China Analysis Digest #72

Date range: September 5-12, 2022

Sources scanned: 122

Publications: 152 (English), 30 (Chinese)

China Watching

China Heritage

• A Country Besieged by Itself
• Other People’s Thoughts, XXX

China Media Project

• Mixing Science and Politics

China Brief

• Make the Green Serve China: PRC Influence Operations Target International Environmentalism
• The Russia-India-China Trilateral After Ukraine: Will Beijing Take the Lead?
• The PLA’s Military Diplomacy in Advance of the 20th Party Congress
• Will the Xi Jinping Leadership Take Up Reformist Policies After the 20th Party Congress?
• Are Cross-Strait Relations Dead?

Opinion Pages

Project Syndicate

• Isabella M. Weber on inflation, deglobalization, China, and more
• A Big Payoff from US-China Climate Coordination

Wall Street Journal

• How to Beat China in the New Space Race
• China Is Buying the Farm

Blogs

China Story

• Contentious Friendship

Lawfare

• Smart Manufacturing: A Linchpin in China’s Industrial Policy

China-US Focus

• ASEAN Members Speak Up on Taiwan
• China During the Global Food Crisis
• Strategic Retreat: Russia Cedes Influence to China, U.S. in Southeast Asia
• Wolf Warrior Diplomacy Undermines China’s International Reputation

East Asia Forum

• China sanctions might ferry the UK into hot water
• Australia gasses up energy security concerns
• Indo-Pacific vision that promises peace and prosperity
• Japan’s stance on the Taiwan Strait
• The Tories talk the talk on China
• Cambodia’s Ream naval base attracts competing patrons

China Collection

• Big mistakes in the editing of Cai Xia’s article in “Foreign Affairs”

Andrew Batson's Blog

• What will self-reliance mean for China?

China Dialogue

• Two gibbon species extinct in wild in China, research suggests

Pearls and Irritations

• The Defence Strategic Review: We should regard the Taiwan issue as one for us to ‘sit out’
• The Defence Strategic Review: Will it question the China phobia that currently holds sway?
• We have to learn to co-exist with China
• What a contrast in professionalism and civility. The 7/30 Report
• Uyghurs and the Bachelet report

The Strategist

• Who will buy Russia’s gas?
• Two prime ministers on Australia’s China challenge

News & Magazines

Foreign Affairs

• America Could Lose the Tech Contest With China
• How America Can Make Industrial Policy Work
• 习近平的弱点
• Time to Rethink America’s Nuclear Strategy

The Economist

• China’s government bites down on expensive mooncakes
• Xi Jinping will at last venture abroad again
• Public patience with zero-covid is wearing thin in China
• Zero-covid is making it tougher for Chinese strivers to get ahead

Sixth Tone

• How a 300-Year-Old Dictionary Birthed China’s Comic Sans
• In 2022, China’s Students Are Struggling to Cope. So Are Their Teachers.
• Our Unuttered Love
• When Translation Misleads
• Can China Fix Its Broken Housing Market?
• A Multigenerational Family of Immigrants
• The Sweet Earth
• China’s Weepy Headline Problem
• Will Manhattan’s Chinatown Lose Its Barbershops?