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Jeremy Goldkorn @goldkorn.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Slop, lies, and radar in the latest @thechinaweek.com: The incoherent Trump doctrine and escalating China-Japan tensions.
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The world is in play
U.S. allies reel at Trump's National Security Strategy, and a Chinese jet locks radar on Japanese aircraft.
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Jeremy Goldkorn @goldkorn.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
In the latest @thechinaweek.com: • ‘How Israel’s embassy lost China’ • A surprise call from Xi Jinping pleases Trump • China brainrot, from creator schlock to AI propaganda • Recommended reading and listening • Important China news from the last week or so
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How Israel’s embassy lost China, Xi call pleases Trump, and China brainrot
The world is undergoing "great changes unseen in a century" as Xi Jinping likes to say.
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The China Week @thechinaweek.com · 08/11/2025
A short essay on awkward Sino-British relations, unusual photos of laughing Xi Jinping, robots for entertainment and last-mile delivery, and more:
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Very British China problems
London's awkward relationship with Beijing, laughing Xi, China launches another aircraft carrier, recommended articles and podcasts etc.
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Jeremy Goldkorn @goldkorn.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Trump's China theatrics of the last nine months have achieved nothing, except for concentrating minds in Beijing on the urgent need for technological and financial independence from the U.S., and maing clear "how much stronger China has become":
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The emperor's new deal and the chairman's new tech plan
An extremely underwhelming meeting between Xi and Trump, details on Beijing's drive for tech self-reliance, plus more news and links.
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Jeremy Goldkorn @goldkorn.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
New @thechinaweek.com: - The Emperor of Xinjiang - Art and advertising stunt in Tibet for Arc’teryx goes wrong - Citizen reporter Zhang Zhan gets another 4 years on trumped up charges - Links to eulogies for Jerome Cohen - And more
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‘Xinjiang policy is correct, scientific, and effective’ — Xi
Xi Jinping visits the Uyghur heartland, PR stunt gone wrong in Tibet, Jerome Cohen, law of the jungle, big WTO table, green commitments, four more years for citizen journalist.
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Jeremy Goldkorn @goldkorn.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
The latest @thechinaweek.com:
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TikTok deal touted as China’s snubs U.S. soybeans
A flurry of U.S.-China diplomacy and talk of a deal, AI and returnee tech talents, the Locknet exported, arctic shipping, 'China ditching the dollar,' interesting links, fun stuff, jobs.
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The China Week @thechinaweek.com · 05/09/2025
This week: • A week of authoritarian pageantry in China • Troubled U.S.-China trade war pause • Heart drugs • Hit animated film • Brain-computer interface plans • Zambian Jehovah’s Witnesses leaning Chinese • And more…
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The Four Horsemen of the New World Order
A week of authoritarian pageantry in China, troubled U.S.-China trade war pause, heart drugs, hit animated film, brain-computer interface plans, Zambian Jehovah’s Witnesses, and more.
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Jeremy Goldkorn @goldkorn.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
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Live in Beijing right now
There's an incredible show of power and diplomatic success happening in China's capital right now.
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The China Week @thechinaweek.com · 27/08/2025
The latest: • Soaring markets and another DeepSeek breakthrough •Putin and Modi to attend military parade • Trump's crumbling trade war update • Journalist denied Hong Kong visa • Youth culture, old consumers
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China is bullish on stock market and AI chips
Soaring markets and another DeepSeek breakthrough, Putin and Modi to attend military parade, trade war update, journalist denied Hong Kong visa, youth culture, old consumers.
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Jeremy Goldkorn @goldkorn.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
New @thechinaweek.com: • China schmoozes India, Pakistan, Afghanistan • Xi in Tibet • U.S.-China trade and tech wars • Robot games • New visa to attract scientists • Short video on broadcast TV • Nigerian bullet train • Another diplomat disappears, and more
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China embraces India, Pakistan, Afghanistan
South Asian moves, Xi in Tibet, U.S.-China trade and tech wars, robot games, new visa to attract scientists, short video on broadcast TV, Nigerian bullet train, another diplomat disappears, and more.
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The China Week @thechinaweek.com · 12/08/2025
This week's newsletter is out: • Liu Jianchao detained • 40% of cars sold in China this year were electric • Trump chickens out again on trade and tech war • China Coast Guard ship rams Chinese Navy vessel • Star banker out of jail • China's mystery rooms in new U.K. embassy • Evergrande delisted
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Senior diplomat disappears
Liu Jianchao detained, clean energy bonanza, U.S.-China chips and trade truce, China Coast Guard ship rams Chinese Navy vessel, and more.
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The China Week @thechinaweek.com · 06/08/2025
The China Week for the dog days of August: • The Party's Beidaihe retreat • Hong Kong floods • Free preschool • Bullying and non-consensual porn • First arrest under Macau's National Security Law • NVIDIA under scrutiny in China, and more
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The Communist Party's summer holiday
Beidaihe retreat, Hong Kong floods, free preschool, bullying and non-consensual porn, first arrest under Macau's National Security Law, NVIDIA under scrutiny in China, and more.
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The China Week @thechinaweek.com · 30/07/2025
The China Week is up: • Deadly Beijing floods • Sex and corruption at Shaolin Temple • Supplicant Trump goes soft on Beijing • EU-China talks • $500 a year to have a baby • Belt and Road is back.
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Beijing deluge kills 30
Floods, sex and corruption at Shaolin Temple, supplicant Trump, EU-China talks, $500 a year to have a baby, Belt and Road is back.
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The China Week @thechinaweek.com · 08/07/2025
The latest China Week is out:
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Can China end the race to the bottom?
The government battles price wars and involution, plus Dalai Lama succession, China-Europe ties, U.S.-China trade and tech wars, foreigners in China, birthrates, bull market, flying cars, and more.
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The China Week @thechinaweek.com · 01/07/2025
A lot of solar power, 100 million Communist Party members, a military drone the size of a mosquito, a lot of hot air from Trump, and more in the latest issue of The China Week:
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Staggering solar bonanza, the Tao of the deal, military mosquito drones
Solar energy record, trade war stasis, tiny drones, 100 million Party members, military purges, Iran's defense minister goes to China, annals of repression and assimilation.
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The China Week @thechinaweek.com · 23/06/2025
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Jeremy Goldkorn @goldkorn.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
New @thechinaweek.com:
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Huawei isn't going away
People's Daily interview with Ren Zhengfei, EVs, the boring Trump-China trade war, no tariffs for Africa, global income tax crackdown, corrupt judge.
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The China Week @thechinaweek.com · 04/06/2025
A quiet week full of noise: the latest China Week is out:
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Chinese students in the U.S. in the crosshairs
The trade war goes on, quiet June 4, asteroid probe, Uyghurs and Tibetans in the news again, tough talk on Taiwan, military moves in South China Sea
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The China Week @thechinaweek.com · 28/05/2025
• China promises new funding for WHO which will partly make up for shortfall from U.S. withdrawal • BYD crushes Tesla • Huawei launches Harmony OS laptops • Turkey and spying on Uyghurs • New rules for "military-industrial facilities" • Cool Chengdu
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China takes over WHO after Trump retreat, BYD crushes Tesla
China is major donor at WHO, BYD is boss, Huawei launches Harmony OS laptops, Turkey and Uyghurs, new rules for "military-industrial facilities," and cool Chengdu.
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The China Week @thechinaweek.com · 21/05/2025
The China Week May 13 to 20: • Battery giant CATL raises $4.6 billion • Xi's sweet potato economy • New cancer drug • Hamas “atrocities” are “unforgivable” • Hungary is more loyal to China than to Trump • Beijing warns against U.S. Huawei curbs • Coffee culture and business • And more…
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China is the electric superpower
CATL raises billions, Xi's sweet potato economy, new cancer drug, China and Hamas, Hungary loyal to China not Trump, AI and chip madmen, trade war update, coffee, desperate doctors, economy is fine.
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The China Week @thechinaweek.com · 14/05/2025
The latest China Week: • Trade war update • Chinese jets shoot down India's planes • Xi in Moscow • Latin America comes to Beijing • Mixed economic signals • CATL listing, cars, operating systems, chips
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China's good wars, in trade and south Asian skies
Trade war update, Chinese jets shoot down India's planes, Xi in Moscow, Latin America comes to Beijing, mixed economic signals, new tech
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The China Week @thechinaweek.com · 07/05/2025
The China news you need to know from the last week: • Labor day travel • Trade talks this weekend • Xi goes to Moscow • PLA Air Force in Egypt • Laws to protect the private sector • Hot new tech • CIA recruitment videos
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A surprising tourism boom
Labor day travel, trade talks this weekend, Xi goes to Moscow, PLA Air Force in Egypt, protecting the private sector, new tech, and CIA recruitment videos.
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The China Week @thechinaweek.com · 30/04/2025
This week's newsletter: • Beijing is ready for a long trade war • May travel boom • Xi❤️AI and delivery app wars • Dueling flags in the South China Sea, • Transnational repression • China jobs • Chinese views on Americans and Indians.
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Preparing for protracted war
Beijing is ready for a long trade war, May travel boom, Xi❤️AI, delivery app wars, dueling flags in the South China Sea, transnational repression, China jobs, Chinese views on Americans and Indians.
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The China Week @thechinaweek.com · 23/04/2025
The latest @thechinaweek.com is out: • Xi's not going to dial that phone—my analysis • Charge your car for five minutes, drive 500 miles, plus sodium-ion batteries, robots, flying taxis • China's ceasefire team in Burma • Forced TV confessions are back • Will China stop illegal fishing?
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This is my offer: nothing
China's in no rush to talk to Trump, five minute charge for long-range electric cars, robots run a half marathon, ceasefire watch in Burma, forced confessions, and more.
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The China Week @thechinaweek.com · 18/04/2025
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Jeremy Goldkorn @goldkorn.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Tuesday's @thechinaweek.com • Chinese soldiers in Ukraine—Beijing denies sending cannon fodder to Russia • Suddenly, everybody ❤️ China • Trade war: Beijing calls Trump is a bully and a joker • Another military leader purged • Tech news: robots, AI adoption by government, low altitude economy, EVs
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Chinese mercenaries fighting for Russia, Beijing schmoozes the world
Chinese citizens fighting in Ukraine, the latest on the trade war, a general is purged, new tech and AI everywhere
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The China Week @thechinaweek.com · 09/04/2025
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The China Week @thechinaweek.com · 02/04/2025
Here it is:
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Taiwan flashpoint. Targeted Chinese scientists in the U.S. will flee.
The People's Liberation Army "closes in" on Taiwan; Xi Jinping boosts science and welcomes CEOs; China snuggles up to Europe, Japan, South Korea; etc.
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The China Week @thechinaweek.com · 02/04/2025
The front cover of the March 1959 issue of Youth Pictorial magazine 青年画报. A detail of this image will illustrate The China Week newsletter, to be published tonight.
The front cover of the March 1959 issue of Youth Pictorial magazine 青年画报, showing a woman kn lab clothes pouring the contents of one test tube into another. The magazine was purchased at Beijing's Panjiayuan market in the 1990s.
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Jeremy Goldkorn @goldkorn.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
This all caps headline is rather misleading, see @fbermingham.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/fber...
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Jeremy Goldkorn @goldkorn.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
The latest China Week:
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Lawfare from China
Laws to target foreign companies, China enjoys the U.S retreat from the world, mixed economic messages, and more.
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Eamon Javers @eamonjavers.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
He said yes. So that implies 45 percent tariffs on Chinese imports next week, if nothing changes. That’s potentially a huge deal for global trade.
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ChinaFile @chinafile.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Confessions of a Chinese internet censor: "My impression is that they need us to know about these things to do our job properly, but…they’re afraid of us knowing too much. They’d prefer we forget everything after executing their instructions." www.chinafile.com/re...
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‘Survival Comes First’ | ChinaFile
Generation Z has now become the primary force among China’s growing ranks of China’s online content moderators, who number in the tens of thousands. Their physical stamina means they generally fare better with the intense demands of the job and can stay up late to respond quickly to issues with sensitive content. They now handle the bulk of the work for major internet
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The China Week @thechinaweek.com · 21/03/2025
Asta Zeneca will likely find it easier to recruit American-trained scientists for this new research center too…
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AstraZeneca investing $2.5 billion in China as drugmaker seeks to recover from scandals
AstraZeneca said on Friday it will spend $2.5 billion on a research and development hub in Beijing, as the drugmaker scrambles to revive business in its second-biggest market after scandals including the arrest of its China president last year.
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The China Week @thechinaweek.com · 21/03/2025
"Highlights of the event, which is now in its fifth year, include the launch of two CNY50 billion (USD6.8 billion) funds to support the development of the real economy"
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USD152 Billion of Deals Are Penned in Run Up to Shanghai’s Global Investment Conference
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Sense Hofstede @sensehofstede.nl · 21/03/2025
China and Europe must lean ‘closer’ as Trump-led US turns its back on multilateral world, Norwegian foreign vice-minister Andreas Kravik says – SCMP
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Exclusive | ‘We have to collaborate with China’: Norwegian diplomat on options in Trump era
Norwegian foreign vice-minister Andreas Kravik talks about China’s key role as uncertainties rock Europe-US ties, and the need for balance.
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The China Week @thechinaweek.com · 21/03/2025
Spanish PM and senior officials from Italy and Portugal to China: www.reuters.com/world/spanis... english.news.cn/20250321/a60... english.news.cn/20250321/813...
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Spanish Prime Minister Sanchez to meet Xi in China next month
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez will travel to China in April to meet with President Xi Jinping, a government spokesperson said.
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Yuen Chan @yuenchan.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
//Mr. Musk, the billionaire chief executive of both SpaceX and Tesla, is a leading supplier to the Pentagon and has extensive financial interests in China.//
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The China Week @thechinaweek.com · 20/03/2025
“the bulk of censorship implementation remains a low-skilled, low-paid, and labor-intensive task performed by human workers in the private sector.”
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Reports on Job Ads and Opinion Surveys Open Windows Into China's Online Censorship
A new report by the Open Technology Fund (OTF) explores the growing demand for human-powered censorship in China. While the Party-state under Xi Jinping has increasingly restricted political expressio...
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The China Week @thechinaweek.com · 20/03/2025
“Akeso’s new immunotherapy drug targeting non-small cell lung cancer, called ivonescimab, allowed half of its patients to go 11.1 months without their condition worsening”
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Chinese drug maker Akeso hailed as biotech’s ‘DeepSeek moment’ amid US rivalry
Akeso’s immunotherapy drug allowed half of its patients to go 11.1 months without their condition worsening.
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The China Week @thechinaweek.com · 20/03/2025
“China's nationwide survey-based urban jobless rate was at its highest in two years at 5.4%, according to data released by the statistics bureau on Monday.”
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China's youth jobless rate rises to 16.9% in February
Joblessness among youth in Chinese cities rose a second month in February, tracking the nation's jobless rate which reached a two-year high, official data showed on Thursday.
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The China Week @thechinaweek.com · 20/03/2025
From @joycekaram.bsky.social: How China gains from Trump-Houthi escalation www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-ch...
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The China Week @thechinaweek.com · 20/03/2025
Nice propaganda photo of Xi Jinping lecturing the locals in Guizhou from @sinocism.com.web.brid.gy: sinocism.com/p/xi-inspect...
Xi Jinping lecturing the locals in Guizhou
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The China Week @thechinaweek.com · 18/03/2025
As Tesla dies, BYD soars and XPeng flies
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Jeremy Goldkorn @goldkorn.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
The latest issue of @thechinaweek.com is out, with a wrap up of the Two Sessions, news about the coming struggle to over the Dalai Lama's reincarnation, and the usual robots, AI, and flying cars:
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Reincarnation struggle begins as demure government gathering ends
Two Sessions takeaways, the next Dalai Lama, AI, robots, flying cars, and tariffs
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The China Week @thechinaweek.com · 25/02/2025
This week's China Week newsletter is out: • China flexes Pacific muscles • Farm productivity boost to reduce China’s grain imports? • Alibaba boosts markets • Putin phones Xi, Beijing talks to Damascus • Flying cars: Move over Cybertruck
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China slices salami in the Pacific
Busy navy, high-yield farming, Alibaba boost, Xi-Putin phone call, and more
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The China Week @thechinaweek.com · 18/02/2025
The latest newsletter from The China Week is out, including: • Who attended Xi Jinping's meeting for business and tech executives and what it means • Nezha 2's box office bounty • Uncertain times for Taiwan • Beijing tickles Elon Musk’s soft underbelly
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Bigger than Pixar
All the China news you need to know from the last seven days
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Emily Feng @emilyzfeng.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
China's spent the better part of the last five years proofing itself against the kind of trade measures the U.S. is taking now against it - in fact, it was literally a part of their last Five Year Plan. www.npr.org/2020/10/29/9...
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China Aims To Be More Resilient To External Economic Shocks
Amid a global pandemic and tensions with the U.S., China's Communist Party has unveiled its next Five Year Plan. It includes an ambitious campaign to reduce economic reliance on foreign countries.
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