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December 06 , 2017
  • Business Insider：China did something it's never done before to warn the US about fighting North Korea
    Business Insider reports: "As the US and South Korean militaries worked together on the largest-ever version of their annual air-power exercise on the Korean Peninsula, China did something that suggests it would consider backing up North Korea in the event of war. On Monday, the same day the exercise started, a spokesman for China's air force said it had staged exercises along "routes and areas it has never flown before" with surveillance aircraft over the Yellow and East seas near the Korean Peninsula, according to the South China Morning Post. While China needs to exercise its constantly expanding and modernizing military, this exercise most likely had another purpose. 'The timing of this high-profile announcement by the PLA is also a warning to Washington and Seoul not to provoke Pyongyang any further,' Li Jie, a military expert based in Beijing, told the Post, using the abbreviation for the Chinese People's Liberation Army. With a record 24 US stealth aircraft in South Korea for the Vigilant Ace exercises, China's move sends a clear message. The US and South Korea have up to 260 aircraft training to take out important North Korean targets in a realistic simulation of an air war."
  • TIME：No. 3 Person of the Year 2017: Xi Jinping
    TIME named President Xi Jinping the "Number 3 Person of the Year 2017", commenting: "Sometimes things just seem to go your way. In 2017, Chinese President Xi Jinping strengthened his hold over the world's most populous nation, was inducted into the pantheon of party leaders beside Mao Zedong and Deng Xiao­ping and—small detail—announced that China henceforth intends to lead the world. He mentioned this deep into an Oct. 18 speech that ran beyond three hours, which begins to account for why so audacious a declaration drew relatively little notice. But then it also came after the President of the United States had ­signaled time and again over the previous 10 months that America might be surrendering the top spot. Drama requires ­conflict. This felt more like process. Donald Trump posted an unexpected vacancy, and China readied its application for the slot. But fortune, as Louis Pasteur noted, favors the prepared mind. China's leaders spent decades priming the country—historically viewed by the outside world as so insular that its national icon is a wall—to stake a claim for how it has always seen itself: the Middle Kingdom, at the center of the world. And it was no coincidence that its new ambition was announced by a leader so firmly in control that the party congress authorizing what should be his final term declined to designate a successor."
  • Forbes：What American Corporations Really Think About China
    Forbes comments: "Billionaire Jack Ma recently told a gathering of techies at the World Internet Conference in Wuzhen, China that Americans should stop complaining about China. So said the WSJ in a headline on Tuesday. In what appears to be a tongue-in-cheek move by the Journal's editorial desk, the subhead states that Ma told companies to 'follow the rules' and plan for the long term, defending his country against complaints that it creates barriers against outside competitors. For many, especially in the tech space, that is precisely the case. Baidu is Baidu because Google is not allowed outside of Hong Kong. WeChat is WeChat because Facebook's Whatsapp is constantly under threat... Everyone who has spent one minute watching China knows that its government is one part regulator, one part competitor, too. In other words, the Chinese government allows you in so long as you share what you have with Chinese companies -- often of their picking. Westinghouse Electric has helped the Chinese develop its nuclear power plant capabilities in exchange for access to the massive Chinese nuclear power market. But now, China is squeezing them out of the market, not only in China but in other parts of the world as well. The Department of Justice said that Chinese spies stole Westinghouse nuke secrets, too."
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