China Analysis Digest #24
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Issue: 2021/24
- Date range: August 6-13, 2021
- Sources scanned: 86
- Content: 173 publications from 44 sources
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FULL LIST
China Story:
- The Chinese Civil War: the peril of mobilization
- Evolving Representations: The Development of Elected Workplace Trade Unions in China
China Heritage:
Made in China Journal:
China Media Project:
MacroPolo:
War on the Rocks:
- China’s Silos: New Intelligence, Old Problems
- A Reluctant Embrace: China’s New Relationship with the Taliban
Foreign Affairs:
- Why the Quad Alarms China
- The Sexism Behind China’s Population Crisis
- China Isn’t Trying to Dominate the Middle East
Project Syndicate:
The Economist:
- How Chinese factory-workers express their views on life
- China’s efforts to lift Xinjiang’s economy may smother it
Lowy Interpreter:
- Economic diplomacy: Burning down the house
- How can Australia reset relations with China?
- Hong Kong security law flexes Beijing’s international muscle
East Asia Forum:
- Beijing hasn’t sunk the Hong Kong financial ship yet
- Countering China and North Korea’s mad dash for missiles
- Reconciling China’s drive for global ascendency and its desire for state control
Pearls and Irritations:
- The Dragon has been awakened!
- Three things West gets wrong about China
- Western media is destroying its own credibility
- Hong Kong can borrow from foreign security laws including Australia to combat foreign interference.
- The usual China-thumping and sanctimonious censuring have continued as intensely as ever.
- The price of primacy: Can the United States stop China becoming the dominant regional power?
Asialink:
The Strategist:
Sixth Tone:
- The Long, Lonely Struggle with a Schizophrenic Son
- Resolving Human-Bear Conflict on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau
- Sick of Hospital Queues? Let a Helper Stand in Your Stead
- For China’s ‘Traffic Stars,’ a Sudden Crash
- How China’s Elderly Built an Internet of Their Own
- How ‘Why Women Kill’ Became an Unlikely Hit in China
- Why Time’s Up for China’s ‘Shadow Education’ Industry
- The Feminist Rapper Who Refuses to Be Silenced
- Inside the Subway Disaster That Killed 14 in Central China
China Digital Times:
- Translation: Imaginary Friends and the Fruitless Search for Wilson Edwards
- Canadian Michael Spavor Sentenced to 11 Years as Meng Wanzhou Extradition Decision Looms
- TikTok Parent ByteDance Plans Hong Kong IPO After Shelving New York Listing
- June 4 Museum Reopens Online, Defying Hong Kong Authorities’ Attempts To Close It
- New Restrictions on Private Tutoring Industry: Motivations and Reactions
- Translations: Struggling Medics and Conspiracy Theories Amid COVID Resurgence
Politico China Watcher:
The Wire China:
- China’s Nuclear Options
- China’s Unavoidable Financial Rise
- Isabella Weber on How China Avoided Shock Therapy
- Making ‘Made in China’ Harder
- China’s New Nationalism
SupChina:
- China affirms tech crackdown will continue with more regulations rolling out through 2025
- Barred from tutoring children, Chinese test-prep giant wants to educate parents
- Peter Martin on what makes China’s diplomats tick — and so ticked off
- China sentences Canadian citizen Michael Spavor to 11 years in prison
- What happens at Beidaihe? An explainer
- The start of modern Sino-Japanese relations
- Beijing recalls Lithuania ambassador in another shock to EU-China relations
- Woman sues hotel chain after fighting off naked stranger in room
- The anaconda in the chandeliers: The Hong Kong National Security Law and its implications for middle powers
- The largest Chinese investors you’ve never heard of
- Alibaba fires manager accused of rape after social media outcry
- U.S. edges out China in Olympic gold medals
- China will raise the age of retirement. What do people in Shanghai think?
- Hong Kong celebrates a record Olympic run amid political controversy
Center for Strategic and International Studies:
Center for Advanced China Research:
MERICS:
- China’s digital paradox
- Jane Duckett on China handling the pandemic
- Beijing increasingly tolerant of economic damage for political gain
- MERICS China Briefing: Regulatory crackdown + Afghanistan + Delta outbreak
- EU and China stand to gain from a ‘greener’ blockchain
- Executive Memo on the current momentum in transatlantic China policy
- Executive Memo: Blast or Bluff? Gauging the momentum of transatlantic China policy
National Bureau of Asian Research:
Brookings Institution:
Australia-China Relations Institute:
Observer Research Foundation:
- Will China get embroiled in the graveyard of empires?
- The Rajapaksa triumvirate and the CCP backdoor in Sri Lanka
- Re-envisioning Northeast for India’s ‘Act East’
- Can a China-Russia-Pakistan-Turkey-Iran arrangement counter the Quad?
The Conversation:
The Diplomat:
- Water With Your Chips? Semiconductors and Water Scarcity in China
- What’s Behind Lithuania’s Outreach to Taiwan?
- China’s Insurtech Crackdown: Tech Saga Continues
- Japan’s Military Role in the Indo-Pacific
- A Struggle for Information Control Between China’s Government and the Tech Giants
- China’s Presence in Africa Is at Heart Political
- Can the US Isolate the Taliban?
- Canadian Faces Spy Ruling as Huawei Decision Looms
- Despite COVID-19, Indonesia-China Relations Continue to Develop
- China’s Vaccine Diplomacy in Latin America
- Eswatini, Taiwan’s Last Partner in Africa
- Alibaba Fires Manager Over Suspected Sexual Assault
- Indian and Chinese Troops Disengage from Gogra
- Europe Faces the Tricky Task of Policing Chinese Investments
- The China-US Arms Trade Arms Race
- How a German Frigate in the South China Sea May Upend Beijing-Berlin Relations
- How Do Sexual Harassment Claims Fare in China’s Courts?
- Zapad/Interaction Military Exercise 2021: Growing China-Russia Bonhomie?
- China’s Tech Sector Regulations Are Costly But Not Shocking
Foreign Policy:
- China Is Repeating U.S. Mistakes With Its Own Global Arrogance
- Belarus and Hong Kong Are Building the 21st Century’s Berlin Walls
- Hong Kong’s Liberties Are Dying but Business Lives On
- Independence Is the Only Way Forward for East Turkestan
- Is China’s New U.S. Ambassador a ‘Wolf Warrior’—or a Fox?
- China’s Growing Censorship Is Training the Public to Be Online Snitches
- Ideological Competition With China Is Inevitable—Like It or Not
ThinkChina:
- Can the West's infrastructure plans rival China's BRI?
- Will the US’s ‘integrated deterrence’ keep China in check?
- US defence chief Lloyd Austin in Southeast Asia: Did the US strike the right notes?
- Why China is cracking down on big capital
- China’s crackdown on cryptocurrencies: Trade-offs between stability and innovation
- China’s crackdown on cryptocurrencies: Bitcoin miners eyeing overseas ventures
- China's tutoring crackdown: It is not a random act by the Chinese government
- China’s tutoring crackdown: Is the Chinese government prepared for its consequences?
- Chinese economics professor: Why we should not profit from natural disasters
- Alibaba sexual assault case: China’s ugly drinking culture is a show of power
- Singapore health experts: China the best positioned country to aim for zero-Covid
- Why China is determined to achieve 'zero-Covid'
- Kris Wu’s downfall and the dark side of big capital
- China is far from being affluent
What's on Weibo:
- “I Deeply Love My Motherland!” – Chinese Actor Zhang Zhehan Under Fire for Yasukuni and Nogi Shrine Photos
- Zhang Xifeng’s “Countryside Pig” Speech Still Lingers on Social Media
- China’s Crackdown on Tutoring Schools: Concerned Parents and Teachers on Weibo
- Humans Fight at Beijing Wildlife Park, “Setting the Wrong Example” for the Animals
- Social Media in Times of China’s Flood Disaster: Participation, Profits, and Propaganda
Chaoyang Trap House:
Pekingnology:
Beijing Channel:
Tracking People's Daily:
- Xiaokang & Human Rights - Endorsing Pak Terror Attack Probe - Party & Rule of Law - Governing by Constitution vs Constitutionalism - Frontier Work Assessment - Heilongjiang Flood
- Rule of Law Guideline - SCS Commentary - Xi Thought on Socialist Rule of Law - Beijing's High-speed Test Zone for Autonomous Vehicles - XPCC Spirit - One-China Principle
- First Secretaries - Lithuania Tensions - US' 'Underlying Diseases' - Xi Thought on Economic Globalisation & Rule of Law
- Korean War Spirit - Pudong's Innovation Development - Reform 'Promoters & Doers' & the Three Distinctions - 热地Essay on Tibet's Future
- Olympics Success - Zhong Sheng: Asia Doesn't Need a 'Teacher’ or ‘Saviour’ - New Era Reform Needs Crossing the River by Feeling the Stones & Top-Level Design
- Origin-Tracing Propaganda - Taiwan Arms Sales - Reform and Opening Up - Pandemic Containment - Vaccine Diplomacy - H1 Economic Situation - Preparing for Struggles
The India China Newsletter:
Eye on China:
Takshashila PLA Insight:
Beijing to Britain:
Lausan:
Hong Kong Free Press:
- Patriot games: it’s not the job of Hong Kong’s Chief Secretary to help vet candidates
- Money for nothing: overpaid officials don’t even run Hong Kong any more
- Hong Kong district councils: The rule of law and the rule of Carrie Lam
- Steve Vines: Loving Hong Kong has become a suspect activity – why, at last, it was time to leave
Taiwan Insight:
- The Taiwan-Australia Partnership: An Observation
- A Place for Homeless People? :The Pandemic and Homelessness in Taipei
- Why Is the Revitalisation of Taiwan’s New Southbound Policy So Pressing?
爱思想:
- 我在深圳的社交生活
- 必须改变分析国内外经济形势的传统思维方式
- 关于形而上学的评论
- 美国行为的根源——出自政治史学的观察
- 当下我们期待引进怎样的学术著作
- 大众高等教育再认识
- 老祖宗的牌桌阴影
- 2021年中国经济形势分析与研判
- 土地改革赢得农民是建党百年成功之本
- 我去了牙买加的法尔茅斯，追寻博尔特的脚步
- 漫谈读书、写作及其他
- 士人的归趣
- 中国未来经济增长具有两大优势
- “助少壮求位育”
- 1950—1952年重庆防疫网的构建
- 薛宝钗的生存策略
- 我国城镇化对财政体制的“五大挑战”及对策思路
- 美日和美韩同盟
- 中国工程教育需要变革
- 中华现代社会主义新文明定型的可能性
中央党史和文献研究院
- “七七决议”——东北解放战争中的重要篇章
- 杨明伟：共同富裕何以成为中国全面小康后的“中心课题”？
- 发扬抗美援朝精神 做有骨气的中国人
- 让发展成果更多更公平惠及全体人民（思想纵横）
- 建党精神与建党伟业
- 中国共产党的伟大精神力量
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