Suggested Readings:May 7-13, 2018
作者：Robert A. Kapp 来源：US-China Perception Monitor
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PRC Domestic
https://www.thechinastory.org/cot/jiang-shigong-on-philosophy-and-history-interpreting-the-xi-jinping-era-through-xis-report-to-the-nineteenth-national-congress-of-the-ccp/
A massive essay by a respected Peking
University scholar, with an invaluable introduction by the translators, on the
philosophical and ideological synthesis embodied in “Xi Jinping Thought,” in
the context of all of China’s history and China’s struggles over the past two
centuries. Worth the slog, for those
with time and a quiet place to read.
https://www.ft.com/content/766d2a42-419d-11e8-803a-295c97e6fd0b
FT’s veteran China
reporter Lucy Hornby on the reinvigoration of Marxism and the expansion of the
Party’s role in the Chinese economy.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/12/world/asia/china-pastor-detained-sichuan-earthquake.html
A relatively rare mainstream media hint at
the granular complexity of social and religious life today. The central subject here is one independent
church leader’s arrest as he prepared to lead commemoration ceremonies in the
community at the center of the catastrophic Wenchuan earthquake in Sichuan
Province exactly ten years ago.
http://www.sixthtone.com/news/1002250/the-destructive-earthquake-that-gave-chinas-charities-new-life
A generally upbeat story about the enhanced role of NGOs in promoting disaster-preparedness in areas of Sichuan hit by the 2008 Wenchuan quake. Only the lightest mention, however, of the political sensitivities arising from the quake, especially the government’s move to “coordinate” NGO work, and the suppressed furor over shoddy construction of school buildings in which hundreds of Chinese kids died in the 2008 disaster. Still, an informative piece.
http://www.sixthtone.com/news/1002232/precious-but-precarious-wenchuans-second-families
Related to the preceding. A moving and powerful account of “second
families” in the remote and impoverished mountain regions of Sichuan where, in
2008, a great many children – the only offspring of their parents under the
“One Child Policy” – were killed in the great earthquake, and where husbands
and wives created new babies to start new families.
PRC-USA
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-13/trump-says-he-xi-working-to-bring-back-china-s-banned-zte
Brain-spinning news on the U.S. ruinous
sanctions against big Chinese mobile phone maker ZTE. Trump orders Commerce Dept. to make sure ZTE
stays in business, since too many Chinese jobs are at risk. Analysis and background.
https://www.ft.com/content/99fbaf9e-4ef2-11e8-9471-a083af05aea7
This article is like a
peek under the rug; it reveals a vast, roiling set of technological and
government policy challenges, in both the U.S. and China.
https://www.ft.com/content/dd2af6b0-4fc1-11e8-9471-a083af05aea7
FT sage Martin Wolf flays (correctly) the
“terms” that the US demanded of China in the recent Mnuchin-Navarro talks in
Beijing. Unbelievable and blithe demands
which, as Wolf says, no self-respecting nation could accept. A trump-style “deal” opening move? Waking from that dream will not be pleasant.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/05/the-trump-administration-just-forced-smartphone-maker-zte-to-shut-down/
Amazing.
US ban on American companies supplying anything to ZTE (incl. chips on
which ZTE is utterly dependent) may be putting ZTE completely out of business. Details.
BUT:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2018/05/13/trump-pledges-to-help-chinese-phone-maker-zte-get-back-into-business/?utm_term=.6d729c5d66d9
Days later, Trump says
he and Xi are working to help ZTE stay alive, and to save Chinese jobs.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-07/chinese-economic-chief-to-visit-washington-for-trade-talks
Signs of further talks just ahead. Maybe.
https://tinyurl.com/yaqan2gc
US political world joins the “PRC Influence
Operations” wave. A disturbing story.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-wto/u-s-says-something-terribly-wrong-at-wto-china-in-fantasy-land-idUSKBN1I91TM
Throwing the WTO under the bus?
http://time.com/5270271/china-cutting-soybean-purchases-after-tariff-threats/
US soybean sales to
China tank. Seasonal or political?
https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-businesses-to-make-their-case-against-china-tariffs-1526216521
3-day USTR hearing on
proposed retaliatory tariffs on Chinese imports for alleged IP violations will
air this week. US companies will
testify, orally or in writing, This
article surveys the business sector’s uneasinesses. Trump may see the whole thing as a haggle;
Lighthizer (USTR) maybe more driven to dismantle PRC core economic practices.
http://globegazette.com/news/local/ag-leaders-urge-u-s-to-end-china-dispute/article_c62a2526-1570-51d8-988f-c7764859e1b0.html
Iowa farm groups express trade-war fears to
Trump Administration.
PRC Global
https://twitter.com/icja_china
A site to watch if you want to stay current
in what me might call the “sociology of China reporting,” especially among
younger Western journalists.
https://jamestown.org/program/concern-mounts-in-beijing-over-xis-aggressive-tactics/?mc_cid=e203cf7082&mc_eid=4831433c4a
Fascinating report by
Willy Lam, suggesting (with cited sources but no definitive proof) that as the
economic confrontation with the US builds, some voices are suggesting that
China’s recent and vigorous assertiveness may have gone too far.
https://www.ft.com/content/89f2d524-52e3-11e8-b24e-cad6aa67e23e
Great article by UK China veteran Charles
Parton, about how words really matter and how we must avoid falling into easy
phrases that either don’t mean what they seem to mean or don’t really mean much
of anything.
http://time.com/5270662/north-south-korea-china-japan-summit-denuclearize/
Tectonic shifts
underway in East Asia? Leaders of Japan,
PRC and South Korea meet and pledge.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/vietnam-asks-china-to-withdraw-missiles-from-south-china-sea/2018/05/08/ba35414e-5339-11e8-a6d4-ca1d035642ce_story.html?utm_term=.9ad9234edd9b
Vietnam asks PRC to remove missiles from its
manmade islands in the South China Sea.
https://tinyurl.com/y898xx46
Critical commentary
and sensible, if improbable, advice to China on how to re-craft it’s “Belt and
Road Initiative” (BRI) to ensure successful cooperation with the countries in
which it proposes to invest.
来源时间：2018/5/15 发布时间：2018/5/15
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