China Analysis Digest

Publications from September 9-16, 2021

China Analysis Digest is a weekly published list of new China-related analyses.

Issue: 2021/29

• Date range: September 9-16, 2021

• Sources scanned: 86

• Content: 251 publications from 51 sources

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China Story:

• Great expectations and dashed hopes: Hukou transfer in Beijing

• Anglo-Australian Cooperation: Opportunities and pitfalls in the Indo-Pacific

Reading the China Dream:

• Wang Huning, “The Structure of China’s Changing Political Culture” 

• Liang Hong Interview

• Sign in

• Zhou An'an, From Utopia to Leviathan

• Jiang Shigong, ​Filosofía e Historia

China Heritage:

• On This Day: 11 September 2021, a commemoration in three chapters

Made in China Journal:

• Online (Self-)Censorship on Feminist Topics: Testimony of a #MeToo Survivor

China Media Project:

• Questions Linger on New Education Rules

• Fandoms in the Crosshairs

Lawfare:

• China Considers Ban on Overseas Tech IPOs

Foreign Affairs:

• China’s Afghanistan Dilemma

• How China Exports Authoritarianism

China Brief:

• Challenges and Progress in China's Development of 5G and 6G

• Early Warning Brief: Implications of Xi's Revival of the Maoist Slogan "Common Prosperity"

• How U.S. Banks Push the Caribbean Toward China

• The PLA Air Force's Efforts Toward Agile Combat Employment

• Educational Reforms Aim to Mold Model Citizens from Preschool in the PRC

Project Syndicate:

• Countering Chinese Industrial Policy Is Counterproductive

The Atlantic:

• America’s New Anti-China Alliance

• How Hollywood Sold Out to China

• How China Weaponized the Press

The Economist:

• A provocative blog post stirs up a firestorm in China

• China has become a laboratory for the regulation of digital technology

• A new book looks behind Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign

Australian Financial Review:

• Conflict with Chinese characteristics

Lowy Interpreter:

• Fears China will play games with the 2022 Winter Olympics

• Candour, at last, on China – but then what?

The Strategist:

• Military coup could cruel China’s plans for mining in Guinea

• Australia must prepare as China’s coercive capabilities draw closer

• Time for less rhetoric and more substance from Australia–South Korea ministerial talks

ChinaFile:

• A Farewell to My Students

Sixth Tone:

• Therapy Via Text: In Rural China, a New Outlet for Troubled Teens

• The Nightmare-Inducing Legacy of the ‘Huanggang Secret Exams’

• Can Private Equity Save China’s Private Museums?

• China’s ‘Mass Line’ Moves Online

• How a Chinese Tram Line Went Off the Tracks

China Digital Times:

• Evergrande Protestors Become Target of Stability Maintenance

• Guinea Coup Strains China’s Supply Chains, Tests Non-interference Policy

• After Refusing to Admit Evidence, Court Dismisses #MeToo Case; Xianzi Vows to Appeal

• Biden Calls Xi To Set Up “Guardrails” On The Relationship

• Suspected Chinese State-affiliated Online Influence Campaign Urged Real-world Protests in U.S.

• Disappeared Businesswoman Briefly Reappears As Ex-husband’s Memoir On Elite Corruption Published

• More Hong Kong Civil Society Groups Disband Under Pressure of National Security Law

• Netizens Force Baidu to Make Verbal “Prisoner Exchange,” Set “Dumbasses” Free

Quartz:

• Why are steel prices so high when iron ore prices have crashed? Because: China

• Vietnam’s Covid outbreak is pushing manufacturing back into China

• Casinos could be the next target in China’s crackdown on social vice

• China will punish its own companies if they break laws in the Democratic Republic of Congo

• A Chinese property giant is a $300 billion time bomb for Beijing

• China’s crackdown on video games is getting more serious

Inside Story:

• Death in Shanghai

Politico China Watcher:

• Biden bids to break U.S.-China deadlock

• How China hijacked the war on terror — with U.S. help

Politico China Direct:

• Von der Leyen strikes — Indo-Pacific heat — Taiwan-Lithuania

• EU’s digital Quad — Scholz’s strategy — Pittsburgh vs Beijing

The Wire China:

• Europe and America Still Don’t Agree on China

• Data Privacy Chinese-Style

• Jeff Immelt on What Business Leaders Get Wrong about Globalization

• Who is Yunfeng Capital?

• The Boom-Bust Backlash

SupChina:

• British artist tells story of China vs. ‘The West’ in series of paintings

• #MeToo setback: Chinese court rules dismisses ex-intern’s sexual harassment case against TV star

• Barefaced Truths

• In 1973, the Philadelphia Orchestra did its part to kickstart modern U.S.-China relations

• China’s Fujian Province battles Delta flare-up as vaccine rollout approaches 80% goal

• Internet users praise volleyball player Sun Wenjing for coming-out photo with her girlfriend

• ‘Age of Awakening’: A Chinese revolutionary drama becomes a cultural touchstone (and propaganda coup)

• After calling Xi, Biden considers pressuring China over trade, Taiwan

• Beijing to require Ant’s Alipay to spin off separate loan app

• Casting good-looking but untalented celebrities is abnormal, China says

• Chinese-Australian duo wins second doubles Grand Slam

• Biden has a phone call with Xi

• Chinese-born professor in Tennessee cleared of all spying charges in rebuke to U.S. Department of Justice

• The rise and fall of Shanghai’s ‘coffee king’

• Resurfaced Simu Liu interview spurs nationalist backlash against ‘Shang-Chi’

• ‘Nannies’ who happen to teach: China cracks down on loopholes in private tutoring ban

• China’s Red New Deal: A guide to all the different crackdowns on companies going on right now

• After online tutoring, why is China cracking down on private schools?

• 2021 NEXTChina Conference

• The state of China studies in America: Unpacking a National Committee survey

• Idol worship and fan culture in China, explained

• In Taiwan, a contentious quest for ‘transitional justice’

Congressional Research Service:

• RL33153| China Naval Modernization: Implications for U.S. Navy Capabilities—Background and Issues for Congress

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

European Council on Foreign Relations:

• The China factor in the German election

Center for Strategic and International Studies:

• Engaging China on Climate before COP26

• Is Latin America Important to China’s Foreign Policy?

Center for Advanced China Research:

• Party Watch Weekly Report 4|41 9.4.2021-9.10.2021

MERICS:

• Taiwan + Indo-Pacific + EU China policy

• Mapping China’s place in the global semiconductor industry

• Xi’s call for common prosperity signals a new period of populism, state regulation and interventionism

• “Common prosperity” + US-China climate talks + Education reforms

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace:

• The U.S.-China Trade War Has Become a Cold War

Brookings Institution:

• Focusing on the middle class

• 20 years after 9/11, the US is again in a great power confrontation

Chatham House:

• Lessons on China from Australia and Canada

• Policymakers can learn from Nixon's 'dollar shock'

Australia-China Relations Institute:

• Australia’s export exposure to China: Assessing the costs of disruption

• Australia-China monthly wrap-up: August 2021

Observer Research Foundation:

• The EU-India Connectivity Partnership: Can Brussels step up its connectivity game in the Indo-Pacific?

• Explaining the Rise of Minilaterals in the Indo-Pacific

• China’s Big Tech pledges support to common prosperity: By choice or design?

• Afghanistan crisis lingers over the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit

• China’s practice in recognising Governments: The case of Taliban

• For China, the challenge has just begun in Afghanistan

• US, China dig in their heels

• Will China’s ‘Common Prosperity’ Project Turn Out to Be a Case of ‘Cure Worse Than Disease’?

• Decrypting China’s Big Tech Crackdown – Part 1

The Conversation:

• What is the Moon Festival? A scholar of Chinese religions explains

• AUKUS: is an arms race with China the price of ‘Global Britain’?

• The AUKUS pact, born in secrecy, will have huge implications for Australia and the region

• Why nuclear submarines are a smart military move for Australia — and could deter China further

• How big companies are targeting middle income countries to boost ultra-processed food sales

• Why pushing for an economic ‘alliance’ with the US to counter Chinese coercion would be a mistake

• China is on course to build the best cars in the world

• Friday Essay: an introduction to Confucius, his ideas and their lasting relevance

• What ancient Chinese roofs can tell us about climate change

• Russia is positioning itself as a global partner after the U.S. Afghanistan debacle

• Minerals, drugs and China: How the Taliban might finance their new Afghan government

The Diplomat:

• Understanding China’s Draft Algorithm Regulations

• Is China’s Evergrande Group Too Big to Fail?

• 19 Months Into the Pandemic, China Is Still Shutting Out US Students

• What Do Russians Think About the Relationship With China?

• China’s Foreign Minister Holds Talks in South Korea

• Giant Buddha Statue Plan Rankles Residents of Laos’ Capital: Report

• Chinese FM Winds Up Southeast Asia Trip With Stops in Cambodia, Singapore

• Is the CCP About to Rehabilitate the Cultural Revolution?

• China, Afghanistan, and the Belt and Road Initiative: Diplomacy and Reality 

• Beijing Court Rules Against Woman in China #MeToo Case

• CFIUS Ramps up Oversight of China Deals in the US

• The Logic and Limitation of China’s Zero-COVID Policy

• Diplomatic Pact to Block Myanmar’s Junta From United Nations – For Now

• Property, Prestige, and ‘Common Prosperity’: China’s Real Estate Market in 2021

• Vietnam Welcomes Top Officials From China, Japan

• Easing China-US Tensions: Lessons From Nixon’s 1972 Trip

• Biden Calls Xi as China-US Relationship Grows More Fraught

• Chinese Foreign Minister Begins 3-Nation Tour of Southeast Asia

• Can CPEC Move Beyond Infrastructure?

• The Real Cause of China’s Alibaba Crackdown

• Malabar 2021 and Beyond: India’s Naval Pushback Against China

• The Biden Administration and US-China Relations in 2021

• Pay Attention to the KMT’s Chair Election

• Parsing Japan’s Support for Taiwan

• The Politics of Taiwan’s COVID-19 Response

Foreign Policy:

• India Welcomes AUKUS Pact as China Deterrent

• How Sept. 11 Supercharged China’s Propaganda

• China’s Social Credit System Is Actually Quite Boring

• Neither Russia nor China Could Fill a U.S. Void in the Middle East

• U.S. and China Reach Deal to Block Myanmar’s Junta From U.N.

• China and Russia Have a Shared Playbook for Afghanistan

• China Is Hedging Its Bets in Myanmar

• China Is Disrupting the Ocean’s Blue Carbon Sink

• Is Lithuania the West’s First Line of Defense?

ThinkChina:

• Why US academics are protesting against the Department of Justice’s ‘China Initiative’

• How China became Cambodia's important ally and largest donor

• Deepening US-Vietnam ties: Less geopolitics, more human security

• Vietnam is balancing China-US rivalry with deft statecraft, but for how long?

• Russia and China in Southeast Asia: Pragmatic cooperation against US primacy

• Can the CCP avoid the Stalin curse under Xi Jinping?

• Serious consequences if Washington allows renaming of Taiwan’s US office

• Chinese academic: It’s time to make the US safe for the world

• Yasukuni Shrine visits: A mirror reflecting Sino-Japanese relations

• China's growing north-south gap: Can the north catch up?

• A zero-Covid strategy has worked in China, but will it work elsewhere?

• Chinese economics professor: The making of a moral society

• Has China done well in its vaccine diplomacy in Southeast Asia?

What's on Weibo:

• Meet Sister Zhang and the Heilongjiang College Room Inspection Gang

• Goodbye 996? Weibo Discussions on Changes in Overtime Work Culture

Chinarrative:

• Forty-Eight Hours of Hell: Stranded on a Train in China’s Summer Floods

ChinaTalk:

• Chinese Industrial Policy: How A City Turned Itself Into a VC Fund

Pekingnology:

• New regulation signals China to add fewer skyscrapers

• End of an era in China's urbanization & beginning of a new one

Tracking People's Daily:

• Shaanxi Tour - State Council on Medical Insurance - Yang Jiechi to US Parties: Correct 'Wrong China Policies' - Wang Yi in Seoul - Xi Thought: PLA's Missions, Taiwan Policy & One Country Two Systems

• Building a Cyberspace Civilisation - Xi Thought: A World-Class PLA & Party's Control Over PLA - Wang meets Singapore's Lee - Student Loans - Economic Data

• Xi's Letter to Border Troops - MIIT's High-Tech Ambitions - High-Rise Restrictions - Wang Yi on SCS Code of Conduct - Xi Thought: Political Security, Black Swans & Grey Rhinos

• Ecological Compensation Mechanism - Why Nice Guys are Dangerous - Xi Thought: Strict Governance for Beautiful China & the Overall National Security Concept

• BRICS Summit - Afghan Neighbours Statement - Zhong Sheng on HK Alliance Arrests - Xi Thought: Green Development - Biden-Xi Call - Greater Mekong Subregion Meeting

• Optimising Business Environment - Bribery Crackdown - Warning Gaming & Streaming Cos - Xi Thought: Fengqiao Experience - Yangtze River Sand Mining Crackdown - Afghanistan Neighbours Meeting

Eye on China:

• India-Aus 2+2 - BRICS - Afghanistan Policy - Biden-Xi Call - US Trade Policy - State Media on 9/11 - Virtue Cultivation & Discourse Power - PLA's New Generals - Assurances & Regulatory Changes

Takshashila PLA Insight:

• What and Why of the PLA Promotions: Who got promoted, which positions are due, WTC problem: India or anti-corruption; Hypersonic Missiles; ACE, Bhutan

Beijing to Britain:

• RESHUFFLE SPECIAL: Truss in, Raab out A update on Liz Truss, the new Foreign Secretary

• Sharma in Tianjin, Raab in Pakistan, trouble in Westminster A briefing

• NEW REPORT: The UK and China's security and trade relationship: A strategic void A report review

Hong Kong Free Press:

• Short of land? Hong Kong picks on the small guy instead of challenging vested interests

• Hongkongers are patriotic; their mistake was to believe the Joint Declaration’s predictions

• Hong Kong’s fair trial rules are routinely ignored – and no offender is safe

Taiwan Insight:

• The Penghu Migrants Behind Kaohsiung’s Post-war Boom

• At the Edge of State Control: The Creation of the “Matsu Islands”

爱思想:

• 鹅毛不是雪

• 世界格局

• 切莫让愤怒与仇恨中断了国家的现代化

• 生者与死者——1967年·关于进化论的另一种诠释

• 如何发现文明演化的历史法则

• 延安风土记

• 亲切温暖与崇高敬意

• 史铁生的幸运与不幸

• 对党内法规效力外溢的省思与回应

• 被误读的宪制——评苏力《大国宪制》

• 本体与常无

• 阿富汗恐怖主义蔓延风险不可低估

• 一个越跑越慢的选手，扛起了内循环的大旗

• 为什么今天我们对西方新闻客观性失望

• 风云未淡定的怀念——我与张贤亮的交往

• 记跟随张世英先生，修习德国哲学的岁月

• 数字人文的研究与评价

• 谈谈怎样学历史？

• 批评“躺平”，请先理解“内卷”

• 中共党史回归历史学科的正当性

《求是》

• 毫不动摇坚持和加强党的全面领导

• 党和国家事业不断发展的“定海神针”

• 坚持党的领导、加强党的建设是国有企业的“根”和“魂”

• 建军之本 强军之魂

• 毛泽东思想指导地位的确立及启示

• 凝聚起各民族共筑中国梦的磅礴力量

• 多彩新路越走越宽广

• 深化税收征管改革 顺应人民群众期盼

• 奋力书写“造福人民的幸福河”时代答卷

• 在党史学习教育中发挥好地方宣传部门职能作用

• 从山水画卷中领悟中华优秀传统文化深沉力量

• 把党史学习落到实际行动上

• 坚定新时代赶考路上的精神自觉

• 经济社会发展统计图表：第七次全国人口普查超大、特大城市人口基本情况

• “七一勋章”获得者：“大国工匠”艾爱国

中央党史和文献研究院

• 毛泽东谈学习党史

• 革命需要就毫不犹豫照做

• 永远铭记毛泽东的历史功勋

• 毛泽东思想指导地位的确立及启示

• 在新征程上不断夺取伟大斗争新胜利（庆祝中国共产党成立100周年专论）

• 伟大抗战精神是弥足珍贵的精神财富

• 坚持用马克思主义中国化最新成果武装全党

• 依靠人民创造历史伟业，牢记宗旨铸就新的辉煌

• 马克思主义与中国共产党

• 学习贯彻习近平总书记“七一”重要讲话精神，推进党史人物研究繁荣发展

• 永远把伟大建党精神继承下去发扬光大（庆祝中国共产党成立100周年专论）

• 从大历史观看党的百年奋斗征程

• 弘扬党的伟大精神，走好中国道路

• 中国共产党革命精神的丰富内涵与时代价值

• 从百年“奋斗目标”到“一个主题”论

• 向世界展示真实立体全面的中国（深入学习贯彻习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想）

• 做好“两结合”掌握主动权

• 读懂中国共产党——《中国共产党的历史使命与行动价值》解析

• 具有里程碑意义的关键一步（庆祝中国共产党成立100周年专论）

• 锻造新时代青年志气骨气底气

• 坚定理想信念是共产党人安身立命的根本

• 深刻理解全面建成小康社会的伟大历史意义

习近平系列重要讲话数据库

• 毫不动摇坚持和加强党的全面领导

• 解放思想改革创新再接再厉 谱写陕西高质量发展新篇章

• 习近平在陕西榆林考察时强调 解放思想改革创新再接再厉 谱写陕西高质量发展新篇章

• 习近平将出席开幕式并宣布运动会开幕

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