China Analysis Digest #28
Publications from September 2-9, 2021
China Analysis Digest is a weekly published list of new China-related analyses.
Issue: 2021/28
- Date range: September 2-9, 2021
- Sources scanned: 86
- Content: 185 publications from 45 sources
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China Story:
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"
Made in China Journal:
MacroPolo:
Project Syndicate:
The Atlantic:
The Economist:
- America wants China to end support for coal projects abroad
- Xi Jinping Thought, for children
- China’s bid to stabilise its property market is causing jitters
Australian Financial Review:
Lowy Interpreter:
East Asia Forum:
- The digital renminbi and the rise of central bank digital currencies
- The Taiwan factor in US–Japan alliance relations
- Japan leans forward on China–Taiwan tensions
- State capitalism and China’s corporate pecking order
Asialink:
The Strategist:
- Helmsman Xi takes China back to the future
- The domestic and international consequences of Xi’s political philosophy
- Why is China ramping up construction of missile silos?
ChinaFile:
Sixth Tone:
- E-Lit Squad: China’s Elderly Rekindle Passion With Romance, Wargods
- He Who Buries the Trash Is Also Buried by Fate
- Bringing Countryside Conflict to China’s Perfect Paradise
- To Protect China From Disasters, First Close the Rural-Urban Gap
- The TV Show Highlighting Chinese Culture’s Feminine Side
- What I Learned From 10 Years Teaching Chinese Students About Gender
- A Blind Man’s Epic Quest to Conquer Everest
- China’s Hottest New Rental Service: Men Who Actually Listen
China Digital Times:
- U.S.-China Climate Change Talks Founder Over Xinjiang Sanctions
- Post-game Analysis: Making Sense of the Hu vs. Li Smackdown
- Taiwan Plus Media Platform Launched in Challenge to China’s Discourse Power
- Space for China’s LGBTQ+ Communities Continues to Shrink
- Alibaba Fires Employees Who Leaked Sex Assault Case, Invests In “Common Prosperity”
Quartz:
- China’s crackdown on video games is getting more serious
- Climate cooperation actually means climate competition to both China and the US
- Xi Jinping wants to keep IPOs closer with a new stock exchange in Beijing
- Beijing is having trouble selling its citizens on a partnership with the Taliban
- Why are China’s diplomats sometimes so undiplomatic?
Inside Story:
Politico China Watcher:
Politico China Direct:
- EU’s digital Quad — Scholz’s strategy — Pittsburgh vs Beijing
- EU-Indo Pacific exclusive — Beijing’s moral revolution — Climate conundrum
The Wire China:
- The Missing Mogul
- Jessica Drun on Getting the Taiwan Narrative Right
- The AI Revolution and Strategic Competition with China
- Boxed In
- Fishy Business
SupChina:
- In Taiwan, a contentious quest for ‘transitional justice’
- BlackRock get a billion dollars from Chinese mutual fund investors
- U.S.-China trade was never intended to be fair
- Alibaba ‘believes in justice and kindness’ after court drops sexual assault case against former manager
- Hong Kong celebs renounce foreign citizenship amid China’s fan culture crackdown, patriotism push
- Move over, Shanghai and Beijing? Suzhou wants to be the ‘Pharmacy Valley of China’
- China finish top of the medals table for fifth consecutive Paralympics
- Video of woman stripped to underwear by subway employee sparks outrage in China
- Xi Jinping promises new Beijing stock market
- Corrupt and competent: A paradox of China’s economic growth
- The Rare Earth Myth
Asia Society:
Center for Advanced China Research:
MERICS:
- Cybersecurity regulations + Smart driving + Logistics
- Companies face increased scrutiny under new cybersecurity regulations
- NATO’s China conundrum
- Nis Grünberg on China’s party-state capitalism
- Reality check: How welcome are foreign investors in China?
U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission:
Australia-China Relations Institute:
- Australia’s export exposure to China: Assessing the costs of disruption
- Australia-China monthly wrap-up: August 2021
- Perspectives | Power shifts and China choices: Reflections on the Hugh White thesis 10 years on
Observer Research Foundation:
- US-China technology competition through the prism of the reflexive games framework
- China takes on its toxic tech working culture
- How Beijing’s New Maritime Rules in the South China Sea Will Affect India and Others
- China is Putting Limits to Online Gaming for Kids, Indian Policymakers Must Step in Too
- A small step for China’s first virtual student, a leap for CCP’s AI ambitions
The Conversation:
- Minerals, drugs and China: How the Taliban might finance their new Afghan government
- How special soil observatories in China are helping to create more sustainable agriculture
- Global inequality may be falling, but the gap between haves and have-nots is growing
The Diplomat:
- Malabar 2021 and Beyond: India’s Naval Pushback Against China
- The Biden Administration and US-China Relations in 2021
- Where Does the China-India Border Dispute Stand?
- The US Still Doesn’t Understand China’s Strategy in Latin America
- ‘Great Game’ Redux in Afghanistan?
- What Is The Goal Of Beijing’s New Stock Exchange?
- Mapping China’s Place in the Global Semiconductor Industry
- Why Is Iran So Keen on Joining the SCO?
- China’s Crackdown on Private Equity Funds
- How Successful Was China’s Poverty Alleviation Drive?
- China’s Nationalist Cancel Culture
- In China, Kerry Faces Uphill Battle for Climate Change Cooperation
- Gauging the Future of Chinese Investment in Africa
- The Barriers to China-Iran Military Diplomacy
- After Government Crackdown, What’s Next for China’s Edtech Firms?
- China Bans ‘Sissy Men’ From TV
- Sub-Provincial City Cadres: China’s Leadership Cohort for 2027 and Beyond
- 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
- The Somaliland Connection: Taiwan’s Return to Africa?
Foreign Policy:
- China Is OK With Interfering in Guinea’s Internal Affairs
- Pressured By China, Lithuania Won’t Back Down Over Taiwan
- China Is Laying Climate Traps for the United States
- China, Russia Look to Outflank U.S. in Afghanistan
ThinkChina
- What can China and the US cooperate on now?
- China-US competition: Letting the enemy self-destruct
- A new Cultural Revolution? Why some Chinese are shocked by the CCP's relentless pursuit of 'common prosperity'
- US academic: Consequences if Southeast Asia fails to align with US on China policy
- 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
- Will clampdowns on China’s property sector lead to economic turmoil?
- China's internet giants are shelling out money for 'common prosperity'. But is that enough?
- How internet giants' monopolistic practices hurt SMEs in China
- Vietnam needs to do more to reduce trade dependence on China
- Why China is setting up the Beijing Stock Exchange
- Why China is embarking on the journey of 'common prosperity'
- Has China done well in its vaccine diplomacy in Southeast Asia?
- Can China succeed in income distribution reform and get rid of its celebrity economy?
- Taishan Club: The rise and fall of a secretive roundtable of China's richest
- Can Hong Kong get rid of its atrocious subdivided flats anytime soon?
What's on Weibo:
Chinarrative:
ChinaTalk:
Pekingnology:
Tracking People's Daily:
- Optimising Business Environment - Bribery Crackdown - Warning Gaming & Streaming Cos - Xi Thought: Fengqiao Experience - Yangtze River Sand Mining Crackdown - Afghanistan Neighbours Meeting
- Soothing Nerves amid Regulatory Storm - Xi Speaks to Draghi & Rahmon - Xi Thought: Virtue Cultivation via Education & Public Welfare in Health - Xinhua Party Secretary on National Rejuvenation
- Five New Generals - WTC Gets New Chief - Qianhai Zone Plan - Rectification of Political & Legal Affairs Cadres - Xi Thought: Discourse Power & Livelihood Priorities
- Hengqin Cooperation Zone - Universities' Inspection Report: Expect Tougher Rectification - Organisational Line on Reds vs Experts - BSE Details - Xi Thought: Socialist Art & Internet as 'Battlefield'
- Beijing Stock Exchange - Jiang Chunyun's Funeral - Kerry Meets Han & Yang - EU-Taiwan Report Pushback - Xi Thought: Media Control & Culture - Propaganda Dept on Entertainment Sector Crackdown
- 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
Eye on China:
Takshashila PLA Insight:
Beijing to Britain:
China Dialogue:
- China’s shifting overseas energy footprint
- How did Chinese media cover the Henan flood?
- China’s decarbonising power system: out with the old, in with the new
Hong Kong Free Press:
- ‘Foreign agent’ claims against Hong Kong’s Tiananmen Massacre vigil organisers defy understanding
- How Hong Kong’s tyrants are taking baby steps towards dictatorship
- Hong Kong’s civil society under fire: the candidates, the election, then the democracy movement itself
Taiwan Insight:
- Remembering Tragic Spirits: The Worship of Nationalist and Communist War Dead in Kinmen
- Making Narrative out of History: Green Island and the White Terror
- Support for Armed Unification with Taiwan among Chinese Urbanites
- ‘The New Normal’ and New Governance Models in Taiwan
中央党史和文献研究院
- 永远铭记毛泽东的历史功勋
- 没有中国共产党，就没有中华民族伟大复兴
- 陈云的读书学习生涯
- 锻造新时代青年志气骨气底气
- 坚定理想信念是共产党人安身立命的根本
- 深刻理解全面建成小康社会的伟大历史意义
- 增强自信自觉，开创百年大党新伟业
- 中国道路的历史选择
- 书写人类发展史上的伟大奇迹（庆祝中国共产党成立100周年专论）
- 归根到底是因为马克思主义行
- 习近平总书记教我们学“四史”
- 准确认识和把握“学史力行”（深入学习贯彻习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想）
- 迈向第二个百年奋斗目标的根本遵循
- 初心使命引领中国共产党百年建设
- 瑞士智库的发展之路及对我国的启示
- 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
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