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September 29 , 2017
  • Politico：White House conducting wide-ranging review of China policy
    Politico reports: "The White House is quietly conducting a comprehensive review of its approach toward China, according to administration officials and outside advisers with knowledge of the plan. The review, which is not yet complete, is a government-wide effort spearheaded by senior staff on the National Security Council and the National Economic Council, who have been quietly working on the plan for months. It stemmed in part from concerns in some parts of the administration that the president lacked a coherent approach to China. The review will focus on economic issues -- including intellectual property, forced joint ventures, scientific research theft and trade tactics, the sources said. Other potential issues on the table include scrutiny over Chinese investments in the U.S., Beijing's sector-specific industrial policies, cybersecurity and U.S. export restrictions of military use products to the communist nation. China's policies toward North Korea and its activities in the South China Sea could also be addressed, but one person familiar with the review said it would largely center on economic matters."
  • The Washington Post：On China's border with North Korea, a reduced trade lifeline is still a lifeline
    The Washington Post reports: "The trucks still rumble across the Sino-Korean Friendship Bridge, and a nearby pipeline still pumps crude oil to keep the regime alive in Pyongyang. But here in the Chinese city of Dandong, at the center of this country's trade with North Korea, pain and frustration are mounting. Sanctions approved by the United Nations Security Council to punish North Korea for its nuclear and missile tests and bring it to the negotiating table are starting to bite. 'Personally, the sanctions are hurting me a tremendous amount,' one Chinese trader said, explaining that almost 80 percent of the goods he used to send back and forth across the border — ranging from textiles to chemicals — are now forbidden. 'Both Chinese and North Korean business executives have the same thought — whatever happens, let it happen quickly,' he said... 'If we have to have war, at least let it happen soon... Things can't go on like this.' Successive rounds of U.N. sanctions have cut off more than 90 percent of North Korea's publicly reported exports.. and have restricted the regime's ability to earn foreign currency income by sending workers abroad. China accounts for roughly 85 percent of North Korea's external trade and is seen by many as the key to forcing Pyongyang to at least freeze its nuclear and missile programs."
  • Reuters：Tea and Tiananmen: Inside China's new censorship machine
    Reuters comments: "In a glass tower in a trendy part of China's eastern city of Tianjin, hundreds of young men and women sit in front of computer screens, scouring the Internet for videos and messages that run counter to Communist Party doctrine. References to President Xi Jinping are scrutinized. As are funny nicknames for state leaders. And any mention of the Tiananmen protests in 1989 is immediately excised, as is sexual innuendo and violent content. Welcome to China's new world of online censorship, where Orwell's 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' meets Silicon Valley start-up. The young censors in the Tianjin office... work for Beijing ByteDance Technology Co, better known as Toutiao, a popular and fast-growing news feed app.... According to figures released by the state media outlet Beijing News, China had roughly 2 million online content monitors in government departments and private companies in 2013. Academics estimate that number has since risen sharply. The government has been tightening control over videos, chat platforms and social media ahead of a Communist Party congress in October at which Xi is expected to bolster his leadership. Under Xi, the government has stepped up efforts to control discourse online as a growing array of web platforms give people new channels for self-expression... The Beijing-based censor said Toutiao used artificial intelligence systems to censor content, though these don't always understand the tone of posts... For now, though, real humans are still in demand. An advertisement Toutiao posted on Tianjin Foreign Studies University's career page for students this month sought 100 fresh graduates to work in 'content audit'... Most postings are for young graduates, generally seen as more receptive to the job's demands. 'People who have just graduated from college are clean like a white piece of paper, and will accept our corporate culture more easily.'"

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