Media Report
- TIME reports: "China's governing class descends on Beijing this week for the nation's top two annual political meetings. The National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), China's top political advisory body, begins Thursday, with the main event, the National People's Congress (NPC), the country's anodyne legislature, kicking off on Saturday. The 'two sessions,' as they are colloquially known in China, are an important bellwether for assessing government policy in a one-party state where most decisions take place behind firmly closed doors. Around 3,000 provincial administrators, top businessmen and Chinese Communist Party (CCP) bigwigs are expected to attend."
- The New York Times reports: "With the world looking to China for assurance that it can manage its slowing economy and tumultuous stock market, President Xi Jinping has begun pushing a remedy that sounds less like Marx and Mao than Reagan and Thatcher. Mr. Xi is calling his next big economic initiative 'supply-side structural reform,' a deliberate echo of the nostrums of tax cuts and deregulation advocated by those conservative Western leaders in the 1980s....The supply side Mr. Xi is referring to would, like Reaganomics, include lowering taxes and reducing the government burden on investors....Some economists say the supply-side rubric is at least a step toward painful measures that could lead to healthier growth."
- The Washington Post reports: "Donald Trump's latest victories in the race for the Republican nomination unleashed a wave of surprisingly positive comments across Chinese social media this week, from admiration of his credentials as a 'strongman,' to hopes he will lift the world economy 'out of its quagmire,' and assertions that he really isn't 'crazy and stupid.'...But as the nationalist Global Times tabloid noted in an op-ed on Thursday, the leading GOP candidate 'has surprisingly earned himself a few fans in China.'...Although he says he 'loves China,' and 'people from China love me,' he also accuses it of stealing American jobs and promises to immediately declare it a currency manipulator. He rails against its Great Wall of Protectionism and pledges to stand firm against its 'cheating' and 'financial blackmail.'...But Trump has one thing in common with Chinese people, the columnist suggested: 'His winning streak is solid proof that U.S. voters are tired of Washington politics.'"
Calendar
- 2016-03-02 China testing Obama as it expands its influence in Southeast Asia
- 2016-03-01 Exclusive: China to lay off five to six million workers, earmarks at least $23 billion
- 2016-02-29 China expects to lay off 1.8 million workers in coal, steel sectors
- 2016-02-28 Dodging Critics & Soothing Fears, China Meets G-20 Goals
- 2016-02-26 China talks up growth agenda at G20 amid lack of wider policy unity
- 2016-02-25 U.S., China Agree to Sanction North Korea on Nuclear Program
- 2016-02-24 China says media ignores other claimants' weaponry in South China Sea
- 2016-02-23 China Appears to Have Built Radar Facilities on Disputed South China Sea Islands
- 2016-02-22 Beijing to Raise Threshold on Red Alerts for Smog
- 2016-02-21 China's Debt Seen Rising Through 2019, Peaking at 283% of GDP
News
- The Washington Post Donald Trump's fans in China love him for being a strongman
- The New York Times Xi Jinping's Remedy for China's Economic Gloom Has Echoes of Reagan
- TIME Five Things to Know About China's 'Two Sessions'
- Reuters Cyber warriors spar over Taiwan's relations with China
- The New York Times U.S. Proposes Reviving Naval Coalition to Balance China's Expansion
- The Washington Post China's self-defeating provocations in the South China Sea
- Bloomberg Business Moody's Cuts Credit Outlook on Chinese SOEs, Financial Firms
- The New York Times Protesting Chinese Rule, Tibetan Monk Dies After Setting Himself Ablaze
- BBC News BBC at the coalface of North Korea sanctions debate
- The Washington Post Some facts for Donald Trump about the Great Wall of China
- Bloomberg Business Asean Powerless to Stop China's Sea Incursions, Mahathir Says
- The New York Times China's DJI Wants to Sell Drones in Japan After Laws Loosen
- The Washington Post The U.S. and India are deepening military ties — and China is watching
Commentary
- The New York Times Where China Goes to Chill
- Reuters China's web curbs pose real threat to foreign tech
- Forbes The Rainbow Mountains Of China Are Earth's Paint Palette
- The Wall Street Journal: China Real Time Picture China: 'Beat the Iron Ball' Ceremony in Fujian
- The Guardian Chinese football's unglamorous past
- The National Interest Warning: China's Airpower Will Equal the U.S. Air Force by 2030
- The Diplomat China's Architectural Crackdown
- The Wall Street Journal: China Real Time China, the U.S. and the 'Thucydides Trap:' Q&A with Professor Harry Harding