Opponents of Nippon Steel purchase of U.S. Steel latch on to Nippon's China stakes to try to stymie the U.S. deal. Lobbyists look for anything they can use and national security is a handy tool @eliotxchen thewirechina.com/2024/04/14/wil…

Status Symbol - Chinese fashion designers are making headway as foreign brands struggle in China thewirechina.com/2024/04/14/sta… by Rachel Cheung

Will China Stymie A Steel Deal? Eliot Chen examines how strong Nippon Steel's links to China really are as debate mounts over its proposed merger with US Steel thewirechina.com/2024/04/14/wil… The Wire China

Great to have Paul Triolo and Kendra Schaefer 凯娜 writing for us on a vital year coming up for China's AI firms. Really interesting on the relative stages of development of this industry in the US and China thewirechina.com/2024/04/14/chi… The Wire China

Saturday afternoon is not the time for a programme as brilliant and important as Record Review!! We all deserve it and Andrew McGregor’s return to Saturday morning please BBC Radio 3 !

If you’re looking for some weekend reading, and missed it from earlier this week, read my profile of John Garnaut. Far from a household name, Garnaut contributed to a global shift on China policy and is now a China whisperer for hedge funds:

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China’s Red Carpet - Aaron Mc Nicholas breaks down just who was at the big US business meeting with Xi Jinping in Beijing thewirechina.com/2024/04/07/chi… The Wire China

Hong Kong’s Identity Crisis — Stephen Roach explains the economics behind his pessimism over the city's future thewirechina.com/2024/04/07/hon… The Wire China

Sarah Bianchi, the recently departed deputy US trade representative, gives bob davis insights into the Biden admin's trade policy towards China. Latest in Bob's Rules of Engagement series with policymakers from Nancy Pelosi to Mike Pompeo thewirechina.com/2024/04/07/sar…

Ant Group is looking abroad for growth, but how successful will its Alipay+ platform prove to be? Rachel Cheung takes a look thewirechina.com/2024/04/07/ant… The Wire China

The China Whisperer — superb profile of John Garnaut, the Australian who arguably has done more than anyone to shift Western thinking on Xi's China, by Katrina Northrop thewirechina.com/2024/04/07/the… The Wire China

Great news all round. Alison Mitchell to take over as cricket correspondent?

Seems like Graham Allison is the new Henry Kissinger:

Not the business fixer, but the Harvard prof (or in Kissinger's case, the former Harvard professor) who speaks directly with President Xi on grand strategy.

Trump’s SPAC is back in the news. Read my piece on its China connections from 2021 ⬇️⬇️

Great to have Paolo Bosonin hosting a new episode of CSDS-Asia Matters Podcast on recent developments in North Korea, with guests Jenny Town and 전인범(In-Bum Chun) podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/asi…

I still don't understand how Macquarie sucking cash out of Thames Water and then selling it on was legal / allowed by the regulator.

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