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06.24.16Predictions For Post-Brexit China-UK Business
Forbes
We have to look at the motives of Chinese investors in Europe.
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06.24.16The British Brexit Vote Is Awful News for China
Quartz
Behind Xi’s opposition to the UK leaving is China’s difficult trade situation with the European Union.
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06.24.16Taiwanese Scam Suspects in Cambodia to be Expelled to China
Asahi Shimbun
Rights activists and Taiwan say the plan reflects the great influence Beijing exercises over Cambodia through aid and investment.
The China Africa Project
06.24.16Why the Stakes Are So High for China in South Sudan
Nowhere else in Africa do China’s financial, diplomatic, and geopolitical interests confront as much risk as they do in South Sudan. Beijing has invested billions of dollars in the country’s oil sector, deployed over a thousand troops to serve as U...
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06.23.16China Brushes Off Doubts Over Support on South China Sea, Says It's Growing
Reuters
China has stepped up its rhetoric ahead of a ruling by the Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Hague.
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06.23.16China Ambassador Wu Jianmin's Death Sparks Foreign Policy Debate
BBC
Mr. Wu’s past comments resonate with many at a time of high tension the East and South China seas.
Media
06.22.16‘Wukan,’ Once a Byword For Chinese Democracy, Now Censored
A fishing village in southern Guangdong province, once a standard-bearer for small-time democracy in China, has now become a political disaster—and the most-censored term on Chinese social media.In September 2011, amid protests over land sales in...
Sinica Podcast
06.20.16Arthur Kroeber vs. the Conventional Wisdom
In this episode of Sinica, we present an in-depth interview with Arthur Kroeber, the founding partner and head of research for Gavekal Dragonomics, an independent global economic research firm, and the editor-in-chief of its journal, China Economic...
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06.20.16North Korea Diplomat Expected to Attend Forum with U.S. Envoy in China
Reuters
The forum would be a rare gathering of experts weeks after Xi Jinping said he would like to see the six-party talks resume.
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06.20.16Hong Kong Leader Vows Action After Bookseller Recounts Ordeal in China
Wall Street Journal
The incidents have raised concerns that Chinese authorities violated the “one country, two systems” formula.
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06.20.16China and Indonesia in Maritime Clash
Financial Times
Southeast Asian nations deeply divided over how to respond to Beijing’s assertive approach.
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06.17.16China Imposes Blackout on Hong Kong Bookseller’s Revelations
Time
With one fleeting exception, media consumers in mainland China were left in the dark.
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06.17.16China Orders 255 Shanghai Industrial Facilities to Shut for G20
Reuters
The document, issued by the Shanghai Environment Protection Bureau, has ordered a wide range of companies to shut down for 14 days ahead of the G20 meet in Hangzhou.
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06.17.16Protests Erupt After Hong Kong Bookseller Breaks Silence on China Detention
Deutsche Welle
Lam Wing-Kee has described how mainland authorities held him isolated for months. He said Hong Kong would become helpless if he “remained silent.”
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06.17.16Nephew of China’s Former Domestic Security Tsar Jailed for Graft
Channel NewsAsia
Zhou’s family has been ensnared in President Xi Jinping’s crackdown on corruption, a broad campaign that has felled officials at all levels of government including many of Xi’s top political opponents.
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06.16.16China Business Climate Draws Fire From U.S. Treasury Secretary
Wall Street Journal
U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew says “high-standard bilateral investment treaty” would strengthen climate for U.S. businesses in China.
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06.16.16China Axes Taiwanese Children's Choir Trip
Channel NewsAsia
China has axed a visit by a popular Taiwanese children's choir after they sang the national anthem at the inauguration of the island's new president.
Conversation
06.13.16A War of Words Over the South China Sea
Beginning earlier this year, four-star Admiral Harry Harris, the U.S. Navy’s top commander in the Pacific, has spoken out in speeches, interviews, private meetings, and testimony to Congress urging that the U.S. take more aggressive action against...
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06.13.16Despite Narendra Modi's Stellar Efforts, China Can Still Destroy India's NSG Dreams
Quartz
The 48-member NSG, set up after India conducted nuclear tests in 1974, regulates the trade of nuclear technology.
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06.13.16Filipino Nationalists Say Flag-Planting on Disputed Shoal Halted by China
Reuters
The Filipinos' move comes as the Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Hague prepares to deliver a ruling.
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06.09.16The Disappeared: Faces of Human Rights Activists China Wants to Silence
Guardian
Within a year, over 20 lawyers and activists are in custody facing political subversion charges.
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06.09.16A First: Chinese Naval Vessel Enters Senkaku Contiguous Zone in East China Sea
Diplomat
Previously, China had only sent its coast guard into Japan’s territorial sea and contiguous zone.
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06.08.16U.S.: Chinese Jet Makes ‘Unsafe’ Intercept of Air Force Plane
CNN
China demands the U.S. to stop close-in survailance flights to avoid their “unsafe interceptions”....
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06.07.16Xinjiang Residents Must Submit DNA Samples For Passports, Local Officials Say
ABC
Members of predominantly Muslim Uighur community are denied passport renewals and face discrimination, just in time for Ramadan....
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06.06.16China Rebuffs Taiwan President's Offer on Democracy
Reuters
President Tsai Ing-wen made the offer via Facebook on Saturday in a post about the June 4 anniversary of China's crackdown on Tiananmen Square Protest.
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06.06.16U.S. Chides China on Steel Glut, Treatment of Foreign Companies at Annual Talks
Washington Post
The U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue in Beijing is overshadowed by growing trade friction and the dispute over the South China Sea.
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06.01.16'Truth Ain't Lie Dude': Official Chinese Account Goes on Twitter Spree
CNN
They quickly attracted considerable mockery such as "go home State Council Information Office, you're drunk."
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06.01.16After Failed Missile Test, China Calls for Korean Calm
Reuters
Kim expressed a desire to work hard with China to maintain peace and stability on the peninsula and across northeast Asia.
China in the World Podcast
05.31.16View from Moscow: China’s Westward March
from Carnegie China
China and Russia are solidifying their bilateral relationship as the former looks westward and the latter turns to its east borders. In this podcast with Paul Haenle, Dmitri Trenin discusses the conditions that are leading to stronger China-Russian...
Books
05.30.16The China Triangle: Latin America's China Boom and the Fate of the Washington Consensus
In The China Triangle, Kevin P. Gallagher traces the development of the China-Latin America trade over time and covers how it has affected the centuries-old (and highly unequal) U.S.-Latin American relationship. He argues that despite these opportunities Latin American nations have little to show for riding the coattails of the ‘China Boom’ and now face significant challenges in the next decades as China’s economy slows down and shifts more toward consumption and services. While the Latin American region saw significant economic growth due to China's rise over the past decades, Latin Americans saved very little of the windfall profits it earned even as the region saw a significant hollowing of its industrial base. What is more, commodity-led growth during the China boom reignited social and environmental conflicts across the region.
Scholars and reporters have covered the Chinese expansion into East Asia, Southeast Asia, Australasia, Africa, the U.S., and Europe. Yet China’s penetration Latin America is as little understood as it is significant-especially for America given its longstanding ties to the region. Gallagher provides a clear overview of China’s growing economic ties with Latin America and points to ways that Latin American nations, China, and even the United States can act in order to make the next decades of China-Latin America economic activity more prosperous for all involved. —Amazon{chop}
Viewpoint
05.26.16China and the End of Reform
Is the Chinese Communist Party putting an end to the decades-long process of China’s opening to the outside world? Is the era of liberal reform over? Consider the latest piece of evidence: on April 28, the Standing Committee of the National People’s...
Environment
05.26.16Beijing Calls South China Sea Island Reclamation a ‘Green Project’
Sand, cement, and Chinese military facilities now sit on top of some of the South China Sea’s once-thriving reefs; China has built over half a dozen new artificial islands in a bid to bolster its territorial claims in the hotly disputed region. Such...
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05.26.16China to Promote Anti-Corruption Efforts at G20: Minister
Reuters
As one of China's top 10 priorities for September's summit in Hangzhou, Wang Yi said China would promote a three-pronged approach to anti-corruption cooperation.
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05.26.16China's 'Feud' over Economic Reform Reveals Depth of Xi Jinping's Secret State
Guardian
Speculation is rife that Xi wants to curb debt-fuelled growth before it destroys the economy and oust premier Li Keqiang.
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05.26.16G-7 Leaders Target China Over South China Sea Aggression; Vietnam Looks To Arms Procurement
International Business Times
China argued that the situation in the South China Sea had “nothing to do” with the G-7.
The NYRB China Archive
05.26.16The Heritage of a Great Man
from New York Review of Books
Why did communism grow deep roots and survive in China, while it withered and died in Russia? This is one of the central questions of modern history. A plausible answer to the question is that communism in China resonated with the two-thousand-year-...
Viewpoint
05.25.16Hong Kong’s International Law Problem
In the years leading up to Hong Kong’s return to Chinese sovereignty in 1997, Beijing was keen to reassure the world that nothing significant would change in the territory. Business elites and local politicians alike busied themselves with...
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05.25.16Why Obama's Asia Trip Is Not Playing Well in China
CBS News
President Obama arrived Wednesday morning in Japan for the next leg of his Asia tour.
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05.25.16China’s Leader Wears Many Hats, but Only One Jacket
New York Times
Of the many mysteries about China’s president, the most evident may be the navy blue, zippered windbreaker that he wears like a second skin.
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05.25.16Daughter of Missing Bookseller Calls for Action on 'Illegal Operations' by China
Telegraph
Angela Gui told the congressional hearing on Tuesday that she believed her father's statement of a hit-and-run accident was coerced.
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05.25.16Criticism of Taiwan's 'Single' President Tsai Ing-wen Sparks Anger in China
CNN
According to an op-ed in Xinhua, an official state-published newspaper, being an unmarried and childless woman makes Tsai unfit for her job.
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05.25.16Viewpoint
05.24.16“It’s Time for Us To Set a New Political Agenda for Hong Kong”
Last month, midway through a whirlwind tour of United States universities, Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong took a break for a crab cake and mac-and-cheese lunch at a Manhattan brasserie. Wong, 19, came to international prominence during the...
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05.24.16China Says Better US-Vietnam Ties Must Not Threaten Beijing
Associated Press
China has underlying concerns that closer relations between the two would undermine its claims in South China Sea.
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05.20.16Taiwan President Takes Cautious Line on China at Inauguration
New York Times
Tsai Ing-wen called on China to look beyond the divisions of history for the benefit of people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait.
Media
05.20.16The Chinese Trolls Who Pump Out 488 Million Fake Social Media Posts
They are the most hated group in Chinese cyberspace. They are, to hear their ideological opponents tell it, “fiercely ignorant,” keen to “insert themselves in everything,” and preen as if they were “spokesmen for the country.” Westerners bemoan...
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05.19.16Is China Really the Most Welcoming Country for Refugees?
Quartz
When asked about letting a refugee stay in their home, the most welcoming nation was… China.
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05.19.16China Official Leaves Hong Kong With Assurances of Autonomy
Voice of America
The timing of his presence is viewed against the backdrop of upcoming elections to the Hong Kong legislature.
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05.19.16US, Not China, Militarising the South China Sea: FM
Al Jazeera
In an exclusive interview, China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi discusses a wide-range of global issues.
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05.18.16North Korea Makes Public Its Paranoia over China
Financial Times
Pyongyang’s hatred for Beijing is palpable—and the feeling is mutual.
Books
05.18.16Queer Marxism in Two Chinas
In Queer Marxism in Two Chinas, Petrus Liu rethinks the relationship between Marxism and queer cultures in mainland China and Taiwan. Whereas many scholars assume the emergence of queer cultures in China signals the end of Marxism and demonstrates China’s political and economic evolution, Liu finds the opposite to be true. He challenges the persistence of Cold War formulations of Marxism that position it as intellectually incompatible with queer theory, and shows how queer Marxism offers a nonliberal alternative to Western models of queer emancipation. The work of queer Chinese artists and intellectuals not only provides an alternative to liberal ideologies of inclusion and diversity, but demonstrates how different conceptions of and attitudes toward queerness in China and Taiwan stem from geopolitical tensions. With Queer Marxism in Two Chinas Liu offers a revision to current understandings of what queer theory is, does, and can be. —Duke University Press{chop}
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05.18.16China Finds Its Global Ambitions Humbled in Its Own Backyard
New York Times
China has more economic power than ever before, but its political iron hand makes it hard to win the hearts and minds of Hong Kong and Taiwan.
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05.17.16China-Taiwan Relations To Take A Holiday Under New President
Forbes
To seek peace with China, Tsai would need to make her first dialogue proposal that Beijing might accept.
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05.17.16China Quietly Targets U.S. Tech Companies in Security Reviews
New York Times
China is scrutinizing whether those companies pose potential security threats to the country.
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05.17.16China Breaks Official Silence on Cultural Revolution's 'Decade of Calamity'
Guardian
Communist party’s decision not to address the anniversary until 24 hours after it had passed underlined its discomfort.
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05.17.16Massive Security Operation Underway in Hong Kong as China's No. 3 Pays a Visit
Vice News
Zhang Dejiang began his visit by promising to listen to all sectors of society's views.
Conversation
05.16.16Escalation in the South China Sea
International tensions are rising over the shipping lanes and land formations in the South China Sea. Last week, the People’s Liberation Army Air Force scrambled fighter jets in response to a U.S. Navy ship sailing near the disputed Fiery Cross Reef...
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05.16.16Hong Kong Man Arrested in China for Drone Disruption Plot: Xinhua
Reuters
The unnamed man, arrested in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, was a "sponsor" of Hong Kong's opposition camp.
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05.16.16Little Blue Men: The Maritime Militias Pushing China's Claims
Guardian
Ostensibly civilian fishermen are ‘buzzing’ US navy ships and those of neighboring countries with rival territorial claims.