China Decode: Why China Keeps Selling U.S. Treasuries

Hogging seats on a crowded train, not saying excuse me, watching videos on your phone with no headphones in. Sometimes it feels like we don't know how to act anymore. What we have been seeing, increasingly, is people breaking rules. Why should I play by the rules if nobody else is going to do that for me? This week on Explain It to Me, how to mind your manners.

New episodes Sundays wherever you get your podcasts. I just think that it's super interesting at a macro level that these two countries, because of trade and strategic alignment, have come closer and closer and it's it's sort of Kissinger's nightmare, right? We're living in a kind of reverse 1970s where Russia and China getting closer together rather than the US getting closer to both Russia and China individually. Welcome to China Decode. I'm Alice Han.

And I'm James King. In today's episode of China Decode, we're discussing the future of a gas pipeline between Russia and China, China's massive sell-off of US treasuries, and the world's first commercially approved brain chip. All right, let's get right into it. Russian leader Vladimir Putin visited China just days after President Trump left his own bilateral summit in the country. A centerpiece of the agenda was the long-stalled Power of Siberia 2 pipeline, a proposed 1,615-mile pipeline that would carry up to 40 billion cubic meters of natural gas annually from Russia into the industrial heartlands of China.

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