Suggested Readings: March 8-14, 2018
作者：Robert A. Kapp 来源：US-China Perception Monitor
NATIONAL ESSENTIALS
https://www.chinausfocus.com/finance-economy/2018/0302/16175.html Veteran Hong Kong finance official Andrew Sheng on why there’s no such thing as a “Beijing Consensus” and why the U.S. and China grapple with the government/market dichotomy from such different starting points.
https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/beijing-s-welcome-mat-overseas-chinese A huge matter, in the mid- to long term. Just how DOES the Beijing regime view persons of Chinese extraction who are citizens of other countries, and what will Beijing do about it? How will this affect the lives of people of Chinese descent who are citizens of other nations? In an era of emerging tribalism, a tribalistic China is not to be desired. Of related interest is this proposal from a delegate to the NPC out of the legal community: http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1091900.shtml .
https://news.cgtn.com/news/3345444d796b7a6333566d54/share_p.html From the official PRC television network China Global Television News, this essay by “nationalist” scholar Zhang Weiwei, on the “genetic defects” of the Western Political Model, which, Zhang asserts, China has totally rejected in favor of something much better.
NATIONAL PEOPLE’S CONGRESS (IN PROGRESS)
https://tinyurl.com/ya5funme Washington Post report on NPC approval of constitutional revision eliminating two-term limit on state presidency.
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/economy/article/2136939/china-unveils-sweeping-governmental-changes-cut-bureaucracy-and South China Morning Post’s early review of the massive government org-chart changes emerging from the NPC.
https://www.merics.org/index.php/en/blog/xis-china-party-morphs-state This is a very brief and well organized analysis of the ways in which this Congress is enshrining the Party’s assumption of powers and roles hitherto held by government not Party, and what that “takeover” suggests for the future.
https://news.cgtn.com/news/346b6a4d796b7a6333566d54/share_p.html PRC Government’s China Global Television News offers a lucid, if “official,” explanation of an important new law about to be passed by the NPC: the “Supervision Law,” which will meld government and party bodies into a single Commission responsible for making sure that everyone stays on the straight and narrow instead of indulging in conduct broadly referred to as “corruption.” A huge bureaucratic attempt to deal with a persistent and pervasive social problem infecting the entire political system. Good graphics.
https://news.cgtn.com/news/3367544d796b7a6333566d54/share_p.html China Global Television News’s take, again with useful graphics, on the “Drastic” reorganization of the structure of the central government.
https://yiqinfu.github.io/posts/state-council-reform/ Government Reorganization. Here is one analyst’s handy look at which government units are being merged into which new units, which are being preserved, and which are being eliminated. This is an extensive reorganization plan that will require much digestion. This site also contains very useful links to related reorganization documents.
U.S.-China
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/03/07/trump-china-trade-391240 What impends as the U.S. drives toward the cliff on China.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/morning-trade/2018/03/14/trump-says-pump-up-the-china-tariffs-130799 More steam building on expected U.S. economic measures against China. Signs of a White House juggernaut on this.
https://tinyurl.com/yapqk8eg More ugliness on the cultural relations front. Humble U.S.-funded “cultural centers” in China under pressure from PRCG and staggering.
https://macropolo.org/steel-tariffs-chilling-effect-american-manufacturing/ A long but very informative piece on how the kinds of tariffs about to be imposed on U.S. imports of steel and aluminum products may wind up slashing at the very U.S. enterprises – small and medium-sized industrial manufacturing companies – that their architects claim to be assisting.
PRC INTERNAL DEVELOPMENTS
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2135829/chinas-new-anti-graft-agency-will-be-watching-triple Big expansion of the surveillance system thanks to significant organizational innovations and much new money.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-targets-risk-with-bureaucracy-overhaul-1520950232 An early effort to render lucid the newly announced reorganizations in the financial regulatory sector, and what the new table of organization is aimed at achieving (or preventing). See also https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-13/china-announces-plan-to-merge-banking-insurance-regulators .
https://macropolo.org/the-cleanup/ The Paulson Institute’s ingenious web site for understanding “The Cleanup,” as they put it, of the complicated but unhealthy midden that China’s financial system has become. A great deal of useful information in this long piece, which has the virtue of discussing the structure, evolution, and fate of the Chinese financial system over time, from the late 1990s to the present and into the future.
https://pen.org/forbidden-feeds/ The international writers’ organization PEN with a grim report on social media controls. We won’t elaborate here. PRC GLOBAL
https://www.merics.org/sites/default/files/2018-02/GPPi_MERICS_Authoritarian_Advance_2018_1.pdf Long paper from Germany’s Mercator on PRC “influence operations” in Europe, the dangers therein, and what Europe should be doing to combat them.
https://tinyurl.com/yaccos7q An interesting argument that, if the West starts treating WTO badly or jimmying with WTO rules, China will further adopt all sorts of delaying, evading, obscuring and other tactics by way of response. The precipitator now is US and EU refusal to grant China “market economy” status in the WTO in spite, as the Chinese and many others argue, of the promise made to the PRC at the 2001 time of accession that “non-market economy status” would expire in 15 years.
Military
https://tinyurl.com/yabnqslw Detailed look at the array of radar installations China has in stalled on the Spratlys and what it suggests regarding PRC intentions in the South China Sea.
来源时间：2018/3/16 发布时间：2018/3/16
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