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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit sinocism.comShow Notes:On today’s show Andrew and Bill begin with questions surrounding the Fourth Plenum as it continues in Beijing this week. Topics include: The Party’s messaging on past successes, a timeline for policy announcements in the days and weeks to come, steps the Party may take to address consumption with its next Five-Year Plan, and the full spectrum of possibilities surrounding Xi and his succession plans. From there: Reactions to the news of PLA purges that became official last week, including why some explanatory theories make more sense than others and why the upheaval is not necessarily a positive signal for Taiwan. At the end: More notes on the trade war with the U.S., the plot thickens with Nexperia and the Netherlands, a new website for Andrew’s writing, and an update on Yang Hansen in Portland.Click here for instructions to add the podcast to your preferred player. Or listen to it in the app:Related Readings:Fourth Plenum; PLA cases; US-China; Q3 GDP; US-Australia; Qin Gang -- SinocismPLA Daily Editorial: Unswervingly Carry the Anti-Corruption Struggle in the Military Through to the End ????????????????????????-- PLA DailyForever Xi Jinping? Perhaps Not -- SinocismIn China, a Forbidden Question Looms: Who Leads After Xi? -- N.Y. TimesChina Ousts Top Military Officials as Xi Widens Graft Purge -- BloombergBessent, Chinese vice premier to meet to try to defuse US tariff hike -- ReutersChina targets five U.S. subsidiaries of South Korea’s Hanwha Ocean, sending shares down 8% -- CNBC
