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October 24 , 2016
  • The New York Times: The Opinion Pages：China's Digital Soft Power Play
    The New York Times: The Opinion Pages comments: "This month, the Chinese government plans to introduce codes for some 3,000 Chinese characters as part of a grand project, known as the China Font Bank, to digitize 500,000 characters previously unavailable in electronic form. Until now, only 80,388 characters have been encoded in the international computing standard, Unicode. The project highlights 100,000 characters from the country's 56 ethnic minorities, and another 100,000 rare and ancient characters from China's written corpus. Deploying almost 30 companies, institutions and universities, it's the largest state-funded digitization project ever undertaken....China has struggled with the global information architecture that favors the Western alphabet. Not any of the significant innovations in modern communications — Morse Code, typewriters and the ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) encoding standard — were built with the Chinese script in mind....The spread of Chinese language and culture through Confucius Institutes and other efforts around the world has been part of Beijing's soft-power strategy for the past decade. The Font Bank takes this mission into the digital realm."
  • Bloomberg：China's 6th Party Plenum Begins in Beijing
    Bloomberg Business video: "We are at the start of the most important few days this year on the Chinese political calendar. Top leaders go behind closed doors today for the Communist Party's 6th Plenum. Bloomberg's Stephen Engle reports on 'Bloomberg Daybreak: Asia.'"
  • The Economist: The Economist Explains：What is China's plenum and why does it matter?
    The Economist: The Economist explains comments: "The 200-odd highest-ranking members of China's Communist Party—its central committee—usually meet only once a year. The closed-door gathering is called a plenum....This year's marks the start of China's busiest political season leading up a party congress—the five-yearly meeting of 2,000 or so members—which is scheduled for October 2017 and will approve the line-up that will govern the country for the following five years. The plenum will not discuss that line-up, nor will it talk about Xi Jinping's successor as party leader. But those questions overshadow the gathering....But the bigger issue with which the plenum must grapple concerns Mr Xi's ambitions....Potential leaders tend to spend five years in a high-ranking job, such as party secretary of a large province, and then another five years on the party's standing committee. It may well take ten years for them to be ready. That means Mr Xi's choice could not take over until 2027—and he himself would probably want to serve an extra five years beyond the ten given to the party leader under existing rules. Such a move would be unprecedented and controversial, and could precipitate a political crisis."  
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