China Analysis Digest

Publications from August 26 - September 2, 2021

China Analysis Digest aggregates and lists new China-related analyses. Thanks to Katharina Ni for the magic (codes) that makes this series possible.

Issue: 2021/27

• Date range: August 26 - September 2, 2021

• Sources scanned: 86

• Content: 173 publications from 45 sources

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China Story:

• “Left-Behind” Children: How China turns a social problem into moral failings

• What Does it Mean to Be ‘Chinese’? Education and National Belonging in Contemporary China

Reading the China Dream:

• Wang Huning, The Cultural Revolution and Reform of China's Political System

• Xiong Chunwen, "The Education of Migrant Workers' Children

• Xie Tiao, "2020:  Las relaciones sino-estadounidenses" 

China Media Project:

• Profound Transformations

• The Juggling Act of Being Female, Chinese, and a Foreign Correspondent

• A History of Common Prosperity

War on the Rocks:

• After Withdrawal: How China, Turkey, and Russia Will Respond to the Taliban

• China Takes on Its Tech Leaders

National Review:

• How China and Russia Spy on Us

Project Syndicate:

• The Olympic-Size Difference Between India and China

• The AI Revolution and Strategic Competition with China

The Atlantic:

• China’s ‘Very Tricky Situation’

The Economist:

• African swine fever is spreading rapidly in China, again

• Research centres promoting Xi Jinping’s ideas are proliferating

• China would rather be feared than defied

Monkey Cage:

• Most Russians like China more than they like Europe or the U.S. But not Gen Z.

Australian Financial Review:

• Australia’s trade fortunes rely less on China than you think

Lowy Interpreter:

• Deliberate ambiguity of China’s new “territorial waters” declaration

East Asia Forum:

• Explaining the globalist dimensions of Chinese nationalism

• Canada’s intercept in Australia’s loose China game

• Canada’s China relationship edges toward strategic clarity

• Australia’s ‘China-has-changed’ narrative doesn’t explain damagingly bad ties

• Taliban takeover is bad news for China

The Strategist:

• Why is China ramping up construction of missile silos?

• China’s vulnerability disclosure regulations put state security first

• Is China putting the squeeze on Australia by curbing steel supplies?

• What will China do in Afghanistan?

ChinaFile:

• What Does the U.S. Withdrawal from Afghanistan Mean for China?

Sixth Tone:

• From a Qinghai Mountaintop, a Bird’s-Eye View of Global Warming

• Qianlong Emperor: The Worst Poet in Chinese History?

• Alibaba’s Night of Shame

• What China’s New Guidelines on ‘Green Development’ Mean for the Belt and Road

• What I Learned From 10 Years Teaching Chinese Students About Gender

• China Wants Larger Families. Unless You’re a Single Mom.

• What Is the Three-Child Policy Really Trying to Accomplish?

• Visualizing Life Inside China’s Tech Bubbles

• Can China’s Long-Suffering Idol Fans Catch a Break?

• How China’s New Ed-Tech Regulations Put Filipino Teachers in a Bind

• China’s Hottest New Rental Service: Men Who Actually Listen

• What China’s Parents Really Think About the Three-Child Policy

• A Is for Anxiety: Tutoring Clampdown Tests China’s Parents

• China’s Stressed-Out Workers Are Rediscovering the Art of Meditation

China Digital Times:

• “996” Ruled Illegal Yet Labor Researchers, Activists Still Arrested

• China Restricts Minors To Three Hours Of Online Gaming Per Week

• Translation: Everyone Can Sense That a Profound Transformation is Underway!

• Celebrity Culture “Clean Up” Campaign Targets Stars and Fans Alike

• Pandemic Control Strategy:  A Subject for Debate, and Debate Suppression

• English Takes a Backseat to Xi Jinping Thought

Quartz:

• Why are China’s diplomats sometimes so undiplomatic?

• Chinese teens feel like they’re in the crosshairs of Beijing’s tech crackdown

• China is no longer allowing kids to play online video games on weekdays

• Beijing has a new legal architecture for sweeping control over user data

• China’s boycott of Australia has redirected global flows of coal

Politico China Watcher:

• U.S. at risk of losing cloud computing edge to China

Politico China Direct:

• EU-Indo Pacific exclusive — Beijing’s moral revolution — Climate conundrum

• ‘Don’t sanction the Taliban’ — Merkel’s Beijing pick — Lithuania goes Aussie

The Wire China:

• Books for One Hundred Years

• Jude Blanchette on the Enduring Intellectual Puzzle of China

• How Paradigm Blindness Leads to Bad Policy

• Wind Wars

• Will the Music Stop for Tencent?

SupChina:

• Corrupt and competent: A paradox of China’s economic growth

• The Rare Earth Myth

• How China beat malaria

• Crazy English founder Li Yang’s excuse for beating wife and children: I’m Chinese!

• Why Xinjiang is an internal settler colony

• Rock Springs Massacre: A Chinatown burns in the American west

• The Story of Shein

• Xi Jinping’s graft busters are probing Jack Ma’s home city, and a rising star of Xi’s Zhejiang clan

• He was a model son with a promising future — until he killed his mother and disappeared

• Beijing restricts kids to three hours of gaming per week

• World Cup qualifying: China vs. Australia, preview

• Misleading headlines about China’s education sector miss the real story

• China investigates and will punish rich tax avoiders, starting with celebrities

• Beyond the Mask

• ‘Common prosperity’ push is not a war on wealth, Chinese economists and officials say

• Cotton complications in Xinjiang: William Overholt on the case of Esquel

• A Chinese university seems to be making a list of LGBT+ students. No one knows what it will do with the information.

• Nü Er Hong: How a rice winemaker created a legendary Chinese brand

Center for Advanced China Research:

• Party Watch Weekly Report 4|39 8.21.2021-8.27.2021

MERICS:

• In the driver's seat: China's electric vehicle makers target Europe

• China opts for optimism in 2021 Russian security strategy reading

• EU’s event-packed fall will set the tone for its China policy in 2022

• China high on the EU's agenda this fall + Lithuania + Berlin's Indo-Pacific Strategy

• China and the Taliban – confidence and caution

• Afghanistan + "Common prosperity" + Data protection law

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace:

• China’s Digital Yuan: An Alternative to the Dollar-Dominated Financial System

Center for Security and Emerging Technology:

• Headline or Trend Line?

• China is Fast Outpacing U.S. STEM PhD Growth

• China’s Robotics Patent Landscape

Brookings Institution:

• Debating North Korea: US and Chinese perspectives

Observer Research Foundation:

• A small step for China’s first virtual student, a leap for CCP’s AI ambitions

• The strategic signal of an Indian presence in the South China Sea

• BRICS Academic Forum Report

• The Chinese factor in Indo-Russian ties

• China’s Xinjiang Policy and the Silence of Islamic States

The Conversation:

• China’s new rules allow kids on video games just 3 hours a week – but gaming addiction isn’t about time, it’s about attitude

• China’s ‘surveillance creep’: how big data COVID monitoring could be used to control people post-pandemic

The Diplomat:

• China Bans ‘Sissy Men’ From TV

• The Curious Case of the New Chinese Ambassador to Thailand

• Chinese Special Envoy Winds Up Unannounced Myanmar Trip

• Business as Usual: Chinese Investments After the Myanmar Coup

• How China’s Worldview Took Over Hong Kong

• Chinese High-Speed Rail Network Reaches Myanmar’s Border

• China’s Hydropower Plan on the Brahmaputra

• Fentanyl in America: A Barometer of the China-US Relationship

• Chen Gang a Dark Horse to Lead China’s Strategic Technoindustrial Policy

• China’s Personal Information Protection Law and Its Global Impact  

• Pakistan-China Relations and the Fall of Afghanistan

• China’s ‘Common Prosperity’ Puts Tax-Dodging Celebrities On Notice

• The African Continental Free Trade Area Is a Boon for China

• China’s Tang Dynasty and Afghanistan, the Graveyard of Empires

• Chen Min’er Guarantees Xi Jinping’s Influence Into the 2030s

• China’s Communist ‘Common Prosperity’ Campaign

• The Somaliland Connection: Taiwan’s Return to Africa?

• Japan, Taiwan Lawmakers Discuss China Threat

• Taiwan’s Foreign Minister: Time to Let Taiwan Work With the UN

Foreign Policy:

• The United States Can Cast Light on China’s Shadowy Solar Industry

• U.S. Institutions Must Get Smarter About Chinese Communist Party Money

• Playing Chess With China

• Why Terrorists Will Target China in Pakistan

• Chinese Recognition of the Taliban Is All but Inevitable

• Chinese Firms Don’t Want to Pay Afghanistan’s Costs

• How Finding China’s Nuclear Sites Upset Pro-Beijing Trolls

ThinkChina:

• Self-assessment: How will the Chinese Communist Party evaluate the Xi Jinping era thus far?

• The future of China-Afghanistan relations: Lessons from history

• A new paradigm needed: China cannot achieve 'common prosperity' with Marxism and class struggle

• Japanese academic: The politics behind the name 'Taiwanese Representative Office in Lithuania'

• Youngest provincial party leader a sign of change for women in politics?

• More mainland Chinese elites supporting armed unification with Taiwan: A cause for concern?

• China-US competition: Why small countries will not choose sides

• Afghanistan in the calculations of India, Pakistan and China: Is there common ground among rivals and allies?

• After reining in the tutoring sector, will the Chinese government target internet titans next?

• [Picture story] The Sino-French War of 1884 and the collapse of Western colonialism

• China's diving sensation Quan Hongchan: Is her rural family 'poor'?

• Celebrities scrubbed from the Chinese internet: Victims of China’s social revolution?

• Vaccine diplomacy in Southeast Asia: Russia trails far behind China and the US

• China's forced drinking culture a submissive test for Chinese women

• How a hoax pandemic donation sparked anti-Chinese and anti-China sentiments in Indonesia

• Who saved Dr Zhang Wenhong from punishment for questioning China's Covid-19 policy?

National People's Congress Observer:

• NPC Calendar: September 2021

What's on Weibo:

• The 8/26 and 8/27 Blow to Chinese Entertainment Circles: Is the Storm Still Coming?

• Why Zhao Wei? Vicky Zhao’s Name Removed from China’s Online Channels

Chinese Storytellers:

• The Tokyo Olympics, In Retrospect

ChinaTalk:

• Afghanistan in Chinese Media

Pekingnology:

• Chinese vaccines and strategy on the Delta variant

Tracking People's Daily:

• Xi to Cadres: Gear for Struggle - Supporting MSMEs & Students - Xi Thought: Pandemic Spirit & Saying No to Universal Values - Wang-Kerry & Wang-Bonne Chats - New Proposal on Online Rumours

• Politburo Meeting - Xi's Gala Time - Subsidised Housing - Afghanistan Policy - Xi Thought Series: Marxism & the New Generation

• Tougher Anti-Monopoly Policies - Xi Thought: Deliberative Democracy & Cultural Confidence - Online Gaming Restrictions - Employment Plan - Covid Origins Probe Demand

• Ethnic Affairs Conference - Wang-Blinken Call - Covid Origins Report - Xi Thought: China's Socialist Democracy - SoE Profits

• Hebei Visit - 'Correct Path' in Ethnic Policies - Curbing the 'Two Highs' - Party 'Missions & Contributions' - Xi Thought: Dual Circulation & Political System - US's Democratic Transformation Failure

• Hebei Visit - Xi-Putin on Afghanistan - PAP Flag Anniversary - Ethnic Minority Policies - Xi Thought: Regional Development & Rural Revitalisation - Zhong Sheng on Afghanistan - COVID-19 Origins

Beijing to Britain:

• The UK-China landscape A overview and some areas to note

• DiDi, working with China in Afghanistan, British Embassy bids A roundup

China Dialogue:

• China’s decarbonising power system: out with the old, in with the new

Lausan:

• Camp land

• Als die Kommunisten die internationale Arbeiterbewegung zerschlugen

Hong Kong Free Press:

• Relaunching Hong Kong: Let the facts speak for themselves

• Relaunching Hong Kong: No PR ‘reboot’ will clean up the city’s image in the eyes of the world

• Why so much democratic advice from Hong Kong’s non-democrats?

• Hong Kong’s gutted District Councils did more than just gather opinions for the gov’t

• Can Taiwan learn from what happened in Afghanistan?

Taiwan Insight:

• ‘The New Normal’ and New Governance Models in Taiwan

• A Fourth U.S. Communiqué on the Sovereignty of Taiwan?

• In the Wake of the Afghanistan Withdrawal, the US Must Send the Right Signals on Taiwan (Part II)

• In the Wake of the Afghanistan Withdrawal, the US Must Send the Right Signals on Taiwan (Part I)

• Taiwan and the Instrumentalization of the US Withdrawal from Afghanistan

• The Fall of Afghanistan – Implications for European Policy Towards Taiwan

中国：历史与未来:

• “大不列颠”是如何分裂的 ——以及一些相关问题的问答与思考

爱思想:

• 生存、认知、关系

• 如果你有机会与灵魂相遇

• 市场经济与共同富裕

• 中国的市场化改革与收入分配

• 网络攻击背后的大国政治较量

• 主题与变奏

• 人是什么？——孔子面对“攸关技术”的回答

• 毒国与自鸩

• 全球金融巨变

• 健康、疾病与哲学

• 骨与肉

• “枪杆子”与“笔杆子”——中国马克思主义“领导权”的构建逻辑及文明意义

• “亚健康”的帝国与负重的“本部”

• 梦断甲午年——试论中日海军力量在19世纪后半期的消长及其原因

• 李商隐诗歌总体风格探析

• 迈向扎根的城镇化——以浏阳为个案

• 卖书人徐元勋

• 集市的人类学研究

• 一本与一体

• 科举停废与文明冲突

《求是》

• 党的伟大精神永远是党和国家的宝贵精神财富

• 凝铸民族复兴的精神伟力

• 革命精神永放光芒

• 大力弘扬伟大建党精神 奋力开创首都工作新局面

• 花儿为什么这样红

• 践行“两个结合”　着力创新发展

• 努力在时代大考中交出优异答卷

• 以史为鉴开创未来的遵循和指引

• 不断开拓西藏工作新境界

• 经济社会发展统计图表：2021年1—7月国民经济主要指标

• “七一勋章”获得者：“活雷锋”王兰花

中国现代国际关系研究院

• 埃塞俄比亚总理阿比将连任，挑战依旧

• 重回恐惧：撤军阿富汗解不开美国的“9.11”心结

• 总体国家安全观视角下的数据安全问题研究

中央党史和文献研究院

• 三军过后尽开颜

• 《品读西柏坡》序

• 以大历史观学习党的百年历史

• 曙光就在前面，我们应当努力

• 中国共产党历史上的100个第一

• 邓小平的读书学习生涯

• 毛泽东谈中国共产党的创建

• 党的政治建设是党的根本性建设

• 弘扬伟大建党精神 书写新的恢宏史诗（庆祝中国共产党成立100周年专论）

• 必须坚持和发展中国特色社会主义

• 中国共产党的精神之源

• 深刻理解把握习近平总书记 “七一”重要讲话的重大意义

• 共同富裕是社会主义的本质要求

• 习近平总书记的大历史观

• 中国共产党成立前后两个一百年的巨大转变——从落后挨打到走向伟大复兴

• 毫不动摇坚持和加强党的全面领导

• 必须进行具有许多新的历史特点的伟大斗争——“以史为鉴，开创未来”系列评论之七

• 加强建党初期马克思主义经典文献传播的历史研究

• 划清马克思主义历史观与历史虚无主义的界限

习近平系列重要讲话数据库

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• 习近平：携手抗疫、共克时艰，共创更加美好的未来

• 习近平：共享服务贸易发展机遇，共促世界经济复苏和增长

• 习近平：深化新三板改革，设立北京证券交易所

• 习近平：打造数字贸易示范区

• 习近平：提高开放水平，探索建设国家服务贸易创新发展示范区

• 权威快报丨习近平在2021年中国国际服务贸易交易会全球服务贸易峰会上发表视频致辞

• 姜春云同志遗体在京火化 习近平李克强栗战书汪洋赵乐际韩正等到八宝山革命公墓送别

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