Media Report
- CNBC reports: "U.S. President Donald Trump will urge President Xi Jinping to make good on his commitments to pressure North Korea when he visits China next month, a senior White House official said on Monday, stepping up a strategy to have Beijing help rein in Pyongyang. Isolating North Korea further over its nuclear and ballistic missile tests is a key goal for Trump on what will be his longest foreign trip to date. Trump will call on Xi to fully implement U.N. Security Council resolutions against Pyongyang and take other steps to pressure North Korea. China, North Korea's sole major ally, accounts for more than 90 percent of trade with the isolated country. China has said it will strictly enforce U.N. Security Council sanctions banning imports of coal, textiles and seafood, while cutting off oil shipments to the North. But a senior White House official who briefed reporters ahead of Trump's trip said China needs to do more to comply with two U.N. Security Council resolutions that were approved unanimously, including with China's support."
- The Washington Post reports: "China's Communist Party formally elevated President Xi Jinping to the same status as party legends Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping on Tuesday, writing his name into its constitution and setting the nation's leader up for an extended stay in power. The move will make Xi the most powerful Chinese leader in decades, with ambitions to tighten party control over society and make his country a superpower on the world stage. The unanimous vote to enshrine "Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics in a New Era" in the constitution came on the final day of the week-long 19th Party Congress, a gathering of the party elite held once every five years in the imposing and cavernous Great Hall of the People on the western side of Beijing's iconic Tiananmen Square. The meeting effectively marks the start of Xi's second five-year-term as party general secretary, but the chances are now higher that this will not be his last -- although in the opaque world of Chinese party politics, nothing is certain."
- The Washington Post comments: "As the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China draws to a close, analysts are parsing through President Xi Jinping's 30,000-plus-word report — delivered in a three-and-a-half-hour address without breaks — to decipher the direction of the most populous nation in the world. It is a laborious effort, especially considering the report's extensive official jargon and policy details. But there is a much easier way. Read The Economist's coverage of the congress, which is considerably shorter in length, and bet on the opposite being true... In October 1992, while the party was holding its 14th Party Congress, The Economist editorialized that the party had 'stepped backwards' and called the socialist market economy an 'oxymoron.' Five years later in 1997, during the 15th Party Congress, it characterized the gathering as where 'hollow promise[s]' were made and broken, from privatization to unemployment goals... At the 16th Party Congress in November 2002, the magazine pronounced that the "familiar policy of trying to muddle through" was no longer an option for a party that faced looming troubles; words such as 'crisis' and 'unrest' were ominously used. Another five years would pass. The same magazine dutifully expressed dissatisfaction at the lack of reform during the 17th Party Congress: 'Politically, little has changed.' The Economist's howl reached a crescendo in the fall of 2012; during the 18th Party Congress, China was 'unstable at the grassroots, dejected at the middle strata and out of control at the top,' quoting an anonymous source. That could only be outdone by this year's cover, which warned the world not to 'expect Mr. Xi to change China, or the world, for the better'... Today, the China that Deng envisioned has arrived and then some. By several measures, China is the most powerful economic engine in the world... Given the track record of the party and that of The Economist, my bet is that Xi will indeed 'change China, and the world, for the better.'"
Calendar
- 2017-10-23 China’s Pursuit of Fugitive Businessman Guo Wengui Kicks Off Manhattan Caper Worthy of Spy Thriller
- 2017-10-22 China Says Jobless Rate Lowest in Years, but Challenges Persist
- 2017-10-20 What We Learned on Day Three of China’s Party Congress
- 2017-10-19 What We Learned on Day Two of China's Communist Party Congress
- 2017-10-18 China Is Quietly Reshaping the World
- 2017-10-17 China's Communist Party is holding its most important meeting in years: Here's what you need to know
- 2017-10-16 China stands at 'a new historic starting point,' Communist Party says
- 2017-10-15 China's Pollution Crackdown Is Gaining Momentum
- 2017-10-13 China’s trade with North Korea slumps as nuclear sanctions finally start to bite
- 2017-10-12 Big twice-in-a-decade meeting in China may have a curious market impact
News
- The Washington Post China's leader elevated to the level of Mao in Communist pantheon
- CNN Chinese President Xi cements his grip on power with rare party move
- CNN Tillerson in India: China, Afghanistan and Pakistan to dominate agenda
- Financial Times China anti-graft tsar cut from top Communist party leadership
- The New York Times China's Entrepreneurs Squirm Under Xi Jinping's Tightening Grip
- CNBC China has grand ambitions to dethrone the dollar. It may make a powerful move this year
- The Wall Street Journal Airbnb China Head Quits After Short Stay
- Reuters China, Southeast Asia aim to build trust with sea drills, Singapore says
- The New York Times Tesla Plant in China May Be a First
- Reuters U.S. touts military ties in Philippines as Duterte courts Russia, China
- CNBC China central bank chief raises new worry in China: Mortgage-driven household debt
- CNBC Steve Wynn reportedly delivered letter from Chinese government to Trump asking for man's deportation
- CNBC China's Communist Party enshrines Xi in constitution
Commentary
- The New York Times China Enshrines 'Xi Jinping Thought.' What Does That Mean?
- NPR China's Xi Is Elevated To New Level, With Echoes Of Mao
- Al Jazeera What happened to the Chinese Communist Party under Xi?
- China Law Blog Hollywood, China, and Big Data
- The Washington Post Western media is still wrong. China will continue to rise.
- Quartz A Chinese exhibit comparing Africans to animals shows the problematic racial attitudes in China