Hello! Welcome to the 5th episode of the podcast “Peking Playbook,” mainly featuring me and Robert Wu, of Baiguan and China Translated, just talking about recent news.

In the following half-hour conversation recorded on Sunday evening ET, March 23, 2025, we talked about

[01:32] Some observations during Zichen’s ongoing study at the mid-career Master in Public Policy (MPP) program at Princeton School of Public and International Affairs

[04:40] The ongoing controversy regarding CK Hutchison’s coerced Panama ports sale

[20:16] New top-level policy document dedicated to boosting domestic demand

[27:03] China Development Forum

[29:16] Will Xi and Trump meet soon?

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