China Analysis Digest #9
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Issue: 2021/09
Date: April 21-28, 2021
Sources scanned: 81
Content: 223 publications from 54 sources
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Recommended readings:
The CCP is Retooling its Censorship System at a Brisk Pace in 2021 (Angeli Datt and Sarah Cook)
The regime is determined to baton down public opinion ahead of the CCP’s 100th anniversary in July and the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing…observers in the coming months should watch for the following:
Additional restrictions and penalties related to the discussion of history, with a likely crackdown around the July anniversary;
Reports of enforcement of the new rules and codes of conduct, including journalists losing accreditation over their social media posts, celebrities facing bans, “self-media” account suspensions, and disciplinary action against party cadres for public expressions of dissent;
Smooth adoption, with little debate, of the draft rules on radio, television, and internet services; and
New rules and regulations for other avenues of relatively free expression, such as podcasts or voice-based apps built on the Clubhouse model.
The CCP’s massive left turn and the post-Xi political landscape of China (Lance Gore):
China’s future direction is [far] from set in stone. Treating China as a rising communist threat, as the West is increasingly doing, may lock it onto a path towards that destiny in a self-fulfilling prophecy. This may lead to a new Cold War, prematurely and unnecessarily. However powerful the party-state is and however hard it attempts to shape socioeconomic changes, it will not be able to turn the tide. A “peaceful evolution” may be inevitable, even if it is not in the exact shape the West hopes for.
The biggest threat to this scenario, however, is the inability of liberal democracies to resolve the pressing governance problems of their own. This inability will turn off future Chinese leaders and vindicate their practice of continuing to embrace the old orthodoxy by default. After all, the current system serves their personal interests well.
Securing China’s Northwest Frontier: A Conversation with David Tobin (Darren Byler And David Tobin)
scholars who publicly engage are pushed into choosing between non–mutually exclusive, politically constructed signifiers (‘counterterrorism’ or ‘reeducation’ or ‘modernisation’ or ‘genocide’). All of these things are happening at once and focusing on these terms by themselves shapes and limits knowledge of identity dynamics and marginalised voices that cannot be reduced to single signifiers. Many of the recent terminological debates’ indifference to Uyghur and other Indigenous perspectives remind them they are alone and reflect what Yi Xiaocuo termed ‘perpetual silence’. One diaspora interviewee who has publicly campaigned to speak with separated family members explained to me with tears in their eyes: ‘While the world debates a f***ing word, we are dying.’
疫情下中澳关系的发展及前景 (郭春梅):
澳总理莫里森曾强调其外交战略在于“在不确定的世界塑造确定性”,但却显然忽略了毫无原则与底线地针对自己最大的贸易伙伴、地区的重要成员,恰恰是给澳乃至地区增添了更多不确定性,乃至风险。一旦美国、中国乃至地区国家均视澳大利亚“倚美制华”为理所当然,在动荡的时代澳大利亚的战略价值、谈判筹码势将随之最小化,遑论其以安全与发展为内核的国家利益。
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China Story:
- Time to speak louder on Australians detained in the PRC
- China’s poverty ‘eliminated’ but substantial inequalities remain
China Heritage:
- On the End of an Error — Day Ten of Jianying Zha & Katō Yoshikazu’s New Decameron
- ‘I Hereby Cancel Myself’ — Lee Yee
Made in China Journal:
Lawfare:
China Brief:
- Early Warning Brief: The Xi Administration Openly Challenges American Global Leadership And Takes Multiple Measures to Counter Washington’s Containment
- The CCP is Retooling its Censorship System at a Brisk Pace in 2021
- Prospects of China-U.S. Climate Diplomacy: The Perspective From Beijing
- New Concept Weapons: China Explores New Mechanisms to Win War
- Hong Kong Cracks Down on National Security Imperatives Amid Electoral Reforms
The Economist:
- News of Chloé Zhao’s “Nomadland” Oscar win is censored in China
- Violence against doctors in China is commonplace
- Leading democrats in Hong Kong are jailed
- A collection of Chinese contemporary art falls prey to politics
- China’s domestic surveillance programmes benefit foreign spies
Monkey Cage:
- Does the U.S.-China climate statement mean real cooperation ahead?
- China’s backlash against Western brands may be short-lived
Australian Financial Review:
- Australia needs to draw a line between policy and posturing on China
- A war over Taiwan would be nothing like Afghanistan
Lowy Interpreter:
- China drops the mask on its global ambition
- China’s Twitter trolls make bid for vacant Trump property
East Asia Forum:
The Strategist:
ChinaFile:
- The Right Way to Bring Chinese STEM Talent Back to the U.S.
- ‘I Stand the Law’s Good Servant, but the People’s First’
Sixth Tone:
- The Long Haul: The Lives of China’s Trucker Wives
- The Big Short: How Height Discrimination Hurts Chinese Men
- Can the Internet Cure China’s Addiction to Overprescription?
- Parenting in a Time of Anti-Asian Hate
- How China’s White-Collar Workers Are Co-Opting Blue-Collar Punk
- The Jesuit Library at the Crossroads of East and West
- In Chinese Families, Who Really Has the Power of the Purse?
- China Needs Less Prudish, More Prudent Approach to Sexual Content
- On a Chinese Mountaintop, a Community Just for People With Autism
- A Professor, a Zoo, and the Future of Facial Recognition in China
China Digital Times:
- China’s Population May Have Shrunk for First Time Since Great Leap Forward (Updated)
- China Responds To Labor Activists’ Demands With Repression, Arrests
- Netizen Voices: “With Its Own Actions, China Has Proved That What Chloé Zhao Said Was True”
- Xi Attends White House Climate Summit Where Coal Is On The Menu
- Australia Scraps Belt and Road Agreement as NZ Voices Caution Over Five Eyes Intel Alliance
- Netizen Voices: “They Fear if We Watch Too Much, We’ll Figure Out We’re at the Bottom”
- Wen Jiabao Essay Censored as Xi Meets Adoring Tsinghua Crowd
Quartz:
- US sanctions are starting to catch up to Huawei
- “Joy that can’t be celebrated:” the Chinese internet is lamenting the censorship of Chloé Zhao
- A $4,400 electric car is outselling Tesla in China
- The UK’s parliament is the latest to accuse China of genocide
- A Hong Kong investigative journalist was convicted for a public records search
- The US needs to choose its climate battles with China carefully
- Climate change is a rare opportunity for the US and China to actually get along
Politico China Watcher:
Politico China Direct:
Protocol | China:
The Wire China:
- China’s Future with European Soccer
- Andrew S. Erickson on the ‘Decade of Greatest Danger’
- Books for a Modern Rivalry
- Assessing the Sino-Russian Entente
- Peddling the President
- ‘The Decade of Greatest Danger’
SupChina:
- How rental mobile phone chargers took over China’s cities
- April 26, 1989: A government editorial seals the fate of Beijing’s student protesters
- Chinese Super League returns with a new look (and with fans)
- China’s demographic crisis ‘faster and bigger’ than thought, census results to show population peaked: FT
- Historic Oscars win for Chloé Zhao’s ‘Nomadland’ met with stifled cheers and media blackout in China
- NFTs in the P.R.C. — crypto art craze comes to China
- Beijing slaps private tutoring companies with $80,000 maximum penalty
- British parliament is the latest to declare China committing ‘genocide’ in Xinjiang
- The future of advertising is here, and it’s a giant QR code formed by drones flying over Shanghai
- Xu Ruotao’s experimental indie films about artists and dissidents
- Shanghai’s upscale Da Vittorio brings back outdated ‘ladies’ menu’
- Car bombing in Pakistan hits hotel of Chinese ambassador just minutes before he arrived
- Chanel mocked on Chinese social media after losing trademark lawsuit against Huawei
- Laiye: The Chinese AI company that wants to rule the chatbot world
- Tech is coming for China’s convenience stores
- Heretic, separatist, traitor: Uyghur activist Halmurat Harri’s in-between life
- U.S. and China to kick-start diplomatic ties with ambassador appointments even as ‘strategic competition’ deepens
- Edutech: ByteDance invents entirely new product category with Dali Smart Lamp
- The first McDonald’s in Beijing was a symbol of engagement
European Council on Foreign Relations:
Center for Strategic and International Studies:
- The WTO Can Help Shine a Spotlight on Forced-Labor Practices in Xinjiang’s Cotton Industry
- After Xi: Future Scenarios for Leadership Succession in Post-Xi Jinping Era
Center for Advanced China Research:
MERICS:
- “Correct choice” on strategic autonomy: What China wants from the EU
- Germany-China – Strategic Autonomy – Climate cooperation
- German China Policy – Quo vadis?
- Mikko Huotari on Germany's relations with China
- China gains the advantage in the post-Covid era as its economic recovery broadens
- China's economy continues path towards normality
- Climate cooperation meeting - Hong Kong - EU Indo-Pacific strategy
Chicago Council on Global Affairs:
National Bureau of Asian Research:
Brookings Institution:
Chatham House:
- Indo-Pacific is rigorous test of China's foreign policy
- China’s role in accelerating the global green transition
Rhodium Group:
Observer Research Foundation:
- China–Australia relations: Cold politics over hot economics
- Human Rights and US Foreign Policy: Implications for India and China
- China-led RCEP to change global order?
- National security salve for recalcitrant Hong Kongers: ‘Patriot’ template for society
- Do not overrate the Sino-Russian alliance
- Understanding the relations between Myanmar and China
- The China factor in India’s economic diplomacy
- The pushback against China
- Is a Cold War 2.0 inevitable?
- Why new Bill makes Colombo Port City a ‘Chinese Province’ in Sri Lanka
- Why it is important to get the China challenge right
- India’s Vaccine Diplomacy Reaches Taiwan
The Conversation:
- The Chinese Mars lander: how Zhurong will attempt to touch down on the red planet
- Biden’s first 100 days show a president in a hurry and willing to be bold
- If China’s middle class continues to thrive and grow, what will it mean for the rest of the world?
The Diplomat:
- Policy Advisers Urge US Government to Ratchet up the Pressure on China
- Why US Strategic Ambiguity Is Safer for Taiwan
- A Beijing-Born Director Made Oscar History. Why Isn’t China Celebrating?
- Would People in Mainland China and Hong Kong Choose Democracy If They Could?
- Senate’s Strategic Competition Act Will Make China-US Relations Worse, Not Better
- China and US to Send in New Ambassadors
- Think the EU Isn’t Acting on China? Look Closer.
- Survey: US Public Supports Action on China’s Human Rights Abuses
- The US Needs China’s Support to Denuclearize North Korea
- Engagement With China Worked After All
- Latin America Believed in Chinese Vaccines. Now It May Have Reason to Rethink.
- The Missing Uyghur Children
- Taiwan Security Officials Propose Ban on Chinese Flag
Foreign Policy:
ThinkChina:
- Grievances against the US? The Chinese need a mindset change
- What does the high-profile launch of three new PLA warships tell us?
- The CCP’s massive left turn and the post-Xi political landscape of China
- Chinese researcher: No one can reverse the shrinking economic gap between China and the US
- China-Iran deal complements the BRI, but faces Iranian domestic opposition and US sanctions
- Lesson for Jack Ma's Ant: Finance is finance and technology is technology
- Chinese academic: Why the US ignores its own human rights issues and accuses others instead
- Why the Chinese people are invisible in US media
- Women leaders in China: Why people are more interested in their love affairs
- Hong Kong's electoral reform: Powerful businessmen to lose influence in politics?
- Biden's China strategy only looks impressive on the surface
National People's Congress Observer:
What's on Weibo:
- One Dead, 17 Injured in Guangxi Kindergarten Knife Attack
- Dancing Schoolgirl from Xi’an Becomes Viral Hit
- ‘Chinese Traditional Culture University’ Turns Out to Be Fake
- The Concept of ‘Involution’ (Nèijuǎn) on Chinese Social Media
Chinese Storytellers:
Chinarrative:
ChinaTalk:
Beijing Channel:
Tracking People's Daily:
- Xi's Guangxi Tour - South Asian Diplomacy - 2020 Propaganda Appraisal - Marxism and socialism winning the systems contest
- Anti-espionage work - Laws on Land Borders, Data Protection & PLA's Honour - Criticising 'hegemonic bullying' of Russia - Cultivating 'historical thinking' ability
- New Warships - Intellectual Property - Social Security & the Yan’an spirit
- Climate Summit - Party Building in Universities - Strategic Competition Act
- Li Promises Fiscal Support, PD's Rectification Report, Historical Narrative, Yunnan's Security Perspective
- China-Russia Axis - Wang Qishan's Bo'ao Appearance - Rule of Law Session for NPC Deputies
The India China Newsletter:
- India’s forgotten lessons from Wuhan, Covid-19 aid, and after Xi, who?
- Xi at Boao, two rules-based orders, two narratives on the border
Eye on China:
Takshashila PLA Insight:
Beijing to Britain:
China Dialogue:
- Stalemate: sustainable palm oil struggles to take off in China
- What can China learn from the Texas blackout?
Lausan:
Hong Kong Free Press:
- Hong Kong’s ruling-class hypocrisy: how ‘patriotic’ enablers of the crackdown cling onto their foreign escape routes
- Back to the wilderness: Is there still a role for democrats under Hong Kong’s new national security regime?
- Jailings over a peaceful protest – yet another milestone in Hong Kong’s self-mortification
Taiwan Insight:
- Victims without Perpetrators: Slovakia’s and Taiwan’s Lack of Retributive Justice
- Xi Jinping’s 2.0 version of the “Letter to Compatriots in Taiwan”
- Migrants’ Voice in Taiwanese Documentaries: Narrative, Language and Space
- Explaining Cross-Strait Relations with Theories of European Integration
- ‘Bringing Back Transnational Relations’: Non-State Actors in Taiwan’s New Southbound Policy
- Energy Transition in-the-Making: How Offshore Wind Energy Interacts with Local Society in Taiwan
中国:历史与未来:
爱思想:
- 生命的样态、反省与完成——从蒋勋细说《红楼梦》说起
- 生死两相安
- 问题比答案更重要
- 人性的外在表现梳理
- 中国共产党与中国的现代性
- “十四五”、“双循环”、“中美关系”与中国发展前瞻
- 我是怎么从厌学到喜欢读书的
- 公社书记曹志勤
- 反抗扼杀
- 中国文明起源研究的回顾与思考
- 百年和平
- 什么决定企业家资源的配置?
- 大国外交的权威基础——中国共产党的外交领导力研究
- 一流大学的建设不能回避西方范式
- 权力的正当性基础
- 货币理论和各国货币政策反思
- 重温世界读书日主旨宣言
- 当中国平视世界时
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