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December 18 , 2017
  • The New York Times：Trump National Security Strategy Sees U.S. Confronting China and Russia
    The New York Times reports: "President Trump's first national security strategy envisions a world in which the United States confronts two 'revisionist' powers — China and Russia — that are seeking to change the global status quo, often to the detriment of America's interests. But while the document outlines a detailed plan to push back against China's global economic ambitions, it says little about dealing with the kind of cyber and information warfare techniques that Moscow used to try to influence the 2016 presidential election. The strategy, which Mr. Trump plans to present in a speech on Monday afternoon, is the first comprehensive effort by his administration to describe an all-encompassing strategic worldview. Administration officials said it was drawn from speeches Mr. Trump had delivered during the presidential campaign, in Europe and Asia and at the United Nations. It describes a world that was on a three-decade holiday from superpower rivalry, and suggests that holiday is over. 'After being dismissed as a phenomenon of an earlier century, great power competition returned,' the document says. It then tries to lend intellectual coherence to a foreign policy that is often defined by Mr. Trump's tweets or his gut instincts about which world leaders are strong, which are weak and which are prepared to cut a deal."
  • Reuters：China defends trade with U.S. as Trump set to brand it a competitor
    Reuters reports: "China's Foreign Ministry on Monday defended trade with the United States as a win-win scenario ahead of a speech by U.S. President Donald Trump laying out a new national security strategy that makes clear that China is a competitor. Trump has praised Chinese President Xi Jinping while also demanding that Beijing increase pressure on North Korea over its nuclear program and changes in trade practices to make them more favorable to the United States. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said she was unable to comment on the strategy until it was unveiled. But in principle, China hopes the strategy can play a constructive role in promoting world peace and stability and promoting China-U.S. strategic mutual trust, Hua told a daily news conference. The essence of China-U.S. trade and economic ties is mutually beneficial and win-win, directly and indirectly supporting 2.6 million U.S. jobs, she added. In 2015, the profits of U.S. firms that invested in China reached $36.2 billion, and China will continue to support trade and investment liberalization."
  • The Washington Post：China's intrusive, ubiquitous, scary surveillance technology
    The Washington Post comments: "Step by step, China has been rolling out surveillance technology that is remarkably intrusive, comprehensive and ubiquitous. Eager to exploit gains in technology, Beijing seems little concerned about human rights or privacy violations... China seeks to build the world's largest camera surveillance network, with 170 million closed-circuit cameras installed and an estimated 400 million new ones coming in the next three years... Meanwhile, Human Rights Watch reported on Dec. 13 that Chinese authorities have been collecting DNA samples, blood types, fingerprints and iris scans, in some cases possibly without informing people, from a large swath of the population in the restive Xinjiang province in far northwestern China. Ethnic Uighurs in Xinjiang have long complained about repression and discrimination at the hands of the Chinese government; resentment has sometimes turned violent. According to Human Rights Watch, in a procedure rolled out this year, the authorities there are collecting the DNA and blood-type information under the cover of a 'free annual physical exams program called Physicals for All'... such widespread collection of intimate data as DNA can be a serious human rights and privacy violation."
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