◎China will find it hard to sustain the economic “recovery” in April. ◎Risks of a stock market crash are greater than before.
◎ The CCP’s trade war strategy is revealed in its propaganda. Meanwhile, America struggles with the Party’s delaying tactic.
◎ In Italy, Xi signals strong determination to push through reforms.
Read morePolitics Watch: A Black Swan Leading Indicator Emerges from Xi’s Italy Trip
◎ Several proposals in the 2019 government work report seemingly cancel out each other or will contradict Xi’s push to have the “Party lead everything”
◎ The trade war forces Xi and the CCP to face an intractable political contradiction.
Read morePolitics Watch: US-China Trade War a ‘Deathtrap’ for CCP Politics
◎ The CCP is adjusting its propaganda to lay the foundation for subsequent trade negotiations with America.
Read morePolitics Watch: Decoding the CCP Propaganda Shift on China, America, and Trade
◎ What we are seeing from Beijing and Pyongyang is textbook communist regime negotiation tactics.
◎ There are two reasons why the Xi administration appears to be motivated to open up China’s economy.
Read moreRisk Watch: Can China’s New Negative List Help Defuse Trade Dispute with America?
◎ Industrial profits had in fact fallen 6 percent year-on-year.
Read moreRisk Watch: China’s Industrial Profits Fell, Not Rose, Between January to May
◎ Xi is posturing for the moment, but future action depends on U.S. action.
Read moreGeopolitics Watch: Will Xi Really Strike Back at the US in Trade Clash?
