Sharp China: 10 Questions and Modest Expectations With Trump in China to Meet Xi Jinping

This episode of Sharp China is outside the paywall. Show Notes: On today's show Andrew and Bill talk through 360 degrees of President Trump's trip to Beijing this week. Topics include: Jensen Huang hitching a ride in Alaska, general expectations for deliverables after limited leaks and hurried advance planning, Trump's reception in Beijing, and the limits of "upper hand" analysis. From there: A coterie of billionaire CEOs make the trip with Trump, a US Chamber of Commerce/Rhodium report warning about the PRC's industrial strategy, and Trump makes overtures about "opening" China. At the end: Questions on Taiwan arm sales and AI cooperation, the expected talks on Ezra Jin and Jimmy Lai, a trillion dollar investment report that went viral eight months later, Xi's calculus before a 21st Party Congress, the Iran question looming over the week's meetings, and big, fat hug speculation.You can listen to the podcast in the app:Or click here for instructions to add the podcast to your preferred player. To subscribe to Sinocism, click here.To subscribe to Stratechery, click here.And if you enjoy this podcast please share it far and wide:Related Readings:Trump China visit; China’s Next Generation Industrial Policy; Standardizing and developing AI agents; No more deflation?; Ding Xuexiang visits Huawei -- SinocismJensen Huang hitching a ride -- Emily Goodin on XA weakened Trump arrives at Xi’s court -- FTTrump on Opening China -- Truth SocialTrump is taking more than a dozen U.S. executives to China. Jensen Huang isn’t one of them -- CNBCChina expanding its industrial dominance, warns US business group -- FTChina’s Next-Generation Industrial Policy -- RhodiumDonald Trump demands Xi Jinping ‘open’ China to US business -- FTXi Is Poised to Press Trump on Arms Sales to Taiwan -- NYTU.S. and China Pursue Guardrails to Stop AI Rivalry From Spiraling Into Crisis -- WSJFamilies of two Americans jailed in China urge Trump to seek their release -- ReutersJimmy Lai is not forgotten as Trump goes to China -- WaPoUS-China Relations Cannot Return to the Past, But Can Have a Better Future—On the Occasion of the China-US Heads of State Meeting—— - Guo Jiping -- People’s Daily (Sinocism Translation)Is Trump About to Invite In the Biggest Predator in the World? -- NYTTeam Chyyyyyna -- Lara Trump on XTo add the Sharp China feed to your preferred podcast player:Click on the “listen on” button and you will see a dropdown with several options. Make sure you are logged into your account when you do it so you get the correct private RSS feed for subscribers. If you have not logged in for a while you can enter your email and then we will send you a login link.The “email link” in the pulldown shown above will send you an email that also makes it easy to set it up in your preferred podcast app on your phone.If you use the Substack app it has a built- in podcast player.Thanks for listening. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit sinocism.com/subscribe