2023 Issue 17

After 14 months of war on Ukraine, PRC leader Xi Jinping finally calls President Zelensky… but never mentions Russia. 

This week, subscribers should listen to the Asia Society’s Orville Schell as he provides valuable insight into the worldview of Xi Jinping; PRC security forces raid the offices of Bain & Co in Shanghai, adding yet another foreign firm to the list of companies targeted by the Chinese Communist Party; and Xi Jinping’s hardening stance towards the US is coupled with simultaneous warming up to other world leaders.

Additionally, The Intercept reports on an Ex-U.S. Official who aided a PRC surveillance company in covering up its abuses of Uyghurs; the new Czech President implores other European leaders to be skeptical of Beijing’s intentions in Ukraine; the EU’s foreign policy chief calls on Europeans to send warships to patrol the Taiwan Strait in an effort to deter the PRC; and PRC security forces have been creating fake social media profiles to target political dissidents.