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October 21 , 2016
  • The Washington Post：China's plan to organize its society relies on 'big data' to rate everyone
    The Washington Post reports: "A high-level policy document released in September listed the sanctions that could be imposed on any person or company deemed to have fallen short. The overriding principle: 'If trust is broken in one place, restrictions are imposed everywhere.' A whole range of privileges would be denied, while people and companies breaking social trust would also be subject to expanded daily supervision and random inspections. The ambition is to collect every scrap of information available online about China's companies and citizens in a single place — and then assign each of them a score based on their political, commercial, social and legal 'credit.' The government hasn't announced exactly how the plan will work — for example, how scores will be compiled and different qualities weighted against one another. But the idea is that good behavior will be rewarded and bad behavior punished, with the Communist Party acting as the ultimate judge. This is what China calls 'Internet Plus,' but critics call a 21st-century police state."
  • The Wall Street Journal：Xi Jinping's Trump Moment
    The Wall Street Journal comments: "Mr. Xi has a daunting problem on his hands: The consumer economy isn't expanding fast enough to make up for lost manufacturing....The slowdown threatens a cherished Communist Party goal of doubling per capita GDP by 2020, a year ahead of the centenary of the party's founding, compared with its level in 2010. For that to happen, growth must not fall below 6.5%....Driven by fears of his party's demise, Mr. Xi has conjured forth a whole new rationale for Communist rule based not on ever-growing prosperity but on nationalism and military prowess....In this context, Mr. Trump's anti-trade agenda is incendiary....Slapping a 45% tariff on Chinese exports to the U.S., as Mr. Trump has threatened to do, won't return jobs to places like Lowell, which is the ostensible reasoning behind his plan. Rather, it will hasten the outflow of Chinese jobs to lower-cost destinations such as Cambodia and Myanmar....The real problem is not globalization, argues Mr. Alden, but the 'irresponsible' political response by the U.S. government to those whose lives it upends. 'Washington has left most Americans to fend for themselves,' he writes."
  • The New York Times: Sinosphere：Chinese TV Serves Up Lavish Living, With a Side of Shame
    The New York Times: Sinosphere comments: "Feasts of crocodile tail. Pricey liquor by the bucketful. A nanny employed just to take care of pets. Bundles of jade bracelets worth millions. A free trip to the World Cup in Brazil. Titillating scenes from 'Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous'? Not quite. They are highlights from a new Chinese television series about official corruption and loose living that is best described as 'Lifestyles of the Venal and Disgraced.' The documentary series, actually titled 'Always on the Road,' has been shown on state television this week to emphasize that President Xi Jinping is serious about wiping out graft. Some of China's most notorious fallen officials are shown repenting on camera, warning of the misery that comes from dirty wealth and imprisonment....The Communist Party is promoting the series to set the mood for a leaders' meeting starting on Monday that will lay down more stringent rules for members and officials. In many areas, they have been ordered to watch the show. And its hero is undoubtedly Mr. Xi, the only nondisgraced leader to be featured. He is described as spartan, humble and happy with a simple diet."
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