Digest: July 15-22, 2021

Issue: 2021/21

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Issue: 2021/21

• Date range: July 15-22, 2021

• Sources scanned: 86

• Content: 252 publications from 49 sources

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FULL LIST

China Story:

• China and the Quad countries: A decade of bilateral relations

Made in China Journal:

• The Work of Culture

• Then and Now

• The Yirenping Experience: Looking Back and Pushing Forward

• From Green Shoots to Crushed Petals: Labour NGOs in China

• China’s Human Rights Lawyers: Rifts and Schisms in an Era of Global Human Rights Backlash

• Unfinished Revolution: An Overview of Three Decades of LGBT Activism in China

• Humility in the Pursuit of Tacit Knowledge: Public-Benefit Work in Poverty Alleviation and Rural Development

• Pioneers and Possibilities: Reflecting on Chinese NGO Development through Oral History

• Is China’s Belt and Road Initiative Slowing Down?

• Will There Be a Civil Society in the Xi Jinping Era? Advocacy and Non-Profit Organising in the New Regime

• Railroaded: The Financial Politics and the Labour Puzzle of Global China

China Media Project:

• Trapped

• As Disaster Strikes, Xi Takes the Headlines

• Seeking China’s New Narratives

Lawfare:

• Will China Retaliate Against U.S. Chip Sanctions?

• After Didi Fiasco, China Imposes Cybersecurity Reviews on Foreign IPOs

• Hong Kong’s National Security Law and the Right to a Fair Trial: Mission Impossible?

Foreign Affairs:

• China’s Looming Succession Crisis

China Brief:

• Rapidly Implementing a Chinese Data Security Regime

• Expanding and Escalating the China-Bhutan Territorial Dispute

• The PLA’s Critical Assessment of the Agile Combat Employment Concept

• Implications of 2020 and 2021 Chinese Domestic Legislative Moves in the South China Sea

• Ramping the Strait: Quick and Dirty Solutions to Boost Amphibious Lift

Project Syndicate:

• What if America Delists Chinese Firms?

The Atlantic:

• The Experiment Podcast: Americans Kept Getting Seeds in the Mail From China Last Year. We Finally Know Why.

The Economist:

• Academics in Hong Kong suffer curbs on their freedoms

• China is keeping its borders closed, and turning inward

• In China’s publishing business, you have to duck and dive

• How nationalism is making life harder for gay people in China

Australian Financial Review:

• Australia buying Digicel hits two birds with one stone

Lowy Interpreter:

• US-China rivalries: What matters for ASEAN

East Asia Forum:

• Clarifying US commitments to Taiwan

• Stumbling blocks to ASEAN-China smart city cooperation

• Is non-alignment making a comeback in Asia?

• What lies between China’s nationalism and growth?

Pearls and Irritations:

• After a century of achievements, the CPC’s next critical phase begins now

• A Flight with Henry Kissinger to Beijing that Changed the World

• The Afghanistan failure is history repeating itself but there may be profound consequences.

• The CCP’s greatest strength is “Self-Reinvention”

• Boris sends naval fleet to revive British colonialism on the Chinese coast

• Did China buy Cambridge?

• Rule of law in Hong Kong: Judicial safety and foreign hypocrites

Asialink:

• What China’s Australia poll tells Aussie businesses about the Mainland Chinese market

The Strategist:

• Why is Australia talking about going back to Afghanistan when we only just left?

• Can Beijing avoid being drawn into the Afghan quagmire?

• Chinese state-backed hacking: time to level the playing field and breach the Great Firewall

ChinaFile:

• Making Sense of Support for Donald Trump in China

Sixth Tone:

• Peter Hessler’s Last Class

• Crammer vs. Crammer: Notes from a Civil Service Crash Course

• Inside Aranya, China’s Exclusionary Paradise

• Is This the End For China’s American Education Craze?

• The New-Style Family Values Underpinning the ‘China Dream’

• The Snake in China’s Literary Garden

• How the Chili Pepper Conquered China

• The Biggest Losers From China’s Aging Crisis? Millennials.

• From Inner Mongolia, a Stark Vision of Our Environmental Sins

China Digital Times:

• From the Lexicon: Milk Tea Alliance

• Translation: The Curse of the Security Check

• Translation: One Nationalist Fang Fang Hater’s “Coming of Age”

• Translation: “Getting Used to Keeping Quiet” in Face of Nationalist Aggression

Quartz:

• A legendary Chinese dissident blogger has suddenly fallen silent

• Why Hong Kong’s proposed doxxing law alarms Google and Facebook

• China’s new carbon market isn’t designed to fix climate change

• How to know you’re the target of Chinese state-sponsored hackers, according to US intelligence

• The face of global luxury brands in China is at the heart of a #MeToo storm

• China’s rare earth hub is rolling out massive subsidies to fix the industry’s Achilles heel

Politico China Watcher:

• Hong Kong refugee hopes are no match for U.S. bureaucracy

• ‘Get off our duff’: In race to outer space, China is closing fast

Politico China Direct:

• EU’s mixed messaging — First Assad, next Wendy — Deadly flood

• From Kabul to Kyiv — Buying war games — Forced labor reminder

The Wire China:

• Who Is 5Y Capital?

• Farewell to a Community of Common Destiny?

• Zuoyue Wang on the History of Chinese Students at U.S. Universities

• Made In China — By Machines

• The Sponge Revolution

SupChina:

• China’s complicated relationship with LGBTQ+ rights

• America’s second most senior diplomat heads to Tianjin, the Chinese capital’s satellite city

• Tech companies donate a billion yuan as Zhengzhou grapples with flood damage

• Beijing Lights: ‘I feel excited about the new beginning’

• The Manchu queue: One hairstyle to rule them all

• Passengers trapped in Zhengzhou subway as floodwaters rise

• A real Karen decided that congee needed a ‘modern adaptation’ for Western palate

• China and the Arab League publish joint statement that showcases Beijing’s growing geopolitical ambitions

• The China-Australia trade war is hurting Mongolia’s environment

• Advertisers flee mega pop star Kris Wu over allegations of predatory behavior

• U.S. and allies accuse China of ‘malicious cyber activity,’ including Microsoft Exchange hack

• China at the Tokyo Olympics: What to watch for

• Beijing demands Hong Kong build ‘iron wall’ of national security as Washington warns businesses of political risk

• What the Didi fiasco reveals about China’s fealty to markets

• Chinese father faces murder charges in the deaths of his two young children

• China’s left-behind villages and the people in them

• The world’s largest carbon market is finally about to start trading in China

• Chinese influencer’s death after liposuction highlights dangers of plastic surgery

• Why the U.S. should avoid ideological competition with China

• Retracing the Long March: Arriving at the revolutionary capital

Congressional Research Service:

• IN11469| U.S. Challenges to China’s Farm Policies

Center for Advanced China Research:

• Party Watch Weekly Report 4|33 6.26.2021-7.16.2021

MERICS:

• GDP growth slows and finds solid footing

• China’s economy performed well in Q2 though slower growth triggered policy responses

• EU-China Weekly Review: Cyber attacks + Merkel meets Biden + EU Parliament endorses new report

• UK-China relations as viewed by Chinese think tanks and academics: Cautious optimism remains

• Alternatives to China’s tech authoritarianism a priority for transatlantic action

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace:

• What Makes This Attribution of Chinese Hacking Different

• Have Friendly Malaysia-China Relations Gone Awry?

Brookings Institution:

• The EU-US Tech Council shouldn’t just focus on China

Chatham House:

• South Korean foreign policy innovation amid Sino-US rivalry

Australia-China Relations Institute:

• Perspectives | An Australian perspective on the People’s Republic of China’s national emissions trading scheme

• Perspectives | Implications of the new wave of nationalism in the People’s Republic of China for Australian companies

Observer Research Foundation:

• Can China’s ‘new urban strategy’ save its cities from the looming climate crisis?

• On China, the end of delusion and persistence of stalemate

• China-India Foreign Ministers Meet in Dushanbe

• Xi Jinping is about to make the most important strategic decision of our era

• The beating heart of the Indo-Pacific strategy is the South China Sea

The Conversation:

• Japan signals a ‘sense of crisis’ over Taiwan — this is why it is worried about China’s military aims

• Calling out China for cyberattacks is risky — but a lawless digital world is even riskier

• Silenced in China: the COVID ‘truth-tellers’ and political dissent

The Diplomat:

• US Deputy Secretary of State to Visit China After All

• Introducing China’s Carbon Market

• New Zealand’s Statement on China’s Cyberattacks: A Shot Across the Bow

• Teen With US Ties Again on the Run From China With Fiancee

• Flooding in China’s Henan Province Kills at Least 25

• The Kris Wu Sex Scandal and China’s Search for Morality in Public Figures

• Japanese Envoy Says Tokyo ‘Struggles Every Day’ With China

• Chinese Pop Star Dumped by Brands Over Accusation of Sexual Assault

• China’s Air Incursions Into Taiwan’s ADIZ Focus on ‘Anti-Access’ and Maritime Deterrence

• US High-Level Diplomat Visits Japan, South Korea, Mongolia

• Indonesia’s Delicate Dance Between China and the US

• China’s ‘Circular 15’ Addresses Local Governments’ Hidden Debts

• China Rejects WHO Call for More Transparency on Origins Probe

• What Cultured Meat Can Tell Us About China

• Chaos in Afghanistan Threatens CPEC

• Where Does China’s Digital Currency Stand?

• What Threat Do China’s New Missile Silos Pose to the US?

• The US Needs a New China Strategy

• China-India Foreign Ministers Meet in Dushanbe

• Malaysia to Phase Out China’s Sinovac Vaccine

• Report: China Plans BioNTech Booster for Its Population

• WHO Chief Says It Was ‘Premature’ to Rule out COVID Lab Leak

• Foreign Media Face a Trust Crisis in China

• NATO Shouldn’t Try to Do Too Much on China

• Some Chinese Shun Grueling Careers for ‘Low-Desire Life’

• Connecting the Vertices: Prospects for Australia-Taiwan Relations

• A Taiwan Contingency and Japan’s Counterstrike Debate

• The Tragedy of Taiwan’s ‘Recall Revenge’

• The Road Ahead for Taiwan-US Relations

• A Missing Link in the Quad: India’s Support for Taiwan

Foreign Policy:

• Time to End the U.S. Justice Department’s China Initiative

• The U.S.-China Data Fight Is Only Getting Started

• To Win Friends and Influence People, America Should Learn From the CCP

• Biden’s Dangerous Doctrine

• After 25 Years, There’s Still No South China Sea Code of Conduct

• China and the Taliban Begin Their Romance

• China Knows the Power of 5G. Why Doesn’t the U.S.?

• America’s Collapsing Meritocracy Is a Recipe for Revolt

• China Is Worried About a Post-U.S. Afghanistan

• China’s Ultramarathon Tragedy Was a Fad Gone Bad

• How Serbia Became China’s Dirty-Energy Dumping Ground

• Poll: China’s Influence Is Not Inevitable

ThinkChina:

• 'Red peril' or benign power: How different is China's CCP from USSR's CPSU?

• Washington threatening Portugal to choose between China and the US?

• Japanese academic: Will Japan send troops to 'protect' Taiwan?

• Chinese academic: Can China challenge the US’s standing in the Middle East?

• Hong Kongers losing their voice as district councillors quit?

• Can China revive its poorer western provinces?

• Zhengzhou floods: Netizens berate local government and media for inadequate response

• Not just a tech war: What China can do to better compete with the US and create a better world

• Chinese researcher: Is it appropriate to address Mao Zedong as 'the older generation' of leaders?

• Chinese economics professor: The New York I saw was not the New York I read about in books

• Why Japan is investigating Confucius Institutes in Japanese universities

• Why the Vietnamese embrace US vaccines but shun Chinese ones

What's on Weibo:

• How Social Media Is Speeding Up Zhengzhou Flooding Rescue Efforts

• “Zhengzhou, Stand Strong!” – Devastating Henan Floods Send Shockwaves on Social Media

ChinaTalk:

• Is Xi a Failure? Plus: Older Gentlemen Autocrat Tendencies, Odds of Taiwan Invasion, and What's the Point of Liberal Governance Anyways?

• DiDi's Troubles, Tweets of the Week (Corruption, Waluigi+Mao, Fish Hugging, Which Ministry Works the Hardest?)

Pekingnology:

• Why did Wuhan University researchers delete COVID-19 data at NIH?

Beijing Channel:

• China’s bureaucracy 101

Tracking People's Daily:

• Ending the 'End of History' - CCP Success a 'Reference Point' for Others - Henan Floods - Financial Sector Opening - Wang's Mideast Tour

• Three-Child Policy - Xi's 'Visionary' Thought - Li Keqiang on Core Technologies - Cyber Attacks Pushback - Zhong Sheng Criticism of US on COVID-19

• COVID Origins Friction - Xi Thought a 'Strategic System to Guide China' - History & Loyalty in Ren Zhongping Commentary

• Xi Thought is 'Guiding Ideology' - Feature on PLA's Galwan 'Martyr' - Wang's Middle East Diplomacy - Party Building in Pvt Enterprises

• Qiushi on July 1 Speech - H1 Economic Data - Pudong New Area Plan - Afghanistan and SCO - Carbon Trading Market - US Jet in Taiwan - Wang Yi on Russia Ties

• State Council Wants Local Govts to Tighten Belts - UFWD Meeting on Development - Wang Yi at SCO - India-China Talks - Pakistan 'Attack'

The India China Newsletter:

• India's and China's Foreign Ministers meet, trade booms, and Chinese workers killed in Pakistan

Eye on China:

• LAC's New Normal - Pak Attack & Conspiracy - Ideological Work - Qiushi on Xi's Speech - GDP Data - Didi Review - Digital Yuan - Lavrov & Wang on Ties - US on SCS, Taiwan, HK & Xinjiang

Beijing to Britain:

• Olympics Boycott, British gene firm links to BGI Group, Selling Sovereignty report A briefing

China Dialogue:

• China can show historic leadership through COP15 biodiversity talks

• Brazil’s produce ‘fundamental for guaranteeing China’s food security’

Hong Kong Free Press:

• Just when you thought things couldn’t get any worse in Hong Kong…

• Beijing’s 2022 Winter Olympics: Why taking a stand on Hong Kong could pose safety risks to athletes

• Beijing’s 2022 Winter Olympics: The right time, the right place, the right people

• Foreign passport rules for the election committee again expose the hypocrisy of Hong Kong’s top officials

Taiwan Insight:

• Do Young People Actually Matter in Taiwanese Politics?

• Taiwan’s ongoing war against Covid-19: Sixteen months of smooth sailing and one recent squall

• Meaningful employment of digital technologies towards effective COVID-19 prevention from Taiwan’s perspective

• Taiwan’s Pandemic Control Policy in 2021 — Lockdown, Vaccine Purchase and Distribution, and Testing

• Taiwan’s Perfect Storm: Covid Spikes, Water Shortages, and Power Outages

• Taiwan and the Pandemic: Impact on Businesses and the Economy

爱思想:

• 读不下去的陈寅恪

• 我来谈谈“不升即走”问题

• 中国的关键十年

• 蒙古时代之后——东部亚洲海域的一个历史关键时期（1368—1420）

• 台湾问题的底线、极限、机遇

• 风险社会治理中的法治及其制度建设

• 乡村社区的制度性改革

• 我们从何而来，我们的祖先是谁？

• 边缘小县的命运

• 大学薪酬分化与普惠制实施的必要

• 中国新外交政策

• “十四五”和更长一个时期我国经济社会改革的方向与重点领域

• 美国“公共外交”及若干相关概念辨析

• 历史学视野下的“韧性城市”

• “把革命带回来”——社会学新视野的拓展

• 成事不足，败事有余——评美国的阿富汗战争

• 禅——智慧的心髓

• 学术写作的三大意识

• 多边疆战争

• 什么决定了一个政党的兴衰——苏联共产党没能走过百年的历史警示

《求是》

• 在庆祝中国共产党成立100周年大会上的讲话

• 一篇光辉的马克思主义纲领性文献

• 为实现亿万职工对美好生活的向往不懈努力

• 立志民族伟大复兴 胸怀人类前途命运

• 在历史纵深处看全面小康伟大成就

• 中国共产党为什么“能”

• 伟大建党精神：中国共产党的精神之源

• 迈向中华民族伟大复兴的一次历史性跨越

• 走好新的赶考之路

• 不负殷切嘱托 圆梦全面小康

• 努力筑牢气象防灾减灾第一道防线

• 汇聚起实现民族复兴的磅礴力量

• 经济社会发展统计图表：2021年1—5月国民经济主要指标

• “七一勋章”获得者：“渡江英雄”马毛姐

中央党史和文献研究院

• 两个历史决议与中国革命和建设

• 生动展示百年大党的光辉历程和伟大成就

• 从百年历程看中国共产党重大事件的历史意义

• 中国共产党的丰功伟业

• 百年接续推进党的建设伟大工程

• 党的百年奋斗主题：实现中华民族伟大复兴

• 团结带领人民创造美好生活（专题深思）

• 中国共产党百年与百年大变局

• 恢宏史诗的力量之源

• 伟大的精神之源，奋进的磅礴力量——论伟大建党精神

• 真理的伟力

• 伟大建党精神：中国共产党的精神之源

• 实事求是：百年大党铸就辉煌的法宝

• 巍巍巨轮领航人

• 理论强党一百年

• 中国共产党组织建设的辉煌成就与宝贵经验

习近平系列重要讲话数据库

• 习近平对防汛救灾工作作出重要指示 要求始终把保障人民群众生命财产安全放在第一位 抓细抓实各项防汛救灾措施

• 团结合作抗疫 引领经济复苏

• 同世界各国人民深化友谊加强交流 推动构建人类命运共同体

• 习近平出席亚太经合组织领导人非正式会议并发表讲话

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