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04.04.17China Meeting Spotlights Trump Ethics Swamp: Sen. Cardin
USA Today
We can't tell if he's acting in the public interest or tending to the family business.
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04.04.17India-China Row Deepens as Dalai Lama Arrives in NE India
Seattle Times
India said Tuesday that China should not interfere in its internal affairs, as the Dalai Lama began a weeklong visit to India’s remote northeast that Beijing has protested.
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04.04.17As He Gets Ready to Meet Trump in Florida, China’s Xi Jinping Has a Lot to Worry about
Los Angeles Times
The meeting could set the tone for the next several years of U.S.-China relations, and allow the two leaders to square each other up on issues including North Korea and global trade.
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04.04.17Trump’s Bad Deal with China
Politico
The early signs suggest Xi Jinping will run the table at Mar-a-Lago.
Conversation
04.04.17
What Should We Expect When Trump and Xi Meet in Florida?
On April 6-7, U.S. President Donald Trump will host Xi Jinping in their first face-to-face meeting when China’s President arrives at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort. The meeting comes early in Trump’s presidency, after a campaign in which he frequently...
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04.03.17Trump Ready to Tackle North Korea Alone—FT Exclusive
Financial Times
Donald Trump has warned that the U.S. will take unilateral action to eliminate the nuclear threat from North Korea unless China increases pressure on the regime in Pyongyang.
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04.03.17China Plan to Create New Shenzhen Spurs Speculative Rampage
Bloomberg
Within 24 hours of Saturday’s announcement that the government would create the Xiongan area in Hebei province—in the same spirit that Shenzhen and Shanghai’s Pudong was built—hordes of prospective buyers had thronged to the region.
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04.03.17The Big Unanswered Question ahead of Trump’s First China Meeting
Washington Post
After a campaign defined in large part by a pledge to turn the nation’s trade agenda on its head, President Trump has opened his presidency with a series of modest, more cautious steps
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04.03.17China Learns How to Get Trump’s Ear: Through Jared Kushner
New York Times
The Chinese ambassador, Cui Tiankai, has established a busy back channel to Mr. Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, according to several officials briefed on the relationship.
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04.03.17Canada Deports Hundreds to China Each Year with No Treatment Guarantee
Globe and Mail
The Canadian government is deporting hundreds of people to China each year without receiving any assurances that they will not be tortured or otherwise mistreated, statistics provided to The Globe and Mail reveal.
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04.03.17If U.S. Trade with China Is So Unfair, Why Is GM the Best-Selling Car There?
Quartz
Ahead of a high-stakes summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, Donald Trump’s White House has made clear that it isn’t happy with China’s high tariffs on imported American automobiles.
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04.03.17The New York Times vs. the ‘Great Firewall’ of China
New York Times
The problem in China is that you never really know who is behind such decisions. Chinese bureaucracy is like a series of Chinese boxes that are harder and harder to open as you move toward the center.
Viewpoint
04.03.17
What Does the Future Hold for Business between the U.S. and China under Trump?
We are now well into the first 100 days of the Trump administration. His supporters expect major changes in the China relationship. They voted for a man who promised to impose a 45 percent tariff on Chinese goods and slap China with the currency...
The China Africa Project
03.31.17
China Spends Billions in Egypt to Woo the Middle East
Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz’s recent state visit to Beijing is the latest evidence that China is maneuvering to play a bigger role in the Middle East and Persian Gulf. The two countries reportedly signed deals worth upwards of $65 billion during...
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03.31.17China’s Once and Future Democracy
Wall Street Journal
Despite Xi Jinping’s crackdown and Donald Trump’s silence on human rights, China has a vibrant democratic legacy that may yet reassert itself.
Conversation
03.31.17
Is Hong Kong on Its Way to Becoming Just Another City in the P.R.C.?
On March 26, the roughly 1,200-person Hong Kong Election Committee chose Carrie Lam as chief executive—Hong Kong’s fourth leader since the United Kingdom returned the territory to Chinese rule in 1997. Unpopular with Hong Kong’s pro-democracy...
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03.30.17Trump Will Host China’s President in Florida on April 6
NPR
Chinese President Xi Jinping will visit President Trump in Palm Beach, Fla., next week, for talks that will likely range from economic to security issues. The first meeting between the two leaders will stretch from April 6-7.
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03.30.17Climate Change: China Calls U.S. ‘Selfish’ after Trump Seeks to Bring back Coal
Guardian
State-run tabloid says Beijing cannot fill vacuum left by U.S. and urges west to pressure Trump on global warming
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03.30.17Chinese Capital Constraints Send Shock through Global M&A
Financial Times
Outbound deals hit lowest level since 2014 after cash clampdown
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03.30.17State Department Aide Charged for Hiding Gifts from Chinese Agents
Politico
A veteran State Department employee who held a Top Secret clearance and did three tours in China is facing criminal charges for allegedly covering up tens of thousands of dollars in gifts she and an associate took from Chinese agents.
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03.30.17China Has an Irrational Fear of a “Black Invasion” Bringing Drugs, Crime, and Interracial Marriage
Quartz
A Chinese politician proudly shared with reporters his proposal on how to “solve the problem of the black population in Guangdong.” The province is widely known in China to have many African migrants.
China in the World Podcast
03.29.17
Trump’s First Test in Asia, Part II
from Carnegie China
While President Trump appoints new officials to his administration and reviews policy frameworks, Asia-Pacific leaders are moving ahead. Since taking office, Trump has grappled with consequential developments in the region, ranging from North Korea’...
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03.29.17China Poised to Take Lead on Climate After Trump’s Move to Undo Policies
New York Times
President Trump’s signing of an executive order on Tuesday aimed at undoing many of the Obama administration’s climate change policies flips the roles of the two powers.
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03.29.17Kushner Family, China’s Anbang End Talks over Manhattan Real Estate Deal
NPR
The family of President Trump’s son-in-law and adviser, Jared Kushner, has called off talks with Chinese insurance company Anbang to redevelop a Manhattan office tower—a deal that raised ethical concerns.
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03.29.17China Says It Has Detained Rights Activist from Taiwan
New York Times
The detention adds to signs of an intensified clampdown on outsiders working with China’s beleaguered rights lawyers and groups.
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03.29.17South China Sea Controversy Heats up as Man-Made Islands Are Almost Complete
News.com.au
The controversy in the South China Sea is heating up, with a new report from the U.S. warning China has almost completed construction of three mysterious man-made islands.
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03.29.17China Should Learn the Golden Rule
Bloomberg
The truth is that Chinese companies looking to invest abroad are treated now—as they’ve been for years—far better than China treats foreign investors.
The NYRB China Archive
03.29.17
Liberating China’s Past
from New York Review of Books
With the closing of this month’s National People’s Congress, China’s political season is upon us. It will culminate in the autumn with Xi Jinping’s almost certain reappointment to another five-year term. With Xi rapidly becoming the most important...
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03.28.17Taiwan Democracy Activist Said To Be Detained in China
Fox News
People close to a Taiwanese pro-democracy activist say he went missing nine days ago during a visit to the Chinese territory of Macau and appears to be in Chinese custody.
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03.28.17China’s HNA in Talks to Buy Controlling Stake in Forbes: Sources
CNBC
Acquisitive Chinese conglomerate HNA Group is in talks to buy a controlling stake in the owner of the publisher of Forbes magazine, two sources with knowledge of the matter told Reuters
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03.27.17China Bars Professor at Australian University From Leaving, Lawyer Says
New York Times
A Chinese-born professor at an Australian university who has often criticized Beijing’s crackdown on political dissent has been barred from leaving China and is being questioned by state security officers as a suspected threat to national security,...
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03.27.17China Plans Fresh Crackdown on Tangshan Steel Production
Financial Times
China is planning a new crackdown on steel production in the north-eastern city of Tangshan in a bid to prevent false reporting of mill closures by local governments reluctant to obey shutdown orders.
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03.27.17China State Firms Eye Land around Panama Canal: Waterway Authority
Reuters
Chinese state firms have expressed an interest to develop land around the Panama Canal, the chief executive of the vital trade thoroughfare said, underlining China’s outward push into infrastructure via railways and ports around the world.
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03.27.17In Rare Move, Chinese Think Tank Criticizes Tepid Pace of Reform
New York Times
These withering findings on China’s reforms come from a startling place: from within the government itself.
Caixin Media
03.27.17
Expert Doubts Incentives Would Boost China’s Birth Rate
Proposed incentives for couples to have a second baby—including tax breaks and extra maternity leave—won’t lead to a significant spike in China’s birth rate, a renowned demographer said.Liang Zhongtang’s comments come amid growing concerns about the...
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03.27.17New Zealand and China Plan to Expand Free-Trade Deal
Seattle Times
New Zealand and China announced Monday they would open talks soon to expand a successful free-trade deal in place for nearly a decade.
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03.27.17The New (Red) iPhone Shows How a Simple Act of Charity Isn’t So Simple in China
Quartz
In China tomorrow (March 24) Apple will launch the crimson-hued iPhone 7 and 7plus devices in partnership with (RED), an AIDS-relief charity it has promoted and supported for over a decade.
Books
03.27.17
Wish Lanterns
If China will rule the world one day, who will rule China? There are more than 320 million Chinese between the ages of 16 and 30. Children of the one-child policy, born after Mao, with no memory of the Tiananmen Square massacre, they are the first net native generation to come of age in a market-driven, more international China. Their experiences and aspirations were formed in a radically different country from the one that shaped their elders, and their lives will decide the future of their nation and its place in the world.Wish Lanterns offers a deep dive into the life stories of six young Chinese. Dahai is a military child, netizen, and self-styled loser. Xiaoxiao is a hipster from the freezing north. Fred, born on the tropical southern island of Hainan, is the daughter of a Party official, while Lucifer is a would-be international rock star. Snail is a country boy and Internet-gaming addict, and Mia is a fashionista rebel from far west Xinjiang. Following them as they grow up, go to college, and find work and love, all the while navigating the pressure of their parents and society, Wish Lanterns paints a vivid portrait of Chinese youth culture and of a millennial generation whose struggles and dreams reflect the larger issues confronting China today. —Arcade Publishing{chop}
China in the World Podcast
03.26.17
Trump’s First Test in Asia
from Carnegie China
While President Trump appoints new officials to his administration and reviews policy frameworks, Asia-Pacific leaders are moving ahead. Since taking office, Trump has grappled with consequential developments in the region, ranging from North Korea’...
Conversation
03.24.17
Does Tillerson’s Asia Visit Signal a New Era in U.S.-China Relations?
On March 19, during his first trip to Asia as U.S. Secretary of State, and amidst rising tensions with North Korea, Rex Tillerson met with China’s Communist Party Secretary Xi Jinping. The day before, Tillerson released a statement describing the...
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03.24.17Malaysia Buying Chinese Ships to Protect its Waters From China, Other
Voice of America
Officials from the Southeast Asian country, with a coastline stretching from the Sulu Sea westward to the Indian Ocean, said in November they would get four littoral mission ships made in China.
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03.24.17Australia Shouldn't Pick Between U.S. and China, Premier Li Says
Bloomberg
Australia, which has fought alongside the U.S. in every major conflict since World War I, has been careful not to offend China, which was responsible for 31 percent of its merchandise exports in the 12 months to July last year.
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03.23.17As Hong Kong Chooses Its Next Leader, China Still Pulls the Strings
New York Times
For the fifth time, Hong Kong’s next chief executive will be selected on Sunday by a committee stacked with supporters of the Chinese government rather than by a free election.
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03.23.17As China’s Li Visits Down Under, Trump on Australian PM Turnbull’s Mind
CNBC
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is expected to keep his relationship with the U.S. in close focus as China’s Li Keqiang becomes the first Premier in eleven years to visit Down Under.
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03.23.17Why Is Spain in the Middle of a Spat between China and Taiwan?
BBC
Spain could soon become the first European Union country to extradite Taiwanese criminal suspects to China, instead of their home island.
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03.23.17Demolishing Dalian: China’s ‘Russian’ City Is Erasing Its Heritage—in Pictures
Guardian
Founded by the Russians, Dalian boasts a wealth of architectural history. But now its treasured buildings are marked for demolition—and the government is being sued. One student went to capture the area before it disappears
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03.22.17Eleven Countries Signed a Letter Slamming China for Torturing Lawyers. The U.S. Did Not.
Washington Post
When 11 embassies signed on to a joint letter criticizing China over “credible claims” that lawyers and human rights activists have been tortured while in detention, there were two notable abstentions.
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03.22.17Why China Stoking up Anger over South Korea Missile System Is Doomed to Fail
South China Morning Post
Encouraging boycotts of South Korean goods won’t stop Seoul deploying the defence shield, but will sour an economically valuable relationship, observers say
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03.22.17Philippine Ministers Cry Foul over China’s Island Plans
Financial Times
Fears of a Chinese plan to build a radar station on a disputed ocean outcrop have laid bare tensions in the Philippine government over President Rodrigo Duterte’s campaign to woo Beijing.
Conversation
03.22.17
China Writers Remember Robert Silvers
Robert Silvers died on Monday, March 20, after serving as The New York Review of Books Editor since 1963. Over almost six decades, Silvers cultivated one of the most interesting, reflective, and lustrous stables of China writers in the world, some...
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03.22.17Xi Jinping Is Only Halfway through His Rule yet China’s Already Trumpeting His Legacy
Quartz
Xi is set to start his second five-year term with the party congress meeting this fall. In the past few months, China’s propaganda machines have been busy churning out videos crafting his personal image.
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03.22.17Rex Tillerson’s Deferential Visit to China
New Yorker
America’s top diplomat agreed that “the U.S. side is ready to develop relations with China based on the principle of no conflict, no confrontation, mutual respect, and win-win coöperation.”
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03.21.17China Just Held Its National People’s Congress. Here Are Three Key Points.
Washington Post
For decades, China’s “Two Sessions” (lianghui) each spring have offered a glimpse into the policies and priorities of China’s Communist Party (CCP).
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03.21.17China May Set New Rules to Curb ‘Irrational’ Outbound Investment This Year
Fortune
China this year may publish rules on outbound investment by Chinese firms that would spell out the sectors in which investing is encouraged and those where it is restricted, state media reported on Tuesday.
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03.21.17China and America Need a One-Korea Policy
Foreign Policy
The only way to stop North Korea is by guaranteeing the peninsula will eventually be united—and non-aligned.
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03.21.17China’s Xi Tells Israel That Peaceful Middle East Good for All
Reuters
Chinese President Xi Jinping told visiting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday that peaceful coexistence with the Palestinians would be good for both sides.
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03.20.17Tillerson’s Beijing Visit Was a Home Run for China: State Media
NBC News
China’s state-run media cheered Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s weekend visit to Beijing as a diplomatic win for the home team.
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03.20.17South Korea Complains to WTO about China over THAAD
BBC
South Korea has appealed to the World Trade Organization to determine if the Chinese government is treating South Korean companies unfairly.
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03.20.17Taiwan ‘Targeted by Mainland China’s Top Medium-Range Missiles’
South China Morning Post
Deployment of DF-16 missiles part of the increased military intimidation of Taiwan by Beijing, according to island’s defense minister
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03.20.17China’s Taxes on Imported Cars Feed Trade Tensions with U.S.
New York Times
A Jeep Wrangler can cost $30,000 more in China than in the United States—and the reasons illustrate a growing point of tension between the two countries.