Digest: July 22-29, 2021

Issue: 2021/22

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Issue: 2021/22

• Date range: July 22-29, 2021

• Sources scanned: 86

• Content: 192 publications from 47 sources

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FULL LIST

China Heritage:

• Other People’s Thoughts, XXVI

China Media Project:

• Trapped

MacroPolo:

• Can Industrial Policy Work for Climate Technologies?  

Foreign Affairs:

• China’s Sputnik Moment?

Project Syndicate:

• China's Animal Spirits Deficit

The Atlantic:

• China Discovers the Limits of Its Power

• The End of Free Speech in Hong Kong

The Economist:

• A deluge in China has killed more than 30 and caused terror

• Female surfers ride the wave to China’s Hainan island

Lowy Interpreter:

• Far more world leaders visit China than America

• China’s numbers game harms us all

• US-China rivalries: What matters for ASEAN

East Asia Forum:

• The right reasons for saying no to nuclear first use

• Why China and the United States aren’t cooperating on COVID-19

• Clarifying US commitments to Taiwan

Pearls and Irritations:

• Between the lines with Tom Switzer: China, friend or foe?

• China: A big threat to our future or misunderstood hegemon?

Asialink:

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

The Strategist:

• China threatens Australia with missile attack

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

Sixth Tone:

• Flood Defense in Ancient Times

• The Mother and Laborer Dancing to Her Own Beat in Rural China

• How Yunnan Became China’s Immigration Frontline

• How China’s Pick-Up Artists Fell Victim to Their Own Mind Games

• Why China’s Boys Are Being Left Behind

• How China’s Underground Building Spree Became a Flood Risk

• Why Are More Chinese Inheriting Their Mother’s Surname?

• Poorly Prepared for Floods, Rural Henan Faces Slow Recovery

• The Patriotic Illustrators Trying to Paint the Internet Red

• Team China Aims to Conquer an Unfamiliar New Sport: Skateboarding

China Digital Times:

• Coming Forward Against Singer, Young Woman Resparks China’s #MeToo Movement

• Cartoons and Commentary: Flood Victims and Rescuers “Are Human Beings, Not Bowls of Soup”

• Minitrue: Warn Vendors Against Foreign Media Interviews on Henan Floods

• Minitrue: Focus on Henan Flood Recovery; Do Not Report on Celebrity Tax Case or COVID Origins Press Conference

• Inside Xinjiang’s Growing Carceral State

• Floods Bring Disaster to Henan

Quartz:

• The Party’s assault on the private sector is roiling China’s billionaire ranks

• Hong Kong’s first national security law verdict shows Beijing’s “red line” has become a red net

• A legendary Chinese dissident blogger has suddenly fallen silent

Politico China Watcher:

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

Politico China Direct:

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

The Wire China:

• Marketing Games

• China and Myanmar After the Coup

• The Climate Contest

• Stapleton Roy Asks What the U.S. Wants from the China Relationship

• Facebook’s Super Spreaders

SupChina:

• China makes a deal with the Taliban

• Who is Qin Gang, China’s new ambassador to the U.S.?

• The sinking of the Kowshing and China’s catastrophic first war with Japan

• Flood-relief donation lifts struggling Chinese brand out of financial funk

• Has China quit overseas coal financing?

• Hong Kong’s first national security trial ends in guilty verdict

• Shares plunge as Beijing pushes ahead with new rules for education and tech companies

• Chinese social media reacts to shocking losses and historic wins at Tokyo Olympics

• A scientist’s future hangs in the balance after another failure of the China Initiative

• China tops medal count as Tokyo Olympics gets into full swing

• Electric vehicle startup Faraday Future debuts on Nasdaq valued at $5 billion

• China’s after-school tutoring crackdown goes nuclear

• The Chinese Communist Party: Made (partly) in Japan

• China rejects WHO plan for Wuhan lab audits, suggests COVID origins study continue in other countries

• The extraordinary rise of China’s pet industry

• On a dry spreadsheet, lives to be saved: How a collaborative document helped flood rescue efforts in Zhengzhou

• How to understand Chinese politics through data

• China’s complicated relationship with LGBTQ+ rights

Congressional Research Service:

• IF11885| De-Dollarization Efforts in China and Russia

• LSB10553| Section 301 Tariffs on Goods from China: International and Domestic Legal Challenges

Center for Strategic and International Studies:

• The Real National Security Concerns over Data Localization

• China’s New National Carbon Trading Market: Between Promise and Pessimism

Center for Advanced China Research:

• Party Watch Weekly Report 4|34 7.17.2021-7.23.2021

MERICS:

• China’s rule and standard-setting ambitions for global trade

• China’s evolving data governance regime

• Xi’s worrying tech curriculum

• GDP growth slows and finds solid footing

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

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace:

• To Condemn Chinese Hacks, Hate the Game Not Just the Players

• What Makes This Attribution of Chinese Hacking Different

Chatham House:

• South Korean foreign policy innovation amid Sino-US rivalry

Australia-China Relations Institute:

• Perspectives | The Australia-PRC relationship: What do Australians think?

Observer Research Foundation:

• Biden’s China policy: Continuing Trump’s policies to rectify Obama’s approach

The Conversation:

• How the Bui Dam set up China’s future engagement strategy with Ghana

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

The Diplomat:

• Can the Taliban Play China and Russia Off the United States?

• Nepal’s Cautious Approach to the Tibetan Question

• China’s Growing Ties With Indonesian Provinces

• After Massive Floods, Zhengzhou’s Subway Becomes a Public Mourning Site

• How China Missed Its COVID-19 Opportunity

• General Ju Qiansheng Takes Command of the PLA Strategic Support Force

• During Latest Exchange, China Presents US With 2 Lists of Grievances

• The Difficulty of Sino-American Economic Disentanglement

• North Korean Oil Tanker Stops in Chinese Port in the First Recorded Visit Since 2017

• Innovation Offense vs. Defense

• Can China’s Economy Overtake the United States?

• Cooling Off China-US Technological Competition: A Blueprint in Shared Purpose

• As China Rolled Out Its COVID-19 Shots, Victims of Earlier Vaccine Scandals Vanished

• Ghost in the Machine: A Faceless, Famous Chinese Blogger Goes Silent

• 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

• Why Taiwan Is Beating COVID-19 – Again

• Connecting the Vertices: Prospects for Australia-Taiwan Relations

• A Taiwan Contingency and Japan’s Counterstrike Debate

Foreign Policy:

• China Is Using Tibetans as Agents of Empire in the Himalayas

• Calls for Independence May Not Help the Uyghur Cause

• Hong Kong Has Gotten Seriously Risky for International Business

• Vaccines Are Japan’s New Tool to Counter China

• 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

ThinkChina:

• 'Mini' Shangri-La Dialogue: The US needs to provide tangible deliverables in Southeast Asia

• China to impose strict measures on tuition centres to allay anxiety over education

• '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?

• Escalating China-US confrontation will accelerate RMB internationalisation

• Overcoming uneven growth in China's poorer western provinces: Potential and challenges

• If not the US, can the Chinese government provide better IPO choices for internet companies?

• China’s cloud war: Tencent and Alibaba up their game as cloud giants eye world markets [Part 2]

• China’s cloud war: Huawei leading the three-cornered fight? [Part 1]

• Why platform companies seek monopoly and what happens when governments rein them in

• Chinese butting heads with Western media: Irrational nationalism or deeds of justice?

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

National People's Congress Observer:

• NPCSC Session Watch: Three-Child Policy, Data Privacy, Innovation Policy, Court Reform & New National Law in Hong Kong & Macau

What's on Weibo:

• Weibo’s Keyboard Warrior Olympics: Online Attacks against Chinese Athletes

• Devastating Rain and Floods in Henan – A Hashtag Timeline

Pekingnology:

• Wuhan University researcher, at the center of COVID data withdrawal controversy, speaks up

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

Beijing Channel:

• Full-text translation of China's new rules on off-campus tutoring

• Exclusive: Chinese researcher, at the center of COVID data withdrawal controversy, speaks up

Tracking People's Daily:

• Manufacturing's Digital Transformation - New Measures to Support R&D - Wang Meets Taliban - SCO Defense Ministers' Meeting - Xi Thought Series: Expect More Ideological and Political Tests

• Xiaokang Timeline - Population Policy of 'Strategic Importance' - Zhong Sheng: Biden's Policy = Trump's Policy - Persisting in Social Revolution

• Li on Flood Control - Services Negative List - US-China Talks - China's Two Lists for US - Zhong Sheng Commentary: America is Back = America First - Four Self-Confidences - Marxist Party Building

• Scientific Socialism - Soviet-era Spirit - Zhong Sheng Commentary on 'Political Virus' - Mobilising Grassroots Organisations in Henan

• Xi's Tibet Visit - Central Regions Development - China's Latin American Diplomacy - Telling the Party's Story - Understanding the Principal Contradiction

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

The India China Newsletter:

• Floods in Henan, Xi in Tibet, State media revisits Galwan, and on surveillance in India and China

Eye on China:

• Tibet Visit - Xi Thought Series - China-Pak FMs Meet - Henan Floods - PD Piece on Galwan - Wang Criticises the EU - 3-Child Policy - HK Sedition Arrests - China-US Talks - India's Military Rebalancing

Takshashila PLA Insight:

• Xi's Tibet Visit;  China's Defence Acquisition; Russia-China Military Exercises;  SCS; Taiwan; Henan Floods and the PLA

Beijing to Britain:

• Cyber statements, Chinese investment in gaming, Hong Kong A Briefing

China Dialogue:

• China’s commitment on HFCs sends key signal

Hong Kong Free Press:

• Does China want the US to leave Afghanistan?

• Sensitive souls: the map that supposedly hurt the feelings of 1.4 billion Chinese

• Hong Kong’s press freedom clampdown echoes around the world

• Sheep, wolves, and the Hong Kong government’s epidemic of ‘so called’

Taiwan Insight:

• How to Reduce Your Environmental Footprint as a Tourist in Taiwan

• Mountain Hiking as Taiwan’s New National Pastime

• Intergenerational Bonds in Indigenous Communities: Lessons From My Grandparents

• Queer Passion Between Generations: The view from Martial Law-era Literature

• Studying Aging Chinese Nationalists in Modern Taiwan: A Lesson for Young Voters

• Do Young People Actually Matter in Taiwanese Politics?

爱思想:

• 胡耀邦最后的两年

• 走出唯一真理观

• 2020 西方思想年度述评

• 从制度环境看中国企业成长的极限

• 人性的改造——中华民族的人性特征及改造之五

• “百年未有之大变局”是历史的结论

• 相逢一笑在梅州

• 《水浒》人物的绰号

• 读懂一两个大哲学家

• 官僚体制的悖论、 机制及应对

• 时间的暴政——移动互联时代青年劳动审视

• 中国需要“仰望星空”的人

• 中共中央 国务院关于新时代推动中部地区高质量发展的意见

• 功利主义扼杀了创造性思维

• 关于进一步减轻义务教育阶段学生作业负担和校外培训负担的意见

• 社会保障体制改革的重点问题

• 端方与“丁未政潮”

• 与偷读禁书有关的日子

• 现代社会往何处去

• 如何完成金融市场化改革

中国现代国际关系研究院

• 东京奥运的“经济账”与“政治账”

中央党史和文献研究院

• 《随军西行见闻录》：党第一次讲述长征的文献

• 集中教育是推进自我革命的一大法宝

• 让长征精神照亮“第二个百年”新征程

• 换了人间：百年来我们党推进民族伟大复兴的历史伟业

• 百年来我们党推进马克思主义中国化的经验启示

• 推动民族复兴 促进人类进步：百年大党的外交成就

• 大历史观视野中的百年党史

• 在把握历史发展规律中掌握历史主动

• 中国共产党人精神谱系的构建

• 百年大党政治建设的经验与启示

• 弘扬伟大建党精神 做新时代先锋力量

• 伟大实践孕育井冈山精神

• 赓续红色血脉，弘扬伟大精神

• 继承发扬伟大建党精神（深入学习贯彻习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想）

• 党的百年奋斗主题：实现中华民族伟大复兴

习近平系列重要讲话数据库

• 习近平同塞拉利昂总统比奥就中塞建交50周年互致贺电

• 习近平在西藏考察调研

• 全面贯彻新时代党的治藏方略 谱写雪域高原长治久安和高质量发展新篇章

• 坚持数量服从质量 进度服从实效 真正把这件好事办好实事办实

• 习近平对深入推进农村厕所革命作出重要指示

• 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

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