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Peking Playbook Unscripted 20250223

Xi's meeting with private sector, Chinese stock market rally, White House policy memo on restricting Chinese investment, & U-turn of U.S. policy on Ukraine

Zichen Wang

and

Robert Wu

Feb 23, 2025

Transcript

Hello! Welcome to the 3rd episode of the on-and-off podcast that has been tentatively named “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 morning ET, February 23, 2025, we touched on

Timeline:

[01:14] Chinese leaders’ symposium with private entrepreneurs

[15:49] Market rallies in Hong Kong and China ADRs

[21:29] New White House memo on restricting Chinese investment

[27:22] U-turn of U.S. policy on Ukraine

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