Suggested Readings: August 4-10, 2018

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

August 4-10

PRC Domestic

http://www.chinafile.com/reporting-opinion/viewpoint/remaking-chinas-civil-society-xi-jinping-era  An extremely helpful survey of the new legal and regulatory environment for NGOs in China, and a balanced assessment of the improvements and deteriorations in their operating environment.  RELATED, and of equal interest, this piece on overseas NGOs operating in the “new environment.”  http://www.chinadevelopmentbrief.cn/articles/china-has-changed-how-should-overseas-ngos-adapt/  and this look at why small domestic start-up NGOs struggle to thrive:  http://www.sixthtone.com/news/1002663/why-chinese-ngos-are-still-struggling-to-build-capacity

https://www.csis.org/analysis/seven-chinas  David Kelly’s excellent “Seven Chinas” report, proposing seven interrelated identities that define contemporary China and its current narrative.  A subtle discussion of the dividing line separating “fact” from “myth.” From February.  Download the report from this site.

http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1113583.shtml#.W2WnzXCdUdc.twitter “Patriotism education” for “intellectuals.”

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/china-s-xinjiang-province-a-surveillance-state-unlike-any-the-world-has-ever-seen-a-1220174.html A grim account by a Der Spiegel reporter on an extended trip through Xinjiang.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/06/technology/china-generation-blocked-internet.html  A report testifying to the apparent effectiveness of China’s attempt to insulate (isolate?) its population from online tools deemed off limits by the authorities.  Sobering in its implications, though one might find similar conclusions, in reverse, in the U.S. or Western Europe.

https://www.caixinglobal.com/2018-08-08/quick-take-busted-graft-buster-pleads-guilty-101312987.html A small note on a big topic: what happens when the anti-corruption enforcers act illegally?  A problem in every country, but potentially a significant one in China, where the Party state pursues a huge anti-corruption campaign and an ideology campaign as well.

https://www.caixinglobal.com/2018-08-08/opinion-refinancing-loans-should-provide-relief-not-blood-transfusions-101312991.html  The national “deleveraging campaign,” Xi’s response to huge debt loads throughout society, causes liquidity problems, especially for smaller companies.  This article discusses an attempt to lighten those problems in order to save smaller firms, but cautions against using it simply to keep “zombie companies” going forever.

http://chinamediaproject.org/2018/08/07/dazzling-surveillance/  A short essay on the current professed project to bring expand 24-hour/360-degree video surveillance to all of China (pilot projects target all streets and roads, not interior of dwellings), by 2020.  In the name of social stability, crime prevention, etc.

http://insidestory.org.au/worrying-about-xi-jinping/  Kerry Brown’s ruminations on the recent powerful essay by Xu Zhangrun of Tsinghua University Law School, in which the author listed a long series of social and intellectual and political ailments in contemporary China.  That essay, mentioned in last week’s Suggested Readings, may be read in a quickly-done but subtle translation, at http://chinaheritage.net/journal/imminent-fears-immediate-hopes-a-beijing-jeremiad/   .

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-rights-un/u-n-says-it-has-credible-reports-that-china-holds-million-uighurs-in-secret-camps-idUSKBN1KV1SU Growing concerns over the apparent situation in Xinjiang now completely in the public eye, with this report on a finding of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.  China claims policies aim to deter religious extremism.  U.S. joins the chorus of criticism.  A brisk official rejoinder, with a powerful message of hostility to influences from “the west,” may be seen at http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1115022.shtml  .

PRC Global

https://tinyurl.com/y95xe393  A significant article.  A Taiwan manufacturing mogul (“world’s biggest IT manufacturing company”) sees the end of the era of production in PRC for US market, and the beginning of a new era of production inside the U.S. (May be paywalled.)

https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/made-china-2025-threat-global-trade A useful summary of the content of the “Made in China 2025” program, the US and other international concerns over the program (especially re national security), and responses to it in the US and elsewhere.

http://www.nbr.org/research/activity.aspx?id=887  A very informative interview on the current vaccine scandal and its ramifications in China.

U.S.-PRC

http://en.people.cn/n3/2018/0803/c90000-9487513.html  An “America Expert” tries to make sense of American strategic policy under Trump and comes up short.  Some attempt at analysis of domestic US drivers of American foreign policy, especially vis à vis Asia.

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-wang-china-tariffs-20180731-story.html  Distinguished Beijing University Scholar Wang Yong, who has studied US-China economic relations for decades, writes a message for American readers on Chinese views of the current US-PRC tangle.

https://tinyurl.com/ybh3tocb   Economics Dean at Fudan argues that China is many years behind US in the high-tech innovation space.

https://tinyurl.com/yay2buwl  A very useful article by Adam Segal, recognized expert on China cyber issues, on the whole panoply of issues surrounding the “Made in China 2025” program. (May require free sign-up).

https://macropolo.org/will-china-let-google-back-in/  On the likelihood that Google will be able to operate a search engine again – even a censored one – in China; this analyst is dubious.  Coincidentally, a New York Times story https://tinyurl.com/yahe296h tends to corroborate the macropolo.org author’s point.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2018/08/07/why-republicans-dont-push-back-on-trumps-china-tariffs-in-one-map/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.45021a6d393f  Using content analysis of press releases from U.S. Members of Congress in districts heavily affected by the “China Shock” of the 2000s, the authors seek to explain why Republicans, long the champions of unrestricted trade, have turned so bitterly hostile toward China (and don’t protest against Trump’s China tariffs), while still speaking a broader pro-trade language.

http://en.people.cn/n3/2018/0807/c90000-9488434.html English-language People’s Daily hints that Apple may be in for some difficult times if US-China trade conflict continues and worsens.

https://www.caixinglobal.com/2018-08-09/national-security-concerns-short-circuit-us-solar-farm-deal-101313354.html  A PRC investment in solar farms in the US fails for lack of CFIUS action.

https://tinyurl.com/y9tm4of4  Tensions over the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea make major-media headlines in the US.

来源时间：2019/6/3   发布时间：2018/8/10

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