nicely timed leak to wsj on eve of blinken visit, doubt the us dares go after any of the major PRC financial institutions - "The U.S. is drafting sanctions that threaten to cut some Chinese banks off from the global financial system, arming Washington’s top envoy with diplomatic…
@PaulJHeer
@politico
A bit of a problem for TikTok when it insists it is not a Chinese company to have the Chinese embassy lobby for it. Of course the parent Bytedance is, and it makes sense for a foreign government to want to help its companies, but it blows up a key part of the TikTok spin charade,…
Charges in the UK cases - "Christopher Berry, 32, and Christopher Cash, 29, will be charged with providing prejudicial information to a foreign state, China, and will appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Friday, 26 April"
Investors are bailing on a Ray Dalio-pioneered quant trade after years of sub-par returns via
@markets
after five years of sub-par returns, many of the institutional investors who sunk large sums into risk-parity funds, as they’re known, are demanding the…
Taiwanese, Tibetan students protest Chinese envoy's speech at Harvard "We shouldn't invite him to our campus because that directly contradicts our values and Harvard's values, she said, adding "And these types of viewpoints and propaganda should not have…
Germany has detained three people suspected of spying for China on sensitive military technology, underlining the limits of Berlin’s efforts to re-engage with Beijing via
@WSJ
Prosecutors said Ina F. and Herwig F., under instructions from Thomas R., had…
@JosephTorigian
first i had heard it from him, really does sound almost nostalgic. not surprising, it was a fun time for teens who were suddenly freed from family and school and could take trains around the country for free
Chinese-Americans Are Pushing San Francisco Toward the Political Center - WSJ Long a reliable voting bloc for the left, Chinese-Americans have been important drivers of a recent backlash against progressive policies in San Francisco
SuperMicro $SMCI must be very worried to have hired this law firm "In a letter to Reuters on behalf of Super Micro, U.S. law firm Clare Locke said its client "goes above and beyond what U.S. export restrictions require" by proactively taking steps to ensure its customers do not…
@PaulJHeer
i am not trying to be snarky. it is a serious question. What is Xi's logic for supporting Putin as he tramples international law and invades a sovereign state? Isn't there a reasonable chance that what you or I may think makes logical sense is not what Xi thinks makes logical…
China’s Alternative Order via
@ForeignAffairs
"By now, Chinese President Xi Jinping’s ambition to remake the world is undeniable. He wants to dissolve Washington’s network of alliances and purge what he dismisses as “Western” values from international…
@alonewolfchen
Beijing public school until third grade, then us school. Didn’t have as much homework in us as had in beijing in third grade until sixth grade
@gdp1985
a package deal. and decent odds lighthizer would be secrtary of treasury, which would be a bfd for us-china as mnuchin and now yellen both blocked some of the harsher measures others pushed.
@GlennLuk
@Brad_Setser
@ZichenWanghere
from sharp china earlier this week, starting around 22:00 "credit to the Chinese for having the vision to put together Made in China 2025, to have the vision to build out the, you know, to get such a dominant position in solar and batteries.
They did a…
@BradMunchen
having no new models for years while your even scrappier competition that understand the market better than you do catch up and then surpass you...
@mitchpresnick
Right. They had a week plus, some CEOs turned it down because of the diss to wait two days after cdf. Not sure this is the wonderful thing the PRC side and orlins/greenberg/allen pitch it is. And lack of any women just another sign they are out of touch