Suggested Readings: July 23-27, 2018
作者：Robert A. Kapp 来源：US-China Perception Monitor
July 23 – 27
PRC Domestic
http://www.sixthtone.com/news/1002661/China%20Panics%20Over%20Substandard%20Vaccine%20Scandal Sixthtone’s report on the vaccine scandal.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2156431/chinese-premier-li-keqiang-promises-clean-vaccine The kind of situation that no head of state and head of government, and especially no father-figure, wants to get into: Xi blasts evildoers in the vaccine scandal. “..resolutely improve the supervision of vaccines…”
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2156873/vaccine-scandal-chinese-officials-who-defy-disgrace South China Morning Post story about the miraculous career recoveries of officials connected to earlier public safety crises (tainted foods and medicines, e.g.).
https://supchina.com/2018/07/24/sda-official-mocked-for-awkward-tv-appearance/ State Drug Administration official goes on Central Television, but does not fare well. Thanks to Supchina.com for the tip.
https://asia.nikkei.com/Economy/Trade-tensions/Trade-war-shuts-the-lights-at-China-s-solar-panel-makers?utm_campaign=RN%20Subscriber%20newsletter&utm_medium=daily%20newsletter&utm_source=NAR%20Newsletter&utm_content=article%20link Major shifts underway in China’s vast – and over-expanded – solar panel industry, after US throws tariffs on PRC panel imports.
https://www.hongkongfp.com/2018/07/25/chinese-court-cited-activists-book-democracy-handing-13-year-subversion-sentence/ Thirteen year sentence for democracy champion Qin Yongmin, 64, who has already spent 22 years of his life in prison for similar activities. The charge? “Subversion of state power.” He had published a book on “China’s Peaceful Transition” in Hong Kong five years ago.
https://www.hongkongfp.com/2018/07/25/ngos-note-staggering-rise-arrests-china-cracks-minorities-muslim-region/ Remarkable official statistics in the rise of arrests and criminal convictions in Xinjiang in 2017 over 2016, both I absolute terms and in terms of percentage of all-PRC national totals.
PRC Global
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-07/26/c_129920686.htm Full text of Xi Jinping’s speech in South Africa. 26 July,
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-07/27/c_137350380.htm In early response following US-EU trade détente, Commerce Ministry spokesperson indicates without going into detail that PRC is favorably inclined toward WTO “reform.” Practical implications unclear. Official Xinhua report.
https://tinyurl.com/yd3ymuzs China Eastern – JAL alliance suggests that Sino-Japanese relations may be evening out after years of bitter tension over Diaoyu/Senkaku islands. Result of larger regional shifts and shifting relations with the US?
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wdMSUe0hBvxq1P2h0njbg9rUD5vOPXeO/view Document submitted to WTO by US delegation, detailing US view of Chinese economic policy vis a vis WTO principles and requirements.
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-07-24/goodbye-china-deleveraging-onward-belt-and-road Interesting opinion article arguing that, with trade conflict with US rising and economy slowing, China will abandon “de-leveraging” and start increasing credit availability domestically, while agreeing to less demanding terms in order to keep its lending programs to “Belt and Road” countries robust.
https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2018/07/foreign-airlines-bow-to-chinese-pressure-over-taiwan/ Denouement of the nasty argument over what name the world’s airlines apply to Taiwan (Beijing insisting Taiwan not be listed as a “country.” Airlines act to honor PRC insistences.
https://jamestown.org/program/beijing-bids-to-extend-its-global-clean-energy-lead/?mc_cid=93c7950d24&mc_eid=1e2abdac25 China’s growing presence in global clean energy markets, both as producer of energy-generating equipment (e.g. solar panels) and as investor in energy companies in Europe, Africa, and elsewhere. Implications.
https://tinyurl.com/ya4ad76y Former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, who has worked on China for a long time, offers a sobering exegesis of Xi Jinping’s recent address to PRC foreign policy elite regarding world conditions and China’s current and future approach to global structure and governance. As Rudd puts it, the West had better “buckle up.”
https://tinyurl.com/y823ewg8 Short but important. China stops buying the world’s plastic trash. Vast problems worldwide.
http://www.sixthtone.com/news/1002674/from-liquor-to-layoffs-the-downfall-of-chinas-unmanned-shelves GREAT feature article on a line of entrepreneurship – unmanned food-item shelves in offices – that fizzled, and why.
PRC-US
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2156875/hawks-war-how-moderates-were-shut-out-trumps-inner-us The evaporation of the school of American “moderate” China specialists from the policy-making arena. Part I of II.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2157028/did-china-think-donald-trump-was-bluffing-trade-how Part II (see above). Very fine reporting on the constraints blinkering the thought processes of Chinese responsible for understanding American government behavior.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/26/technology/qualcomm-china-trade-war.html A flagship deal falls through. Qualcomm cancels plan to acquire Dutch chip maker as no response from Chinese antimonopoly authorities ever appears. China says “nothing to do with current trade frictions.”
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Business-Deals/Qualcomm-not-the-last-victim-as-US-China-trade-war-intensifies?utm_campaign=RN%20Subscriber%20newsletter&utm_medium=daily%20newsletter&utm_source=NAR%20Newsletter&utm_content=article%20link Further fallout from the collapse of Qualcomm’s attempt to acquire NXP because of non-response from Chinese regulators. Other pending deals at risk?
https://www.chinausfocus.com/foreign-policy/major-global-changes-new-developments-in-china-us-relations A veteran Chinese America-watcher with an interesting, multi-layered analysis of American perceptions of China and the future of Sino-American relations. A somewhat anodyne ending, however.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinese-real-estate-investors-retreat-from-u-s-as-political-pressure-mounts-1532437934?mod=hp_lead_pos4 PRC becomes net seller of US real estate for first time since 2008.
https://nypost.com/2018/07/23/hasbro-moving-production-out-of-china-to-avoid-trade-war/ Giant US toy maker Hasbro announces plan to move all production out of China, to avoid tariff consequences of ongoing US-China “trade war.”
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technology/China-s-AI-focus-will-leave-US-in-the-dust-says-top-university-professor Artificial Intelligence. Western professor at Tsinghua points to PRC strengths in competition with US for dominance in the sector. (May be paywalled.)
https://www.ft.com/content/f83b20e4-8e67-11e8-9609-3d3b945e78cf The head of the European Council on Foreign Relations summarizes his recent China interviews with respect to how China perceives Trump.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-26/what-does-the-apparent-trump-eu-trade-truce-mean-for-china New Trump – EU trade détente: implications for US-China trade conflict? Different interpretations.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/meet-the-us-officials-who-now-lobby-for-china What we are descending to. This young “journalist” is not doing herself any professional favors with pieces like this, but she will find a ready audience in “heat the boiling oil” circles.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/when-the-world-opened-the-gates-of-china-1532701482?mod=hp_lead_pos8 Orthodoxy shift. WSJ’s distinguished Bob Davis reviews the decision to grant China “Permanent MFN” status as it entered the WTO in 2000, and comes down largely on the side of the current massed legions who claim it was a mistake.
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