Media Report
- CNBC reports: "China's military is playing its part in "safeguarding world peace," the country's People's Daily said on Monday. In an editorial waxing lyrical about Chinese blockbuster movie "Operation Red Sea," the powerful Chinese Communist Party-owned newspaper took the opportunity to laud the country's military operations. Operation Red Sea is a Chinese war action movie loosely based on the evacuation of hundreds of foreign nationals and Chinese citizens' from Yemen's Aden port in 2015 amid the ongoing civil war. Released over the Lunar New Year season, the movie was one of the highest grossing movies of all time in China."
- Los Angeles Times：China's parliament opens amid possibility of lifelong rule by President Xi JinpingThe Los Angeles Times reports: "China has decided to endow its president, Xi Jinping, with the power to rule for life. And over the next two weeks, its parliament will almost certainly enshrine that power into law. The National People's Congress opened its annual session Monday with an expected show of unity, loyalty, and pomp... Premier Li Keqiang launched the session with a nearly two-hour reading of his annual state of the nation address, which offered a rosy summary of the last five years under Xi. He acknowledged "formidable" challenges this year in issues such as financial risk and reducing pollution, but vowed China would "rally even closer" around the party and the president."
- The Atlantic reports: "The Chinese National People's Congress is convening to consider among other things a "recommendation" to abolish term limits for China's president and vice president. The outcome of that deliberative process is unusually un-suspenseful. President Xi Jinping will soon rule for life, confirming him as the most absolute ruler of China since the death of Mao Zedong. Chinese authorities have decisively suppressed dissent in any forum, including online media. The last flickering hopes for Chinese political liberalization seem crushed for years to come. Twelve years ago, at a time when those hopes still burned bright, a dissenting China expert named Minxin Pei published an arresting argument. Not only would the Chinese Communist Party never willingly liberalize, he argued, but rather than permit liberalization, the party would eventually smother China's economic growth too."
Calendar
- 2018-03-05 Chinese Premier’s Economy Speech Offers Plenty for Critics to Dislike
- 2018-03-04 China looks to avoid US trade war as Trump steps up rhetoric
- 2018-03-02 China criticizes US trade report but silent on tariff hikes
- 2018-03-01 Beijing makes it easier for Taiwanese to work and study in China, and Taipei is freaking out over it
- 2018-02-28 China expresses 'strong dissatisfaction' with US duties on Chinese aluminum foil
- 2018-02-27 China's new economic guru is trying to stop a trade war
- 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'
News
- Los Angeles Times China's parliament opens amid possibility of lifelong rule by President Xi Jinping
- CNBC A stronger China is giving the world 'more and more security', Communist Party newspaper says
- Bloomberg China Is Making a Bold Military Power Play
- CNBC China says it will ensure domestic and foreign firms compete on equal footing
- The Guardian China's Tiangong-1 space station will crash to Earth within weeks
- Quartz China's reality TV programming is being taken over by robots and AI
- CNBC China defends hike in military budget as proportionate and low
- Quartz Blockchain is a surprisingly hot topic at China's annual political gathering
- Financial Times US-listed tech groups answer China's call to list at home
- CNN China's global trade plan is piling huge debt on smaller nations
- CNBC 'Super-nationalistic' Xi Jinping is looming over Chinese economic policies
- Quartz India is willing to snub the Dalai Lama to please China
- TIME Guerrillas for God: How Hong Kong's Pastors Are Delivering the Message to China's Christians
Commentary
- The Atlantic China Is Not a Garden-Variety Dictatorship
- Bloomberg China's Energy Weapon Comes in One Color: Green
- The New York Times America's Other Espionage Challenge: China
- Forbes China Could Be The World's First All Electric Vehicle Ecosystem
- Seeking Alpha China Going Boom
- Forbes First Solar, Then Steel...Now Soy? China's Move To Buy Brazilian Soybeans Over U.S. Could Worsen Trade Tensions
- Daily Beast China's Ugly Exploitation of Africa—and Africans