China Analysis Digest (March 3-10, 2021)

Hey everyone,

Thanks for the overwhelmingly positive feedback so far on the digest. Glad that some of you are finding it useful!

For those who missed the launch last week, essentially, each week we scan a range of sources, aggregate them, and send you a list of China-related analyses.

Since last week’s issue, we’ve made a number of improvements:

1. added 8 sources to the scanning scope; and

2. made raw data (.csv) available for download. The raw data files have more info than what’s included in the digest below, including author names and subtitles of publications

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China Analysis Digest

• Issue: 2021/02

• Date range: March 3-10, 2021

• Sources scanned: 52

• Content: 106 publications from 32 sources

• Download raw data (.csv)

China Story:

• China’s White Paper on Foreign Aid: How Pacific Island Countries can maximise opportunities

Project Syndicate:

• Biden’s China Challenge

• China’s Himalayan Salami Tactics

• Why China’s Hong Kong Crackdown Could Backfire

Pew Research Center:

• In their own words: What Americans think about China

• Most Americans Support Tough Stance Toward China on Human Rights, Economic Issues

MacroPolo:

• Cheap Solar (Part 3): Making Solar Pervasive in the Next Decade 

• What China Is Planning: Predicting the 14th Five-Year Plan 

The Economist:

• Hong Kong’s new security bill is being put to its biggest use yet

• Red tourism in Xi’s China

Monkey Cage:

• These two African railway megaprojects tell us a lot about China’s development model

• Don’t believe the hype about China’s ‘vaccine diplomacy’ in Africa

• China and India are pulling back from the brink. They’ve created a buffer zone and started talks.

China Media Project:

• The X Factor

• The Spider Reweaves the Web

China Digital Times:

• Consumerism, Communism, and Cartoons: Chinese Youth Reject Jack Ma

• Beijing Unveils Manufacturing Plan Amid Calls to Move Supply Chains Out of China

• Campaign to Discredit BBC Revealed as Media Conditions Inside China Continue to Deteriorate

• Two Sessions Proposals Aim To End Hong Kong Democracy Movement

• Translation: Detention of Takeout Driver Advocate Highlights Digital-era Labor Abuses

• On Clubhouse, Youth Share The Truth About Xinjiang

• Divorce Restrictions Endanger Women as Leaders Focus on Demographic Crisis

• Researchers Voice Rights Concerns Over Emotion Recognition Technology

Politico China Watcher:

• Showtime for Xi as China's annual Congress opens

Sixth Tone:

• Untangling the Crossed Wires of China’s ‘Super Grid’

• How Douyin is Reshuffling the Chinese Music Industry

• The Logic Behind Shanghai’s Massive New Urban Plan

• Why I Traded in My White Collar for a Chisel and Saw

• How Factory Workers Turn the Tables on China’s Big Online Lenders

• The Fall of China’s Working-Class ‘Palaces’

Foreign Affairs:

• China Is Not Ten Feet Tall

SupChina:

• Ding Ling’s critique of the Chinese patriarchy

• China’s top economic policy priorities for 2021 — according to the Two Sessions

• Bitcoin mining is still huge in China despite new ban in Inner Mongolia

• Following nationalist backlash, Chloé Zhao finds no place in China for her ‘Nomadland’

• A brief guide to China’s stock markets and indices

• Chinese women lead men in personal investment and other lessons from International Women’s Day 2021

• Chinese fighter Song Yadong suffers first UFC loss

• Song Dandan, China’s beloved comic actress (and Chloé Zhao’s stepmom)

• Two Sessions: Beijing sets goals for 6% GDP growth, environmental protection, and crushing dissent in Hong Kong

• Five social topics up for discussion at this year’s Two Sessions

• Chloé Zhao’s authentic, tender docudramas of the American West

• American ‘overall opinions’ about China hit record low

• U.S.-listed Chinese online car-sales website Autohome to go public in Hong Kong

• Xi Jinping is gaining support from Party elites, the numbers say

• China to prioritize ‘green development,’ but will it be enough to peak emissions this decade?

• Investigation finds no physical or sexual assault before death of Lalamove rider

• ‘Truth and reconciliation’: Excerpts from the Xinjiang Clubhouse

• How close, exactly, were Russia and China to nuclear war?

Asia Society:

• Endorsing “Self-Reliance”, Beijing Raises the Geopolitical Stakes

• China's Vital Emissions Trading Scheme

Center for Strategic and International Studies:

• Securing the Subsea Network: A Primer for Policymakers

Lowy Interpreter:

• Endorsing “self-reliance”, Beijing raises the geopolitical stakes

• The politics of being Chinese in Australia

Los Angeles Review of Books China Channel:

• Bad Elements

• Missing Lei Feng

ChinaTalk:

• To G or not to G? How to Sell Software to the Chinese Government

Pekingnology:

• Part II of select translations of 14th FYP (2021-2025) and Objectives through 2035

• Select translations of the 14th FYP (2021-2025) and Objectives through 2035 - Part I

• Highlights in recent extraordinarily frequent press briefings ahead of Two Sessions

Beijing Channel:

• 12 of more than 2100 CPPCC members given prominent floor time, why? Part I

War on the Rocks:

• Economics, National Security, and the Competition with China

Center for Advanced China Research:

• Party Watch Weekly Report 4|16 2.27.2021-3.5.2021

Foreign Policy:

• Getting the Quad Right Is Biden’s Most Important Job

• The Shrinking Chinese State

• The U.S. Shouldn’t Be Afraid of China

• Seeking Truth From Fiction

• To Face Off Against China, Copy Its Playbook

• Oh God, Not Another Long Telegram About China

• The U.S. Doesn’t Have to Make Sacrifices to Get China’s Climate Cooperation

• The West Needs Champions

• China Is Losing Influence—and That Makes It Dangerous

The Diplomat:

• China, Russia Agree to Cooperate on Permanent Moon Base

• China Is Buying Record Amounts of Iranian Oil

• Are China’s Companies Taking Action on Sexual Harassment?

• Taiwan Promotes ‘Freedom Pineapples’ in Response to Chinese Import Ban

• The Continuing Mystery of the Belt and Road

• What’s on the Agenda for China’s National People’s Congress?

• American Views of China Drop to Record Low

• Lithuania’s Outreach to Taiwan Is Another Blow to China’s Europe Diplomacy

• What Is the CPPCC Anyway?

• Chinese Vaccines Sweep Much of the World, Despite Concerns

MERICS:

• Covid-19 contact tracing apps: why they are so popular in China

• Staying the course - China's Global approach in 2021

• China’s Social Credit System in 2021: From fragmentation towards integration

The Conversation:

• China’s ‘mask diplomacy’ wins influence across Africa, during and after the pandemic

• A global semiconductor shortage highlights a troubling trend: A small and shrinking number of the world’s computer chips are made in the US

• Myanmar coup: how China could help resolve the crisis

• 2022 Winter Olympics will help Beijing ‘sportwash’ its human rights record

East Asia Forum:

• Will Myanmar’s coup help China influence ASEAN?

• Why South Korea should stand up for Mongolians in China

• South Asia deftly navigates China–India tensions

• The ‘Guyana incident’ and lessons for Taiwan’s international space

• Power rationing in China is unrelated to Australian coal embargo

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace:

• How Standard Setting Can Help Taiwan Grow Its Global Role

• Deepening the U.S.-Taiwan Economic Partnership

National People's Congress Observer:

• 2021 NPC Session: Agenda & Daily Schedule

The India China Newsletter:

• Reading China's Foreign Minister's Press Conference, dams on the Brahmaputra, and bureaucra…

• A 6% growth target, a $209 billion defence budget, a vision for 2035, and other takeaways f…

• India recalibrates FDI policy, China's R&D spending boom, and the political importance of t…

Beijing to Britain:

• New Beijing to Britain offer, British Embassy in Beijing, Foreign Affairs Committee on Xinjiang, businesses pivot East

The Strategist:

• Beijing replicates its South China Sea tactics in the Himalayas

China Dialogue:

• Kenyan coal project shows why Chinese investors need to take environmental risks seriously

• The EU–China investment deal is a missed opportunity for sustainable development

• The 14th Five Year Plan sends mixed message about China’s near-term climate trajectory

• China-funded water project meets stiff opposition in the Philippines

END OF DIGEST