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

Click here for instructions to add the podcast to your preferred player. Show Notes: On today’s show Andrew and Bill talk through questions and key areas to watch during the year to come in China. First: A look at the economy a year after the end of dynamic zero covid, including a Bloomberg report on the real estate market and household wealth, MSS warnings about discourse traps, and a corruption crackdown that's likely to continue. Then: Foreign policy questions include ongoing tensions with the Philippines and Taiwan, an ODNI report on election interference in the US, and a tactical stabilization with the Americans that may be tested as early as January. At the end: Andrew runs through various memories from the past year, including 72 hours of unmanned airship sightings, a Barbie controversy, the God of Money menu, Ambassador Rahm Emanuel, Gina Raimondo’s trip to Beijing, Gavin Newsom, and an emailer’s submission for a new Sharp China logo.
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Sharp China: Parsing the Third Plenum Communique; Xi and the Rumor Mill; Trump on Taiwan; Biden and the Chip Status Quo

Show Notes: On today's show Andrew and Bill begin with an overview of the third plenum and its significance before turning to Thursday's communique in the wake of the plenum. Topics include: Official news on Qin Gang and Li Shangfu twelve months after they each disappeared, the wide-range of goals throughout the communique, questions as we wait for implementation, and the party's stated goal of completing its reform tasks by 2029. From there: The rumors swirling around Xi Jinping and his health this week, and follow-up to the controversy surrounding edible oils. At the end: Reactions to President Trump's comments on Taiwan and America as an insurance company, and two stories on the state of the Biden chip policy.
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Dan Wootton Outspoken is the home of no bull news – the real stories and opinions the MSM are censoring. For the past 15 years, at News of the World, ITV, The Sun, The Daily Mail and GB News, Dan saw, bit by bit, how political and corporate pressures resulted in free thought being extinguished, with views that didn't fit the corporate narrative being censored. Now he brings his exclusives and commentary on politics, the culture war and the British Royal Family directly to his Outspoken Network
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The Edinburgh Minute is a daily curation of Edinburgh life, news, culture and communities. Join 8,000+ locals on the mailing list to get a free 7am daily news roundup. Or help keep this going for a fiver a month. Curated by Michael MacLeod, journalist of 20 years. Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
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