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Issue: 2021/19

• Date range: June 29 - July 9, 2021
• Sources scanned: 86
• Content: 319 publications from 57 sources
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China Story:

• Lancang-Mekong Cooperation: China’s Institutional Shield
• Sino-Vatican Provisional Agreement: Unresolved issues
• China’s Guinea Pig? Xinjiang as a testing ground for religious policies
• Taiwan’s View of the Trump Administration

Reading the China Dream:

• Zhang Weiwei on Telling China's Story
• Yao Yang and Qin Zizhong on Confucianism and Inequality
• Fang Ning and Feng Jungong on Post-Xiaokang Chinese Society
• Yang Xiong on Educational Involution

China Media Project:

• Strategies for the China Story
• A Fifth Center Rounds Out Xi’s Hold on Policy
• Another Milestone for Xi Jinping Thought
• Historical Revisions
• Aerospace Executive’s Tantrum Goes Viral
• Bowing to the Chief
• Raise the Banner High
• The Blade That Kills Bloodlessly

Pew Research Center:

• China’s international image remains broadly negative as views of the U.S. rebound
• Large Majorities Say China Does Not Respect the Personal Freedoms of Its People
• Most Americans Have ‘Cold’ Views of China. Here’s What They Think About China, In Their Own Words

Foreign Affairs:

• Regime Change Is Not an Option in China

Project Syndicate:

• The Economic Fundamentals of Chinese Communism’s Successes and Failures

The Atlantic:

• China Isn’t That Strategic

The Economist:

• A Chinese film removes scenes featuring a young Mao Zedong
• In China, patriotic nostalgia is big business
• Deep in rural China, bitcoin miners are packing up
• A silo-building spree raises questions about China’s nukes
• China urges its people to struggle. Some say no
• Xi warns against Western “bullies”, to argue for one-party rule
• China’s next aircraft-carrier will be its biggest
• The Philippines’ secret weapon against Chinese incursions
• China is not happy about Myanmar’s coup

Monkey Cage:

• One year on, here’s how China’s national security law has changed Hong Kong
• Don’t panic about China’s new nuclear capabilities
• Two of China’s Belt and Road projects reveal a flaw in the G-7′s new global financing plan

Australian Financial Review:

• Even in the Gobi Desert, the Party goes on
• Biden’s China policy still a work in progress
• While China parades its power, Australia wonders what’s next

Lowy Interpreter:

• China’s forced invisibility of LGBTQ communities on social media
• Ukraine: Balancing China and the rest
• Hsinchu: Taiwan’s city at the centre of China’s conundrum

East Asia Forum:

• The reality of China’s fertility decline
• The rise of boys’ love drama in China
• Taiwan’s China dependency is a double-edged sword
• Why are Chinese troops assembling on the Myanmar border?
• Biden needs to end the tariff war with China
• Harnessing the benefits of automation in the Asia Pacific

Pearls and Irritations:

• A close run thing in Hong Kong in 2019.
• Hong Kong and Taiwan: seeking perspectives
• Xi Jinping’s CPC centenary speech: Is there cause for alarm?
• Alex Lo-How ‘Five Eyes’ allies eat Australia’s lunch over China trade
• Grenville Cross-Rule of law in HongKong- Protecting criminal justice operatives from violence.
• The axis of evil shaping our minds, on China and more
• The Chinese Communist Party: does it stay or does it go?
• Hong Kong’s stability is being restored.
• Grenville Cross-Closure of Apple Daily in Hong Kong and the political obsessions of one man .
• A sinking DFAT has given policy making over to ASPI
• How many are fleeing Hong Kong?

Asialink:

• The consequences of China's "Comprehensive Jurisdiction" over Hong Kong
• The Chinese Communist Party and the people
• Xi Jinping's CPC centenary speech: Is there cause for alarm?

The Strategist:

• From the bookshelf: ‘Invisible China: how the urban–rural divide threatens China’s rise’
• The Chinese Communist Party and the people
• The ‘great, glorious, and correct Party!’
• The 100-year-old Chinese Communist Party: what’s next?
• #StopAsianHate: Chinese diaspora targeted by CCP disinformation campaign
• Getting out of our defensive crouch: developing Australia’s asymmetric warfare capability
• India, China and the Quad’s defining test
• Australia–China relations and the travails of transition

Sixth Tone:

• The GenZ Grads Helping You Help Yourself
• Digging for the Roots of China's Archaeology Craze
• Shanghai Leads Way in China’s Carbon Transition
• Can Giving Circles Break Down the Barriers to Philanthropy in China?
• Song Ta Scandal Puts Art World's Sexism on Full Display
• Can China’s Fishing Villages Make a Comeback?
• For Gay Migrants, Cruising Spots Aren’t Just Shadows and Shame
• How China Got Marx
• The Jewish Refugees Who Fought for China
• The Mysterious Ancient City That’s Rewriting Chinese History
• Bones of Contention: China’s Unhappy Cosmetic Surgery Patients
• The Story Behind China’s ‘Dragon Man’ Discovery
• Children of the Revolution: The Lives of China’s Model Communists

China Digital Times:

• Draconian Sentences For Tibetan Monks After Monastery Raid
• Translation: Censors Erase Father’s Grief After Shenzhen Factory Suicide
• On 100th Anniversary of CCP, Xi Declares Triumph of Socialism
• Hong Kong’s Free Media Forced To Self-Censor; First National Security Trial Held
• Translation: Timeline of Court Rulings Removed from the Internet

Quartz:

• Didi showcases Beijing’s tug of war between data flows and data security
• A soy milk company is feeling the pain of Hong Kong’s latest flashpoint with Beijing
• Read Xi Jinping’s full speech from the 100th anniversary of the Communist Party
• Pay attention to the world leaders praising China’s Communist Party on its 100th birthday
• Europeans are starting to feel a little bit better about China
• Global opinion of China’s handling of Covid-19 is now dramatically more positive
• China has eliminated malaria

Inside Story:

• The Resolve poll that resolves very little
• Shanghai, July 1921

Politico China Watcher:

• ‘Deeply alarmed’: China now ahead of U.S. on privacy law
• After 100 years, China’s Communist Party remains a black box

Politico China Direct:

• Xi’s calling — EU’s 9-month plan — 007 in Munich
• Party turns 100 — Slovenia reheats frozen deal — €24M answer to Confucius

SupChina:

• Chinese gene firm that stores data from prenatal test used worldwide has PLA links
• Tencent launches a space program
• Maybe fifth time’s the charm for this Chinese woman trying to divorce her abusive husband
• Reexamining Chinese economic reform from the 1980s to present
• Retracing the Long March: Middle-class dreams and mudslides
• Did China take another step to financial decoupling with new VIE rules?
• ‘Ethnic extinction’ in northwest China
• There will never be another airport like Hong Kong’s Kai Tak
• Didi drops 20% after IPO as Beijing tightens data security review
• WeChat terminates LGBT+ accounts of Chinese college students in overnight crackdown
• China men’s basketball to miss Olympics for first time since 1984
• China beefs up military position with more Indian border units, desert missile silos, navy forces
• Sony faces anger on Chinese internet for now-canceled event on July 7, the anniversary of Japan’s invasion of China
• China’s Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law: Concerns and uncertainty abound
• China’s rise is ‘unstoppable,’ Xi declares in Tiananmen speech marking 100th anniversary of CCP
• Following the Long March: A pilgrimage of the CCP’s journey
• Why there are so few women in Chinese politics
• From Sneevliet to Xi: How Chinese communism has endured and evolved over 100 years
• Retracing the Long March: A red pilgrimage on motorbike
• China is officially malaria-free, says WHO
• Chinese parents defend son’s choice to wear skirt, sparking conversations about gender-neutral parenting
• Dispatch from Shanghai: The Chinese Communist Party at 100
• In the 7th century, a Chinese coup of Shakespearean proportions
• CCP marks 100th anniversary with extravagant performance, awards for ‘ordinary heroes’
• Twilight Gradients
• From cash to celebrity photos and even temporary boyfriends: What Shanghai is offering for COVID-19 vaccinations

Congressional Research Service:

• RL33153| China Naval Modernization: Implications for U.S. Navy Capabilities—Background and Issues for Congress
• IF10982| China’s Engagement with Latin America and the Caribbean

Asia Society:

• Kurt Campbell: U.S. and China Can Co-Exist Peacefully

Center for Strategic and International Studies:

• Updated Report: Chinese Strategy and Military Forces in 2021

MERICS:

• Xi’s new slogan for China’s trajectory: "Time and momentum are on our side"
• Chinese crackdown sends shudders through tech sector
• China Briefing: Crackdown on tech firms + CCP centenary + Hong Kong National Security Law
• Maria Repnikova on China’s media: “an increase in sophistication of control and adaptability”
• Dire Straits: Taiwan’s fragile status quo
• China Industries Briefing: Smart car standards - Auto recycling - Blockchain

Institut Montaigne:

• China’s Economic Rebound: Views from Beijing

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace:

• The West Should Not Be Complacent About China’s Cyber Capabilities
• Competition Among Russia, China, and United States Heats Up in Antarctic
• What Will Be the Impact of China’s State-Sponsored Digital Currency?

Center for Security and Emerging Technology:

• Comparing the United States’ and China’s Leading Roles in the Landscape of Science

Chicago Council on Global Affairs:

• Cooperating, Competing, Confronting: US-Japan-South Korea Trilateral Cooperation as China Rises

Brookings Institution:

• The ‘lying flat’ movement standing in the way of China’s innovation drive

Chatham House:

• The EU’s unsustainable China strategy

Australia-China Relations Institute:

• Australia-China monthly wrap-up: June 2021

Observer Research Foundation:

• Time to end the battle of Indian pharmaceutical players and Chinese key ingredients
• As CCP turns 100, attention must shift to its influence operations
• Challenges and Opportunities for India in the Post-Pandemic Geopolitical Landscape
• Rebalancing forces against China: An ongoing process or a paradigm shift?
• The China Question: The Party, The Propaganda, and The Schools
• Hong Kong’s jurists to weigh principles of justice v/s national interest
• Unabating tension with China spurs India’s border infrastructure efforts

The Conversation:

• Can Taiwan rely on Australia when it comes to China? New poll shows most Australians don’t want to send the ADF
• 3 reasons China could be an alternative mediator in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
• Cultural sensitivity or censorship? Lecturers are finding it difficult to talk about China in class
• Tiangong: astronauts are working on China’s new space station – here’s what to expect
• Sanctions on China won’t help Uyghurs and other migrant workers
• The Communist Party claims to have brought prosperity and equality to China. Here’s the real impact of its rule
• China’s ‘one-child policy’ left at least 1 million bereaved parents childless and alone in old age, with no one to take care of them
• Academic freedom is paramount for universities. They can do more to protect it from China’s interference
• Fifty years after Whitlam’s breakthrough China trip, the Morrison government could learn much from it

The Diplomat:

• How Are Taiwan’s Diplomatic Allies Faring in the Great Vaccine Race?
• The CCP Deserves Credit for China’s Phenomenal Economic Growth
• Chinese Rideshare Giant Didi in Hot Water
• On China’s Doorstep, Laos Plays a Careful Game of Balancing
• What Do Filipino Maoists Think of China Now?
• CCP Martyrs ‘Still Youthful’ in New Film
• Australia Denies Interfering in China’s Pacific Vaccine Help
• Time to Confront China’s ‘Counterterrorism’ Claims in Xinjiang
• The Chinese Muslim Diaspora in Mecca: Lessons for the BRI in the Middle East
• China’s Social Credit System: Fact vs. Fiction
• At 100, Chinese Communist Party in Renewed Drive for Legitimacy
• A Tale of 2 Navies: Reviewing India and China’s Aircraft Carrier Procurement
• Dire Straits: Taiwan’s Fragile Status Quo
• China Will No Longer Be a Developing Country After 2023. Its Climate Actions Should Reflect That.
• Ahead of CCP Anniversary, Kazakh Activists Protesting China’s Xinjiang Policies Detained
• US Firms Cannot Ignore the Growing Risks of a Possible China-US Military Conflict
• China Celebrates 100 Years of the CCP
• Does China Weaponize Lending?
• How the CCP Uses History
• China-Russia: A Strategic Partnership Short on Strategy
• The CCP Can’t Take Credit for China’s Phenomenal Economic Growth
• Reading Between the Lines of the CCP’s Centennial Propaganda Blitz
• Biden in Europe: G-7, NATO, and China
• When Japan Waged a Currency War Against China
• China’s Repression Reaches Australian Universities
• Can Taiwan Provide the Alternative to Digital Authoritarianism?

Foreign Policy:

• Beijing Eyes New Military Bases Across the Indo-Pacific
• What Didi Got Wrong
• Why Do Analysts Keep Talking Nonsense About Chinese Words?
• As China Rises, Britain and Australia Need Closer Security Ties
• What in the World?
• The CCP’s Greatest Strength Is “Self-Reinvention”
• China Is Radically Expanding Its Nuclear Missile Silos
• The World Doesn’t Want Beijing’s Fighter Jets
• Biden’s “Build Back Better World” Is an Empty Competitor to China
• Biden Needs an International Organizations Strategy

ThinkChina:

• Chinese ambassador Hong Xiaoyong on CPC’s centenary: Towards a brighter future
• What’s stopping Hong Kong from fixing its housing crisis?
• American academic: US-Vietnam military relations hampered by Chinese influence
• Will the UK's Royal Navy conduct a freedom of navigation operation in the South China Sea?
• Why is Beijing punishing Didi?
• How China might just win the China-US competition of governance systems
• China everything: Where has America’s confidence gone?
• Ride-hailing giant Didi slapped with Chinese cybersecurity review days after IPO
• PLA overflight near Malaysian airspace: A precarious provocation
• Didi COO and family called 'traitors': Chinese tech entrepreneurs now public enemies on social media?
• Price of the American dream: Do immigrants have to forget their past?
• Fudan University's murder case: China must look after returning top talents
• More Chinese youths proud to be associated with the CCP
• Death follows as people push into elephant enclave
• Chinese academic: Why the CCP honoured Yuan Longping, the 'father of hybrid rice'

National People's Congress Observer:

• NPC Calendar: July 2021

What's on Weibo:

• This ‘Chinese Lego’ Brand Takes Its Toy Space Mission VERY Seriously
• 100 Years Communist Party Celebrations: Xi’s Speech on Weibo
• Hong Kong Police Officer Knifed in Causeway Bay Incident, Suspect Dies After Stabbing Himself

Chinarrative:

• Trained, Tamed, Coined: Decoding China Tech Corporate Gibberish

Chaoyang Trap House:

• S01 Episode 9: We Built This City on a Camera Roll

ChinaTalk:

• Larry Summers on China
• CCP Rap Propaganda

Pekingnology:

• Ren Zhengfei's trip to the U.S. three decades ago
• How Ren Zhengfei grew up, in the Huawei founder's own writing

Tracking People's Daily:

• Xi's Tech Focus - PLA Must Study July 1 Speech - Chinese Media's Social Responsibility Performance - Zhong Sheng Commentary on HK
• Xi Thought Center on Ecology - Xi Talks to Greek and Czech Leaders - State Council on Medical Insurance, Workers Rights and Real Economy - 'Ironclad' Ties with Pak - Party's 'Spiritual Construction'
• Xi's Speech to Political Parties - 'Shelving Disputes' for Progress - Securities Crackdown - Sinicization of Marxism
• Xi Talks to Macron & Merkel - 'People’s Democracy' - WTC's Xu Qiling Promoted - Party Studies July 1 Speech - Economic Development & Road Ahead
• Food Security - Xiaokang - Politics First in Party Building
• It's all about Xi's Centenary Speech
• Centenary Editorial - Party Membership Breakdown - Xi's Foreign Policy - 'People's' History
• Centenary Celebrations - The July 1 Medal - Xi's 'Historic Achievements' - 'ABCDE' of the CCP Model
• China-Russia Joint Statement - Party Line on 1962 War & Tiananmen - 18 Key Xi Thought Centers - The Qualities Xi Wants in Cadres

The India China Newsletter:

• Modi speaks to the Dalai Lama, PLA reshuffles, Didi's troubles, Xi throws a party, and the art of lying flat
• Control, chaos, and the Communist Party of China at 100 - all you need to know

Eye on China:

• LAC & Indo-Pacific - Ideology & India-China Ties - Xi's Centenary Speech - Party Membership - China-Russia Ties - Camouflage Controversy in SL - Quetta Attacks - Pew's China Perceptions Survey

Takshashila PLA Insight:

• China's 100 New DF-41 Silos; China-India Brief; Naval and Merchant Ships Magazine; J-20s and CCP Centenary

Beijing to Britain:

• Chinese investment in battery farms, Hong Kong, CCP turns 100 A briefing

China Dialogue:

• China key to Vietnam’s solar success

Hong Kong Free Press:

• Hong Kong’s gov’t must stop squandering taxpayer money on multiple, futile attempts to hinder LGBT+ equality
• There’s no politics left in Hong Kong, and not much rule of law either
• What’s wrong with Hong Kong becoming a police state?
• Choice of an ex-policeman as Hong Kong’s number two signals Beijing’s nervousness in election year
• The CCP at 100: How a Marxist party learnt to change with the times
• Despite the anniversary bluster, many Hongkongers are not in a party mood

Taiwan Insight:

• The Political and Economic Implications from Taiwan’s Covid-19 resilience performance
• Harnessing national digital power to prevent COVID-19: the case of Taiwan
• Taiwan’s Economy: GDP Growth is a Bright Spot for Now
• The ‘Sahara’ of Taiwan: A New Local Geopark and the Potentials of Sand Dunes
• Eggplantegg: Taiyu Language Proliferation and Linguistic Diversity in Taiwan’s Popular Music Scene
• The Fear Factor: [Chinese] Censorship on Taiwanese Popular Music
• Which Nation’s National Music? – A Critical Introduction of Contemporary Chinese Orchestra in Taiwan
• Confessions from a Former Fan Girl

爱思想:

• 《易经》对中华文化的影响
• 何日再续改革缘？——“改革师者” 高尚全先生祭
• 百年党庆有感
• 百年未有之大变局与新结构经济学
• 中国与东南亚的互动
• 马克思主义中国化与现代中华文明的建构
• 致敬何兆武先生兼说一些翻译现象
• 以谤为规？
• 回忆在池必卿同志领导下工作的岁月
• 绝无仅有的“五四”发生在一个历史“空档期”——就五四运动100周年采访温儒敏教授
• 农民收入太低，并不是当前农村最严重的问题
• 一个偶然走入历史的孙吴县吏
• 找到你的独特潜能
• 个人的独特性与人的尊严之证成
• 张中行谈读写
• “中国之治”及其世界意义
• 过保有健康的正常生活
• 在未来的许多年里，中国和这个世界都同样需要中国共产党
• 在中国共产党与世界政党领导人峰会上的主旨讲话
• 谦谦君子，卑以自牧

《求是》

• 学史明理 学史增信 学史崇德 学史力行
• 百年大党再出发
• 社论：没有共产党就没有中国人民的幸福生活
• 始终以百姓心为心
• 学史明理，增强政治自觉
• 马克思主义中国化：百年党史的精彩华章
• 坚持和践行全过程民主 推进新时代立法工作高质量发展
• 小康路上手挽手 走出一条康庄道
• 建设人与自然和谐共生的美丽中国
• 努力建设新时代航空强国
• 《敢教日月换新天》：百年辉煌的生动再现
• 赓续红色血脉 汲取前进力量
• 切实上好党史学习教育“必修课”
• 经济社会发展统计图表：国民经济与社会发展取得辉煌成就
• 庆祝中国共产党成立100周年“七一勋章”颁授仪式在京隆重举行

中国现代国际关系研究院

• 法国社会已深陷“撕裂症”
• 维护中国国土安全与地缘战略利益的三个关键词

中央党史和文献研究院

• 革命精神是党的宝贵财富
• 南梁精神孕育形成的历史揭示了什么？
• 弘扬伟大建党精神（庆祝中国共产党成立100周年专论）
• 坚定对党的领导的自信 走好新的赶考之路
• 英雄模范精神的实质
• 历史性的庆典
• 新时代中国共产党人的政治宣言
• 中华民族几千年历史上最恢宏的史诗（深入学习贯彻习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想）
• 思想“铸魂”破解“大的难处”
• 百年大党何以实现民族复兴
• “归根到底是因为马克思主义行”
• 共同富裕：中国共产党的坚定谋划和不懈追求
• 始终赓续红色血脉（思想纵横）
• 明理增信悟初心 崇德力行增本领
• 学史明理，增强政治自觉
• 庆祝中国共产党成立100周年理论研讨会发言摘编（之一）
• 永远把伟大建党精神继承下去发扬光大
• 廉洁奉公，永葆共产党人政治本色
• 在中华大地上全面建成了小康社会
• 拼搏奉献，知重负重攻坚克难
• 努力为党和人民争取更大光荣
• 中华民族的伟大光荣
• 践行宗旨，一心一意为百姓造福
• 书写了中华民族几千年历史上最恢宏的史诗

习近平系列重要讲话数据库

• 加强政党合作 共谋人民幸福
• 习近平出席中国共产党与世界政党领导人峰会并发表主旨讲话

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