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August 25 , 2016
  • Foreign Policy: Tea Leaf Nation：The New Face of Chinese Nationalism
    Foreign Policy: Tea Leaf Nation comments: "The just-completed 2016 Rio Olympics didn't just mark the ascendance of major Chinese athletes like swimmer and internet darling Fu Yuanhui — it also showed, in real time, how Chinese nationalism can affect the global online dialogue. During the games, Australian gold medalist swimmer Mack Horton called Chinese competitor Sun Yang a 'drug cheat'; in response, Chinese netizens flooded Horton's Facebook, Twitter and Instagram — all of which are blocked in China and can only be accessed with censorship circumvention tools — to demand an apology....On what seems to be Horton's personal account on Chinese social media site Weibo, for example, Chinese users left over 243,000 recent comments under a 2015 post, most calling Horton a 'loser.' A Weibo analytics tool developed by Peking University shows 83 per cent of these users identifying as female. Some were likely part of an increasingly high-profile, active, and female-dominated online group commonly called the 'Little Pink'....While many 50-centers may actually be government workers, and skew male, Little Pink members are known to be predominately young women, both in China and abroad, who genuinely believe that they have a sense of duty to guard their country against unwelcome opinions or criticism."
  • The Washington Post：China faces 1-year ban from weightlifting over doping
    The Washington Post reports: "China is facing a one-year ban from weightlifting over repeated doping cases in a move which threatens to stop some of the world's top athletes from competing internationally. The International Weightlifting Federation confirmed Thursday that three failed retests of drug test samples from the 2008 Beijing Olympics will lead to China's automatic ban — if the cases are proven and the athletes in question disqualified by the International Olympic Committee....'It happens automatically. The vote was already taken so now we only need to receive the closed cases from the IOC to proceed,' Rozgonyi said in an e-mail. China is the world's dominant country in weightlifting, having topped the medal table at every Olympics since 2000. It won seven medals in Rio de Janeiro this month, five of them gold."
  • The Wall Street Journal：China's Zika Fumigation Rules Raise Worries for U.S. Exporters
    The Wall Street Journal reports: "China's recent move to add the U.S. to a list of Zika-infected countries is worrying U.S. exporters, who fear they will be required to fumigate all containers destined for Chinese ports....Exporters who ship everything from agricultural products and chemicals to engine parts say they fear that conflicting information from Chinese custom officials about the new requirements could result in delays, added cost and lost business. Since creating the list earlier this year, China has required that all containers be fumigated either at the country of origin with documentation or upon arrival in China. But exporters say some Chinese ports may accept the fumigation documents from abroad and others may not. Exporters from Brazil said they found that it depends on the local customs officers. It is unclear whether China-bound containers should be fumigated in the U.S. or in China and if the rules will be applied across the board, said Peter Friedmann, executive director of the Agriculture Transportation Coalition, a Washington-based trade body."
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