Suggested Readings: July 6-13, 2018

作者：Robert A. Kapp  来源：US-China Perception Monitor

July 6 – 13

PRC Domestic

https://www.caixinglobal.com/2018-07-16/chinas-economic-growth-hits-seven-quarter-low-at-67-101303990.html  2018 Q2 GDP growth rate 6.7%, down a bit.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/this-years-selloff-in-chinese-markets-isnt-like-2015-it-looks-worse-1530869403?mod=hp_lead_pos3 A dark look at the downward trend in China’s equities markets and in the value of the RMB, suggesting longer-term and deeper problems.

https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2018/07/liberal-think-tank-unirule-evicted-from-offices/  Unirule, a “liberal” think tank founded and led by economist Mao Yushi, evicted from its rented space, the door welded shut, the organization left homeless.

http://www.sixthtone.com/news/1002616/go-big-or-go-home-guizhou-bets-on-big-data  Remote Guizhou Province’s “big bet” on Big Data as the key to its economic future.  Great reporting.  But Guizhou not alone:  see the same author’s report on a small town in Ningxia, in the arid Northwest, with similar dreams:  http://www.sixthtone.com/news/1002557/dreaming-of-a-silicon-desert .

http://www.china.org.cn/china/2018-07/13/content_56609702.htm  The flood season in Sichuan.  Must be seen every July to be believed.

PRC Global

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2018/07/11/chinas-ministry-education-approves-termination-more-200-chinese-foreign-cooperative Interesting piece on Sino-foreign higher education programs, including those that have been cancelled by China.

http://chinashock.info/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Lessons-from-Chinas-Rise-IZA.pdf  MUST READ IF YOU HAVE THE TIME.  Economist David Autor takes on the economic effects of China’s arrival in the global economy upon other nations and their citizens.  A well laid-out economics article aimed at a general audience.

PRC-U.S.

https://tinyurl.com/y7lrh9v3   Must Read.  On US China tariffs and WTO requirements.

https://ustr.gov/about-us/policy-offices/press-office/press-releases/2018/july/statement-us-trade-representative     USTR’s announcement of intent to impose tariffs on $200b more Chinese imports to the US.

https://macropolo.org/china-footprint/  Brilliant graphics in this report from Paulson Institute Macropolo project on the many-faceted PRC impact on the U.S.

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/unpacked/2018/07/12/unpacked-the-us-china-trade-war/?utm_campaign=Brookings%20Brief&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=64421876  Brookings’s David Dollar explicates the current “trade war” between the PRC and the US.  Read the bullet points, but watch the video.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/shocked-by-latest-u-s-tariffs-beijing-seeks-retaliatory-action-1531313522?mod=hp_lead_pos2  Excellent reporting by WSJ’s Lingling Wei on Chinese dilemmas and responses to the new threat of higher US tariffs on $200 of PRC goods entering the US.

https://ustr.gov/sites/default/files/301/2018-0026%20China%20FRN%207-10-2018_0.pdf  USTR’s formal announcement of commencement of procedures leading to imposition of tariffs on PRC imports valued at $200m.  Contains complete list of targeted imports.

https://www.wsj.com/graphics/us-china-tariffs-industries/?mod=article_inline?mod=hp_lead_pos4  Effects of tariffs so far on the U.S.  economy, by sector, with useful graphics.

https://tinyurl.com/yao8bpgl  Very good piece by AEI trade guru Claude Barfield with specific recommendations on how the U.S.  should define and advance its insistences on elimination of PRC trade and investment malpractices.

https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2018/07/05/chinese-students-faith-us-democracy-american-students  A short and intriguing note by a U.S. history professor just home from a year of teaching in China about Chinese students’ views of the U.S. (positive), contrasted with the gloomy perspectives of American students thinking about their own country.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/commerce-lifts-ban-on-u-s-suppliers-selling-to-chinese-telecom-firm-zte-1531499331?mod=djemalertNEWS  ZTE saved?  US Commerce Department permits ZTE to purchase from US suppliers again. 

https://tinyurl.com/ycm9vdq2  A Missouri town feels the benefits of US aluminum tariffs and the threat of heavy damage from PRC retaliation against its farm products.  Great local reporting.  Thanks to CSIS Trade Vistas for reference.

来源时间：2019/5/30   发布时间：2018/7/13

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