Dear All, This week’s edition will be the last of 2022. I did not expect such a niche publication to gain the following that it has in such a short period of time. Thank you for this support and thank you to those of you who reached out to me. Your comments are what have kept me going.
Thanks for some great additions to the literature. I would also draw your readers’ attention to ‘Lei’s Real Talk’ which I see on YouTube. Her take on Xi’s Middle East trip was that he completely failed on the prime objective, getting a Saudi buy-in on RMB universalisation, not least in oil: https://youtu.be/weWD86GBYwU
Wu Bingbing is disingenuous about this, no? Interested in your take. Also of interest is Niu Xinchun. I translated a piece of his from around 2007, severely criticising Beijing Eight-Legged Essays on the Middle East. I’m thinking of publishing on my Substack (Beijing Baselines). The point is, Niu gives the impression of pulling a lot of punches since.
Thanks for some great additions to the literature. I would also draw your readers’ attention to ‘Lei’s Real Talk’ which I see on YouTube. Her take on Xi’s Middle East trip was that he completely failed on the prime objective, getting a Saudi buy-in on RMB universalisation, not least in oil: https://youtu.be/weWD86GBYwU
Wu Bingbing is disingenuous about this, no? Interested in your take. Also of interest is Niu Xinchun. I translated a piece of his from around 2007, severely criticising Beijing Eight-Legged Essays on the Middle East. I’m thinking of publishing on my Substack (Beijing Baselines). The point is, Niu gives the impression of pulling a lot of punches since.
All the best for the season.