward: 1. After Secretary of State Blinken cancelled his…
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This special, short episode is outside the paywall. On today's special episode of Sharp China Andrew and Bill reconvene for an emergency episode to…
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Summary of today’s top items: Politburo study session on science and technology - Xi chaired a Politburo Study session on “basic research for…
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Today’s issue is a little thin; we are in the Two Meetings doldrums. Summary of today’s top items:Sinocism is a reader-supported publication. To receive…
Summary of the Essential Eight: Reopening - The government will stop reporting asymptomatic cases but still report the meaningless official symptomatic…
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PRC officials sound very confident that the worst of the Covid exit wave has passed and that any next wave will not be nearly as bad. That would be good…
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