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06.13.17Fortune Makers
Fortune Makers analyzes and brings to light the distinctive practices of business leaders who are the future of the Chinese economy. These leaders oversee not the old state-owned enterprises, but private companies that have had to invent their way forward out of the wreckage of an economy in tatters following the Cultural Revolution.Outside of brand names such as Alibaba and Lenovo, little is known, even by the Chinese themselves, about the people present at the creation of these innovative businesses. Fortune Makers provides sharp insights into their unique styles—a distinctive blend of the entrepreneur, the street fighter, and practices developed by the Communist Party—and their distinctive ways of leading and managing their organizations that are unlike anything the West is familiar with.When Peter Drucker published Concept of the Corporation in 1946, he revealed what made large American corporations tick. Similarly, when Japanese companies emerged as a global force in the 1980s, insightful analysts explained the practices that brought Japan’s economy out of the ashes—and what managers elsewhere could learn to compete with them. Now, based on unprecedented access, Fortune Makers allows business leaders in the United States and the rest of the West to understand the essential character and style of Chinese corporate life and its dominant players, whose businesses are the foundation of the domestic Chinese market and are now making their mark globally. —PublicAffairs{chop}
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06.13.17A Statistical Analysis of the Implementation of the ONGO Law
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06.13.17Why China No Longer Fears the Fed
Financial Times
In 2016, the People's Bank of China got a reprieve from the U.S. Federal Reserve. This year it needs no such help.
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06.13.17Trump’s Trade Restrictions Could Miss China And Slam Everybody Else
Chicago Tribune
Any restriction on imports of the key metals would likely fall on friendly U.S. trading partners, rather than on China, the ostensible target of the administration's concern about steel and aluminum imports.
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06.13.17Panama Establishes Ties With China, Further Isolating Taiwan
New York Times
Panama has severed diplomatic relations with Taiwan in favor of recognizing China, the latest in a series of developments adding to the island’s isolation on the world stage and raising questions about waning American influence under President Trump.
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06.13.17Trump Adds More Trademarks in China
New York Times
President Trump is poised to add six new trademarks to his expanding portfolio in China, in sectors including veterinary services and construction, potentially renewing concerns about his possible conflicts of interest.
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06.13.17China Detains Chairman of Anbang, Which Sought Ties With Jared Kushner
New York Times
Wu Xiaohui, the chairman of Anbang Insurance Group, was taken away on Friday in Beijing, according to Caijing, a respected newsmagazine. In a statement early Wednesday morning in China, the company said that Mr. Wu was “for personal reasons no...
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06.13.17Nearly 14,000 Companies in China Violate Pollution Rules
New York Times
Environmental inspectors in northern China have found that nearly 14,000 companies, or 70 percent of the businesses they examined, failed to meet environmental standards for controlling air pollution.
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06.12.17How Does Investigative Reporting Happen in China?
from Sinica Podcast
Li Xin is the Managing Director of Caixin Global, the English-language arm of China’s most authoritative financial news source, Caixin. For over 10 years, she has worked closely with the Editor-in-Chief of Caixin, Hu Shuli, whose famously fearless...
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06.12.17Pakistan Confirms Chinese Couple Killed after IS Claim
Associated Press
Pakistan confirmed Monday that a Chinese couple abducted at gunpoint has been killed, three days after Islamic State militants claimed the killing and sent a video to local journalists purporting to show their bodies.
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06.12.17China Accuses 2 More Provinces Of Faking Data
Financial Times
China’s anti-corruption watchdog has highlighted fake economic data in the Northern provinces of Inner Mongolia and Jilin, in the country’s grain heartland.
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06.11.17Rare Public Protest in China's Shanghai over Property Rule Change
Reuters
Hundreds of demonstrators have marched through a shopping district in the Chinese city of Shanghai protesting against changes to housing regulations, in a rare show of public dissent in the financial hub.
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06.11.17Online Gossip Clampdown in China Leads to Netizen Outcry
Financial Times
Chinese netizens have decried a government campaign to shut down many of the nation's top celebrity gossip outlets as Beijing escalates its control over online content.
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06.11.17Hundreds Protest in Shanghai over Ban on Selling Converted Flats
South China Morning Post
Rare demonstration came after city authorities barred owners from selling apartments converted from office or commercial space.
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06.09.17Australia Is Debating Chinese Influence. Should the U.S. Do the Same?
“The Chinese Communist Party is waging a covert campaign of influence in Australia,” went the claim in the newspaper The Age, in a series of articles exploring China’s hard and soft power “Down Under.” The articles set off a domestic debate about...
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06.09.17World Asia China Cranks Up Heat on Exiled Tycoon Guo Wengui
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Beijing airs allegations involving whistleblowing businessman living in New York as subordinates are tried for fraud in unusually open proceedings.
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06.08.17China Likely to Set up Military Base in Pakistan – Pentagon
Telegraph
The report from the Pentagon predicts China will expand its military prowess after the construction of its first overseas naval base in Djibouti, a strategic location at the southern entrance to the Red Sea on the route to the Suez Canal.
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06.08.17Trump Lies. China Thrives.
New York Times
We underestimate China — and attribute all of its surge in growth to unfair trade practices — at our peril. China has been fast and smart at adopting new technologies, particularly the mobile internet.
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06.08.17West Underestimates China’s New Silk Road, German Envoy Says
Channel NewsAsia
Western countries are underestimating China’s new Silk Road project, which is an important scheme, despite concerns it is too China-centric and so far lacking in opportunities for foreign firms, Germany’s ambassador to China said on Thursday.
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06.08.17U.S. Business Group Urges Trade Fixes Ahead of China’s Party Congress
Reuters
A U.S. business lobby in China said on Thursday that Washington should use leverage afforded by China’s desire to avoid trade frictions with the United States ahead of its Communist Party Congress this fall in order to fix market access...
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06.07.17China Hits Back at Claims of “Secretly Infiltrating” Australia
Channel NewsAsia
China's foreign ministry said the claim by a joint investigation that China was “secretly infiltrating” Australia is baseless.
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06.07.17China Won’t Beg India to Join OBOR: Chinese Media
India's primary concern about the initiative is the “flagship” China Pakistan Economic Corridor leg that runs through Pakistan occupied Kashmir. Despite this concern, an OBOR white paper in May declared CPEC as a flagship project.
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06.07.17Beijing Lashes Out Over Pentagon Report on Chinese Military
Associated Press
Beijing says it is “firmly opposed” to a Pentagon report that highlighted China's construction of military facilities in the South China Sea and speculated that Beijing would likely build more bases overseas.
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06.07.17China Is in the Middle of Diplomatic Spat With One of Its Oldest Allies in Africa
Quartz
Zambian authorities have detained 31 Chinese citizens on suspicion of illegal copper mining, according to Chinese officials who have formally complained about the arrest.
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06.07.17China’s Reserves Rise For 4th Month
Associated Press
China's foreign currency reserves rose again ahead of a possible U.S. interest rate hike that might put new pressure on Beijing's exchange rate controls.
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06.07.17Trump Lies. China Thrives.
New York Times
While Trump is a serial liar, his broad complaint that China is not playing fair on trade and has grown in some areas at the expense of U.S. and European workers has merit and needs to be addressed — now.
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06.06.17China Is Now Looking to California–Not Trump–to Help Lead the Fight Against Climate Change
Los Angeles Times
Governor Jerry Brown met with Chinese President Xi Jinping in a rare diplomatic coup that catapults California into quasi-national status as a negotiator.
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06.06.17China Cautions India, Others Against Any Informal Alliance
Economic Observer
China cautioned India and other Asian countries against forming informal alliances to counter its increasing assertiveness as they cannot rely on the U.S. in Trump era.
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06.06.17China Doesn't Want To Be the Only World Leader, Says State Council Counselor
CNBC
Rather than fully stepping into a global leadership vacuum that could be left by an increasingly isolationist U.S., China is looking to be but one of the world's leaders.
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06.06.17Former Top U.S. Spy James Clapper Warns of China’s Russian-Style Behavior in Australia
ABC
China’s growing influence over Australian politics has similarities with Russia's recent meddling in American democracy.
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06.06.17U.S. Presses China to Free Activists Scrutinizing Ivanka Trump Shoe Factory
New York Times
Experts warned that the detentions could make it more difficult for other Western companies to take a clear look at the practices of their Chinese suppliers.
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06.05.17As China Pulls Trade from North Korea, Russia Gets Cozy with Kim Jong Un
USA Today
Trade between Russia and North Korea increased by 73% during the first two months of 2017 compared to the same period the year before, boosted mostly by increased coal deliveries from Russia, according to Russian state-owned news site Sputnik.
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06.05.17Turning against Trump: How the Chinese Covered the Climate Pact Exit
New York Times
Mr. Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris agreement gave fresh material to one of the Chinese state media’s favorite propaganda themes: the idea that Western democracy is flawed, chaotic and prone to social strife.
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06.05.17China Tries to Play Nice at Key Security Forum
Nikkei Asian Review
Although China attempted to strike a more conciliatory tone in this year’s Shangri-La Dialogue, a major Asian security forum held here through Sunday, officials’ uncompromising comments on Taiwan and the South China Sea only highlighted its rifts...
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06.05.17On Tiananmen Square Anniversary, Detentions in China and Candlelight Vigil in Hong Kong
Washington Post
Police detained at least 11 Chinese activists after a pair of small events to commemorate the 28th anniversary of the bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, according to human rights groups and activists.
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06.05.17Ivanka Trump’s Firm Seeks New Trademarks in China, Reviving Ethical Concerns
CNN
A trove of Chinese trademark applications filed by Ivanka Trump’s namesake business is focusing attention once again on the ethical complications presented by the Trump family’s business ties.
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06.05.17Russia and China Are Bulking Up in the U.S.’s Backyard
Bloomberg
Putin and Xi are working to win over small, poor countries with promises of aid, military support, and investment, even as Trump scales back.
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06.01.17Can China Supplant the U.S. in Europe?
From May 31 to June 2, Premier Li Keqiang will visit Germany and Belgium, to “further deepen and enrich China’s relations with the European Union (EU) at a time of increasing global uncertainty,” according to an article in China’s state newswire...
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06.01.17China and Europe Are Moving Forward without Trump
CNN
Beijing is in prime position to capitalize on major policy fissures that have emerged between Europe and the Trump administration on climate, trade and defense. The new dynamic will be on full display on Thursday in Brussels, when Chinese Premier Li...
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06.01.17China Is Touting Its Protection of Human Rights in a Muslim-Majority Region Riven by Violence
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China put out a policy paper today on human rights in the Muslim-heavy Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, where the Chinese government has been cracking down extensively in recent years.
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06.01.17Canadian Winery Owners Arrested, Put on Trial in China for Customs Valuation Dispute
Huffington Post
The daughter of two Canadian winery owners being held by Chinese authorities over an alleged customs valuation dispute says the case should serve as a warning for other Canadians hoping to do business in China.
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06.01.17China Renews Call for Seoul to Halt THAAD amid ‘Shocking’ News of New Launchers
CNBC
China’s state-owned media on Thursday criticized reports new THAAD anti-missile launchers were secretly brought into South Korea without approval from the Seoul government.
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06.01.17North Korea: Is China Trying Hard Enough to Stop Pyongyang Threat?
Fox News
Recent actions by South Korea President Moon Jae-in and China’s President Xi Jinping have raised questions about the sincerity of both countries in helping the U.S. reign in North Korea’s nuclear program.
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05.31.17Activists Investigating Ivanka Trump’s China Shoe Factory Detained or Missing
Guardian
A labor activist working undercover investigating abuses at a Chinese factory that makes Ivanka Trump shoes has been detained by police and two others are missing, raising concerns the company’s ties to the U.S. president’s family may have led to...
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05.31.17Trump May Turn to Vietnam for Help on South China Sea
CNBC
On Wednesday, Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc will be the first ASEAN leader to visit the White House since President Donald Trump’s election and the U.S. may look to tap into the emerging market’s friction with China.
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05.31.17Senate Democrats Ask Trump for Answers on China Trademarks
Voice of America
A group of Senate Democrats has sent a letter to U.S. President Donald Trump requesting information about a raft of trademark approvals from China this year that they say may violate the U.S. Constitution’s ban on gifts from foreign governments.
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05.31.17China, Russia Share Much to Expand Economic Cooperation
China Daily
Roughly three months ahead of a BRICS summit to be held in China, Russian analysts saw immense potential to increase and diversify economic cooperation between Russia and China.
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05.31.17Emirates Says Telling Cabin Crew Not to Wear Taiwan Flag Pins per China’s Request Was an ‘Error’
South China Morning Post
Emirates on Wednesday walked back an email ordering its Taiwanese cabin crew to remove the island’s flag from their uniforms following the Middle East airline’s decision to acquiesce to Beijing’s one-China policy.
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05.27.17Sinica Podcast
05.26.17Chinese Power in the Age of Donald Trump
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When Joseph Nye, Jr., first used the phrase “soft power” in his 1990 book Bound to Lead: The Changing Nature of American Power, China did not factor much into his calculus of world order: It had relatively little military and economic power, and...
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05.26.17Conversation
05.25.17Can Free Speech on American Campuses Withstand Chinese Nationalism?
Earlier this week, Kunming native Yang Shuping, a student at the University of Maryland, gave a commencement speech extolling the “fresh air” and “free speech” she experienced while studying in the United States. Video of her speech spread on the...
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05.25.17South China Sea: U.S. Warship Challenges China’s Claims with First Operation under Trump
CNN
A U.S. Navy destroyer has sailed close to a disputed South China Sea island controlled by China for the first time under U.S. President Donald Trump.
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05.25.17The China-Russia Summit Will Focus on North Korea – but It’s Really about Western Influence in the Region
Independent
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi makes an official visit to Russia on Thursday and Friday for meetings with key officials, including his counterpart Sergey Lavrov. The timing, which coincides with the Nato and G7 summits of Western powers,...
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05.25.17China Throws out More Trade and Business Offers to Trump’s America
South China Morning Post
A report issued by the Ministry of Commerce on Thursday said China may buy further goods from the U.S., including crude and refined oil products, cotton and machine tools.
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05.25.17Taiwan Simulates ‘Chinese Invasion’ during Military Exercise amid Growing Tensions with Beijing
Daily Mail
Military forces in Taiwan have today simulated a ‘Chinese invasion’ as part of live-fire war games amid rising tensions with Beijing.
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05.24.17Trump Adds Another Chinese Trademark to His Portfolio
New York Times
China has granted President Trump preliminary approval for another trademark in apparel, expanding business interests that have already generated criticism over potential conflicts.