The U.S. is heading toward a dangerous showdown with China - March 16, 2016

Media Report

March 16 , 2016

The Washington Post：The U.S. is heading toward a dangerous showdown with China
The Washington Post reports: "The Obama administration is moving toward what could be a dangerous showdown with China over the South China Sea....What troubles the White House is that President Obama thought he was assured by President Xi Jinping in Washington in September that China would act with restraint in the South China Sea. 'China does not intend to pursue militarization,' Xi said publicly in the Rose Garden. China's recent moves appear to contradict these assurances. Administration officials point to China's installation of surface-to-air missiles on Woody Island in the Paracel chain in February and its recent installation of military radar systems on Cuarteron Reef, one of the artificial islands it has created hundreds of miles from its coast."
BBC News：China approves new five-year plan as Li reassures on economy
BBC News reports: "The National People's Congress ended with the adoption of a new five-year plan for the economy, aiming for 6.5-7% growth a year by 2020. Measures include cutting high debt, streamlining state-owned enterprises, and reforming financial markets...The plan, laid out by Communist Party leaders, received unanimous approval from delegates at the largely rubber-stamp NPC."
The Guardian：Chinese government adviser attacks rise in censorship
The Guardian reports: "Last week internet censors purged an interview given to a leading Chinese magazine by Jiang Hong, a government adviser and academic. The magazine, Caixin, subsequently challenged the government over the incident, in a rare rebuke to the Communist party's attempts to control the media. Days later an employee at China's news and propaganda agency Xinhua criticised censors' 'crude' and 'extreme' violations of online freedom of expression....'If a society only listens to one voice, then mistakes can be made,' Jiang said on the sidelines of China's annual parliament, the National People's Congress, which concluded on Wednesday. 'A good way to prevent this from happening is to let everyone speak up, to give us the whole picture.'"

Calendar

2016-03-15 Chinese insurer has global ambitions
2016-03-14 PBOC Said to Have Met Banks in Shenzhen to Stress Mortgage Risks
2016-03-13 China to create maritime judicial center as South China Sea tensions simmer
2016-03-11 China says slowing economy won’t stop anti-pollution efforts
2016-03-10 Awash in Empty Homes, China Asks Migrant Workers to Settle Down
2016-03-09 China says takes 'distinctly Chinese approach' to national security
2016-03-08 China, South Korea step up sanctions on North Korea
2016-03-07 China vowed to peak carbon emissions by 2030. These researchers think it could already be there.
2016-03-06 China Seeks to Balance Stimulus and Reform
2016-03-04 China's 2016 Defense Budget to Slow in Line with Economy

News

The Washington Post The U.S. is heading toward a dangerous showdown with China
BBC News China approves new five-year plan as Li reassures on economy
The Guardian Chinese government adviser attacks rise in censorship
The New York Times China Seeks to Avoid Mass Layoffs While Cutting Production
The Wall Street Journal China Calls for Investigation Into Argentine Sinking of Fishing Vessel
The Washington Post How China's premier survived a two-hour news conference without answering a single hard question
BBC News Rare act of dissent at China's annual parliament
Bloomberg Business China's P2P Property Lending Growth Six Times Faster Than Banks
The New York Times China Weighs Letting Banks Sell Bad Debt to Investors
The Washington Post Chinese website publishes, then pulls, explosive letter calling for President Xi's resignation
The Financial Times Apple reveals new details of data centres in China
TIME Life in Purgatory: Buddhism Is Growing in China, But Remains in Legal Limbo
Bloomberg Business Commodity Rally Threatening $460 Billion China Bonus From Slump
The Financial Times China explores debt-for-equity swaps to defeat bad debt pile-up

Commentary

The National Interest China Needs to Consider the 'Finland Option' for Taiwan
The Wall Street Journal: China Real Time At China's Legislative Meeting, 'Fake Foreign Media' Take a Lower Profile
The New York Times: Sinosphere Delegates Endorse China's 5-Year Plan but Resist Saying Much Else
The National Interest Flattop Faceoff: China's Pride vs. America's Arrogance
The New Yorker The Empire's New Clothes
The New York Times: Sinosphere Unofficial Poll on Legislative Proposals Hints at Chinese Priorities