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November 30 , 2017
  • Bloomberg：Obama Told Xi He Wants to Help Preserve Ties, State Media Says
    Bloomberg reports: "Former U.S. President Barack Obama offered in his first post-retirement meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping to help ensure strong ties between the world's two largest economies, Chinese state media said. The Chinese president told Obama that the two sides shared a wide range of common interests and had a responsibility to maintain world peace and prosperity, the official Xinhua News Agency said. Although Obama met Xi on Wednesday -- part of an itinerary that also includes stops by the former president in India and France -- details were only reported by Chinese state media Thursday. Obama told Xi that he was willing to play a continued role in strengthening mutual understanding, exchange and cooperation between the two nations, Xinhua said. Obama was last in China in September 2016 at the G20 in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou, where he and Xi formally ratified the Paris climate change agreement. The deal was hailed as a high point for U.S.-China relations and an exemplar of two superpowers collaborating to counter global challenges... Obama opened his trip Tuesday in Shanghai, where he delivered a speech at an event hosted by business non-profit the Global Alliance of SMEs, which was attended by some 2,500 industry executives, according to the organization's website. He stressed in his speech that China-U.S. relations were the most consequential bilateral ties in the world, and dialogue was the only way to solve disagreements."
  • The New York Times：Drone Maker D.J.I. May Be Sending Data to China, U.S. Officials Say
    The New York Times reports: "D.J.I., the popular drone maker, stands as a symbol of China's growing technology prowess. Its propeller-powered machines dominate global markets and buzz regularly over beaches, cityscapes at sunset and increasingly, power plants and government installations. Now D.J.I. is fighting a claim by one United States government office that its commercial drones and software may be sending sensitive information about American infrastructure back to China, in the latest clash over the power of data in the growing technological rivalry between the two countries. It also shows how consumer technology companies have become increasingly central to debates about national security. The company, formally named Da Jiang Innovations Science and Technology Company, put out a statement this month contesting the allegations made in a dispatch from United States customs officials. The memo, from the Los Angeles office of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement bureau, was dated in August but had begun to circulate online more recently. It said officials had 'moderate confidence' that the D.J.I.'s commercial drones and software are 'providing U.S. critical infrastructure and law enforcement data to the Chinese government.' It cited what it called a reliable source, who it did not identify, in the drone industry 'with first and secondhand access.' In a statement, D.J.I. said the report was 'based on clearly false and misleading claims.'"
  • The Diplomat：China's Belt and Road Initiative: Prospects and Pitfalls
    The Diplomat comments: "Chinese President Xi Jinping initially mooted the idea of the Silk Road Economic Belt (SREB) and 21st century Maritime Silk Road (MSR) during his visits to Kazakhstan and Indonesia in September and October 2013, respectively. Subsequently the two projects together came to be known as the 'One Belt One Road' (OBOR) Initiative. The concept was re-christened as the 'Belt and Road Initiative' (BRI) when opposition surfaced to the idea of one nation dictating the existence of 'one belt, one road' in a globalized world in which "many belts and many roads" exist. Greater clarity was provided to the idea at the Belt Road Forum (BRF) organized in Beijing in mid-May 2017. According to Chinese authorities, more than 100 countries participated in the forum, many of them at the head of state/government level. India was the only major country that did not attend. In his address at the BRF on May 14, Xi called the BRI the project of the century to benefit people across the world. He stated that ancient silk routes opened windows of friendly engagement among nations and embodied the spirit of peace and cooperation, openness and inclusiveness, mutual learning and mutual benefit... By constantly hearkening back to the history of East-West exchange, China is striving to propagate a narrative of a globalization in which China had a central and ostensibly benign role... (But) making this bold vision into reality will require an extraordinary alignment of financial resources, technical skills, political commitment, and international cooperation. None of these can be taken for granted... It is essential for China to go back to the drawing board, engage in serious and sincere dialogue with its neighbors and participants in BRI, ensure respect for territorial integrity and sovereignty, uphold the internationally accepted norms of transparency and good governance, and observe principles of financial responsibility, skill, and technology transfer etc for the Initiative to have some possibility of success."
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