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November 03 , 2017
  • Financial Times：China's soft power comes with a very hard edge
    Financial Times reports: "No animal in the world is more adored than the giant panda. There is a reason: the panda's proportions — short fat limbs, oversized heads and big eyepatches — trigger the same neural reaction in us as the sight of human babies... The panda has become a symbol of China, abetted by the ruling Communist Party's practice of "panda diplomacy". Since the 1950s, China has sent scores of the bears to dozens of countries. From North Korea and the Soviet Union, to Nixon's America and Angela Merkel's Germany, China has gifted or loaned the animals to governments it wants to befriend or reward. The pandas come with hidden costs. China charges countries $1m a year for a pair of pandas and reserves the right to repatriate any offspring if it is displeased by the host country. President Xi Jinping signs off on every panda loan, but not until recipient countries have jumped through hoops and endured years of negotiations. China-based foreign diplomats complain about how skillful Beijing has become at manipulating governments and constituents in their home countries to increase demand for panda loans. Please use the sharing tools found via the email icon at the top of articles. All of this, of course, has the marking of a rather obvious — but nonetheless very apt — metaphor. China's efforts to build soft power outside its borders goes far beyond pandas — and in these areas, too, the People's Republic needs to tread more lightly, and take a more reciprocal and less authoritarian approach."
  • CNN：China downplays role in US opioid epidemic
    CNN reports: "Chinese authorities on Friday pushed back at allegations that China is the main source of fentanyl, a cheap synthetic opioid at least 50 times stronger than heroin, flooding into the United States.US President Donald Trump last week declared the opioid crisis a public health emergency and promised to make the issue a top priority when he meets with Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in Beijing next week. Trump said he expected Xi to 'do something about it.' 'While we don't deny that some fentanyl substances abused in the US have come from China, we don't see sufficient evidence... that most of them have come from China,' said Wei Xiaojun, deputy secretary-general of National Narcotics Control Commission, China's top drug enforcement agency. Wei said that the US had provided only 'limited' information that huge amounts of fentanyl precursors has been shipped from China to Mexico before the final products hit the US market. He added that the Mexican government has not brought up the topic at all. A February 2017 report from the Congressional US-China Economic and Security Review Commission labeled China as the primary source of fentanyl in the US, citing law enforcement and drug investigators."
  • CNBC：We're the world's 'new role model,' and Trump needs to prove he can be 'constructive'
    CNBC reports: "China is calling for constructive dialogue and negotiations ahead of the President Donald Trump's visit to Beijing next week as the world's second-largest economy balances practical diplomacy with its own growing assertiveness. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying demonstrated that balancing act when she addressed a question about the trade relationship with the U.S. on Thursday. 'With deepening and fast growing economic and trade cooperation, it is inevitable that certain differences and frictions may arise between China and the U.S. But we should be aware that this doesn't make [up] the mainstream of China-U.S. economic and trade relations,' said Hua... After all, as the world's largest economies, the U.S. and China are 'highly dependent' on each other, so 'it's safe to say that we will swim or sink together,' Hua said. The official views were echoed by the state press which are painting a hopeful and positive picture of Trump's first presidential visit to Asia, where he will be meeting Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing next week."
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