Analysis Digest: August 13-19, 2021

China Analysis Digest aggregates and lists new China-related analyses. Thanks to Katharina Ni for the magic (codes) that makes this series possible.

Issue: 2021/25

• Date range: August 13-19, 2021

• Sources scanned: 86

• Content: 211 publications from 47 sources

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China Story:

• China’s Publishing Industry: Past as a Mirror to the Present

• The Chinese Civil War: the peril of mobilization

Made in China Journal:

• Everyday Necro-Capitalism

• Revolution Offshore, Capitalism Onshore

China Media Project:

• State Media Post on Taliban Prompts Backlash

MacroPolo:

• Beijing’s Approach to Trustworthy AI Isn’t So Dissimilar from the World’s

• What If Chinese Leaders Were on LinkedIn?

War on the Rocks:

• A Thorough Explanation of China’s Long-Term Strategy

• Mind the Gap: How China’s Civilian Shipping Could Enable a Taiwan Invasion

• China’s Silos: New Intelligence, Old Problems

China Brief:

• Xinhua Infiltrates Western Electronic Media, Part 2: Relationships with News Agencies and Distribution Services

• Expanding China’s Central Asia Playbook to Afghanistan

• ‘Lips and Teeth’: The Enduring China-North Korea Relationship

• China’s New Biosecurity Law Gives Limited Insight into Government Priorities and Next Steps

Project Syndicate:

• What the Olympic Medal Count Says About China and America

• The US and China Are Not Destined for War

The Atlantic:

• The Experiment Podcast: A Uyghur Teen’s Life After Escaping Genocide

The Economist:

• In Sierra Leone, a Chinese port-building plan raises ire

• How Chinese factory-workers express their views on life

Monkey Cage:

• A Chinese airport project in Zanzibar floundered. Here’s what the new G-7 infrastructure plan can learn.

• Has Japan’s policy toward the Taiwan Strait changed?

Australian Financial Review:

• What the US and China can learn from their Olympic medals

Lowy Interpreter:

• China’s new silos: Nuclear arms control more urgent than ever

• Economic diplomacy: Burning down the house

East Asia Forum:

• Taiwan invasion doesn’t hang in the military balance

• Australia’s luck in handling Chinese trade coercion

• China’s quiet diplomacy behind the ‘wolf warriors’

• US–China rivalry needs more clarity and less polarity

• Beijing hasn’t sunk the Hong Kong financial ship yet

Pearls and Irritations:

• The China push for a cleaner and cooler planet

• The Dragon has been awakened!

Asialink:

• Is there more to the Olympic medal count than boasting rights?

The Strategist:

• China’s new nationalism problem

ChinaFile:

• Homage to Richard Nixon

Sixth Tone:

• How Manners Matter to Chinese Diplomat Fu Ying

• The Long, Lonely Struggle With a Schizophrenic Son

• Falling in Love With China’s Most Risqué — and Risky — Genre

• Plugging the Hole in China’s Disaster Recovery Budget

• A ‘Yellow Miracle’: How a Sprinter Became a Racial Icon

• China’s Master of Fireworks on the Art of the Explosion

• For China’s ‘Traffic Stars,’ a Sudden Crash

• The Nonbinary Chinese Fighting to Live Their Truth

• The Lasting Trauma of China’s Wenchuan Earthquake Survivors

China Digital Times:

• Is Getting Rich Still Glorious? Xi Targets Wealth Inequality

• Alibaba #MeToo Case Shines Light On Toxic Corporate Cultures

• Word of the Week: “Taliban in Spirit”

• The Historical Nihil-list: Cyberspace Administration Targets Top Ten Deviations From Approved History

• Translation: Pepper Tribe, Online Platform for Female Chinese Workers, Shut Down

• Petitioner Asked to Foot the Bill for Her Own “Stability Maintenance”

• Translation: Imaginary Friends and the Fruitless Search for Wilson Edwards

Quartz:

• China’s business operations in Africa may have a human rights problem

• China is policing speech that supports “living with Covid”

Inside Story:

• A dissident’s lament

Politico China Watcher:

• U.S. commitment to Taiwan under scrutiny after Afghanistan's fall

• Adm. Faller: China exploiting corruption in Latin America

Politico China Direct:

• Taliban dilemma — German model frenzy — Any trains to Lithuania?

The Wire China:

• What Happens to U.S. Colleges After China?

• The Dangers of Xi Jinping’s ‘Magic Swords’

• Special Delivery

• David Lubin on the Appeal of the ‘Beijing Consensus’

• Anta Goes All In On China

SupChina:

• Does ‘common prosperity’ mean the end of capitalism in China?

• Soul-searching in Taiwan after Afghan fiasco, but is it just ‘immature bedwetting’?

• Burning the British mission in Beijing

• China steps up antitrust campaign with new draft rules targeting internet companies

• Chengdu: A visual monologue

• Chinese history through the prism of its leaders

• ‘Not the outcome China wanted’: Why a Taliban-controlled Afghanistan makes Beijing anxious

• Calls intensify for a boycott of Beijing 2022

• As tattoo art flourishes, will China’s censors tighten their grip?

• The Chinese Money Behind Oatly?

• Drinking culture and sexual misconduct at Alibaba

• China affirms tech crackdown will continue with more regulations rolling out through 2025

• Barred from tutoring children, Chinese test-prep giant wants to educate parents

• Peter Martin on what makes China’s diplomats tick — and so ticked off

Center for Strategic and International Studies:

• The Gender Gap in China’s Belt and Road

Center for Advanced China Research:

• Party Watch Weekly Report 4|37 8.7.2021-8.13.2021

MERICS:

• Levelling the playing field in maritime shipping

• Angela Stanzel: "China’s interest in Afghanistan is to protect its border"

• China’s digital paradox

• Jane Duckett on China handling the pandemic

• Beijing increasingly tolerant of economic damage for political gain

• Briefing: Regulatory crackdown + Afghanistan + Delta outbreak

National Bureau of Asian Research:

• China’s Data Ambitions: Strategy, Emerging Technologies, and Implications for Democracies

Observer Research Foundation:

• Keeping an eye on China’s expanding nuclear stack

• How China aims to augment its military strength using AI

• Young Indians distrust China, Pakistan; rate pandemic, economy as big challenges

The Conversation:

• How the crisis in container ships could ruin Christmas

• Indonesia tries to embrace Chinese language but problems persist

• Australia is at risk of taking the wrong tack at the Glasgow climate talks, and slamming China is only part of it

• From ground zero to zero tolerance – how China learnt from its COVID response to quickly stamp out its latest outbreak

• As Afghanistan falls, what does it mean for the Middle East?

• The coal price has skyrocketed in 2021 – what does it mean for net zero?

The Diplomat:

• China’s Political Calculations and Potential Options in Afghanistan

• China’s Shipping Delays Are Costing African Economies

• How Should Australia Respond to China’s Arbitrary Detentions?

• How China and Japan are Competing Over Indonesia’s Car Industry

• China Blames US for Chaos in Afghanistan But Offers Cooperation Toward Stability

• In China, ‘Xi Jinping Thought’ Is the Only Accepted Religion

• China’s Digital Nationalism and Activism

• A New Way to Explain – and Predict – China’s Economic Policymaking

• The Taliban: China’s Deal With the Devil in Afghanistan

• Laos-China Railway on Track for December Opening: Official

• Chinese Media’s Conflicting Narratives on the Myanmar Coup

• A Visit to Pangong Lake

• Long-Range Conventional Precision Strike: Taiwan’s Post-Nuclear Deterrent?

• Water With Your Chips? Semiconductors and Water Scarcity in China

• What’s Behind Lithuania’s Outreach to Taiwan?

• China’s Insurtech Crackdown: Tech Saga Continues

• Japan’s Military Role in the Indo-Pacific

• What the Fall of Afghanistan Means for Taiwan

Foreign Policy:

• China Is the Biggest Winner From Africa’s New Free Trade Bloc

• China Won’t Repeat America’s Mistakes in Afghanistan

• China Is Protecting Its Thin Corridor to the Afghan Heartland

• China Is Repeating U.S. Mistakes With Its Own Global Arrogance

• Belarus and Hong Kong Are Building the 21st Century’s Berlin Walls

• Hong Kong’s Liberties Are Dying but Business Lives On

ThinkChina:

• 30,000 US troops in Taiwan?

• Beijing’s 'cleansing' of Hong Kong industries: Who will be the next target?

• Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou: Politics rather than law may decide her fate

• 'Afghanistan today, Taiwan tomorrow’?

• Japanese researcher: Japan-US-Taiwan lawmaker exchanges unavoidable now that China is a world power

• Inroads for China in a Taliban-led Afghanistan?

• A tall order: US policy effort in SEA amid rising Chinese influence

• Can the West's infrastructure plans rival China's BRI?

• Will the US’s ‘integrated deterrence’ keep China in check?

• Why China is regulating the property market

• Why no country can win the chip war

• More young and single Chinese women buying properties in China's top-tier cities

• Extreme weather could become the norm, but Chinese cities are not ready for it

• China's tutoring crackdown: It is not a random act by the Chinese government

• China’s tutoring crackdown: Is the Chinese government prepared for its consequences?

• Chinese economics professor: Why we should not profit from natural disasters

• Alibaba sexual assault case: China’s ugly drinking culture is a show of power

What's on Weibo:

• ‘Call Me By Fire’ All-Male Variety Show Becomes Social Media Hit

• “I Deeply Love My Motherland!” – Chinese Actor Zhang Zhehan Under Fire for Yasukuni and Nogi Shrine Photos

• Zhang Xifeng’s “Countryside Pig” Speech Still Lingers on Social Media

• China’s Crackdown on Tutoring Schools: Concerned Parents and Teachers on Weibo

ChinaTalk:

• Chairman Rabbit on the Tech and Education Crackdown

Pekingnology:

• Did 'the Wuhan lab' spend $606 mln on air conditioning/ventilation?

• Connecting some of the dots before Meituan sheds $60 bln in valuation

Tracking People's Daily:

• Xi Calls Iran & Iraq - China on Taliban's 'Positive Signals' - Wang 'Appreciates' Dasu Attack Probe - Xi Thought Series: Party Discipline & Caging Power - Gig-Economy Workers' Rights

• Common Prosperity & Financial Risks - Protecting Critical Information Infrastructure - Xi Thought Series: Loyal, Clean and Responsible Cadres & Formalism and Bureaucracy - NDU on Defense Modernisation

• New Xi Books - State Council on Covid, Disasters, Employment & Commodities - Wang Lectures Blinken - Demand-Supply Gap in Employment - Xi Thought Series: ‘low-level red’ & ‘high-level black'

• Party's Political Construction - Xi Thought Series Emphasises Party's Revolutionary Nature - Lei Feng Spirit - Yasukuni Shrine Controversy - US & COVID

• Xiaokang & Human Rights - Endorsing Pak Terror Attack Probe - Party & Rule of Law - Governing by Constitution vs Constitutionalism - Frontier Work Assessment - Heilongjiang Flood

• Rule of Law Guideline - SCS Commentary - Xi Thought on Socialist Rule of Law - Beijing's High-speed Test Zone for Autonomous Vehicles - XPCC Spirit - One-China Principle

Eye on China:

• Afghanistan Situation - Pak Terror Attack - Tech Incentives Rollback - Xi Thought Series - Russia-China Drills - Tibet - Rule of Law Guideline - Covid Disinformation - Wendy Sherman Meets Qin Gang

Beijing to Britain:

• NHS, Hong Kong, Vince Cable and Xinjiang recess roundup

China Dialogue:

• What China’s new guidelines on ‘green development’ mean for the Belt and Road

Hong Kong Free Press:

• Friends no more: how Hong Kong’s rulers turned against the protest group they once worked with

• The Tong Ying-kit case: First show trial of Hong Kong’s new mainland-style legal regime

• The main risk to the University of Hong Kong’s reputation is its own governing council

Taiwan Insight:

• A Geothermal Solution to the Problems and Risks in Taiwan’s Electricity System

• Zenly, Dumplings, and Bad Girls: surveillance and social work in Wanhua

• The Taiwan-Australia Partnership: An Observation

爱思想:

• 一分为四的美国

• 从延安整风到中共七大

• 气候变化“红色预警”呼唤人类自救

• 拜登对华战略中的对台政策∶战略定位与战略竞争

• “无名者”的出场

• 阿富汗是西方民主乌托邦主义的大失败

• 东京奥运会

• 数字经济如何创造实际价值

• 中国饮食史上的几次突破

• 中国和美国

• 冯涛的世界

• 准确把握国家统一进程中的三个基本概念

• 知识，如何才是力量

• 百年未有之大变局下的新结构经济学自主理论创

• 乡村振兴办，办啥？

• 中美竞争需要斗智斗勇不斗气

• 领导 老师 “同学”

• 《政学私言》中的钱穆法治思想及其当代意义

• 对母校的怀念

• 太平天国再评价——金田起义170周年之反思

《求是》

• 总结党的历史经验 加强党的政治建设

• 加强政治建设 确保全党步调一致向前进

• 深入学习贯彻习近平总书记“七一”重要讲话精神

• 自觉扛起把党建设得更加坚强有力的政治责任

• 坚定不移加强党的政治建设

• 党的政治建设是党的根本性建设

• 自觉担负起“两个维护”特殊使命和重大责任

• 在正风肃纪反腐实践中提高政治判断力、政治领悟力、政治执行力

• 在新征程上严肃认真开展党内政治生活

• 坚定不移加强党的政治监督

• 中国共产党为中华民族建立了伟大历史功勋

• 砥砺奋进七十载 继往开来谱新篇

• 坚守和弘扬全人类共同价值

• 中国共产党历史展览馆：展示中国共产党奋斗历史的精神殿堂

• 电视专题片《人民的小康》：全面建成小康社会的壮丽画卷

• “学习贯彻习近平总书记在庆祝中国共产党成立100周年大会上的重要讲话精神”理论研讨会综述

• 党员同志要主动回应群众期盼

• 经济社会发展统计图表：第七次全国人口普查京津冀、长江经济带、长江三角洲人口情况

• “七一勋章”获得者：“护海模范”王书茂

中央党史和文献研究院

• 人海茫茫，周围有谁是共产党员

• 毛泽东倡导长征精神的历史意义与现实启示

• 刘少奇的读书学习生涯

• 从三个论断理解马克思主义同中华优秀传统文化的关系

• 增强全面从严治党永远在路上的政治自觉

• 一切精神必源于人民、源于实践、源于斗争

• 伟大建党精神与中华民族伟大复兴

• 中国共产党的创建与中华民族伟大复兴

• 实现中华民族伟大复兴的正确道路（深入学习贯彻习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想）

• 杨明伟：共同富裕何以成为中国全面小康后的“中心课题”？

• 发扬抗美援朝精神 做有骨气的中国人

习近平系列重要讲话数据库

• 心手相牵，共筑雪域高原中国梦

• 在高质量发展中促进共同富裕 统筹做好重大金融风险防范化解工作

• 习近平同志《论把握新发展阶段、贯彻新发展理念、构建新发展格局》主要篇目介绍

• 习近平同志《论把握新发展阶段、贯彻新发展理念、构建新发展格局》出版发行

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