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April 26 , 2017
  • NPR：China Celebrates Launch Of 'Homemade' Aircraft Carrier
    NPR reports: "Chinese officials smashed a bottle of champagne on the bow of their second aircraft carrier Wednesday, launching what the Defense Ministry calls the country's first 'homemade' carrier — which took less than four years to build. The as-yet-unnamed carrier joins the Liaoning, a repurposed 1980s-era Soviet ship that was bought from Ukraine and launched in 2012. Together, the Chinese ships represent a new dimension in the increasingly crowded waters in and around Asia, where claims and counter-claims have been made on islands and shipping routes. As NPR's Anthony Kuhn reports from Beijing, the new carrier's launch is being greeted as an important milestone for China and its military. 'It allows China to project power far off-shore, and protect its expanding overseas interests,' Anthony says. 'The U.S., meanwhile, has 10 carriers, and it's been building an operating them for the better part of a century.'...'The valuable lessons learned from building a carrier from scratch will help China build more carriers faster in the future and enable them to reach combat readiness quicker,' Zhu Chenghu, a professor at China's National Defense University, said in March."
  • The Wall Street Journal：Netflix's China Deal May Prove a House of Cards
    The Wall Street Journal reports: "Netflix has finally found a way into China, its largest untapped market. Yet this is likely a Pyrrhic victory. The video-streaming giant says it has struck a licensing deal with iQiyi, one of China's biggest video sites, to distribute its original content in the country. iQiyi is a subsidiary of Nasdaq-listed Baidu, China's most popular search engine. Few details have been disclosed, although iQiyi says the first batch of shows it will stream include Netflix favorites such as 'Black Mirror' and 'Stranger Things.' Shares in the two companies jumped on the news, with Netflix up 6% and Baidu 4% overnight ...Still, the deal looks like a compromise for Netflix. The company said in a letter to shareholders last October that it expects revenue from any licensing deal it does in China to be 'modest.' Like other foreign companies that have entered the Chinese market, it has had to do so by hooking up with a Chinese partner. Similarly, western videogame makers need to find local partners to distribute their games in China...Netflix will have to console itself with the idea that it has at last made it into the market of 1.4 billion potential viewers."
  • Quartz：China's Communist Party has a new role model for its members, and he's an imperial bureaucrat
    Quartz comments: "In the latest development in its anti-graft campaign under president Xi Jinping's leadership, which has seen the revival of formerly reviled traditional figures like Confucius, China is now turning to its imperial history. On Monday (April 24), the agency that steers the party's anti-corruption campaign put out a trailer of a new TV episode—The Great Grand Councilor Yao Chong...A description on the website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection that accompanies the trailer says (link in Chinese) that Yao was praised by China's founding father Mao Zedong as 'a great politician.' '[Yao] was extremely strict with his relatives, he had never allowed families to participate in politics or abuse power,' the agency said, adding that Yao was able to "suppress corruption and extravagance.' The show is part of a TV series—The Family Rules of Chinese Tradition—that CCDI has been broadcasting since May 22, 2015. The 90 episodes broadcast so far focus on one theme—ruling a country begins with ruling one's home (link in Chinese)—a Confucian practice that Xi has been advocating. 'No matter how the times or life changes, we must value the family…making thousands of families the fundamental points of the country's development,' Xi said"
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