Understanding China and how China impacts the world. Hosted by Andrew Sharp and Bill Bishop. sinocism.com
Sharp China: The U.S., China and Iran; A PRC-Pakistan Peace Plan; KMT Chair Set to Visit China; Huawei, Manus and ZXMOTO
57 mins; April 02, 2026
Sharp China: A Giant Mess with Super Micro; Completely Correct Xiong'an Progress; The PRC's Balancing Act on Iran; Manus, Apple and Router News
18 mins; March 25, 2026
Sharp China: The War in Iran and the Visit to Beijing; New DNI Assessments on Taiwan; Military Scientists Disappearing From Public View
13 mins; March 20, 2026
Sharp China: The 'Raising a Lobster' Frenzy; Iran and US-China as Trump's Visit Looms; Two Sessions Takeaways
15 mins; March 12, 2026
Sharp China: All Eyes on Iran; Two Sessions Questions; Alibaba, DeepSeek and Distillation; Another UK Spying Scandal
56 mins; March 05, 2026
Sharp China: Pending Taiwan Arms Sales; Jimmy Lai Sentenced; Takaichi Secures a Supermajority; AI Models as Propaganda Vectors
16 mins; February 12, 2026
Sharp China: The PLA Purges One Week Later; World Leaders Flock to Beijing; A Trump-Xi Phone Call; Panama Canal Resolution?
62 hours 30 mins; February 05, 2026
Sharp China: 10 Questions on the Detention of Zhang Youxia, Corruption in the PLA, Rumors, Messaging, and Taiwan
11 mins; January 29, 2026
Sharp China: Canada and the New World Order; Second Order Questions for the US and EU; More Big Names Purged from the PLA?
13 mins; January 22, 2026
Sharp China: What’s at Stake for China in Iran; Canada's PM in Beijing; Notes on Chips, Apps, and Drones
8 mins; January 15, 2026
Sharp China: China’s Venezuela Calculations; Japan’s Rare Earth Access; A Reported Pause on Nvidia Purchases; The Meta-Manus Deal Under Review
63 hours 31 mins; January 08, 2026
Sharp China: Xi Jinping Thought on Domestic Demand; Political Economy vs. the Actual Economy; The Stories of the Year and Questions for 2026
13 mins; December 17, 2025
Sharp China: Trump’s Plan to Sell Advanced Chips to China; U.S. Concessions Piling Up Amid a Push for 'Stability'; Macron and the EU Conundrum
11 mins; December 10, 2025
Sharp China: Trump, Takaichi and a Game of Telephone; Japan Jawboning Continues; An Internet Governance Study Session; China Making Trade 'Impossible'
63 hours 11 mins; December 03, 2025
Sharp China: A Maximalist Response to Japan's PM; More Bad Real Estate News; Leaked Warnings on Alibaba; Hasan Piker Touring China
18 mins; November 19, 2025
Sharp China: US-China Follow-Through; New Xi Textbooks and a New Aircraft Carrier; A Wolf Warrior Greets Japan’s PM; More Setbacks for Nvidia
15 mins; November 12, 2025
Sharp China: The US-China Deal One Week Later: Why Short-Term Stability Is Likely, Costs and Benefits of Escalation, and More Adventures with Nvidia
64 hours 26 mins; November 05, 2025
Sharp China: A Basic Consensus on Arrangements to Address US-China Concerns; The New Five-Year Plan Sounds Familiar; Nexperia as an Object Lesson
12 mins; October 29, 2025
Sharp China: The Questions Swirling Around the Fourth Plenum; PLA Purges Made Official; The Latest on the Trade War and Nexperia
13 mins; October 22, 2025
Sharp China: Q&A on the Trade War: Rare Earths Anxiety, PRC Motivations, Mutual Risks, and the Capitulation or Escalation Era
15 mins; October 14, 2025
Sharp China: Official Secrets and a Royal Mess in the UK; Trillion Dollar Rumors in the Trade War; 300,000 Sim Cards in New York and New Jersey
15 mins; October 08, 2025
Sharp China: TikTok in the Clear; Taiwan Questions and Soybean Angst; The K Visa Goes Live; Jensen Huang on China Hawks
64 hours 44 mins; October 01, 2025
Sharp China: A Trump-Xi Call and Meetings to Follow; TikTok Details Clear as Mud; Arc'teryx and a Tibetan Fireworks Controversy
15 mins; September 24, 2025
Sharp China: A TikTok ‘Framework’ and Lots of Questions; Nvidia Uncertainty and Chip Countermeasures; The PRC Propaganda Strategy on US Platforms
16 mins; September 17, 2025
Sharp China: Five Questions After the 9.3 Parade; A Flurry of US-China Updates; Sports Consumption and the NBA’s Return to China
15 mins; September 10, 2025
Sharp China: Xi Welcomes Putin and Modi at the SCO Summit; Perspective on the India and China Buzz; World War II and a 'Memory War'
46 mins; September 03, 2025
Sharp China: US-China Talks in DC; Trump Welcomes PRC Students; Cambricon Momentum and H-20s on Ice; What Beijing is Doing in New York City
15 mins; August 28, 2025
Sharp China: Two Weeks of Nvidia Angst; Stocks and Real Estate; Warming Relations with India?; Labubu and Soft Power Exports
68 hours 9 mins; August 20, 2025
Sharp China: July Politburo Meeting Takeaways and Trump’s Evolving Approach to China
18 mins; July 31, 2025
Sharp China: Xi on Development and Three-Patting Cadres; PRC Venture Investing; Exit Ban Controversies; H20s and a New Trump Narrative; The "Big Tariff"
10 mins; July 23, 2025
Sharp China: Nvidia Can Sell H20 Chips to China Again; Trump Softening on China?; A Flurry of Xi Activity; Yang Hansen at NBA Summer League
10 mins; July 17, 2025
Sharp China: Wang Yi’s Message on Ukraine; Continued EU Tensions; Deflation and ‘Disorderly’ Competition; Extended Thoughts on Two Months of Xi Rumors
71 hours 42 mins; July 10, 2025
Sharp China: The PRC and the Past Two Weeks in Iran; Ten Speeches in Taiwan; London Framework Faltering?; All Eyes on the EU
8 mins; June 25, 2025
Sharp China: A US-China Trade Framework and Continuing Rare Earth Fun; The PRC and the War in Iran; Challenges in China's Car Industry
13 mins; June 17, 2025
Sharp China: US-China Meetings and De-Escalation; Chokepoint Clarity; Embassies in London and Spies in Russia; Xi's Latest Curbs on Party Boozing
11 mins; June 11, 2025
Sharp China: The Trade War Becomes a Supply Chain War; A Global Rare Earth Emergency; Xu Qiliang and the Xi Rumor Mill
60 hours 57 mins; June 05, 2025
Sharp China: Made in China 2025 and What Comes Next; EV Price Wars; The EU and Its China Dilemmas; Xi and His Rivals
10 mins; May 29, 2025
Sharp China: Chips and the Geneva Consensus; US Policy and the Chinese Century; Controversy Over Solar Power Inverters
9 mins; May 21, 2025
Sharp China: A 90-Day Pause, Big Tariff Reductions and What De-Escalation Might Mean for the U.S. and China
34 mins; May 13, 2025
Sharp China: Trade Talks in Switzerland; Continuing Data Opacity Concerns; Xi Heads to Moscow; The CIA Takes to YouTube
61 hours 0 mins; May 08, 2025
Sharp China: ‘Protracted War’ and ‘Struggle’; The Looming Risks for the PRC; A Politburo Study Session on AI; Apple’s Attempt to Pivot
13 mins; April 30, 2025
Sharp China: Bessent and an ‘Unsustainable’ Path; Making Sense of Hourly Madness; The PRC’s Message to the World; A Note on Canada
13 mins; April 23, 2025
Sharp China: The Fog of the Trade War Continues; US Restricts Nvidia Sales to the PRC; Jensen Huang Heads to Beijing; Rare Earths and Supply Chain Anxieties
16 mins; April 18, 2025
Sharp China: The Unraveling is Accelerating; Post-Escalation Options for the PRC; Trump Goals and EU Possibilities; Another Maddening TikTok Development
66 hours 9 mins; April 09, 2025
Sharp China: Welcoming Foreign Enterprises; Ships are the New Chips; He Weidong and More PLA Rumors; Deep-Sea Cable Cutter
13 mins; March 26, 2025
Sharp China: Renewed Tensions on Taiwan; Xi ‘Angered’ by Panama Canal Deal; TikTok Talks Heating Up; Multidimensional Trump Implications
15 mins; March 19, 2025
Sharp China: New Year, Same Plans for the Economy; PRC Tariffs on Canadian Exports; A Trump-Xi Birthday Summit?; When Facebook Tried to Enter China
12 mins; March 12, 2025
Sharp China: Tariffs and the Escalatory Cycle; China and the Fentanyl Crisis; TSMC Plans and Nvidia Scrutiny; Hard Times for Moutai
60 hours 47 mins; March 05, 2025
Sharp China: Trump's Memorandum on Foreign Investment; 'Reverse Nixon' Realities; Document #1; PLA Drills in the Tasman Sea
12 mins; February 26, 2025
Sharp China: Xi Jinping and China's Tech Companies, The Long-Run Implications of the Chip Ban, and a Pessimistic Outlook for Taiwan
15 mins; February 19, 2025
Sharp China: The Tariff Tit-for-Tat Begins; The PRC and the Panama Canal; Apple and Google in China; DeepSeek One Week Later
66 hours 23 mins; February 06, 2025
Sharp China: Happy Lunar New Year and A Few Thoughts on DeepSeek
10 mins; January 30, 2025
Sharp China: TikTok Fiasco Continues; Breathing Room on Tariffs; The RMB Calculus; Notes on Taiwan and Hollywood
15 mins; January 24, 2025
Sharp China: Whither TikTok?
34 mins; January 17, 2025
Sharp China: TikTok and Musk and Xiaohongshu; Xi’s Speech To Top Leaders; New PLA Capabilities for Taiwan; Proposed AI Controls and Continued Hacking Concerns
62 hours 57 mins; January 15, 2025
Sharp China Bonus Episode: TikTok Gets a Hearing at the Supreme Court
16 mins; December 18, 2024
Sharp China: CEWC and Bleak Economic Data; PLA Exercises Around Taiwan; New Reporting on Chip Controls; Trump’s Standing Invitation to Xi
14 mins; December 18, 2024
Sharp China: ‘Moderately Loose’ and Cautiously Stimulating; Nvidia Under Investigation; Broadening Export Bans; A TikTok Verdict and a Trump Prayer
12 mins; December 11, 2024
Sharp China: Final Updates to the Biden Chip Controls; Peak Tough on China?; PLA and CEWC Speculation; More Trump Questions than Answers in Beijing
65 hours 41 mins; December 04, 2024
Sharp China: The Final Biden-Xi Meeting; PRC Messaging to the World; Mass Attacks and the Party Response; Trump Transition Updates
12 mins; November 20, 2024
Sharp China: Stabilization Measures and Export Questions; Taiwan Considers US Arms Purchase; TSMC Halts Advanced Chip Sales to China; Trump Tea Leaves and Cabinet Picks
15 mins; November 13, 2024
Sharp China: Questions and Expectations for Trump 2.0; Looming Trade Tensions and PRC Responses; Volatility and Intermediaries; TikTok’s Last Hope?
64 hours 44 mins; November 08, 2024
Sharp China: Myriad Holes in US Chip Controls; New Reports on TSMC and Huawei; The Latest "Stimulus" News; Mixed Signals on Private Tutoring
9 mins; October 30, 2024
Sharp China: Questions for BRICS and the NPC; PRC Nuclear Arsenal and Ambitions; Taiwan's Energy Security; Heightened Scrutiny on TSMC and the Biden Admin
12 mins; October 23, 2024
Sharp China: Operation Joint Sword 2024B; The Latest on the "Stimulus"; US Presidential Election Follow-Up; Two Pandas Fly to D.C.
15 mins; October 16, 2024
Sharp China: Market Adventures Continue; Waiting for an NPC Meeting; EU Tariffs on PRC EVs; Taiwan National Day
11 mins; October 09, 2024
Sharp China: Animal Spirits and Xi Bull Market 2.0; Plans for the Property Sector; US-China Updates; Xi and the Succession Question
50 mins; October 02, 2024
Sharp China: Unpacking the New Stimulus Measures; A Top Economist Disappears; US Moves on Connected Vehicles; The Future of China Policy for Democrats
15 mins; September 26, 2024
Sharp China: Retirement Age Reforms; A Sabina Shoal Win for the PRC and Questions for the US; Chip Companies in DC; Japan and TikTok
16 mins; September 18, 2024
Sharp China: The Arrest of Linda Sun; Overcapacity and Mounting Deflation Concerns; A New Role for Qin Gang; Rock Bottom for PRC Men's Soccer
15 mins; September 11, 2024
Sharp China: The US-China Strategic Channel; Continued Drama in the South China Sea; The Next Phase of Chip Controls; Black Myth: Wukong
67 hours 52 mins; September 04, 2024
Sharp China: A New Flashpoint with the Philippines; PRC and the US Election; Tim Walz and China; Connected Vehicles Updates
14 mins; August 21, 2024
Sharp China: Questions for the Remainder of Biden’s Term; Huawei Gets Stronger; A Sierra Madre Resupply; Doping Controversy Continues
13 mins; July 31, 2024
Sharp China: The Plenum Puzzles Outsiders; Xi Stays the Course; 'Deepening Reforms' to Western Journalism in China; Remembering the 2008 Olympics
11 mins; July 24, 2024
Sharp China: Parsing the Third Plenum Communique; Xi and the Rumor Mill; Trump on Taiwan; Biden and the Chip Status Quo
13 mins; July 19, 2024
Sharp China: Prepping for the Third Plenum: Revisiting the Readout, Past Plenums, Common Prosperity, and Momentous Reforms (Or Not)
13 mins; July 10, 2024
Sharp China: A Conversation with Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi on TikTok, Tech Investment, and Competition Between the U.S. and China
62 hours 20 mins; June 26, 2024
Sharp China: Philippines Tensions Near a Tipping Point; PLA Corruption Crackdown; Xi’s Message to the EU; A Pentagon Propaganda Campaign
10 mins; June 21, 2024
Sharp China: The EU Increases EV Tariffs; US teachers Attacked in Jilin City; Xi Searches for Unicorns; A Question About Corruption
11 mins; June 13, 2024
Sharp China: US-China Messaging in Singapore; New Quality Productive Forces; Putin and a Natural Gas Impasse; 35 Years After Tiananmen Square
63 hours 14 mins; June 05, 2024
Sharp China: William Lai’s Inauguration; Real Estate Follow-Up; Q&A on Gold and EV Capacity; Fast Fashion on Saturday Night Live
10 mins; May 22, 2024
Sharp China: New Tariffs Across Key US Sectors; Et tu, EU?; Putin Visits Beijing; Rumors of a Real Estate Bailout
13 mins; May 17, 2024
Sharp China: Xi goes to Europe; US restricts Intel and Qualcomm sales to Huawei; Tension with the Philippines and Australia; TikTok Files Its Lawsuit
13 mins; May 09, 2024
Sharp China: Elon Musk’s Surprise Trip to Beijing; A Third Plenum Set for July; An Uneventful Blinken Visit; Xi’s Trip to Europe
62 hours 32 mins; May 01, 2024
Sharp China: Blinken to China; San Francisco Vision Six Months Later; TikTok; A Scandal for PRC Swimming
8 mins; April 24, 2024
Sharp China: Germany’s Hopes for China; Q1 GDP Growth; National Security Day and Transnational Repression; Another TikTok Report
12 mins; April 17, 2024
Sharp China: Yellen’s Visit to Beijing; PRC Exports and Global Tensions; Finance with Chinese Characteristics; US-Japan-Philippines
14 mins; April 10, 2024
Sharp China: A Xi-Biden Phone Call; Yellen and PRC Exports; Continued Tension with the Philippines; Tesla and 3 Body Problem
64 hours 22 mins; April 04, 2024
Sharp China: MSS on Cybersecurity; Will the Senate Kill the TikTok Bill?; Solar Energy and the PRC Playbook; Liu Jianchao on the Global South
12 mins; March 20, 2024
Sharp China: TikTok in the Crosshairs; Why Divestment Is Unlikely; Special Interests vs. National Interests; US Internet Firms in China
10 mins; March 13, 2024
Sharp China: A 5% GDP Growth Target; Evolving Two Sessions Symbolism; US to Investigate Connected Vehicles; New TikTok Legislation
53 mins; March 06, 2024
Sharp China: Preparing for the Two Sessions; Li Shangfu and Qin Gang; The I-SOON Hacking Leaks; Heightened Scrutiny for Musk and SpaceX
11 mins; February 28, 2024
Sharp China: US-China in Vienna and Munich; Hacking and Espionage Allegations; PRC Lobbying in DC; Rep. Gallagher to Depart Congress
9 mins; February 21, 2024
Sharp China: Continued Market Adventures; Shifting Trade Patterns with China; Looming Green Energy Questions; Messi and a Hong Kong Mess
12 mins; February 09, 2024
Sharp China: Hong Kong Article 23; No Plenum and Another Market Setback; Trump and Taiwan; TikTok in Congress
63 hours 34 mins; February 02, 2024
Sharp China: Tesla’s Future in China; Chinese EVs Around the World; Moves to Stabilize the Markets; More Questions on the Red Sea
17 mins; January 26, 2024
Sharp China: The Taiwan Status Quo; Markets and GDP Go Opposite Directions; China and the Red Sea; Cannabis; Soccer Corruption
14 mins; January 19, 2024
Sharp China: Missiles Filled with Water, Not Fuel; Foreign Affairs Work Conference; Liu Jianchao in New York and DC; US-China Updates
66 hours 28 mins; January 12, 2024
Sharp China: Big Picture Questions for 2024; Taiwan and the Philippines and Tentative Stability; Our Favorite Memories from 2023
11 mins; December 21, 2023
Sharp China: The Central Economic Work Conference; More Friction with the Philippines; Hawks and Doves and Kissinger
