Digest: July 9-15, 2021

Issue: 2021/20

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Issue: 2021/20

• Date range: July 9-15, 2021

• Sources scanned: 86

• Content: 202 publications from 44 sources

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FULL LIST

China Heritage:

• Red Allure & The Crimson Blindfold

Made in China Journal:

• 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:

• Fudan’s Storm in Budapest

• Strategies for the China Story

Pew Research Center:

• Members of Congress – especially Republicans – are increasingly discussing China on social media

China Brief:

• UN Human Rights Clash Strains Credibility of Chinese Diplomacy

• Early Warning Brief: The PLA’s Military Diplomacy Under COVID-19

• The CCP's Shifting Priorities: An Analysis of Politburo Group Study Sessions

• The PRC Leverages Taiwan's Water Crisis to Promote Cross-Strait Integrated Development

• Giving Precision Munitions ‘Eyes’ and a ‘Brain’: The State of PLA Research on Military Target Recognition

Project Syndicate:

• China Is Killing Its Tech Golden Goose

The Economist:

• A Chinese film removes scenes featuring a young Mao Zedong

• Deep in rural China, bitcoin miners are packing up

• In China, patriotic nostalgia is big business

• The Philippines’ secret weapon against Chinese incursions

• China is not happy about Myanmar’s coup

Monkey Cage:

• Does China actively promote its way of governing — and do other countries listen?

• The Cold War is a poor analogy for today’s U.S.-China tensions

Australian Financial Review:

• Even in the Gobi Desert, the Party goes on

Lowy Interpreter:

• Olympic glory: Tokyo’s success is a win for Beijing

• China’s law on conscription under revision

• Xi and beyond

• Whatever happened to the South China Sea ruling?

• China’s forced invisibility of LGBTQ communities on social media

East Asia Forum:

• Why China wants to power Argentina’s air force modernisation

Pearls and Irritations:

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

• What did we do to China?

• Henry Kissinger marks 50 years since first China visit with call for talks to avoid ‘catastrophe’

• Peak Sinophobia in Australia?

• The battle of the two lines: media comments on the Communist Party of China

• How accurate is western media on China?

• Kishore Mahbubani: Can America lose to China?

• A close run thing in Hong Kong in 2019.

The Strategist:

• China is killing its tech golden goose

• Crafting a way ahead for effective Australian deterrence against Chinese threats

ChinaFile:

• How Should the U.S. Approach Climate Diplomacy with China?

• Why China Is Going After Its Tech Giants

Sixth Tone:

• Despite Some Stumbles, China’s Once-Popular Skating Rinks Roll On

• China’s 10-Year Campaign to Nourish Rural School Kids

• In One Collapsing Village, the Other Side of China’s Rise

• How the Chili Pepper Conquered China

• Why the Three-Child Policy Is Just a Start

• The ‘Minor’ Events That Had a Major Impact on Sino-American History

• On China’s Internet, Bad Parenting Advice Is a Big Problem

• China’s Cosmetic Surgery Trends Are Getting Riskier — and Weirder

China Digital Times:

• Hu Xijin’s Taliban Friendship Comments Criticized

• Groups, #MeToo Activist Shut Down By WeChat, Weibo

Quartz:

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

• Hong Kong’s first national security trial is debating Malcolm X’s legacy

• Some Chinese cities won’t allow kids with unvaccinated parents back into schools

• China’s Anta is about to become more valuable than Adidas

• Why Taiwan’s tech giants had to step in to source vaccines for the government

• A new US-Europe rare earths supply chain is using a “very Chinese model” to counter China

• The US blacklists 23 more Chinese companies for suspected abuses in Xinjiang

Politico China Watcher:

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

Politico China Direct:

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

The Wire China:

• The Road to Beijing

• The Moment Something Like Hope Germinated

• Winston Lord on the ‘Geopolitical Earthquake’ of Kissinger’s Secret Visit

• The Meeting of East and West

• Lines of Communication

SupChina:

• Pakistan bus explosion kills at least nine Chinese; Beijing blames bomb

• Convenience Bee — China’s first truly successful cashier-less store chain?

• Power of symbolism: The swim that changed Chinese history

• U.S. to issue risky business warning for Hong Kong

• Chinese cities announce vaccine requirements for public places, setting off debate about freedom and vaccination inequality

• U.S. warship ‘sent away with a warning’ by China as Biden backs Trump policy on South China Sea

• Didi debacle highlights weaknesses in regulatory coordination, but it’s not decoupling

• Chinese man faces no charges after attempted girlfriend abduction caught on camera

• Meet Jia Ling, the woman who shattered box office records

• China responds to U.K.’s call to boycott Beijing Olympics

• The Great Financial Decoupling?

• COVID-19 origins and the state of science reporting in China

• Hong Kong: Brace for incoming!

• ByteDance finally reads the room and cancels six-day work weeks

Congressional Research Service:

• IF10275| Taiwan: Political and Security Issues

• R42784| U.S.-China Strategic Competition in South and East China Seas: Background and Issues for Congress

Center for Strategic and International Studies:

• Progress Report on China’s Type 003 Carrier

• Assessing Chinese-Russian Military Exercises: Past Progress and Future Trends

MERICS:

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

• Jan Weidenfeld on transatlantic China policy

• EU-China Weekly Review: EU connectivity initiative + Values issues + Lithuania

• China-EU third-party agreements – second time unlucky?

• Mind the Gap: Priorities for Transatlantic China Policy

• Xi’s new slogan for China’s trajectory: "Time and momentum are on our side"

• Helena Legarda on China’s new concept of comprehensive national security

Chatham House:

• The EU’s unsustainable China strategy

Australia-China Relations Institute:

• Australia-China monthly wrap-up: June 2021

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

Observer Research Foundation:

• We had a One China policy for long. It’s time for a relook

• India as the strongest link to counter China

• Chinese nationalism, with socialist characteristics?

• Diplomacy gone amiss: Story of Chinese COVID-19 Vaccines

• The China-Pakistan Partnership Continues to Deepen

• A new high in Japan’s security ties with Taiwan

The Conversation:

• Facial recognition for gamers, app store bans for Didi: what’s behind China’s recent crackdown on big tech?

• ‘To get rich is glorious’: how Deng Xiaoping set China on a path to rule the world

• Semiconductors: Chinese takeover of UK’s leading chipmaker doesn’t need a security review – here’s why

The Diplomat:

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

• Measuring the Scale of Chinese Transnational Repression

• At the Nexus of Military-Civil Fusion and Technological Innovation in China

• Great Power Competition Doesn’t Have to Be Bad

• Prime Minister Modi Plays the ‘Tibet Card’ Again

• China Tightens Border Controls as COVID-19 Surges in Myanmar

• China’s Afghanistan Gambit

• What to Expect From China’s New Anti-Sanctions Law

• Returning to Multilateralism to Ensure Equitable COVID-19 Vaccine Access

• China’s 709 Crackdown Is Still Going On

• The China-Pakistan Partnership Continues to Deepen 

• How Are Taiwan’s Diplomatic Allies Faring in the Great Vaccine Race?

Foreign Policy:

• The United States Can’t Afford the Brutal Price of Chinese Solar Panels

• Will the United States and Europe Break Up Over China?

• The Undeniable Pessimism of Angela Merkel

• Chinese-U.S. Split Is Forcing Singapore to Choose Sides

• Taro Aso’s Taiwan Slip Was Likely Deliberate

• U.S. Blunts China’s Vaccine Diplomacy in Latin America

• U.S.-China Competition Can Still Produce Climate Wins

• Does Beijing’s Belligerent Birthday Party Herald a New Arms Race?

• China Fires Back at Biden with Conspiracy Theories About Maryland Lab

ThinkChina:

• Hong Kongers losing their voice as district councillors quit?

• SEA nations may need to pick a side as US-China rivalry intensifies

• Can China hold its own without the US?

• China is not the answer to America's problems

• Why the world will face a global leadership vacuum

• The most outstanding of CCP leaders?

• Indonesia-US Maritime Training Centre: A sign of Indonesia's independent and active foreign policy

• Chinese ambassador Hong Xiaoyong on CPC’s centenary: Towards a brighter future

• What’s stopping Hong Kong from fixing its housing crisis?

• Why the Vietnamese embrace US vaccines but shun Chinese ones

• When doing business in China, beware of patriotic netizens

What's on Weibo:

• Chinese State Media Features German Twitterer “Defamed by Evil Western Forces”

Tracking People's Daily:

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

• Xi Talks to Zelensky & Erdogan - Foreign Trade - Afghanistan's Impact on C. Asia - July 1 Speech & Xi's 'Major Theoretical Innovation'

• Ideological & Political Work Guidelines - H1 Trade Data - SCS & Winning the 'Strategic Initiative' - Vaccines Deal with GAVI

• Grassroots Governance - Apple Daily - United Front Work - Legal System with Chinese Characteristics

• Xi's Tech Focus - PLA Must Study July 1 Speech - Chinese Media's Social Responsibility Performance - Zhong Sheng Commentary on HK

The India China Newsletter:

• China and the Taliban, 'national humiliation' narratives, and how China negotiates with India

Eye on China:

• Tibet - WTC Changes - Afghanistan - Didi Saga - European Outreach - Political Parties Summit - RRR & Defaults - 'Patriotic Education' - Media Responsibility - South Asia Poverty Alleviation Center

Takshashila PLA Insight:

• PLA Promotions: Profiles; Arms Control, Military Diplomacy, Military-Political Work, Precision Munitions Eyes and Brain, Submarines; Conscription

China Dialogue:

• From Copenhagen to Paris: China’s climate governance journey

Lausan:

• Building the bases for a different life

Hong Kong Free Press:

• Out of the shadows: How China’s Communist Party is now claiming credit for the Hong Kong success story

Taiwan Insight:

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

• The WHO Approval and Support for China’s COVID-19 Vaccines in Taiwan

• Taiwan’s Boosting Economy Amid the Prolonged Global Pandemic Crisis

• A Wake-Up Call to Improve Factory Working Procedures in a Time of Crisis

• The Political and Economic Implications from Taiwan’s Covid-19 resilience performance

中国：历史与未来:

• 致命的自负 —国民党大陆溃败的原因再探

爱思想:

• 未来5年，中国要办的五件大事

• 送给年轻人的三个锦囊

• 个人信息保护法律体系的宪法基础

• 透视美国财政决策新思维

• 中国平视外交与中美关系前景分析

• 群居不倚，独立不惧，不与美好和善良为敌

• 中国共产党的百年光辉历程

• 古代语音和文言诗文阅读

• 宅基地、乡村振兴与城市化

• 胡适为何“自愿担任驻日大使”？

• 当前南海形势的几个特点及发展趋势

• 中国佛教传统文化之反省

• 范式转变

• 决胜全面建成小康社会顶层设计二十部曲

• 精英要以民富国强为己任，并深知思路决定出路

• 二十世纪初，西方和中国的文学与文化

• 李冰封——“不再天真”的人走了

• 美国霸权衰落，对世界意味着什么

• 二五 宝玉黛玉在床上

• 中俄美欧战略互动特点和发展趋势

中央党史和文献研究院

• 中国共产党的百年光辉历程

• 《1937，延安对话》：珍贵史料 映照初心

• 南梁精神孕育形成的历史揭示了什么？

• 实事求是：百年大党铸就辉煌的法宝

• 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

• 自我革命：百年大党永葆青春的奥秘

• 归根到底是因为马克思主义行（思想纵横）

• 中国共产党历史经验总结的新境界

• 新的征程上必须坚持党的全面领导

• “是我们的历史责任，也是我们的最大光荣”

• 坚持两个相结合走自己的路

• 中国脱贫成就的世界历史意义

• 中华民族几千年历史上最恢宏的史诗（深入学习贯彻习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想）

习近平系列重要讲话数据库

• 《求是》杂志发表习近平总书记重要文章《在庆祝中国共产党成立100周年大会上的讲话》

• 习近平亲切会见庆祝活动筹办工作各方面代表

• 习近平同朝鲜最高领导人金正恩就《中朝友好合作互助条约》签订60周年互致贺电

• 统筹指导构建新发展格局 推进种业振兴 推动青藏高原生态环境保护和可持续发展

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