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November 06 , 2017
  • Bloomberg：Weakened Trump Looks to the 'King of China' to Give Him a Boost
    Bloomberg reports: "Shortly after Donald Trump's surprise election win, Barack Obama gave some advice to President Xi Jinping in the final minutes of their last meeting as leaders of the world's biggest economies. Obama explained the factors that led to Trump's victory following a campaign that featured regular China-bashing, and suggested that Xi take steps to put relations with the U.S. on a sustainable path... Xi replied that he wouldn't throw the first punch at Trump -- but he also wouldn't sit back and take one. Almost a year later, Trump will head to Beijing with more incentive to show off his self-proclaimed deal-making skills than to pick a fight. His approval rating has plunged to an all-time low amid legislative failures and an investigation into collusion with Russia during the campaign. At the same time, Xi has tightened his grip on power to become China's strongest leader in decades. 'He needs to show his base that he's gone to China and he's gotten a lot of great deals for U.S. companies,' said Paul Haenle, a former China director on the National Security Council.  'The Chinese leadership thinks it can give out a little bit here and there and settle Donald Trump's political imperatives in the short term,' he said, adding: 'They do feel that to a certain extent they can manipulate him.'"
  • Financial Times：China, Trump and the North Korean nightmare
    Financial Times reports: "With the threat of another Korean war looming, this week's US-China summit in Beijing could be the most important in decades. Most western commentary on North Korea has focused on President Donald Trump's warnings of "fire and fury" to combat the regime's nuclear threat. But the Korean crisis also poses a huge risk to China. If a war breaks out, China will literally be on the frontline — potentially exposed to nuclear fallout, refugee flows and dramatic shifts in the regional balance of power. These acute risks have produced a startling variety of opinions among Chinese experts about the best way forward. There are some who even argue that China and the US should co-operate in joint military operations against North Korea. Others take a completely different line — contending that Washington's policy is leading to disaster, and that it is time for Beijing to break publicly with the US. Beijing's official position avoids either of these dramatic alternatives. Instead, the government of President Xi Jinping is pressing to restart diplomacy through a 'freeze for freeze' policy. The idea is that North Korea would freeze the development of its nuclear weapons, in return for the US freezing military exercises that alarm Pyongyang. In principle, this sounds like a decent idea. In practice, neither North Korea nor the US seem willing to take the steps needed to make the policy work."
  • The Washington Post：A prestigious research publisher gives in to China's censorship
    The Washington Post comments: "Springer Nature publishes books and prestigious journals, including Nature and Scientific American, and portrays itself as a champion of open access to reports of scientific research. Its website declares that 'research is a global endeavor and the free flow of information and ideas is at the heart of advancing discovery.' Yet in China, the company has compromised this core principle. The Financial Times disclosed Wednesday that Springer Nature has blocked access in China to at least 1,000 articles from the websites of the Journal of Chinese Political Science and International Politics, two of its journals, in response to Beijing's censorship demands. The newspaper said all the articles in question 'contained keywords deemed politically sensitive by the Chinese authorities,' including 'Taiwan,' 'Tibet' and 'cultural revolution.' According to the FT, a search for 'Tibet' on the Journal of Chinese Political Science website in China returned no results, whereas a search outside China showed 66 articles. No articles mentioning the 'cultural revolution' could be found on the website in China, the newspaper said, whereas 110 were visible outside. China's Great Firewall, a gigantic digital cordon, attempts to keep out information that Chinese authorities find potentially threatening. Within China, the Internet is policed by a vast censorship regime backed by restrictive laws on what can be expressed. For foreigners wanting to do business in China with products that disseminate information, this poses a vexing problem: To obey Chinese law means to give in to censorship."
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