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Sinocism live on US-China relations with the FT’s Demetri Sevastopulo
This a recording of a March 17 live conversation I had with Demetri Sevastopulo, US-China correspondent for the Financial Times. You can read all his recent FT stories here (https://www.ft.com/demetri-sevastopulo), and subscribe to him on Substack @ Demetri Sevastopulo (https://substack.com/profile/28698-demetri-sevastopulo)
We had a fascinating conversation about US-China relations, now and in Trump’s first term, when he was Washington Bureau Chief, for the FT, Trump’s delayed China trip and why it may be delayed longer than 5-6 weeks, Taiwan, and the visit later this week to Washington by Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi.
Thank you to Demetri and everyone who tuned in live, and apologies for the brief technical glitch at the start.
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3 Feb 2026
LIVE with Bill Bishop: The world order is shifting — and China is moving fast to shape it.
Thank you Inês Carrières (https://substack.com/profile/22050-ines-carrieres), LeftieProf (https://substack.com/profile/116079548-leftieprof), scott murphy (https://substack.com/profile/2334349-scott-murphy), Andrew Polk (https://substack.com/profile/2967-andrew-polk), Dan Houghton (https://substack.com/profile/264429945-dan-houghton), and many others for tuning into my live video with Tara Palmeri (https://substack.com/profile/2547291-tara-palmeri)!
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29 Jan 2026
The Zhang Youxia case - Sinocism Live with Bill Bishop and Drew Thompson
Thanks everyone who tuned into my live video with Drew Thompson (https://substack.com/profile/4009460-drew-thompson). Drew is now based in Singapore as a Senior Fellow (https://rsis.edu.sg/profile/drew-thompson/) at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) at Nanyang Technological University.
From 2011-2018 he was the Director for China, Taiwan and Mongolia in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. In 2012 he planned and organized a visit to the US of a delegation led by then-Defense Minister General Liang Guanglie. Zhang Youxia was part of the delegation.
We had a great discussion about his personal experience shepherding Zhang Youxia around the US many years ago, his work on US-China military-to-military relations, and the disappearance in 2023 of South China Morning Post reporter Minnie Chan.
Drew wrote about his experience with Zhang in the excellent The demise of Zhang Youxia hits different (https://chinadrew.substack.com/p/the-demise-of-zhang-youxia-hits-different?publication_id=270973&post_id=185787755&isFreemail=true&r=mk&triedRedirect=true). You can and should subscribe to him @ Drew Thompson (https://substack.com/profile/4009460-drew-thompson)
Thanks.
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Sinocism live on US-China relations with the FT’s Demetri Sevastopulo
Published 17 Mar 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And what he and others have said to me is – I've said, look, it sounds like you're not talking about structural change anymore, kind of the big – reforms that you want China to make. And his response and others' response has been, listen, maybe we're not talking about it, but by putting in place the tariffs that we did and by taking the measures that we took last year, the result has been that the U.S. trade deficit with China has come down. It was a big decrease in 2025. and that the Chinese are now, the trade surplus they have with the Europeans and others has increased. And the American view is, we told the Europeans a year ago, if you didn't act, that basically we were going to act and the end result would be Chinese exports to the US would end up going more to Europe and other places. […]
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