Suggested Readings:May 28 – June 7, 2018
作者：Robert A. Kapp 来源：US-China Perception Monitor
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PRC-U.S.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/03/world/asia/us-china-trade.html
Moving toward definitional moments in the American drama.
https://www.ft.com/content/26efcf88-670e-11e8-b6eb-4acfcfb08c11
Further to the preceding.
http://www.china.org.cn/opinion/2018-06/07/content_51763977.htm
Official PRC government web site presents a column by a U.S. figure on the growing disintegration of the United States. Final line: “ I sadly feel that today he would have to say that, unless current trends change, the sun rapidly rising in the East is fast setting in the West.”
https://apnews.com/82a98fecee074bfb83731760bfbce515
US clamps down on visa terms for certain Chinese student applicants in sensitive high-tech fields. An important interview on related topics should be paired with the above report: see https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-05-10/china-s-industrial-spies-elude-outdated-u-s-vacuum-cleaner .
http://foreignpolicy.com/2018/06/04/dont-close-the-door-on-chinese-scientists-like-me/
An eloquent statement by a Chinese post-doc researcher at Cornell, arguing that closing the door to foreign talents, including Chinese talents, is exactly the wrong way for the U.S. to advance its global interests.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/07/world/asia/sonic-attack-china-guangzhou-consulate-.html
Mysterious symptoms affect US ConGen staffers and families in Guangzhou.
ZTE will survive, according to Commerce Secretary Ross’s description of a deal just worked out. Staggering USG intrusion into the management and operations of a foreign country. A precedent for other cases worldwide? What will be follow-on effects in PRC corporate governance?
One small example of how Chinese and Americans work together, illustrative of how much is at stake if the two countries unravel bilateral relations at the highest levels.
PRC Domestic
https://voxeu.org/article/e-autocracy-surveillance-and-propaganda-chinese-social-media
Academic and technical, but a very interesting study of the effectiveness of social media in enabling authorities to anticipate social protests and to disseminate propaganda.
https://www.ft.com/content/0bdbeff6-64a7-11e8-90c2-9563a0613e56
Gloom on the 29th anniversary.
A poor peasant near Xi’an and his collection of others’ discards – artifacts from China’s ancient and more recent past.
Courage, 29 years on.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/31/technology/china-tencent-alibaba.html
On the Alibaba – Tencent mega-competition in the digital space.
http://chinamediaproject.org/2018/05/23/thoughts-on-the-closure-of-chinas-top-leftist-website/
Why was the Mao-adoring “leftist” web site known as “Utopia” shut down this week. David Bandurski analyses.
http://www.settimananews.it/religioni/millions-of-shadows-of-christians-china/
Francesco Sisci’s fascinating short piece on Christians and almost-Christians in China.
http://www.sixthtone.com/news/1002422/eastern-chinese-city-issues-20-new-rules-to-civilize-residents
The endless quest by authorities high and low to instill “civilized” behavioral norms in China’s citizens. Chiang Kai-shek tried to do this with the “New Life Movement” starting in 1934, and the quest has gone on, in many forms, since. Here, an obscure small city tries its best.
Related to the preceding: “grid management” aims at detecting undesirables in urban environments.
http://www.chinafile.com/conversation/how-should-world-respond-intensifying-repression-xinjiang
Chinafile breaks the alleged indifference and careful silence with regard to the treatment of Uighurs in Xinjiang, in this series of postings by concerned Western scholars and observers. Not an “on the one hand/on the other hand” body of comments.
http://chinaplus.cri.cn/news/china/9/20180511/129949.html
Sift for nuggets in this elliptical report of General Secretary Xi’s address on the extending of “reform” at both the central and local levels.
PRC Global
China’s rise in scientific achievement and international attractive power parallels U.S. implosion.
https://www.ft.com/content/bdc31f94-68aa-11e8-b6eb-4acfcfb08c11
Great piece on China’s growing global reach in power generation and transmission.
A troubling article about the tidal quality of Chinese arrival on the world scene and the potential problems that can result: this is about housing markets, in Canada and New Zealand, flooded with PRC buyers.
来源时间：2018/6/16 发布时间：2018/6/7
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