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Two of America’s closest allies are currently re-evaluating their relationships with both China and the U.S. — and they seem to be reaching different conclusions. As @samgoodman22 warns in one of our op-eds, Britain seems ready to risk falling out of step with Trump on China.
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Confidential documents show that Xiao Jianhua, a corrupt investor tied to China’s political elite, backed the country’s most successful and revered entrepreneur. Michael Forsythe, Katrina Northrop and Eliot Chen report.
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Formal opposition to Xi Jinping is highly unlikely, but that doesn't mean there isn't disquiet about his way of operating, writes @vshih2 .
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8 new books on China that our books editor @alecash says are worthy of landing on your shelf:
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Essential China books from @MichaelSchuman @davidrdollar @bobdavis187 @Lingling_Wei @antd @jayjamescarter @cfmeyskens @benjaminbland and more:
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The Harvard professor explains ‘Xi Jinping Thought’ and how the CCP’s revolutionary heritage may inoculate it against the disease that overtook communism in Europe.
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In 2018, the @nytimes received a thumb drive of documents from the Tomorrow Group, Xiao Jianhua’s conglomerate. The documents have been used in various reporting efforts, but last year @PekingMike pulled in @NorthropKatrina and @eliotcxchen to help decipher the deluge of files.
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“Many of the messages I receive are from Chinese millennials. Their fierce need to defend their country and to be patriotic is so revealing of the way that the party has so successfully conflated the CCP with Chinese heritage and with Chinese identity.”
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The Chinese economy seems to be roaring back, with state media trumpeting a 3.2 percent jump in nominal GDP from a year ago. But a closer look at the numbers reveals a darker picture, @vshih2 explains in this week’s column:
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"[NIO] is not a Chinese company. This is a global company based in China, with Chinese funding. It will tap into the Chinese market with the mindset and the global vision entirely different from anything I’ve ever seen before" @Dunne_ZoZoGo .
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The strong relationship between Beijing and Moscow can cause significant headaches for the United States, but the partnership is not without its limits, says @Ali_Wyne .
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"…I refuse to be a nationalist or reflexive patriot. I embrace cosmopolitanism and humanism. I am a world citizen. I fight for the freedom and dignity of all human beings.". - @tengbiao in this week's Q&A with Scott Savitt.
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This week's Q&A from Alex Palmer is with former National Intelligence Officer for East Asia, @PaulJHeer . ". we at least need to consider the possibility of an approach to #multilateralism in East Asia that does not wholly exclude and target #China. ".
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You’re no doubt aware of the increasingly hawkish rhetoric against China, but @BethanyAllenEbr's cover story looks at the harder-to-document flip side: those in the West who are reluctant to publicly criticize China because they perceive a legal or political risk in doing so.
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Essential China books from @BarbaraDemick @LeslieTChang @JustinMJacobs1 @DGTam86 @jkaufman617 and more:
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“When the only descriptor you have for China is ‘human rights abuses,’ you really obscure a larger view of a country and its complexities. A partial truth can distort your view of a place.” — @JiayangFan in this week’s Q&A:
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The political economist @IsabellaMWeber explains the ideas and internal debates that lay behind China's market-based reforms in the 1980s, and how its approach then has set the tone for its policy approach ever since.
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“It’s a 20th-century legacy dispute that confronts us today. Are we going to handle it? Are we going to learn some lessons about the way it was handled in the past?” — diplomat @NMenonRao
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China’s energy crisis and the Evergrande debacle do not pose systemic risks. But the persistent slowdown in economic growth does, writes Yu Yongding.
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"China’s #economic, social, foreign, and defense policies – as well as those of the #UnitedStates and other countries toward #China – are based on erroneous #demographic data.". - @fuxianyi .
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@alexjoske talks to @DavidBarboza2 about his new #book 'Spies and Lies', and more in this week's Q&A. "#China is more concerned with elite influence operations and covert activity. And I just don’t think that this has been widely understood. ".
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Helen Toner (@hlntnr) is director of strategy + foundational research grants at @CSETGeorgetown, a tech policy think tank. In this Q&A with @eliotcxchen, she discusses the U.S.-China AI race and if the two countries would work together to regulate AI.
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“We must remember the importance of investing in basic research and science education, while thinking about the welfare of our whole society. These are core underpinnings of our national strength, and we’ve let them erode.” — @EBKania in this Q&A:
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The best new books on how to manage the U.S.-China competition, as well as titles on Chinese literature and even cooking.
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Book recommendations for our swift-changing times, including the first on-the-ground account of life in Wuhan during the lockdown:
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“Everybody would like to have access to the China market. The question is what is the price that you’re willing to pay? The price that China extorts just gets higher and higher.” — @LizEconomy in this Q&A:
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Love China, journalism and open-source research? The Wire China is hiring a research associate.
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"China is turning to Maurice “Hank” Greenberg to bolster communications with the U.S", say @Lingling_Wei and @charleshutzler in the @WSJ. ICYMI, here is @bcamcrane's story on the Greenbergs, and the role of business interests in U.S.-China relations.
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@CourtneyFung talks about China's concept of cyber sovereignty and its growing influence in multilateral organizations such as the UN.
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“The future is Asian but not Chinese — China alone will not unilaterally dictate the future of Asia.” — @paragkhanna in this Q&A:
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On February 2, a Chinese fishing vessel cut one of the two subsea internet cables connecting the Matsu islands to Taiwan. Six days later, an unidentified ship severed the second cable, leaving Matsu’s 14,000 residents cut off from the outside world.
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Watch how reporters @PekingMike, @NorthropKatrina and @eliotcxchen, traced China’s most notorious businessman back to Jack Ma, and learn more about Xiao Jianhua and his conglomerate, The Tomorrow Group.
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“We must remember the importance of investing in basic research and science education, while thinking about the welfare of our whole society. These are core underpinnings of our national strength, and we’ve let them erode.” — @EBKania in this Q&A:
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Stanford physics professor Zhang Shoucheng, a potential Nobel laureate, was among the first casualties of the U.S.-China trade war. But when the world loses a brilliant scientist, who really wins?
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At the height of its high-profile acquisitions and developments, Dalian Wanda's chairman traveled the world touting the "Wanda Way." But behind the scenes was a comedy of errors — one that China's next generation of entrepreneurs may want to avoid.
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"Those values that people cherished about #HongKong, the freedom of the #press, freedom to #protest, freedom of association and academic inquiry. an independent judiciary, all those things are gone.". - @limlouisa from this week's Q&A with @jordynhaime.
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This month’s top recommendation from @alecash is “Eat the Buddha” by @BarbaraDemick which tells a story both historical and personal, drawing out the dilemma that Tibetans face.
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"#Xi has an older idea about what #Leninist systems are – that they are organizational weapons that encompass your entire self and personality. It is about making yourself part of something bigger.". - @JosephTorigian in this week's Q&A with @bcamcrane .
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China is the world’s biggest exporter of so-called “active pharmaceutical ingredients,” or APIs, in antibiotics. These are some of its biggest producers.
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It’s no surprise China is desperate for its own version of @Starlink, @SpaceX’s constellation of satellites in low earth orbit. But how Beijing is going about building its own constellation is a bit unexpected, as our cover story this week from @rachel_cheung1 explores.
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While it’s tempting to simplify the Chinese tech sector to 'soft' versus 'hard' tech, this is not the reality, writes @ruima .
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John Kerry and Xie Zhenhua are seen as uniquely capable of getting the U.S. and China to cooperate on climate change. But when it comes to the world's two biggest emitters, a rivalry might be just as useful.
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". we can’t have any certainty that #China would stop at #Taiwan. We can’t have any certainty that having absorbed Taiwan it would not take further steps to reorder the Asia-Pacific to its liking.". - @HalBrands in this week's Q&A with @bcamcrane .
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The media scholar Maria Repnikova talks about how the CCP builds consent, China's global media push, and Xi Jinping's public persona.
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In this week's Q&A with @andypeaps, @DAlperovitch — geopolitics analyst, co-founder of @CrowdStrike, and chairman of @SilveradoPolicy — says Xi Jinping is bent on invading Taiwan and the U.S. needs to unite with its allies to win a new Cold War.
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In both the U.S. and China, @yuenyuenang argues, corruption has evolved over time from thuggery and theft to more sophisticated exchanges of power and profit.
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Wang Jianlin, once the richest man in China, built Dalian Wanda Group with militaristic discipline. But, according to former employees, the company’s global expansion was a comedy of errors.
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“It is China that initiated the decoupling, not the United States. China’s successive technology plans are all about import substitution, and the U.S. is belatedly waking up to that.” — best-selling author of “The Future is Asian” @paragkhanna in this Q&A:
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For those willing to put in the time, rural China is a giant, untapped market opportunity. @ruima .
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"To be ambitious in any society can often require that you have a narrower field of vision — to look away from other things that are happening in society and not accept the feeling of responsibility" @tepingchen .
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Keeping the borders closed may make it easier to govern China near-term, but the broader consequences would be tragic and potentially dangerous, writes @eyckfreymann .
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The naval expert @AndrewSErickson explains China’s ‘maritime gray zone operations,’ why the Biden administration needs to accept some friction, and when he thinks calmer seas will arrive.
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Although the DoJ recently ended the controversial program, the question of how to navigate academic collaboration with China persists.
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The door is closing on what some have called the golden age of reporting on China — and the whole world will be forced to deal with the consequences.
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As Jude Blanchette considers in this week's cover story, co-published with @chinabksreview, we know less about Xi Jinping than we think — including the central question of what Xi’s guiding ideology actually is, and what it owes to Marx, Lenin or Mao.
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“Clearly people in China feel that their government has served them pretty well. during the epidemic. The reports about the disarray in the United States. presents a pretty sharp contrast. The Chinese propaganda is making the most of that.”—@SusanShirk1
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Over the past five years, Chinese companies have poured well over $10 billion into media rights, team sponsorships, and acquisitions of international teams and sports apparel brands.
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As @eyckfreymann reports, there is a consensus within China's academic and policy communities that #climatechange creates #geopolitical opportunities that #China can exploit. #Greenland, it seems, was the proof of concept for this strategy.
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Amelia Pang (@ameliapangg) discusses her new book, “Made in China,” and the realities of China’s Laogai system.
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“The Snowden files showed that almost all the big companies in China were collaborating with American intelligence agencies. That made China feel really insecure using all these components from U.S. companies.” — Lyu Jinghua, a PLA colonel at the time .
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Have you read our latest cover story from @eliotcxchen yet?. Xiang Guangda's company, Tsingshan Group, is both a leader and something of a gate keeper for the Indonesia's huge #nickel industry.
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In this interview with The Wire’s @DavidBarboza2, former U.S. National Security Advisor @AmbJohnBolton discusses civil military fusion, Hong Kong, and how 5G has changed the risks involved in collaboration with China’s telecom giants Huawei and ZTE.
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Why is China financing overseas coal projects, even as the rest of the world cuts back and China pledges to go carbon neutral? .
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We have just released a piece from @NorthropKatrina where she unravels the network of companies behind China's #balloon program. Check it out here, outside the paywall!.
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Is investing in China worth the risks? For Ray Dalio, who has spent 40 years nurturing his Beijing connections, the answer is easy.
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The Industrial Dream: If COMAC’s C919 jumbo jet takes off, so does China. But is the Chinese government’s heavy hand weighing it down? by @MichaelSchuman
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How did China--a strategic rival--become America's medicine cabinet? And, perhaps more importantly, should the US be worried about its supply?
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To make sense of @Tim_Walz’s China chops and how he might influence a potential @KamalaHarris administration, @eliotcxchen reviewed Walz’s past interviews, speeches and voting record, and spoke to those familiar with his #China experience.
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"China’s economy is entering a new era. There is no more scope for catch up growth, no more low-hanging fruit in the economy. The reform-based growth and stimulus from cheap credit worked very well in the past. But that kind of model is no longer feasible in the new era. ".
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In this excerpt from his new book, Volt Rush: The Winners and Losers in the Race to Go Green, @hjesanderson explains the rise of @catl_official, a #Chinese #lithium battery maker which has created more billionaires than either @Google or @facebook.
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For those in China at the time, news of Nixon’s upcoming visit caused a vague yet powerful sense that life was changing, writes Jianying Zha .
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The Great Expulsion. For the first time in 30 years, the majority of China reporters for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post will be covering China from the outside.
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“Even months into China’s recovery, Chinese households are still spending 20 percent less on food and beverages than they did in 2019. These figures suggest their lives will be negatively impacted for years to come,” writes @vshih2 in this week’s column:
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On the evening of June 8, 2020, four days after the 31st anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre, @BethanyAllenEbr received a message from @ZhouFengSuo, a student leader during the 1989 pro-democracy movement who now lives in New Jersey.
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"A book that tells Tencent’s story has been long overdue, and Lulu Chen’s account is not only comprehensive, but also a gripping business narrative.". - @alecash on @luluyilun's 'Influence Empire' in this week's list of 'Books for the WeChat Era'.
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In this week’s Q&A, @JiayangFan @NewYorker discusses the CCP’s internal logic, the psyche of Chinese nationalism, and the symbol of Hong Kong:
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China is the world’s biggest exporter of so-called “active pharmaceutical ingredients,” or APIs, in antibiotics. These are some of its biggest producers.
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The situation in #Tibet, while once a hot topic of Hollywood celebrities and politicians, has faded from view. Our cover story from Nithin Coca looks at how, exactly, that happened and what comes next for the autonomous region.
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Oriana Skylar Mastro (@osmastro) is a fellow at @FSIStanford, and an assistant professor of political science at @Stanford. In this week’s interview with @rachel_cheung1, she discusses how China has exploited vulnerabilities in U.S. strategy.
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In this frank interview with The Wire’s @DavidBarboza2, Singaporean diplomat @mahbubani_k walks through some simple math about China’s economic rise and explains why he thinks the U.S. needs some tough love.
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In India, now the world’s second largest smartphone market, Vivo, Oppo, and Realme phones top the rankings of smartphone shipments according to data compiled by @CounterPointTR
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Alec Ash's China book recommendations for the New Year. 📚
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China's answer to GPS, Beidou, can now be found everywhere — from Apple products to countries along the Belt and Road @NorthropKatrina .
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Migrant workers and ethnic minorities are almost never heard in official Chinese media. Clubhouse gave them a way to engage, and importantly, to have unfettered discussion among all sorts of people, writes @vshih2 .
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Beijing seems to have won this battle, but Hong Kong’s future is still to be fought over, and “City On Fire: The Fight for Hong Kong” by @antd sets out essential context:
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“Deng’s hybrid system – top-down direction combined with bottom-up autonomy – has been overlooked both by Western #China hawks and by Xi’s own #leadership.”. - from this week’s op-ed by @JohnsHopkins Professor, @yuenyuenang .
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With its recent high-profile Mars mission, China showed the world just how far its ambitious space program has come. If successful, China would become one of just three nations (along with the United States and Russia) to achieve a soft landing on Mars.
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Wall Street Journal reporters @bobdavis187 and @Lingling_Wei on their new book, ‘Superpower Showdown’ in this Q&A with The Wire’s @DavidBarboza2 :
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This week, from @NorthropKatrina:. When the #GOP takes over the House, the new group of lawmakers will bring a wide-ranging #China agenda with them. "It is going to be bad no matter what, the only question is how bad?" - the @StimsonCenter's Yun Sun .
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A longtime China optimist fears the recent tech crackdowns represent a tipping point.
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Browbeating billionaires won’t address structural imbalances in China’s economy, write Sam Bresnick and Nathaniel Sher.
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