Suggested Readings: July 14-23, 2018
作者：Robert A. Kapp 来源：US-China Perception Monitor
July 14-23
PRC Global
https://www.merics.org/en/china-monitor/cosmological-communism MUST READ. An important reflection on traditional Chinese concepts of cosmology and governance and their application, under Xi’s CCP, to the world as a whole.
https://www.weekinchina.com/2018/07/friends-not-foes/?dm PRC and Europe moving ahead on big deals while US digs its hole deeper. (Note: this Newsletter is wholly sponsored by one firm.)
https://jamestown.org/program/chinese-behavior-in-siberia-sparks-local-anger-against-beijing-and-moscow/ Frictions between Siberians and both Moscow and Beijing as Chinese businesses clear-cut their way into Siberia. THIS REPORT BEARS FURTHER VERIFICATION.
http://english.chinamil.com.cn/view/2018-07/19/content_8093232.htm Global Times commentator (posted on PLA Daily web site) discusses current Xi Jinping Africa visit. Worth a careful read.
http://www.chinoiresie.info/china-studies-between-censorship-and-self-censorship/ One person’s blunt assessment that scholarly engagement with China is primordially a moral challenge, in which fear of visa denial too often results in willful self-censorship and willful disregard of appalling human rights violations. This item is included because it represents a stream of thinking that is shared by a rising number of foreign observers, particularly academics. The author concludes, “Yet most importantly, simply by talking about these matters openly, and attempting to give a voice to those who are unable to speak, the suffocating cycle of silence, to which far too many of us have been accomplices at the nexus of censorship and self-censorship, will ever so slowly be broken.”
PRC-U.S.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2155678/china-sets-think-tank-alliance-better-understand-us The eternal quest to figure out Trump’s America and Trump’s likely policies toward China.
https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/18/17587304/apple-icloud-china-user-data-state-run-telecom-privacy-security Apple moves encrypted Big Data data to China Telecom servers inside China. But the encryption keys are also inside China.
http://www.chinoiresie.info/china-studies-between-censorship-and-self-censorship/ The terms of debate in the China field these days: does researching on China pose intrinsic questions of personal moral culpability and complicity?
https://www.caixinglobal.com/2018-07-19/opinion-why-china-hasnt-broken-wto-rules-101306467.html Economist Yu Yongding with a forceful article on China’s adherence to WTO requirements and US offenses against them.
https://www.caixinglobal.com/2018-07-20/opinion-chinas-currency-catch-22-101306748.html China’s monetary policy alternatives against the background of economic slowing and rising US-China “trade war” behavior. Slow but valuable read.
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-07/21/c_137339958.htm Official New China News Agency report on US states’ continuing hopes for closer economic ties with China, as expressed at a National Governors’ Association meeting in Santa Fe.
PRC Domestic
http://www.bjreview.com/Special_Reports/2018/40th_Anniversary_of_Reform_and_Opening_up/Archives/201806/t20180629_800134021.html In the beginning: the Communique of the Third Plenum of the Eleventh CCP Central Committee, December, 1978. The start of “Reform and Opening.”
https://tinyurl.com/y8fw3oxy E-commerce and the transformation of rural China. Great New Yorker reporting.
https://tinyurl.com/y7ghrf6r Some of the best Western analysts discuss developments in the Chinese cybersecurity realm over the past year, following passage of the Cybersecurity Law.
https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/united-states/article/2155200/relax-america-state-policies-made-china-2025 Economist Fred Hu argues that the U.S. obsession with China’s “Made in China 2025” high-tech development blueprint is misplaced, because state-designed development plans have proven to be costly and inefficient failures time after time. He leaves out a couple of key features of the state’s approach to developing key sectors, however.
http://chinaheritage.net/journal/deathwatch-for-a-chairman/ On political rumors in China, past and present.
https://www.weekinchina.com/2018/07/about-to-bomb/?dm The making, unmaking, remaking, etc. of a would-be blockbuster film. Not for the faint-hearted. From a commercially-sponsored online Newsletter.
https://www.caixinglobal.com/2018-07-20/chart-chinas-aging-population-101306922.html Graphics showing projection of percentage of Chinese population over 60, compared with several other major countries, through 2050. Major social and economic implications.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-20/china-s-rising-economic-pressure-prompts-talk-of-policy-rethink A sort of “everything-but-the-kitchen-sink” article assessing current economic policy challenges in China on multiple fronts.
http://www.china.org.cn/business/2018-07/21/content_57808751.htm The arrival of “social e-commerce.”
https://soundcloud.com/harvard/an-environmental-drama-in-northern-song-china-with-ling-zhang?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=twitter An interesting podcast with Prof. Ling Zhang,an “environmental historian,” author of the recent book, The River, The Plain and the State, about an environmental crisis in Song China (in the 12th century).
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2156357/new-vaccine-scandal-grips-china-parents-say-theyve-lost Another very serious faulty-medicine problem involving vaccines for infants. Hot on the heels of a rabies vaccine scandal. Corrosive effects on public trust.
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