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December 01 , 2016
  • Reuters：China says new North Korea sanctions not meant to harm 'normal' trade
    Reuters reports: "New U.N. Security Council sanctions on North Korea, imposed after its fifth and largest nuclear test in September, are not intended to harm 'normal' trade with the isolated country nor affect civilians, China's Foreign Ministry said on Thursday. The sanctions are aimed at cutting North Korea's annual export revenue by a quarter. The 15-member council unanimously adopted a resolution to slash North Korea's biggest export, coal, by about 60 percent with an annual sales cap of $400.9 million, or 7.5 million metric tonnes, whichever is lower.China, believed to be the only country buying North Korean coal, would slash its imports by some $700 million compared with 2015 sales under the new sanctions, diplomats said...'Resolution 2321 formulates new measures, showing the resolve of the Security Council, and also points out they must avoid creating adverse consequences for North Korean civilian and humanitarian needs, and are not intended to create negative effects on normal trade' [said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang]"
  • The Washington Post: Wonk Blog：How China may have cost Clinton the election
    The Washington Post comments: "China's emergence as one of America's biggest trading partners over the past 15 years may have cost Hillary Clinton the election. At least those are the findings of a hypothetical exercise by a noted group of economists who have studied how increasing competition from China has changed not just economic realities for Americans, but political life as well. In a recent note, economists David Autor, David Dorn, Gordon Hanson and Kaveh Majlesi calculated that if Chinese import penetration had been 50 percent lower since 2000, Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and North Carolina would have elected the Democratic instead of the Republican candidate...The research showed how large the effect of trade and globalization — topics addressed time and time again by Trump during the presidential campaign — may have been on the election...'No matter how you sliced it, these trade impacts led to the removal of moderates. And so we speculated that we might see something similar in the [2016] general election,' [said economist David Autor]"
  • Quartz：China is censoring people's chats without them even knowing about it
    Quartz comments: "China's WeChat originated as a WhatsApp clone, but later evolved into the single-most important tool for connecting people in China. Yet it's never been clear exactly how China's internet censors have attempted to control information that spreads in the app. That's partly because you likely wouldn't know if you got censored in the first place. A new study from The Citizen Lab, a research group at the University of Toronto, reveals that censorship on WeChat occurs primarily in group chats rather than one-on-one chats between two people, and often in such a way where the sender of a text isn't even aware a piece of text has been scrubbed. The discoveries illuminates how China's government attempts to keep its citizens blind to the scope of its censorship regime...Specifically, while sensitive terms used in isolation were unlikely to trigger censorship...it took effect when they were used in a full sentence or with other keywords."
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