Analysis Digest: August 6-13, 2021

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Issue: 2021/24

• Date range: August 6-13, 2021

• Sources scanned: 86

• Content: 173 publications from 44 sources

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FULL LIST

China Story:

• The Chinese Civil War: the peril of mobilization

• Evolving Representations: The Development of Elected Workplace Trade Unions in China

China Heritage:

• In Memoriam — Pierre Ryckmans (Simon Leys)

Made in China Journal:

• Revolution Offshore, Capitalism Onshore

China Media Project:

• Growling Back at the West

MacroPolo:

• Powerful Provinces: How Regional Political and Economic Power Correlate in China

War on the Rocks:

• China’s Silos: New Intelligence, Old Problems

• A Reluctant Embrace: China’s New Relationship with the Taliban

Foreign Affairs:

• Why the Quad Alarms China

• The Sexism Behind China’s Population Crisis

• China Isn’t Trying to Dominate the Middle East

Project Syndicate:

• The Great COVID Stonewall of China

The Economist:

• How Chinese factory-workers express their views on life

• China’s efforts to lift Xinjiang’s economy may smother it

Lowy Interpreter:

• Economic diplomacy: Burning down the house

• How can Australia reset relations with China?

• Hong Kong security law flexes Beijing’s international muscle

East Asia Forum:

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

• Countering China and North Korea’s mad dash for missiles

• Reconciling China’s drive for global ascendency and its desire for state control

Pearls and Irritations:

• The Dragon has been awakened!

• Three things West gets wrong about China

• Western media is destroying its own credibility

• Hong Kong can borrow from foreign security laws including Australia to combat foreign interference.

• The usual China-thumping and sanctimonious censuring have continued as intensely as ever.

• The price of primacy: Can the United States stop China becoming the dominant regional power?

Asialink:

• China's demographic manipulation

The Strategist:

• The personal cost of protest in Hong Kong

• China’s coal conundrum

Sixth Tone:

• The Long, Lonely Struggle with a Schizophrenic Son

• Resolving Human-Bear Conflict on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

• Sick of Hospital Queues? Let a Helper Stand in Your Stead

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

• How China’s Elderly Built an Internet of Their Own

• How ‘Why Women Kill’ Became an Unlikely Hit in China

• Why Time’s Up for China’s ‘Shadow Education’ Industry

• The Feminist Rapper Who Refuses to Be Silenced

• Inside the Subway Disaster That Killed 14 in Central China

China Digital Times:

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

• Canadian Michael Spavor Sentenced to 11 Years as Meng Wanzhou Extradition Decision Looms

• TikTok Parent ByteDance Plans Hong Kong IPO After Shelving New York Listing

• June 4 Museum Reopens Online, Defying Hong Kong Authorities’ Attempts To Close It

• New Restrictions on Private Tutoring Industry: Motivations and Reactions

• Translations: Struggling Medics and Conspiracy Theories Amid COVID Resurgence

Politico China Watcher:

• Adm. Faller: China exploiting corruption in Latin America

The Wire China:

• China’s Nuclear Options

• China’s Unavoidable Financial Rise

• Isabella Weber on How China Avoided Shock Therapy

• Making ‘Made in China’ Harder

• China’s New Nationalism

SupChina:

• 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

• China sentences Canadian citizen Michael Spavor to 11 years in prison

• What happens at Beidaihe? An explainer

• The start of modern Sino-Japanese relations

• Beijing recalls Lithuania ambassador in another shock to EU-China relations

• Woman sues hotel chain after fighting off naked stranger in room

• The anaconda in the chandeliers: The Hong Kong National Security Law and its implications for middle powers

• The largest Chinese investors you’ve never heard of

• Alibaba fires manager accused of rape after social media outcry

• U.S. edges out China in Olympic gold medals

• China will raise the age of retirement. What do people in Shanghai think?

• Hong Kong celebrates a record Olympic run amid political controversy

Center for Strategic and International Studies:

• The Gender Gap in China’s Belt and Road

• Whither the Journey to Self-Reliance?

Center for Advanced China Research:

• Party Watch Weekly Report 4|36 7.31.2021-8.6.2021

MERICS:

• China’s digital paradox

• Jane Duckett on China handling the pandemic

• Beijing increasingly tolerant of economic damage for political gain

• MERICS China Briefing: Regulatory crackdown + Afghanistan + Delta outbreak

• EU and China stand to gain from a ‘greener’ blockchain

• Executive Memo on the current momentum in transatlantic China policy

• Executive Memo: Blast or Bluff? Gauging the momentum of transatlantic China policy

National Bureau of Asian Research:

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

Brookings Institution:

• Will China ever become a fully developed economy?

Australia-China Relations Institute:

• Australia-China monthly wrap-up: July 2021

Observer Research Foundation:

• Will China get embroiled in the graveyard of empires?

• The Rajapaksa triumvirate and the CCP backdoor in Sri Lanka

• Re-envisioning Northeast for India’s ‘Act East’

• Can a China-Russia-Pakistan-Turkey-Iran arrangement counter the Quad?

The Conversation:

• There’s a religious revival going on in China – under the constant watch of the Communist Party

The Diplomat:

• 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

• A Struggle for Information Control Between China’s Government and the Tech Giants

• China’s Presence in Africa Is at Heart Political

• Can the US Isolate the Taliban?

• Canadian Faces Spy Ruling as Huawei Decision Looms

• Despite COVID-19, Indonesia-China Relations Continue to Develop

• China’s Vaccine Diplomacy in Latin America

• Eswatini, Taiwan’s Last Partner in Africa

• Alibaba Fires Manager Over Suspected Sexual Assault

• Indian and Chinese Troops Disengage from Gogra

• Europe Faces the Tricky Task of Policing Chinese Investments

• The China-US Arms Trade Arms Race

• How a German Frigate in the South China Sea May Upend Beijing-Berlin Relations

• How Do Sexual Harassment Claims Fare in China’s Courts?

• Zapad/Interaction Military Exercise 2021: Growing China-Russia Bonhomie?

• China’s Tech Sector Regulations Are Costly But Not Shocking

Foreign Policy:

• 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

• Independence Is the Only Way Forward for East Turkestan

• Is China’s New U.S. Ambassador a ‘Wolf Warrior’—or a Fox?

• China’s Growing Censorship Is Training the Public to Be Online Snitches

• Ideological Competition With China Is Inevitable—Like It or Not

ThinkChina:

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

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

• US defence chief Lloyd Austin in Southeast Asia: Did the US strike the right notes?

• Why China is cracking down on big capital

• China’s crackdown on cryptocurrencies: Trade-offs between stability and innovation

• China’s crackdown on cryptocurrencies: Bitcoin miners eyeing overseas ventures

• 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

• Singapore health experts: China the best positioned country to aim for zero-Covid

• Why China is determined to achieve 'zero-Covid'

• Kris Wu’s downfall and the dark side of big capital

• China is far from being affluent

What's on Weibo:

• “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

• Humans Fight at Beijing Wildlife Park, “Setting the Wrong Example” for the Animals

• Social Media in Times of China’s Flood Disaster: Participation, Profits, and Propaganda

Chaoyang Trap House:

• Season 1 Epilogue: Chaoyang Trap Reacts to Chaoyang Trap

Pekingnology:

• Wuhan Institute of Virology was under cyberattack. Three WIV employees allegedly being sick?

Beijing Channel:

• Before he governed China, how did Xi Jinping govern Zhejiang?

Tracking People's Daily:

• 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

• First Secretaries - Lithuania Tensions - US' 'Underlying Diseases' - Xi Thought on Economic Globalisation & Rule of Law

• Korean War Spirit - Pudong's Innovation Development - Reform 'Promoters & Doers' & the Three Distinctions - 热地Essay on Tibet's Future

• Olympics Success - Zhong Sheng: Asia Doesn't Need a 'Teacher’ or ‘Saviour’ - New Era Reform Needs Crossing the River by Feeling the Stones & Top-Level Design

• Origin-Tracing Propaganda - Taiwan Arms Sales - Reform and Opening Up - Pandemic Containment - Vaccine Diplomacy - H1 Economic Situation - Preparing for Struggles

The India China Newsletter:

• A buffer zone at Gogra, an India China public opinion 'struggle', and Chinese investments in India decline

Eye on China:

• Gogra Disengagement - South China Sea - CPEC Changes - Afghanistan - Tech Shake-Up Analysis - Inner-Party Regulations - Covid Propaganda - Xi Thought Series - Taiwan Arms Sales - USCBC Survey

Takshashila PLA Insight:

• China-India: Gogra, Xinjiang Military Commander, 军事夏令营 (Jūnshì xiàlìngyíng); SCS; Silos: Departure from  Minimalist Policy; Taiwan Ports and PLA

Beijing to Britain:

• HSBC, Hikvision, UK-China links A roundup

Lausan:

• What the Olympic podium means for Hongkonger identity

Hong Kong Free Press:

• Patriot games: it’s not the job of Hong Kong’s Chief Secretary to help vet candidates

• Money for nothing: overpaid officials don’t even run Hong Kong any more

• Hong Kong district councils: The rule of law and the rule of Carrie Lam

• Steve Vines: Loving Hong Kong has become a suspect activity – why, at last, it was time to leave

Taiwan Insight:

• The Taiwan-Australia Partnership: An Observation

• A Place for Homeless People? :The Pandemic and Homelessness in Taipei

• Why Is the Revitalisation of Taiwan’s New Southbound Policy So Pressing?

爱思想:

• 我在深圳的社交生活

• 必须改变分析国内外经济形势的传统思维方式

• 关于形而上学的评论

• 美国行为的根源——出自政治史学的观察

• 当下我们期待引进怎样的学术著作

• 大众高等教育再认识

• 老祖宗的牌桌阴影

• 2021年中国经济形势分析与研判

• 土地改革赢得农民是建党百年成功之本

• 我去了牙买加的法尔茅斯，追寻博尔特的脚步

• 漫谈读书、写作及其他

• 士人的归趣

• 中国未来经济增长具有两大优势

• “助少壮求位育”

• 1950—1952年重庆防疫网的构建

• 薛宝钗的生存策略

• 我国城镇化对财政体制的“五大挑战”及对策思路

• 美日和美韩同盟

• 中国工程教育需要变革

• 中华现代社会主义新文明定型的可能性

中央党史和文献研究院

• “七七决议”——东北解放战争中的重要篇章

• 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

• 让发展成果更多更公平惠及全体人民（思想纵横）

• 建党精神与建党伟业

• 中国共产党的伟大精神力量

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