China Analysis Digest #27
China Analysis Digest aggregates and lists new China-related analyses. Thanks to Katharina Ni for the magic (codes) that makes this series possible.
Issue: 2021/27
- Date range: August 26 - September 2, 2021
- Sources scanned: 86
- Content: 173 publications from 45 sources
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China Story:
- “Left-Behind” Children: How China turns a social problem into moral failings
- What Does it Mean to Be ‘Chinese’? Education and National Belonging in Contemporary China
Reading the China Dream:
- Wang Huning, The Cultural Revolution and Reform of China's Political System
- Xiong Chunwen, "The Education of Migrant Workers' Children
- Xie Tiao, "2020: Las relaciones sino-estadounidenses"
China Media Project:
- Profound Transformations
- The Juggling Act of Being Female, Chinese, and a Foreign Correspondent
- A History of Common Prosperity
War on the Rocks:
- After Withdrawal: How China, Turkey, and Russia Will Respond to the Taliban
- China Takes on Its Tech Leaders
National Review:
Project Syndicate:
- The Olympic-Size Difference Between India and China
- The AI Revolution and Strategic Competition with China
The Atlantic:
The Economist:
- African swine fever is spreading rapidly in China, again
- Research centres promoting Xi Jinping’s ideas are proliferating
- China would rather be feared than defied
Monkey Cage:
Australian Financial Review:
Lowy Interpreter:
East Asia Forum:
- Explaining the globalist dimensions of Chinese nationalism
- Canada’s intercept in Australia’s loose China game
- Canada’s China relationship edges toward strategic clarity
- Australia’s ‘China-has-changed’ narrative doesn’t explain damagingly bad ties
- Taliban takeover is bad news for China
The Strategist:
- Why is China ramping up construction of missile silos?
- China’s vulnerability disclosure regulations put state security first
- Is China putting the squeeze on Australia by curbing steel supplies?
- What will China do in Afghanistan?
ChinaFile:
Sixth Tone:
- From a Qinghai Mountaintop, a Bird’s-Eye View of Global Warming
- Qianlong Emperor: The Worst Poet in Chinese History?
- Alibaba’s Night of Shame
- What China’s New Guidelines on ‘Green Development’ Mean for the Belt and Road
- What I Learned From 10 Years Teaching Chinese Students About Gender
- China Wants Larger Families. Unless You’re a Single Mom.
- What Is the Three-Child Policy Really Trying to Accomplish?
- Visualizing Life Inside China’s Tech Bubbles
- Can China’s Long-Suffering Idol Fans Catch a Break?
- How China’s New Ed-Tech Regulations Put Filipino Teachers in a Bind
- China’s Hottest New Rental Service: Men Who Actually Listen
- What China’s Parents Really Think About the Three-Child Policy
- A Is for Anxiety: Tutoring Clampdown Tests China’s Parents
- China’s Stressed-Out Workers Are Rediscovering the Art of Meditation
China Digital Times:
- “996” Ruled Illegal Yet Labor Researchers, Activists Still Arrested
- China Restricts Minors To Three Hours Of Online Gaming Per Week
- Translation: Everyone Can Sense That a Profound Transformation is Underway!
- Celebrity Culture “Clean Up” Campaign Targets Stars and Fans Alike
- Pandemic Control Strategy: A Subject for Debate, and Debate Suppression
- English Takes a Backseat to Xi Jinping Thought
Quartz:
- Why are China’s diplomats sometimes so undiplomatic?
- Chinese teens feel like they’re in the crosshairs of Beijing’s tech crackdown
- China is no longer allowing kids to play online video games on weekdays
- Beijing has a new legal architecture for sweeping control over user data
- China’s boycott of Australia has redirected global flows of coal
Politico China Watcher:
Politico China Direct:
- EU-Indo Pacific exclusive — Beijing’s moral revolution — Climate conundrum
- ‘Don’t sanction the Taliban’ — Merkel’s Beijing pick — Lithuania goes Aussie
The Wire China:
- Books for One Hundred Years
- Jude Blanchette on the Enduring Intellectual Puzzle of China
- How Paradigm Blindness Leads to Bad Policy
- Wind Wars
- Will the Music Stop for Tencent?
SupChina:
- Corrupt and competent: A paradox of China’s economic growth
- The Rare Earth Myth
- How China beat malaria
- Crazy English founder Li Yang’s excuse for beating wife and children: I’m Chinese!
- Why Xinjiang is an internal settler colony
- Rock Springs Massacre: A Chinatown burns in the American west
- The Story of Shein
- Xi Jinping’s graft busters are probing Jack Ma’s home city, and a rising star of Xi’s Zhejiang clan
- He was a model son with a promising future — until he killed his mother and disappeared
- Beijing restricts kids to three hours of gaming per week
- World Cup qualifying: China vs. Australia, preview
- Misleading headlines about China’s education sector miss the real story
- China investigates and will punish rich tax avoiders, starting with celebrities
- Beyond the Mask
- ‘Common prosperity’ push is not a war on wealth, Chinese economists and officials say
- Cotton complications in Xinjiang: William Overholt on the case of Esquel
- A Chinese university seems to be making a list of LGBT+ students. No one knows what it will do with the information.
- Nü Er Hong: How a rice winemaker created a legendary Chinese brand
Center for Advanced China Research:
MERICS:
- In the driver's seat: China's electric vehicle makers target Europe
- China opts for optimism in 2021 Russian security strategy reading
- EU’s event-packed fall will set the tone for its China policy in 2022
- China high on the EU's agenda this fall + Lithuania + Berlin's Indo-Pacific Strategy
- China and the Taliban – confidence and caution
- Afghanistan + "Common prosperity" + Data protection law
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace:
Center for Security and Emerging Technology:
- Headline or Trend Line?
- China is Fast Outpacing U.S. STEM PhD Growth
- China’s Robotics Patent Landscape
Brookings Institution:
Observer Research Foundation:
- A small step for China’s first virtual student, a leap for CCP’s AI ambitions
- The strategic signal of an Indian presence in the South China Sea
- BRICS Academic Forum Report
- The Chinese factor in Indo-Russian ties
- China’s Xinjiang Policy and the Silence of Islamic States
The Conversation:
- China’s new rules allow kids on video games just 3 hours a week – but gaming addiction isn’t about time, it’s about attitude
- China’s ‘surveillance creep’: how big data COVID monitoring could be used to control people post-pandemic
The Diplomat:
- China Bans ‘Sissy Men’ From TV
- The Curious Case of the New Chinese Ambassador to Thailand
- Chinese Special Envoy Winds Up Unannounced Myanmar Trip
- Business as Usual: Chinese Investments After the Myanmar Coup
- How China’s Worldview Took Over Hong Kong
- Chinese High-Speed Rail Network Reaches Myanmar’s Border
- China’s Hydropower Plan on the Brahmaputra
- Fentanyl in America: A Barometer of the China-US Relationship
- Chen Gang a Dark Horse to Lead China’s Strategic Technoindustrial Policy
- China’s Personal Information Protection Law and Its Global Impact
- Pakistan-China Relations and the Fall of Afghanistan
- China’s ‘Common Prosperity’ Puts Tax-Dodging Celebrities On Notice
- The African Continental Free Trade Area Is a Boon for China
- China’s Tang Dynasty and Afghanistan, the Graveyard of Empires
- Chen Min’er Guarantees Xi Jinping’s Influence Into the 2030s
- China’s Communist ‘Common Prosperity’ Campaign
- The Somaliland Connection: Taiwan’s Return to Africa?
- Japan, Taiwan Lawmakers Discuss China Threat
- Taiwan’s Foreign Minister: Time to Let Taiwan Work With the UN
Foreign Policy:
- The United States Can Cast Light on China’s Shadowy Solar Industry
- U.S. Institutions Must Get Smarter About Chinese Communist Party Money
- Playing Chess With China
- Why Terrorists Will Target China in Pakistan
- Chinese Recognition of the Taliban Is All but Inevitable
- Chinese Firms Don’t Want to Pay Afghanistan’s Costs
- How Finding China’s Nuclear Sites Upset Pro-Beijing Trolls
ThinkChina:
- Self-assessment: How will the Chinese Communist Party evaluate the Xi Jinping era thus far?
- The future of China-Afghanistan relations: Lessons from history
- A new paradigm needed: China cannot achieve 'common prosperity' with Marxism and class struggle
- Japanese academic: The politics behind the name 'Taiwanese Representative Office in Lithuania'
- Youngest provincial party leader a sign of change for women in politics?
- More mainland Chinese elites supporting armed unification with Taiwan: A cause for concern?
- China-US competition: Why small countries will not choose sides
- Afghanistan in the calculations of India, Pakistan and China: Is there common ground among rivals and allies?
- After reining in the tutoring sector, will the Chinese government target internet titans next?
- [Picture story] The Sino-French War of 1884 and the collapse of Western colonialism
- China's diving sensation Quan Hongchan: Is her rural family 'poor'?
- Celebrities scrubbed from the Chinese internet: Victims of China’s social revolution?
- Vaccine diplomacy in Southeast Asia: Russia trails far behind China and the US
- China's forced drinking culture a submissive test for Chinese women
- How a hoax pandemic donation sparked anti-Chinese and anti-China sentiments in Indonesia
- Who saved Dr Zhang Wenhong from punishment for questioning China's Covid-19 policy?
National People's Congress Observer:
What's on Weibo:
- The 8/26 and 8/27 Blow to Chinese Entertainment Circles: Is the Storm Still Coming?
- Why Zhao Wei? Vicky Zhao’s Name Removed from China’s Online Channels
Chinese Storytellers:
ChinaTalk:
Pekingnology:
Tracking People's Daily:
- Xi to Cadres: Gear for Struggle - Supporting MSMEs & Students - Xi Thought: Pandemic Spirit & Saying No to Universal Values - Wang-Kerry & Wang-Bonne Chats - New Proposal on Online Rumours
- Politburo Meeting - Xi's Gala Time - Subsidised Housing - Afghanistan Policy - Xi Thought Series: Marxism & the New Generation
- Tougher Anti-Monopoly Policies - Xi Thought: Deliberative Democracy & Cultural Confidence - Online Gaming Restrictions - Employment Plan - Covid Origins Probe Demand
- Ethnic Affairs Conference - Wang-Blinken Call - Covid Origins Report - Xi Thought: China's Socialist Democracy - SoE Profits
- Hebei Visit - 'Correct Path' in Ethnic Policies - Curbing the 'Two Highs' - Party 'Missions & Contributions' - Xi Thought: Dual Circulation & Political System - US's Democratic Transformation Failure
- Hebei Visit - Xi-Putin on Afghanistan - PAP Flag Anniversary - Ethnic Minority Policies - Xi Thought: Regional Development & Rural Revitalisation - Zhong Sheng on Afghanistan - COVID-19 Origins
Beijing to Britain:
- The UK-China landscape A overview and some areas to note
- DiDi, working with China in Afghanistan, British Embassy bids A roundup
China Dialogue:
Lausan:
Hong Kong Free Press:
- Relaunching Hong Kong: Let the facts speak for themselves
- Relaunching Hong Kong: No PR ‘reboot’ will clean up the city’s image in the eyes of the world
- Why so much democratic advice from Hong Kong’s non-democrats?
- Hong Kong’s gutted District Councils did more than just gather opinions for the gov’t
- Can Taiwan learn from what happened in Afghanistan?
Taiwan Insight:
- ‘The New Normal’ and New Governance Models in Taiwan
- A Fourth U.S. Communiqué on the Sovereignty of Taiwan?
- In the Wake of the Afghanistan Withdrawal, the US Must Send the Right Signals on Taiwan (Part II)
- In the Wake of the Afghanistan Withdrawal, the US Must Send the Right Signals on Taiwan (Part I)
- Taiwan and the Instrumentalization of the US Withdrawal from Afghanistan
- The Fall of Afghanistan – Implications for European Policy Towards Taiwan
中国:历史与未来:
爱思想:
- 生存、认知、关系
- 如果你有机会与灵魂相遇
- 市场经济与共同富裕
- 中国的市场化改革与收入分配
- 网络攻击背后的大国政治较量
- 主题与变奏
- 人是什么?——孔子面对“攸关技术”的回答
- 毒国与自鸩
- 全球金融巨变
- 健康、疾病与哲学
- 骨与肉
- “枪杆子”与“笔杆子”——中国马克思主义“领导权”的构建逻辑及文明意义
- “亚健康”的帝国与负重的“本部”
- 梦断甲午年——试论中日海军力量在19世纪后半期的消长及其原因
- 李商隐诗歌总体风格探析
- 迈向扎根的城镇化——以浏阳为个案
- 卖书人徐元勋
- 集市的人类学研究
- 一本与一体
- 科举停废与文明冲突
《求是》
- 党的伟大精神永远是党和国家的宝贵精神财富
- 凝铸民族复兴的精神伟力
- 革命精神永放光芒
- 大力弘扬伟大建党精神 奋力开创首都工作新局面
- 花儿为什么这样红
- 践行“两个结合” 着力创新发展
- 努力在时代大考中交出优异答卷
- 以史为鉴开创未来的遵循和指引
- 不断开拓西藏工作新境界
- 经济社会发展统计图表:2021年1—7月国民经济主要指标
- “七一勋章”获得者:“活雷锋”王兰花
中国现代国际关系研究院
中央党史和文献研究院
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- 《品读西柏坡》序
- 以大历史观学习党的百年历史
- 曙光就在前面,我们应当努力
- 中国共产党历史上的100个第一
- 邓小平的读书学习生涯
- 毛泽东谈中国共产党的创建
- 党的政治建设是党的根本性建设
- 弘扬伟大建党精神 书写新的恢宏史诗(庆祝中国共产党成立100周年专论)
- 必须坚持和发展中国特色社会主义
- 中国共产党的精神之源
- 深刻理解把握习近平总书记 “七一”重要讲话的重大意义
- 共同富裕是社会主义的本质要求
- 习近平总书记的大历史观
- 中国共产党成立前后两个一百年的巨大转变——从落后挨打到走向伟大复兴
- 毫不动摇坚持和加强党的全面领导
- 必须进行具有许多新的历史特点的伟大斗争——“以史为鉴,开创未来”系列评论之七
- 加强建党初期马克思主义经典文献传播的历史研究
- 划清马克思主义历史观与历史虚无主义的界限
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