Suggested Readings:June 7-13, 2018
作者：Robert A. Kapp 来源：US-China Perception Monitor
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PRC Global
A robust British argument as to what is at stake in “Freedom of Navigation” naval operations in the South China Sea.
https://www.ft.com/content/985341f4-6a57-11e8-8cf3-0c230fa67aec
Turmoil in the global solar power market as China cuts subsidies for solar power development inside the PRC. Between that and current environmental policy retreats in the US, bad news on the climate change front.
Restrictions eased on movement of funds out of China by Qualified Foreign Investors. A step in the direction of a more open capital market. (Paywall?)
https://debates.economist.com/debate/china?state=opening#pro_statement
An intriguing and technologically enjoyable “debate” over the question if whether the “West” should “worry about the threat to liberal values posed by China’s rise. True debate format: opening statements, closing statements, reader votes, etc.
PRC – U.S.
The US and China lurch into tit-for-tat tariff conflict.
US companies caught in the middle as tariff battle opens. Important article, but the Comments from readers can be blood-curdling.
Official USTR statement on imposition of tariffs. Further USTR comment on the list of products to be hit with higher tariffs at https://ustr.gov/about-us/policy-offices/press-office/fact-sheets/2018/june/section-301-product-list-fact-sheet
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-06/15/c_137256908.htm
Official Commerce Ministry statement on tariff tit-for-tat.
http://www.china.org.cn/world/2018-06/15/content_52265690.htm
One day before, SecState Pompeo meets Politburo member (and former ambassador to Washington) Yang Jiechi. An anodyne official report, emphasizing the positive.
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/china/2018-06-14/did-america-get-china-wrong
MUST READ, even if it means signing up, Several serious analysts respond to the Campbell-Ratner article in the previous Foreign Affairs on why and how “Washington” “got China wrong.”
https://qz.com/1292039/the-us-is-altering-its-visa-policies-for-chinese-nationals-in-stem/
US ready to reduce visa access for Chinese students/scholars in STEM fields deemed “sensitive.”
The National Committee on U.S.-China Relations conducts this important Forum on “The Future of “Constructive Engagement.” Read the Orlins transcript, listen to the other presentations.
https://uscc.gov/Hearings/us-tools-address-chinese-market-distortions-video
A Washington hearing featuring remarks by a set of well informed witnesses, on the theme of PRC “state capitalism,” its market-distorting effects, and avenues of potential US response.
Claremont McKenna’s Pei Minxin on the demise of US-China “engagement” and what comes next. Not pretty.
http://www.chinalaborwatch.org/report/132
China Labor Watch on alleged labor abuses at a Foxconn factory in Hengyang that produces marquee products (e.g., Kindle readers) for Amazon.
PRC Domestic
https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/npf.2018.9.issue-1/issue-files/npf.2018.9.issue-1.xml
A new collection of essays on NGOs in China, currently downloadable at no charge.
Corporate gold in the gigantic surveillance program (facial recognition, artificial intel) erected in Xinjiang, where ethno-political tensions with the Uighur native population are intense. A massive business-government experiment in “stability maintenance.” Foreign investment funds flock. WARNING: the author is not aware of the family-name-first word order in Chinese names. Often a sign of an amateur beyond his depth.
China’s economic numbers slowing down amid a clampdown on excessive lending. The situation in Tianjin described here, with broader implications.
http://www.sixthtone.com/news/1002470/real-or-fake%3F-the-school-for-catching-counterfeit-goods
Sixth Tone scores again, with this feature story on a training school for detectors of counterfeit luxury goods.
来源时间：2018/6/16 发布时间：2018/6/16
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