Suggested Readings: April 29 – May 6, 2018
作者：Robert A. Kapp 来源：S-China Perception Monitor
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PRC Domestic
http://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/2143471/zte-row-shows-china-still-needs-international-tech-shine-bravado
An eye-opening opinion
piece by the former editor of the South China Morning Post, in which he sees
signs of PRC overreaching braggadocio in the high-tech space, and warns that
over-the-top hype about China’s tech advances risks doing more harm than good.
https://www.npr.org/2018/05/01/607306436/remote-chinese-province-is-now-leading-chinas-tech-ambitions
Way down in China’s southwest, cursed by
broken terrain with few natural transportation routes, in imperial times the
exile destination for those in trouble with the Emperor, impoverished Guizhou
Province comes into its own as – the next Chinese high tech focal point. A fascinating lesson in long-term economic
development. It’s all about Big Data and
AI.
https://www.thechinastory.org/yearbooks/yearbook-2017/forum-borderlands/shangri-la-and-the-curse-of-xi-jinping/
The ups and downs of “Shangri-la,” in remote
Yunnan, boosted from a remote scenic area into a huge (and typically crass)
tourist bonanza, and then demoted to dog again by XJP’s menacing restrictions
of official luxury and extravagance.
https://tinyurl.com/yd66252y
A moderating voice in the current brouhaha
over “brain scanning.” Related: a very informative (for the lay person,
anyway) Congressional Research Service paper on Artificial Intelligence: https://fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/R45178.pdf .
https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-xis-hands-are-tied-in-trade-talks-with-u-s-1525277663
This article suggests how hard it will be for
Xi Jinping and his administration to make the kinds of decisive moves the US
team now visiting China will likely demand: a) because Xi himself is a believer
in the statist economy he is proclaiming and supporting; and b) because “vested
interests” (again! This has gone on for
years!) will not comply with orders to undertake fundamental structural reforms
at the grass-roots level. An old theme,
but important to revisit now.
China – Global
https://www.chinalawblog.com/china-ip/
A blog on intellectual property legal issues
in China. Contents constantly changing,
so scroll through for items of interest.
Definitely legal in nature, but of interest to companies with IP as well
as to legal professionals.
http://www.theasanforum.org/an-american-lens-on-chinas-interference-and-influence-building-abroad/
Peter Mattis writes a sober and lucid analysis
of PRC “influence operations” in other countries. Serious and important reading.
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-05-06/china-is-quietly-setting-global-standards
A
useful look at the usually overlooked (and opaque) world of global technical
standards, and at China’s growing efforts to define them,
PRC – U.S.
http://chasfreeman.net/on-the-souring-of-sino-american-relations/
Ambassador Chas Freeman with a hard-hitting
address on the current wave of hostility toward China in the U.S. and its ugly
implications.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-china/trump-team-demands-china-slash-u-s-trade-surplus-by-200-billion-cut-tariffs-idUSKBN1I501X
The much-discussed visit of Trump’s top trade
team to Beijing just ended, here is an early an not-definitive report on what
happened and what the US demanded of the Chinese.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-china/trump-team-demands-china-slash-u-s-trade-surplus-by-200-billion-cut-tariffs-idUSKBN1I501X
What the US demanded China do, during the
Mnuchin-Navarro visit (which has been deemed a failure, by most US media
anyway).
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-02/china-has-stopped-buying-u-s-soybean-supplies-bunge-ceo-says
China pulls the plug on US soybean
purchases. Wonder why….. (One expert
notes privately that at this time of year China routinely ends soybean
purchases in US and turns to Brazil anyway.)
https://www.aei.org/publication/trumps-trade-team-to-china-root-for-lighthizer-and-navarro/
As the Administration’s top team heads for
China amidst vast publicity, allegedly to conduct “deal or die” talks with
Beijing on Trump’s demands, the usually pro-free-trade Claude Barfield of
AEI stands with the hardest of the
hard-nosed Americans, and lays down a menu of Chinese offenses – covering all
the main points – that, in his view, the US must demand be remedied or
eliminated. He then lays out a menu of
U.S. steps to be taken if China does not relent. It’s pretty much all here, but he says
nothing about ongoing tits and tats.
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/2144237/us-commerce-secretary-wilbur-ross-says-there-some-hope-trade-talks
More positioning (Ross: China’s “evil practices,” e.g.) before the US
team heads for China.
https://tinyurl.com/yck495ju
Yet more positioning from the same D.C.
event. Strangely blithe failure to see
the similarity between Paulson/Clinton’s “Strategic Economic Dialogue” (later
“Strategic AND Economic Dialogue” and what USTR Lighthizer seems to envision.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/30/business/china-trump-trade-talks.html
Posturing or the real thing? Is push coming to shove in the trade
sector? Mnuchin, Kudlow, Lighthizer (and
“Death by China” Navarro?) head to China for talks on tariff threats, demands
for PRC behavioral changes, etc. A great
summing up of many issues, bilateral and PRC-domestic.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/30/us/politics/trump-china-researchers-espionage.html
The dreaded “China Tide Syndrome”
advances. USG considering blocking
Chinese citizens from participating in “sensitive”research at US universities and
labs. A cornucopia of opportunities for
paranoid, ill-informed, or literal-minded security bureaucrats.
https://tinyurl.com/y7b5u3vc
For the trade-savvy. A respected international trade analyst
blasts the Trump tariff threat, delineates what is and isn’t legal under
international trade law, and suggests ways that the US Administration could act
against offensive (but not illegal) PRC investment policies. A slow but valuable read.
https://tinyurl.com/y96vblot
A lighter read than the preceding item: bated
breath everywhere over what the US Administration’s actions on trade (including
steel and aluminum tariffs on imports from EU and other “friendly” countries – ostensibly
occasioned by PRC overproduction – will ultimately amount to. And, what will China do, having stated
categorically that it is not going to be kicked around by the US?
https://tinyurl.com/ya4qf48x
Florida Senator Marco Rubio has found a
political niche – China – and is maximizing his presence in it in the Era of
Trump. He here discusses the spectacular
Bill he is about to introduce in the Senate.
Future unclear, but content unmistakable.
http://www.atimes.com/treating-china-adversary-not-americas-interest/
George Koo, an outspoken American businessman
of Chinese descent, takes on the China Threat wave.
来源时间：2018/5/14 发布时间：2018/5/13
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