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March 13 , 2017
  • The Financial Times：Fake China data: was it just one province?
    The Financial Times reports: "Sceptics about China's economic statistics have taken a special pleasure in revelations of fake data in the north-eastern province of Liaoning dating at least to 2011. Along with an officially reported contraction in its economy last year, they have given the impression that Liaoning's economy is unusually troubled. That impression may be unfair to Liaoning...Last week, even president Xi Jinping weighed in on Liaoning's data-faking, telling the province's delegation to China's annual legislative meeting that 'the practice must be stopped'...The FT examined four provinces that are more reliant than Liaoning on the coal, steel and oil industries. Shanxi, Shaanxi and Inner Mongolia comprise China's coal heartland; Liaoning and Hebei together account for almost one-third of China's steel output. In regions where resources or steel dominate, the commodity cycle is more extreme. Booms inflate the service sector, consumer spending and property prices; busts have an outsized effect on employment and government finances. 'China has a rust belt just like the US or UK,' says Andy Rothman, investment strategist at Matthews Asia."
  • Reuters：Relief camp in China swells as thousands flee conflict in Myanmar
    Reuters reports: "Within earshot of mortar fire echoing from beyond a ring of hills, a sprawling relief camp in Southwestern China is swelling steadily after fighting erupted last week between a rebel ethnic army in Myanmar and government troops just across the border. In a recent Reuters visit to the rugged area in southwestern Yunnan province, aid workers and those displaced expressed fears of a more violent and protracted conflict than a previous flare-up in the Kokang region in early 2015. 'Every day, more people come,' said Li Yinzhong, an aid manager in the camp, gesturing at the mostly Han Chinese refugees from Myanmar's Kokang region trudging through the reddish mud earth around rows of large blue huts where they sleep on nylon tarpaulin sheets. 'We will look after them until they decide they want to go back.'... On the Chinese side, paramilitary police have sent in battalions of reinforcements, mostly in readiness for disaster relief, according to Chinese officials who spoke on background...China has lodged 'solemn representations' with Myanmar over its citizens put at risk by the conflict, foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying told a regular news briefing on Monday. 'The Chinese will be very angry if it escalates to the level of 2015,' said Sino-Myanmar expert Yun Sun, a senior associate with the Stimson Center in Washington D.C."
  • The Hill：How Congress can help religious believers in China
    The Hill comments: "At a time when the post of ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom remains vacant, Congress has an especially important role to play in advocating for religious freedom around the world. Religious believers in China are particularly in need of dedicated congressional attention. Religious believers in China are particularly in need of dedicated congressional attention. China's authoritarian regime oversees a massive apparatus for controlling religious practice and belief. Basic spiritual activities that are practiced freely in most countries — from praying with one's children to observing important holidays and rituals — are restricted and can be harshly punished in China. On an almost daily basis, injuries are suffered, families are shattered and lives are lost...This reality presents an urgent and unique opportunity for the U.S. government and Congress to take actions that can protect Chinese believers and expand the space for their practice. But the complexity of conditions in China, the varied treatment meted out to different groups, and the need for both top-down and bottom-up pressures call for a multipronged strategy."
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