{"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: The Questions Swirling Around the Fourth Plenum; PLA Purges Made Official; The Latest on the Trade War and Nexperia","slug":"sharp-china-the-questions-swirling-around-the-fourth-plenum-pla-purges-made-official-the-latest-on-the-trade-war-and-nexperia","published_at":"2025-10-22T09:01:07+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/sharp-china-podcast-5988828/sharp-china-the-questions-swirling-around-the-fourth-plenum-pla-purges-made-official-the-latest-on-the-trade-war-and-nexperia","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/sharp-china-podcast-5988828","url":"https://sinocism.com/p/sharp-china-the-questions-swirling","audio_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/176770712/7fd329462cfc78a3b38d41c89da1efcf.mp3","summary":"This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit sinocism.com Show 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 -- Sinocism PLA Daily Editorial: Unswervingly Carry the Anti-Corruption Struggle in the Military Through to the End 解放军报》社论：坚定不移把军队反腐败斗争进行到底-- PLA Daily Forever Xi Jinping? Perhaps Not -- Sinocism In China, a Forbidden Question Looms: Who Leads After Xi? -- N.Y. Times China Ousts Top Military Officials as Xi Widens Graft Purge -- Bloomberg Bessent, Chinese vice premier to meet to try to defuse US tariff hike -- Reuters China targets five U.S. subsidiaries of South Korea’s Hanwha Ocean, sending shares down 8% -- CNBC Dutch seized Nexperia over fears Chinese owners planned to move chip production to China -- SCMP Nexperia China tells employees to ignore orders from Dutch head office -- SCMP Apple to Build Table…","meta_description":"This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit sinocism.com Show Notes: On today’s show Andrew and Bill begin with questions surrounding th…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":820,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/sharp-china-podcast-5988828/episodes/sharp-china-the-questions-swirling-around-the-fourth-plenum-pla-purges-made-official-the-latest-on-the-trade-war-and-nexperia/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-the-questions-swirling-around-the-fourth-plenum-pla-purges-made-official-the-latest-on-the-trade-war-and-nexperia.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}