Digest: June 15-22, 2021

Issue 2021/17

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Issue: 2021/17

• Date range: June 15-22, 2021

• Sources scanned: 86

• Content: 222 publications from 54 sources

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Reading the China Dream:

• Sun Liping on the Third Child

• Sun Liping on Lying Flat

• Qian Liqun, "We Need the Village"

• Kang Xiaoguang and Wang Shaoguang on China's Third Sector

China Heritage:

• Other People’s Thoughts, XXIV

• A Love Letter to a Lost Hong Kong

Made in China Journal:

• Beijing from Below: A Conversation with Harriet Evans

China Media Project:

• Reaching China’s Gen Z Media Consumers

• Commanding the Mirror’s Reflection

War on the Rocks:

• China’s Atomic Pessimism and the Future of Arms Control

Lawfare:

• New Zealand’s Troubling Precedent for China Extradition

Foreign Affairs:

• China’s Economic Reckoning

• The Plot Against China?

• Washington’s Dangerous New Consensus on China

China Brief:

• The 2021 Party History Study Campaign Stresses Revolution and Sacrifice

• Looking Back on Short Flashes of Liberalization in the Chinese Communist Party’s 100 Years

• Military Political Work at the CCP’s Centennial

• Globalizing Leninist Institutions: Trends in Overseas Party Building

• Post-Reform Developments in Village and Neighborhood Party Building

Project Syndicate:

• China Needs Higher Inflation

• How Latin America Should Navigate US-China Tensions

The Atlantic:

• Modern China’s First Diplomats

The Economist:

• China and America are borrowing each other’s weapons

• Hong Kong’s liberal media are under pressure

• China’s climate sincerity is being put to the test

Monkey Cage:

• The G-7 wants to mobilize new global financing as an alternative to China’s multilateral push

Australian Financial Review:

• China seeks client states not ideological conquests

• Morrison was naked at the G7

• Anglosphere dreaming a drag on our defence 

• The world the G7 forgot about

Lowy Interpreter:

• Australia’s China politics heats up

East Asia Forum:

• The future of Hollywood–China relations after the pandemic

• The G7’s jumpstart for multilateral cooperation

Pearls and Irritations:

• Western media’s campaign to ignore the obvious

• How to engage with China

• Tiananmen Square “Massacre” is a difficult story to handle

• The Tiananmen Square massacre: the one sided story

• London reports on Hong Kong: politics undercut analysis

The Strategist:

• US has something to learn from China about securing rare earths

• China’s digital renminbi initiative is a network, not a currency

• The ambitions and reality of the Quad

• One hundred years of devastation

ChinaFile:

• Will I Return to China?

Sixth Tone:

• Chasing After My Father, a Cop Turned Suspect

• After 15 Years, He Found His Son. Now, a Father Counts the Cost.

• China’s Missing Women Revolutionaries

• Remembering Those Who Returned

• China Fantasizes About a ‘Low-Desire’ Life

China Digital Times:

• Hungarian Protestors Oppose Flagship Belt and Road Project, a Fudan University Satellite Campus

• Apple Daily to Shut Down Within Days, As HK Civil Society Further Collapses

• Translation: Gay, Transgender Children Still Being Sent to “Conversion Therapy”

• CEOs Feel The Pinch As Regulators Come Down On Big Tech

• Apple Daily’s Headquarters Raided, Executives Arrested, Computers Seized

• Concerns Over Taishan Nuclear Plant Highlight Official Secrecy

• China Plans New Rules to Curtail After-School Tutoring, Target Academic Pressure Amid Scandals

• Translation: Did COVID Begin in Italy? Debunking Fake News on WeChat

• China’s Top Officials Clash Over Environment and Economics

• China Exports Surveillance Systems for “Smart/Safe Cities”, Imports DNA Equipment Despite Export Controls

Quartz:

• A niche Chinese Gen Z meme is ringing alarm bells for Beijing

• Hong Kong is officially wielding its national security law against journalists

• Chinese investment in Europe hit a 10-year low in 2020

• Corporate wokeness keeps falling short when it comes to China

• What we now know about the efficacy of China’s Covid-19 vaccines

• China reacts to the conclusions of the NATO summit

• China is intensifying efforts to check the “chaotic” power of online celebrity fan clubs

• What we know about safety concerns at a Chinese nuclear power plant

Politico China Watcher:

• Biden and EU allies create tough week for China

Politico China Direct:

• ‘Intellectually challenged’ EU — Jets and nukes — Draghi’s double act

Protocol | China:

• Chinese tech workers have had enough

The Wire China:

• Lenovo’s Legendary Reach

• Scott Rozelle on China’s Rural Problem

• The Chinese Communist Party at 100

• China’s Wolfpack

• China’s Trademark Push

• Huffing and Puffing

SupChina:

• China’s private cryptocurrency sector effectively quashed after Sichuan mining ban, bank trading blocks

• Used electronics marketplace Aihuishou lists on NYSE

• Tsinghua design school accused of internalized racism for accentuating Chinese models’ slanted eyes at runway show

• Zhao Benshan and the fine line between entertainment, business, and politics in China

• Rejuvenated China national soccer team onto next stage of World Cup qualifying

• Outcry over ‘chilling’ effect of Hong Kong media arrests for ‘foreign collusion’

• All the drone companies in China — a guide to the 22 top players in the Chinese UAV industry

• Shanghai art museum slammed for showing video ranking thousands of women by attractiveness

• ‘Wet Season’: A rain-soaked search for love and belonging

• Three Chinese astronauts dock at China’s new space station for three-month stay

• China’s state broadcaster isn’t keen on cleavage

• Bishan, revisited: Lessons from a ‘rural utopia’ in central China

• Nuclear power plant near Hong Kong appears safe after reports of radiation leak

• China creates dedicated department to regulate private tutoring industry

• Journey to the West

• The profound legacy of China’s Whampoa Military Academy

• The politicalization of COVID vaccines in Taiwan

Congressional Research Service:

• IF11582| Section 301: Tariff Exclusions on U.S. Imports from China

Center for Strategic and International Studies:

• The Changing Nature and Implications of Russian Military Transfers to China

• China’s Third Aircraft Carrier Takes Shape

Center for Advanced China Research:

• Party Watch Weekly Report 4|31 6.12.2021-6.18.2021

MERICS:

• Swiss-China relations: testing times lie ahead

• Competing with China's Belt and Road Initiative

• MERICS Global China Inc. Tracker

• EU-China Weekly Review: International summits focus on China + Beijing's anti-sanctions law

• Chinese FDI in Europe: 2020 Update

• The CCP's next century: expanding economic control, digital governance and national security

• MERICS Web Seminar: Presenting the latest MERICS Paper on China

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace:

• Chinese-Russian Defense Cooperation Is More Flash Than Bang

• Judy Asks: Is NATO Ready for China?

Rhodium Group:

• Chinese FDI in Europe - 2020 Update

Australia-China Relations Institute:

• UTS:ACRI/BIDA Poll 2021: Australian views on the Australia-China relationship

Observer Research Foundation:

• China’s 2021 White Paper on Tibet: Implications for India’s China Strategy

• Communist Inc: The Pandemic and China’s World

• BRICS Academic Dialogue on international security

• Is India the New China in Africa?

The Conversation:

• What are the Sinopharm and Sinovac vaccines? And how effective are they? Two experts explain

• China’s efforts to save its wandering elephants are laudable, but let’s not forget its bloody conflicts with the giants

• China and the west: competing traditions make true friendship highly unlikely – here’s why

• Areas in Africa with more Chinese-backed projects were more likely to experience protests

The Diplomat:

• China’s Steady Space Progress Takes Another Leap

• Chinese Crew Enters New Space Station on 3-month Mission

• Poll Shows Increasing Transatlantic Convergence on China

• China Says Nuclear Fuel Rods Damaged, No Radiation Leak

• China’s Role in Cameroon’s Risk of Debt Distress 

• China’s Afghanistan Challenge and the Central Asian Dilemma 

• India and China, One Year After the Galwan Clash

• China-Backed SEZs Linked to Southeast Asia’s Illegal Wildlife Trade

• China’s Repression of the Hui: A Slow Boil

• What the G-7 Summit in Cornwall Means for Asia

• Is Nepal Now Courting India and Ignoring China?

• The EU’s Stake in the Taiwan Strait Issue

• Taiwan Under Fire for Racist Policies Toward Southeast Asian Workers

Foreign Policy:

• Demands for a Lab Leak Investigation Are a Dangerous Distraction

• Is India the New China in Africa?

• Biden’s Worried About Ukraine’s China Fling

ThinkChina:

• New breed of American China experts see China with a colder eye

• US-China relations: Can we pin our hopes on future generations?

• Guangdong nuclear power plant incident: Making a mountain out of a molehill?

• Why Beijing offered to help raise the sunken Indonesian submarine Nanggala

• Is Indonesia's foreign policy tilting towards Beijing?

• Will the Taiwan Strait issue be internationalised under Biden?

• US-China competition in climate cooperation a good thing for Southeast Asia

• Chinese companies see ASEAN as a bright spot for investment

• Shifting supply chains from China to Southeast Asia is hard but necessary

• China’s central bank digital currency (CBDC) innovations

• How China took the lead in the digital currency race

• Chinese academic: Developing nations must be wary of internet platform companies and their capital

• Dual circulation strategy revisited: China deepens integration with the global economy

• Will e-CNY spur the internationalisation of the RMB?

• Will the US be left out of China’s space station projects?

• Chinese economics professor: How I fell for a scam

• Taiwanese youth: Taiwan not the 'most dangerous place on earth'

• Why Chinese women are unwilling to give birth

• China’s demographic crisis: The farmers should have a say

What's on Weibo:

• Shouqi Ride-Hailing Incident: Hangzhou Female Passenger Jumps from Moving Car

• Digital Art or Visual Propaganda? China’s New Wave of Online Political Satire

• Billionaire Bachelor Wang Sicong’s Desperate Unrequited Love Drama Exposed Online

• “There’s a Cockroach in My Hotpot” – ‘Pengci’ Tries to Scam Haidilao Restaurant

Chaoyang Trap House:

• S01 Episode 8: (Chinese) Dudes Rock

Pekingnology:

• Jin Liqun, President of AIIB, speaks on AIIB, India, Belt & Road, Coal Financing, Bretton W…

Beijing Channel:

• Why doesn't China have allies?

Tracking People's Daily:

• Fingertip Formalism - FDI Remains Strong - European Business Confidence in China - Ties with DPRK - Emphasising Performance Legitimacy & Party's 'Spiritual Bloodline'

• Xi's Museum Visit & the Red Bloodline - Pakistani Parties Congratulate CCP - State Council's Grain Subsidies - Building Low-Cost Rental Housing - Party Committees in Enterprises

• Party Regulations in Xi's Era - May Economic Data - Rule of Law Propaganda Plan - ASEAN Defense Ministers Plus Meeting - Criticising 'small circles' & 'group politics' & Technology Self-Reliance

• Xi's Article on History in Qiushi - Sri Lankan Parties Celebrate CCP Centenary - Normalising the Fight against Gangs - Technology Self-reliance - G7, NATO & More

• Protecting Rights & Interests of Military Personnel a 'Major Measure' - Achieving Technology Self-reliance - Zhong Sheng Commentary on US-Taiwan Vaccine Diplomacy

The India China Newsletter:

• One year after: How Galwan Valley changed India's relations with China

Eye on China:

• Galwan, LAC Talks & Build-up - Xi's History & Xi's Party - May Economic Data - G7, NATO & 'Small Cliques' - US Indo-Pacific Posture - Apple Daily - Arab Perceptions - Influence in Sri Lanka & Pakistan

Takshashila PLA Insight:

• China's Nuclear Forces; China-India Brief; Taiwan; The South China Sea; Change in China's Military Strategy; PLA RF night exercises

Beijing to Britain:

• New British Bank, Hong Kong, NATO

China Dialogue:

• Analysis: How does China’s Southern Grid facilitate more clean energy consumption?

Taiwan Insight:

• Taiwan with a Side of New Public Diplomacy

• Is Taiwanese society ready to face a belligerent China?

• Reinscribing Taiwanese Americans into Transpacific History

• The Overseas Taiwanese Student Movement and Its Impact on Post-Sunflower Movement Politics

• “We Are Not Puppies, We Are Who We Are”: A Voice from the Indigenous Taiwanese Diaspora

• “Going to America”: An overview on Taiwanese Migration to the US

爱思想:

• “无为躺平，绝仁弃义”

• 重启共和

• 杨振宁和我

• 与其躺而不平，不如佛系人生

• 怎样写好文章

• 公民审查建议、宪法实施与社会主义民主

• 中国城市治理创新的若干重要问题——基于特大型城市的思考

• 动荡世界中的中美日安全关系辨析

• 权利滥用、权利边界与比例原则——从《民法典》第132条切入

• 命运、行动与文明——对中华文化其命惟新观念的新阐释

• 史学已出现合法性危机

• 万米随想

• 人民民主——四维一体

• 对于二十一世纪中国文化建构的思考

• 以新型周边关系应对中国边境安全的新挑战

• 新中国成立七十年来正确经济发展路径的溯源与选择

• 语文老师为何要多读书，应该如何读书？

• 现代日本与冲绳

• 中国共产党与中国历史道路的选择

• 如何再造村社集体

《求是》

• 以史为镜、以史明志　知史爱党、知史爱国

• 以史鉴今 砥砺前行

• 学史明理 明理悟道

• 以史明志，吹响新征程的嘹亮号角

• 用马克思主义之箭射中国革命之的

• 第一个百年奋斗目标即将实现

• 人民的小康

• 开启社会保障事业高质量发展新征程

• 为全面建成小康社会提供水利支撑

• 努力绘就高水平全面小康的“苏州画卷”

• 一条热线撬动的“治理革命”

• 愿将此生长报国

• 开卷有所求 掩卷有所获

• 从百年党史中汲取道德滋养

• 经济社会发展统计图表：第七次全国人口普查东中西部和东北地区人口情况

中国现代国际关系研究院

• 大变局下的全球海洋治理与中国

中央党史和文献研究院

• 学习《陈云年谱》，继承发扬老一辈革命家崇高风范

• 从《邓小平年谱》中汲取政治智慧

• 中国共产党开展党史学习教育的历史考察与经验启示

• 社会主义根本任务是解放和发展生产力

• 赓续共产党人精神血脉（思想纵横）

• 深入把握脱贫攻坚精神的内涵

• 党史和文献工作是党的事业重要组成部分

• 中国共产党与中华民族伟大复兴

• 百年大党的奋斗探索及启示

• 在推动高质量发展过程中增进民生福祉

习近平系列重要讲话数据库

• 习近平给北京大学的留学生们回信

• 铭记奋斗历程担当历史使命 从党的奋斗历史中汲取前进力量

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