{"podcast":{"title":"Sharp China Podcast","slug":"sharp-china-podcast-5988828","podcast_index_feed_id":5988828,"rss_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/2/s/40252.rss","website_url":"https://sinocism.com/s/sharpchina","image_url":"https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/2/s/40252/bd04fb13765281c15a8433cfcb72f570.jpg","author":"Bill Bishop","episode_count":157,"summary":"Understanding China and how China impacts the world. Hosted by Andrew Sharp and Bill Bishop.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-09T18:21:17.441445+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/sharp-china-podcast-5988828"},"episode":{"title":"Sharp China: 10 Questions and Modest Expectations With Trump in China to Meet Xi Jinping","slug":"sharp-china-10-questions-and-modest-expectations-with-trump-in-china-to-meet-xi-jinping","published_at":"2026-05-13T22:03:07+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/sharp-china-podcast-5988828/sharp-china-10-questions-and-modest-expectations-with-trump-in-china-to-meet-xi-jinping","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/sharp-china-podcast-5988828","url":"https://sinocism.com/p/sharp-china-10-questions-and-modest","audio_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/197584678/2aa8f1387322c84a4520813318116a4c.mp3","summary":"This episode of Sharp China is outside the paywall. Show Notes: On today's show Andrew and Bill talk through 360 degrees of President Trump's trip to Beijing this week. Topics include: Jensen Huang hitching a ride in Alaska, general expectations for deliverables after limited leaks and hurried advance planning, Trump's reception in Beijing, and the limits of \"upper hand\" analysis. From there: A coterie of billionaire CEOs make the trip with Trump, a US Chamber of Commerce/Rhodium report warning about the PRC's industrial strategy, and Trump makes overtures about \"opening\" China. At the end: Questions on Taiwan arm sales and AI cooperation, the expected talks on Ezra Jin and Jimmy Lai, a trillion dollar investment report that went viral eight months later, Xi's calculus before a 21st Party Congress, the Iran question looming over the week's meetings, and big, fat hug speculation. You can listen to the podcast in the app: Or click here for instructions to add the podcast to your preferred player. To subscribe to Sinocism, click here . To subscribe to Stratechery, click here . And if you enjoy this podcast please share it far and wide: Related Readings: Trump China visit; China’s Next Generation Industrial Policy; Standardizing and developing AI agents; No more deflation?; Ding Xuexiang visits Huawei -- Sinocism Jensen Huang hitching a ride -- Emily Goodin on X A weakened Trump arrives at Xi’s court -- FT Trump on Opening China -- Truth Social Trump is taking more than a dozen U.S. executives to China. Jensen Huang isn’t one of them -- CNBC China expanding its industrial dominance, warns US business group -- FT China’s Next-Generation Industrial Policy -- Rhodium Donald Trump demands Xi Jinping ‘open’ China to US business -- FT Xi Is Poised to Press Trump on Arms Sales to…","meta_description":"This episode of Sharp China is outside the paywall. Show Notes: On today's show Andrew and Bill talk through 360 degrees of President Trump's trip to Beij…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3722,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/sharp-china-podcast-5988828/episodes/sharp-china-10-questions-and-modest-expectations-with-trump-in-china-to-meet-xi-jinping/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/sharp-china-podcast-5988828/sharp-china-10-questions-and-modest-expectations-with-trump-in-china-to-meet-xi-jinping.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}