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August 23 , 2017
  • The Washington Post：China demands U.S. immediately withdraw N. Korea sanctions, warns will hit ties
    The Washington Post reports: "China on Wednesday demanded that the United States immediately withdraw a package of sanctions on companies and individuals trading with North Korea, and the decision by the Trump administration will damage Sino-U. S. ties. The Treasury Department placed sanctions Tuesday on 10 companies and six individuals from China and Russia it said had conducted business with North Korea in ways that advanced the country's missile and nuclear weapons program. But China's Foreign Ministry insisted that its government had fully implemented U.N. Security Council resolutions on North Korea and would punish anyone caught violating the Security Council sanctions under Chinese law. It added that it opposed sanctions outside the framework of the Security Council. 'China especially opposes any country conducting 'long-arm jurisdiction' over Chinese entities and individuals,' spokeswoman Hua Chunying said at a routine news conference. 'Measures taken by the United States are not helpful in solving the problem and unhelpful to mutual trust and cooperation. We ask the United States to stop the relevant wrong practices immediately.'"
  • The New York Times：Tillerson Suggests North Korea May Soon Be Ready for Talks
    The New York Times reports: "In some of the most conciliatory remarks to North Korea made by the Trump administration, Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson complimented the government in Pyongyang for going more than two weeks without shooting any missiles or blowing up any nuclear bombs. 'I'm pleased to see that the regime in Pyongyang has certainly demonstrated some level of restraint,' Mr. Tillerson said, suggesting that the brief pause in testing may be enough to meet the administration's preconditions for talks. 'We hope that this is the beginning of the signal we've been looking for,' he said, adding that 'perhaps we're seeing our pathway to sometime in the near future of having some dialogue. We need to see more on their part. But I want to acknowledge the steps they've taken so far.' That was the carrot. As for the stick, the Trump administration announced new sanctions against China and Russia on Tuesday as part of its campaign to pressure North Korea to stop its development of nuclear weapons and missiles. The two moves are part of the Trump administration's dual-track strategy for taming the nuclear threat from North Korea — ratcheting up economic pressure on the government through sanctions while simultaneously offering a diplomatic pathway to peace.
  • The Washington Post：China's odious manipulation of history is infecting the West
    The Washington Post comments: "The announcement last week by Cambridge University Press that it had removed some 300 articles from a Chinese website hosting the China Quarterly, one of the premier academic journals on Chinese affairs, is yet another example of an assault on history by the People's Republic of China. Censorship is a key element in the Chinese Communist Party's strategy to stay in power. In so doing, it aims, one scholar has written, 'to control China's future by shaping consciousness of its past.' Cambridge made the decision to block access to these articles after China's General Administration of Press and Publication threatened to cut access in China to all of the journals published by Cambridge University Press. The offending articles in question appeared in the China Quarterly as far back as 1960 and concerned a range of topics considered sensitive in today's China... The decision to agree to self-censor sparked a backlash among Western academics and journalists against the Cambridge University Press. Several open letters were published and petitions were launched... In the face of such a response, Cambridge on Monday reinstated the articles... China's move to demand self-censorship is not an isolated case. It's just one of many the Communist government has taken in recent years to mold history and historians to serve the needs of the Chinese Communist Party. Party boss Xi Jinping has led a campaign against what he calls 'historical nihilism,' the party's shorthand for attempts to write honestly about the past and mistakes committed by China's Communist leaders."
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