Digest: May 25 - June 1, 2021

Issue 2021/14

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Issue: 2021/14

• Date range: May 25 - June 1, 2021

• Sources scanned: 86

• Content: 242 publications from 48 sources

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Made in China Journal:

• Going Global: The International Endeavours of Chinese NGOs

• The Cultural Politics of National Tragedies and Personal Sacrifice

China Media Project:

• Three-Child Policy Spawns Ridicule

• Slogans for Self-Reliance

• Speculating on the Party’s Centennial

• Unnatural Causes

MacroPolo:

• When Cars Become Computers: The New Data Challenge for EV Companies 

Foreign Affairs:

• China’s Inconvenient Truth

Project Syndicate:

• China’s One-Way Diplomacy

The Economist:

• China allows its citizens to have a third child

• China’s revealing Afghan strategy

• Education in China is becoming increasingly unfair to the poor

• China wants to curb an old custom: the hazing of wedding couples

Australian Financial Review:

• Heavy-handed laws are stigmatising foreign contact

• Carping about Port of Darwin sends anti-investment message

Lowy Interpreter:

• China’s never-ending Tibet paranoia

• Is Southeast Asia ready for a US-China tech decoupling?

• Myanmar is not the next Syria

East Asia Forum:

• Is China angling for a Saudi–Iranian detente?

• Chinese supply chains prove resilient to global shocks and pressure

Pearls and Irritations:

• Arbitrary detention in China: The case of Yang Hengjun

• The rejected murder suspect and the Taiwan Government’s lack of interest in the Rule of Law.

Asialink:

• Fighting COVID-19: China's soft power opportunities in mainland Southeast Asia

The Strategist:

• Ardern–Morrison meeting about the Pacific, not China policy shenanigans

• Biden review puts world one step closer to finding out what happened in Wuhan

• From the bookshelf: ‘2034: A novel of the next world war’

• Nations concerned about injustice in China must not bow to Beijing’s coercion

• Australia’s dangerously inadequate Taiwan policy debate

Sixth Tone:

• How China Made Tintin Less Racist

• Reenacting Her Mother’s Final Days, a Director Found Solace

• How Yunnan Is Helping Train the Next Generation of Indian Doctors

• ‘Respect Money’: How a Chinese Talent Show Put Its Fans Up for Sale

• Can Naturalized Athletes Save China’s Sporting Dreams?

• Crazy Stones: The Chinese Gamblers Betting Millions on Rocks

• Can C-Dramas Find an Audience in Africa?

• The Big Problems Facing China’s Small Fisheries

• For Young Chinese, 2021 Is the Year of the Digital Nomad

• In ‘Involuted’ China, Eating Disorders Are a Hidden Epidemic

China Digital Times:

• BTS, Bieber, and Gaga Censored From Friends Reunion; Cena Apologizes to Avoid Similar Fate

• After Ultramarathon Deaths, Insiders Suggest Tragedy Was Inevitable

• Diplomats Barred From Trial of Australian Writer Yang Hengjun

• Translation: “Spring Blossoms, Autumn Winds”—Analysis of Weibo Replies to Li Wenliang

• Translation: “Spring Blossoms, Autumn Winds”—Analysis of Weibo Replies to Li Wenliang

• Hong Kong Lays Groundwork for “Fake News” Law

• Translation: “I Hope That This Cry is Loud Enough,” by Xianzi

Quartz:

• “Never give up:” A Hong Kong boy band has emerged as the voice of a city under crackdown

• “We can’t afford it”: Chinese internet users have rejected Beijing’s new three-child policy

• Soaring commodity prices are bringing a Chinese lithium giant back from the brink

• HKEX is key to China’s plan to internationalize its economy

• Thousands have joined Hong Kong’s national security law exodus to the UK

• China is setting up special economical wedding zones

• China’s crackdown on bitcoin mining is getting real

• Hong Kongers are using blockchain archives to fight government censorship

Politico China Watcher:

• China could soon outgun the U.S.

Politico China Direct:

• Superpowers in town — Lithuanian lions — British dependencies

Protocol | China:

• I'm a delivery worker. My job is better than you think.

• Will China remain crypto miner to the world?

The Wire China:

• Tom Tugendhat on Why China Moved Too Early

• Broken Bonds

• Backroom Dealings

• Sporting Chinese Clothes

• China Must Embrace Remote Work

• The Competition Conundrum

SupChina:

• China ease past minnows Guam as World Cup qualifying resumes

• Hong Kong political crackdown continues with more prison time for pro-democracy activists, second Tiananmen vigil ban

• Changsha officials give preferential hiring treatment to male teachers because Chinese boys are ‘too effeminate’!

• Shanghairen

• In Taiwan, a law meant to empower the indigenous is put to the test

• Taiwan accuses China of blocking Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine supply

• The ‘Friends’ reunion airs in China — without Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber, and BTS

• Searching for belonging

• American students at Chinese universities adapt to pandemic fallout

• Chinese government pushes to finance family farms and other rural ventures

• Escaped circus tigers shot dead in Henan after killing handler

• When China’s Nationalist government lost Shanghai

• Scientists reconsider accidental lab leak theory as COVID-19 origins remain unclear

• Dispatch from Shenzhen: China’s booming drone industry

• John Cena wants Chinese fans to forgive his Taiwan blunder and go watch his new movie

Center for Strategic and International Studies:

• Beyond Polysilicon: The Ties between China’s GCL-Poly and the United States

• New Senate China Bill Needs a Credible Latin American Dimension

MERICS:

• China’s legislature edges closer to finalizing data privacy regime

• Huawei's global troubles spur Beijing’s push for self-reliance

• Data Privacy - Cybersecurity in cars - 2021 R&D priorities

• China wades into the Israel-Palestine conflict once more

• MERICS China Security and Risk Tracker

• EU beefs up ability to compete ahead of international discussions on rules

• Dual-use export controls – Beijing’s “genuine” multilateralism – China’s recruitment of researchers in Denmark

Chatham House:

• Why Western policies cannot change the Russia-China relationship

• Rethinking German policy towards China

Observer Research Foundation:

• A Chinese-built port in the Indian Ocean: The story of Kenya’s Lamu port

• Delhi-Colombo-Beijing triangle undergoes another shift

• Twin fears for India over the Colombo Port City

• Lessons in friendship: Explaining 70 years of China-Pakistan relations

• China’s PLA upgrades its forces along the disputed border with India

• Catalysts for China’s miracle growth: Rapid urbanisation, integrated city planning

The Conversation:

• As Morrison and Ardern meet, differences of opinion give way to the enduring close relationship

• Destination Moon: is it time for us to send astronauts back?

• As Australian-Chinese writer Yang Hengjun’s trial begins, his prospects remain bleak

The Diplomat:

• Climate Change Will Worsen the India-China Rivalry – But There’s a Better Way Forward

• A European FTA With India Is Not a Counterweight to China

• What Do Chinese People Think Is Happening in Xinjiang?

• How Will the Chinese Communist Party Withstand Increasing Calls for COVID-19 Pandemic Accountability?

• Do Chinese Infrastructure Loans Promote Business Startups in African Countries?

• Why China Is Not on Track For Financial Superpower Status

• What Han Dynasty China’s Financial Relations With Rome Can Teach Us Today

• Yang Jiechi’s Overlooked Visits to Slovenia and Croatia

• China’s PLA Upgrades Its Forces Along Disputed Border With India

• US, China Trade Officials Finally Talk

• The Gulf Between Chinese and Vietnamese Alliance Policies

• Biden Asks US Intel Officials to Investigate COVID-19 Origin

• How Will China Respond to Rising Inflation?

• The Secret Behind the Chinese Communist Party’s Perseverance

• Why a Taiwan Invasion Would Look Nothing Like D-Day

• How China Is Losing Europe

• Official Hints at Challenges for Chinese Businesses in Uzbekistan

• Can China’s Israel-Palestine Peace Plan Work?

• Assessing 70 Years of China’s PLA Air Force

• The US Must Defend Taiwan – From COVID-19

• Taiwan Confronts COVID-19 Outbreak, Accuses China of Blocking Vaccines

• Time for a ‘Semi-Quad’ Alliance

Foreign Policy:

• Can Biden Keep the Peace in Southeast Asia?

• Wolf Warriors Killed China’s Grand Strategy

• A Quiet Sentence Gives South Korea Back Its ‘Missile Sovereignty’

• Understanding China Is Getting Harder Every Month

• Beijing Is Trolling Biden Over Gaza

• Southeast Asia Had COVID-19 Under Control. What Went Wrong?

• Biden Is Continuing the Trump Administration’s Revised Stance on Tibet

ThinkChina:

• When will the CCP stop being an ‘underground party’ in Hong Kong?

• Hong Kong-Taiwan relations take a nosedive as cross-strait relations worsen

• US academic: Is Japan a true and loyal US ally?

• Is the China-EU investment deal doomed?

• Philippine-US cooperation on Whitsun Reef: A 'win' for the Biden team in Southeast Asia?

• China's peaceful rise has to start in Hong Kong 

• Uniquely New Zealand: How NZ maintains integrity amid great power rivalry

• Rich China tycoons park family offices in Singapore

• Faced with a shortage of water, electricity and vaccines, can Taiwan still deliver the chips?

• Mobile gaming: The cash cow of China’s mobile phone industry

• [Photo story] The many faces of Shanghai over a hundred years

• Shanghai can learn from Tokyo’s train service excellence

• Lessons for China: The powerful position of the Japanese farming industry

• A burning issue among Chinese youths: How to escape the rat race?

• Americans should not oversimplify China into a few sensitive issues

• Chinese economics professor: Why we exchange gifts, from ancient China to the present

National People's Congress Observer:

• Recording & Review: Removing the Vestiges of the One-Child Policy

• NPC Calendar: June 2021

• NPCSC Session Watch: Data Security, Legal Aid, Workplace Safety, Vocational Education & More

What's on Weibo:

• China’s ‘Three Child Era’ Announcement Is Met with Banter and Backlash on Weibo

• “Before I Met Him” – Unhappy Marriage Post Goes Viral on Weibo

• Cracking Down on ‘Unhealthy’ Wedding Customs: Xiong’an New Area Launches Wedding Reform Experiment

Chaoyang Trap House:

• S01 Episode 7: The Little Red Lookbook / Wikipedia Weirdness

ChinaTalk:

• Year in Review

Pekingnology:

• "Rapid appreciation of the RMB is not sustainable"

Beijing Channel:

• China’s global media strategy: Xuanchuan ≠ Propaganda

Tracking People's Daily:

• Three-Child Policy - Xi & Kids - Lab-Leak Theory as 'Nonsense' - China's Human Rights Discourse

• Xi ≈ Mao - Yan'an Spirit - Li's Green Development Pitch - Wang's European Diplomacy

• Xi's Rule of Law Thought - 'Inhumane' American Democracy - Red Footprints & the 'Two Musts' - Carbon Peak Leading Group Meeting - China-US Trade Talks

• Xi's Calls Nepal, Spain & Montenegro - Li on Supporting MSEs - US Democracy & Inequality - CPEC - Backing Reform & Opening Up

• Four Histories Propaganda, One-China Principle, Yimeng Spirit & China-model Promotion

• Xi's Diplomacy, Zhao Kezhi on Defending 'the Core', Rekindling the Lei Feng Spirit, & the CCP Rule as 'Historical Inevitability'

The India China Newsletter:

• How effective are China's vaccines, the dark side of India's iron ore exports, and Xi’s mes…

• Decoupling 'contradictions', lab-leak investigations, and the art of apology

Eye on China:

• Quad & Containment - Xi's Tech Vision - Guangzhou Outbreak - Vaccine Diplomacy in South Asia - Covid Origins - Xi's Inner Circle - HK Electoral System - Defending the Core - Cena Taps Out

Takshashila PLA Insight:

• The PLA Insight: Issue No 100

Beijing to Britain:

• HSBC, Naval speeches, Swires and Jardines

China Dialogue:

• China’s national ETS needs high-level political support to succeed

Lausan:

• The periphery has no time for binaries

Hong Kong Free Press:

• Eye of the storm: Hong Kong protester shot in the eye not blind enough for some people

• Why the ‘race’ to be Hong Kong’s next chief will be a collective slap in the face for people of the city

• Don’t trust the science or don’t trust the gov’t? Why many Hongkongers are shunning Covid vaccination

• How China is sweeping up its own social media mess

Taiwan Insight:

• Challenges for Taiwan’s Defence & Economic Security and its Required Efforts To Ensuring a Sustainable Peace

• Cutting Through the Fog of War in the Taiwan Strait

• Biden & Taiwan: Advancing a Flexible US One China Policy

• Idealization and Fearmongering Opposite Sides of the Same Coin for International Media Reporting on Taiwan

• Taiwan: The unsinkable Aircraft Carrier sails again?

• Taiwan Deserves Its Rightful Place Under the Sun

中国：历史与未来:

• 中国“一孩化”生育政策的来由及其失败

爱思想:

• 美国新生代“中国通”对华认知及其影响

• 大分化时代，中国怎么办？

• 中国金融的三大挑战与变革之道

• 复仇的火焰

• 钓鱼岛主权争议与保钓前途

• 从琉球·冲绳的角度审视钓鱼岛问题——对日本殖民主义的质疑

• 谁才有资格自豪地说，“我们人民”！

• 儒家自由主义辨析

• 老龄化倒逼社保深度改革

• 民法典对宪法秩序建构的回应及其反思

• 义乌发展的人文考察与启迪

• 现代人学佛的三大警觉

• 真正的市场

• 在中国科学院第二十次院士大会、中国工程院第十五次院士大会、中国科协第十次全国代表大会上的讲话

• 谨防"意外事故"引发中美战略危机

• 政策何以落地与蔓延到乡镇的官僚主义

• 七拐八拐就拐向了北大

• “斯密定理”与“吉本命题”——200年后看国家兴衰基本逻辑的“异见”

• 美俄“新冷战”何以必然？

• 养老保险应采取分段统筹，以保障参保人权益，促进劳动力自由流动

《求是》

• 学好“四史” 永葆初心、永担使命

• 坚定不移听党话跟党走

• 把握历史大势 掌握历史主动

• 从新中国史中汲取继续前进的智慧和力量

• 改革不停顿 开放不止步

• 学习社会主义发展史 不断坚定“四个自信”

• 旗帜鲜明讲政治、保证党的团结和集中统一是党的生命

• 站在历史的深厚基础上更加坚定地走向未来

• 以首善标准书写革命文物保护利用新篇章

• 从党的光辉历史中汲取砥砺奋进的精神力量

• 深化粤港澳合作 推进大湾区建设

• 携手港澳打造国际一流湾区和世界级城市群

• 新征程上文艺工作的光辉指南

• 真理之光绽放

• 让青春在不懈奋斗中绽放绚丽之花

• 在新征程上传承星火赓续血脉

• 经济社会发展统计图表：2021年1—4月国民经济主要指标

• 党的七大确立毛泽东思想为党的指导思想

中央党史和文献研究院

• 被誉为“工人阶级的圣经”的著作，是如何在白色恐怖下翻译出版的？

• 从《刘少奇年谱》中学习领袖风范

• 百年党史视野下的中国共产党理论创新

• 战略视角中的中共百年奋斗历程——中国共产党战略思维中的天时、地利、人和

• 中国工运史上的光辉篇章——水口山工人运动

• 一届全国人大华侨代表的选举产生和建言献策

• 旗帜鲜明坚持以马克思主义为指导

• 把握历史大势 掌握历史主动

• 站在历史的深厚基础上更加坚定地走向未来

• 党的建设：中国革命胜利的“主体法宝”

• 大党 大样 大道

• 江山就是人民，人民就是江山（人民观点）

• 中国人民和中华民族发展史上一次伟大革命

• 在党的历史经验中把握历史规律

• 历史和人民的正确选择

• 中国革命建设改革的强大思想武器

习近平系列重要讲话数据库

• 中共中央政治局召开会议

• 结合自身成长实际学好党史 从小坚定听党话跟党走的决心

• 习近平与少年儿童的故事

• 学好“四史”，永葆初心、永担使命

• 在中国科学院第二十次院士大会、中国工程院第十五次院士大会、中国科协第十次全国代表大会上的讲话

• 两院院士大会中国科协第十次全国代表大会在京召开

• 习近平：在中国科学院第二十次院士大会、中国工程院第十五次院士大会、中国科协第十次全国代表大会上的讲话

• 两院院士大会中国科协第十次全国代表大会在京召开 习近平发表重要讲话

• 更好展示真实立体全面的中国 为促进中国和世界交流沟通作出新的贡献

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