Peking Playbook Unscripted 20250325

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?

Transcript: Henry Huiyao Wang at Roundtable Japan

Wang Yongli on U.S. dollar hegemony and digital RMB

Wang Yongli on SWIFT, sanctions, and sovereignty