Media Report
- CNN reports: "As trade tensions escalate between the US and China, one of President Xi Jinping's most trusted advisers is paying a visit to Washington. Liu He, a Harvard graduate and senior Chinese Communist Party official, is in the US this week to talk about trade and other issues affecting the relationship between the world's two largest economies. Experts say his mission appears to be an effort by Beijing to dial down the tensions that President Trump has helped fuel with recent tariffs on solar panels and threats of more punishing measures to come. China "still holds out hope that it can persuade the Trump administration to back off," said Scott Kennedy, an expert on the Chinese economy at the Center for Strategic & International Studies... Trump has until April to decide whether to impose restrictions on steel and aluminum imports. He's also suggested he'll take action against China over intellectual property abuses."
- Reuters reports that the U.S. Commerce Department said on Tuesday it had made a final determination that imports of aluminum foil from China are being sold in the United States at less than their fair value and producers are benefiting from subsidies from Beijing. It said in a statement that antidumping and countervailing duties would be levied on a number of Chinese firms, with dumping margins ranging from 48.64 percent to 106.09 percent and anti-subsidy rates of 17.14 percent to 80.97 percent. "This Administration is committed to trade that is fair and reciprocal, and we will not allow American workers and businesses to be harmed by unfair imports," the statement quoted Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross as saying. China has expressed "strong dissatisfaction" with the step and will take necessary measures to protect its legal rights and interests in the matter, the country's Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) said in a statement.
- Financial Times comments: "While Beijing was outlining the path for Xi Jinping to rule as China's president for life, Tsai Ing-wen, his democratically elected counterpart in Taiwan, was speaking about the importance of universal human rights at a Holocaust memorial ceremony in Taipei. But Mr Xi's concentration of power... represents a growing threat to Taiwan's efforts to maintain de facto independence, in the face of Beijing's insistence that the island is part of its territory, and to the embattled democracy movement in neighbouring, semi-autonomous Hong Kong. "Xi Jinping has largely been the author of fairly hard-line policies toward [Hong Kong and Taiwan]," said William Stanton, a former US diplomat... "The problem with all dictators is that no one can put a break on anything they want to do." Over the past few years, Mr Xi has intensified the diplomatic, economic and military pressure on Taiwan. He has also presided over a crackdown on the democratic opposition in Hong Kong and increased interventions in the city's affairs despite promises made to respect its semi-autonomous status and human rights."
Calendar
- 2018-02-26 The 'Quad' Is Not A Rival To China's Belt And Road Initiative -- It's A Precursor
- 2018-02-25 The US risks making a strategic blunder over China
- 2018-02-23 China's big conglomerates are no longer buying up the world
- 2018-02-22 Top US Treasury official slams China's 'non-market behavior'
- 2018-02-21 A massive US farming industry fears China trade trouble
- 2018-02-20 China would not be the only country hurt by US steel tariffs
- 2018-02-14 The director of the FBI says the whole of Chinese society is a threat to the US
- 2018-02-13 As China Marches Forward on A.I., the White House Is Silent
- 2018-02-12 Chinese stealth fighters are combat-ready, Beijing says
- 2018-02-11 China pledges 'employment first' policies to create millions of jobs
News
- TIME China's Plan to End Presidential Term Limits Is Sparking Rare Public Criticism
- CNN China's new economic guru is trying to stop a trade war
- The New York Times Why Build Kenya's First Coal Plant? Hint: Think China
- The Washington Post China's Xi steps up as the leader of the unfree world
- The New York Times As Xi Jinping Extends Power, China Braces for a New Cold War
- BBC News China's Xi Jinping: Extending president's rule would be farce, says critic
- CNN Trump should not ignore Xi's power grab in China
- TIME China Is Using Big Data to Repress its Muslim Uighur Population, a Rights Group Says
- CNBC China spent an estimated $279 billion on R&D last year
- CNN China rights lawyer dies in 'mysterious' circumstances, supporters say
- Quartz China's media is struggling to overcome its racial stereotypes of Africa
- The New York Times After Anbang Takeover, China's Deal Money, Already Ebbing, Could Slow Further
Commentary
- Financial Times Taiwan and HK fear China's harder line after Xi Jinping power play
- Brookings How to avert a trade war with China
- Foreign Policy Globalization Has Created a Chinese Monster
- The Guardian China's leadership: strong but not stable?
- Seeking Alpha China's Momentous Backtrack
- Tech Crunch China's web censors go into overdrive as President Xi Jinping consolidates power
- NBC News Xi Jinping returns China to era of one-man rule
- City Lab China's Subway Boom Slows Down