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December 13 , 2017
  • Business Insider：Tillerson's new North Korea strategy praised by China and Russia — but undermined by Trump
    Business Insider reports: "Secretary of State Rex Tillerson laid out a new US strategy toward North Korea on Tuesday that was met with cheers in Russia and China but may have been squashed by the White House on the same day. 'We're ready to talk any time North Korea would like to talk, and we're ready to have the first meeting without precondition,' Tillerson said at an event at the Atlantic Council. 'Let's just meet. We can talk about the weather if you want ... But can we at least sit down and see each other face-to-face, and then we can lay out a map, a road map, of what we might be willing to work towards.' His words appeared to signal a significant shift in US policy toward North Korea. President Donald Trump has sought to pressure Pyongyang to surrender its nuclear capabilities. Tillerson's approach would allow the US and North Korea to begin peace talks without the prospect of denuclearizing. 'It's not realistic to say we are only going to talk if you come to the table ready to give up your program,' Tillerson said. 'They have too much invested in it, and [Trump] is very realistic about that as well.' Instead of the promise of verifiable denuclearization, Tillerson simply asked for a 'period of quiet' in which North Korea pause testing nuclear devices and ballistic missiles. Russia's deputy foreign minister, Sergei Ryabkov, told Russian media he welcomed the decision. China's Foreign Ministry spokesman, Lu Kang, told a press briefing the same. But the White House, where Tillerson has reportedly fallen out of favor, seemed to push back."
  • The New York Times：Google, Looking to Tiptoe Back into China, Announces A.I. Center
    The New York Times reports: "Google pulled some of its core businesses out of China seven years ago, after concluding that government controls and surveillance ran counter to its commitment to a free and open internet. Since then, as China's online scene has grown and prospered, the American search giant has been looking for ways to tiptoe back in. On Wednesday, it unveiled a small but symbolically significant move toward that end: a China-based center devoted to artificial intelligence. The move nods to the country's growing strength in A.I., thanks to substantial government funding prompted by Beijing's ambition of having a say in the technologies of the future. Google said the center would have a team of experts in Beijing, where the company has hundreds of employees in research and development, as well as other roles. The center will be led by Fei-Fei Li, who runs Stanford University's Artificial Intelligence Lab and leads the artificial intelligence arm of Google's Cloud business, and Jia Li, the head of research and development for the A.I. division of Google Cloud."
  • ChinaFile：The Accomplice in Chief
    ChinaFile comments: "Last week, U.S. President Donald Trump declared victory following his 12-day Asia trip. On the campaign trail, Trump had repeatedly promised to stop making nice with his country's adversaries; now, thanks to his efforts, he proclaimed, 'America is back.' In fact, the United States ended up worse off by the end of Trump's Asia trip, mostly because of Trump's performance in China. Asia's most populous country, with its largest economy and most powerful military, China is the only country Trump visited that seeks to offer an illiberal alternative to U.S.-style open, law-based governance for other countries to adopt. Yet in unscripted remarks online and off, the U.S. president could not hide his fondness for China's unelected authoritarian ruler, Xi Jinping, one who is building an ever-more-alarming cult of personality and moving his government ever further from the kind of partner that the United States should wish to have... Trump's comments came at a particularly opportune time for Beijing. Xi has just been given a second five-year term running the country, and 'Xi Jinping thought' has recently become enshrined in China's constitution, making it essentially heretical to question him. In Chinese media and on Chinese streets, airbrushed images of Xi proliferate and loom ever larger. Parts of China, particularly Xinjiang, are sliding ever further toward something like totalitarian rule. These events mean that nods of approval and disapproval from the American president matter more than ever."
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