Day: July 8, 2023

China Update is about China economic and political news and analysis #chinaupdate 00:00 Introduction 00:43 Chinese Economy I: Yellen, Li Qiang, & Housing Sales 04:07 China’s Heat Wave 06:15 Chinese Economy II: EV Price War, & Goldman’s Banking Downgrade

The US military is planning to have a transformative year in the Pacific. To them, that means militarizing the region. More ships, more planes, more troops, more missiles, and more agreements with allies – all aimed at containing China and their ambitions of power.

Is Xi Jinping trying to become God emperor? Xi Jinping has, since he got to power, been consolidating his power base, taking out his enemies and forcing his political philosophies down everybody’s throats.

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The Chinese chip market is undergoing a transformation, and under US chip restriction rules, China has embarked on a self-sufficient development path. Not only has it set a goal of achieving a 70% self-sufficiency rate in chips and producing more chips domestically, but Shanghai Microelectronics is also increasing its research and development of lithography machines, and Chinese enterprises have moved in the first domestically-produced lithography machine. China is the world’s largest chip market and spen

Despite years of intel that China and other nations have tried to interfere in Canada’s democratic institutions, Canada has yet to take meaningful action to protect itself from foreign interference. This has made it hard for Canada’s law enforcement agencies to catch foreign interference, as well as prosecute it. In this episode of China Unscripted, we talk about what consequences there are for foreign interference, consequences for politicians who let it happen, and Canada’s new media problem that could ma