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February 22 , 2018
  • CNBC：Top US Treasury official slams China's 'non-market behavior'
    CNBC reports: "The U.S. Treasury's top diplomat ramped up his criticisms of China's economic policies on Wednesday, accusing Beijing of "patently non-market behavior" and saying that the United States needed stronger responses to counter it. David Malpass, Treasury's undersecretary for international affairs, said at a forum in Washington that China should no longer be "congratulated" by the world for its progress and policies. "They went to Davos a year ago and said 'We're into trade,' when in reality what they're doing is perpetuating a system that worked for their benefit but ended up costing jobs in most of the rest of the world," Malpass said, at the event hosted by the Jack Kemp Foundation. He said market-oriented, democratic governments were awakening to the challenges posed by China's economic system, including from its state-owned banks and export credit agencies. He reiterated his view that China had stopped liberalizing its economy and was actually reversing these trends."
  • The New York Times：As China Puts Pressure on Taiwan, Signs of a U.S. Pushback
    The New York Times reports: "As China ratchets up pressure on Taiwan, the self-governing island it claims as its territory, the United States is cautiously starting to push back. In recent months, Chinese strategic bombers have been conducting "island encirclement" flights, escorted by fighter jets. The Chinese government has discouraged tourism to Taiwan and imports of goods like fish over the past year and a half, hurting its economy. And China persuaded the island's most important remaining diplomatic ally, Panama, to switch diplomatic recognition last summer from Taipei to Beijing. Concern about Taiwan's fate now appears to be building slowly in Washington, even as President Trump continues to seek China's help on other issues. Through his first year in office, Mr. Trump pressed Beijing to put more pressure on North Korea to abandon its nuclear and ballistic missile programs, with limited success. He has also sought to limit China's nearly $400 billion trade surplus with the United States, which has nonetheless continued to widen. Against that backdrop, Washington has recently begun moving gradually to reinforce its ties to Taiwan, a vigorous democracy facing an increasingly authoritarian government in Beijing. Bills have been introduced in Congress to promote visits to Taiwan by warships and by civilian officials."
  • The Washington Post：The rise of China as a digital totalitarian state
    The Washington Post comments: "During its recent Lunar New Year gala show, state-run Chinese Central Television spotlighted a 93-year-old engineer who participated in China's first nuclear submarine program. The program, which broadcasts to an audience of over 1 billion national and overseas viewers, lauded this guest of honor for dedicating his life to top-secret government work and for making huge sacrifices for the Communist Party. "For 30 years, he made no contact with his family for fear of giving away his knowledge and only told his father what he did for a living when the older man was on his deathbed," the state report declared. Zhuo Baowei, a former lawyer in Shandong province, watched the broadcast and was disgusted by what he viewed as blatant propaganda. Using the Chinese social media platform Weibo, Zhou wrote that the nuclear engineer was "shameless" for having "not contacted his parents for 30 years." Three days later, Zhuo was detained by local police... Zhou's story is the latest example of how much stricter state control has become across the Chinese Internet, especially social media platforms. In China, censorship and propaganda go hand in hand, backed by the use of physical force, including police visits, arrests and attacks by state media on people who have expressed controversial political opinions online. Ever since he came to power in 2012, President Xi Jinping has attempted to bolster the authority of the Communist Party in part by imposing wide-ranging policies to gain ideological and informational control over the media and Internet."
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