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November 22 , 2016
  • The Wall Street Journal：China Touts Its Own Trade Pact as U.S.-Backed One Withers
    The Wall Street Journal reports: "China said it hoped to conclude an Asia-wide trade pact as soon as possible, a sign of Beijing's intent to broaden its regional influence amid the apparent collapse of the U.S.-backed Trans-Pacific Partnership. A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Tuesday that Asian leaders are pressing ahead with talks for the 10-nation Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership that China has backed as an alternative to the U.S.-led deal, and 'hope that such negotiations can achieve early results.' Beijing's statement came a day after U.S. President-elect Donald Trump vowed to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific deal...'TPP has been a containment strategy by the Obama administration,' said Zou Zhengfang, an economics professor at Renmin University. 'This is a good opportunity for China to be more powerful on the global stage starting with economics, and to gain a larger voice.' "
  • The New York Times：Philippines to Declare Marine Sanctuary in South China Sea
    The New York Times reports: "Philippine officials said Monday that President Rodrigo Duterte planned to declare a marine sanctuary and no-fishing zone at a lagoon within Scarborough Shoal, a reef China seized in 2012...It was unclear whether the plan had Mr. Xi's backing; the Philippine national security adviser, Hermogenes Esperon Jr., said in a statement on Monday that creating the proposed sanctuary was 'a unilateral action.'...'[however] until we have a management plan, we won't know,' said Clive Wilkinson, an expert on coral reefs...He added that the Philippines probably did not have enough ships to enforce such a ban, and that the lagoon sanctuary would offer only marginal fisheries protection in the absence of a corresponding fishing ban along the shoal's outer flanks...Leaders from China and Southeast Asian nations have mostly ignored the suggestion."
  • The Associated Press：Daimler fires official accused of calling Chinese 'bastards'
    The Associated Press reports: "A top executive at German automaker Daimler's China operation has been fired after being accused of yelling insults about Chinese people and using pepper spray in a dispute over a parking spot. Rainer Gaertner, chief executive of Daimler's Chinese truck and bus division, was accused of starting an argument in an upscale Beijing neighborhood last week. A post that circulated on Chinese social media alleged that Gaertner said that he had lived in China for a year and that he believed all Chinese were 'bastards.'...Daimler issued a statement Monday offering an apology for the incident, 'irrespective of any comments alleged to have been made.' It called what happened 'detrimental to the standing of our company, unbecoming of a manager of our brand and prejudicial to our good name.'... China is the world's biggest automotive market, and Chinese consumers and media are particularly sensitive to stories about alleged Western arrogance and the perception that outside companies take advantage of Chinese consumers."
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