China Articles - August 15, 2021
Friends,
This week’s edition of articles and reports on the malign activities of the Chinese Communist Party includes further developments in Beijing’s hostage diplomacy against Canada, threats against Lithuania, and retaliation against a Swiss graduate student. Also included is a long-form piece on young democracy activists in Hong Kong and Taiwan, a report on corporate support for the CCP’s repression in Xinjiang and an OpEd by George Soros.
See article #9 about a case filed this week in California that accuses Huawei of trade secrets theft and using the stolen software to build backdoors into Pakistani Government systems to access National Security information.
Next week I will be camping with my son in Minnesota so there won’t be an edition out on August 22nd. The next one will arrive in your inboxes on August 29th. I hope everyone else is getting a chance to have a summer break.
Thanks for reading!
Matt
MUST READ
1. Chinese Court Rejects Death-Penalty Appeal by Canadian National
Eva Xiao, Wall Street Journal, August 10, 2021
2. China Sentences Canadian Citizen to 11 Years for Espionage in Case at Heart of Diplomatic Standoff
Eva Xiao, Wall Street Journal, August 11, 2021
3. Long Shadows: How the Global Economy Supports Oppression in Xinjiang
Center for Advanced Defense Studies, August 10, 2021
4. Is Taiwan Next?
Sarah A. Topol, New York Times Magazine, August 4, 2021
Lene Winther, Berlingske, August 12, 2021 – ORIGINAL IN DANISH
6. A tweet cost him his doctorate: The extent of China’s influence on Swiss universities
Larissa Rhyn and Katrin Buchenbacher, Neue Zurcher Zeitung, August 4, 2021
7. Xi’s Dictatorship Threatens the Chinese State
George Soros, Wall Street Journal, August 13, 2021
8. We Need to Understand China's Domestic Politics
Michael Cunningham, Real Clear Politics, August 13, 2021
9. Huawei Accused in Suit of Installing Data ‘Back Door’ in Pakistan Project
Dan Strumpf and Waqar Gillani, Wall Street Journal, August 14, 2021
Authoritarianism
10. Private school owners forced to hand institutions over to Chinese state
Edward White, Financial Times, August 11, 2021
11. After Tokyo, Beijing Olympics Promise Colder Weather but Hotter Rhetoric
Chao Deng, Wall Street Journal, August 9, 2021
12. China responds with fury to US hunt for Covid-19 lab leak evidence
Amber Wang, South China Morning Post, August 10, 2021
13. ‘We see no future’: Hong Kong’s biggest teachers’ union to disband
Chan Ho-him and Ng Kang-chung, South China Morning Post, August 10, 2021
14. China’s New Nationalism
Alec Ash, The Wire China, August 8, 2021
15. I.O.C. seeks answers after two Chinese athletes wore Mao pins during the medal ceremony
Tiffany May and Yu Young Jin, New York Times, August 4, 2021
Environmental Harms
16. Managing China’s thousands of dams is trickier in the era of climate change
Sumnima Kandangwa, Quartz, August 11, 2021
Foreign Interference and Coercion
17. Australian Foreign Minister Address to Australia China Business Council
Marise Payne, Minister for Foreign Affairs, August 5, 2021
18. China Draws Red Line on Taiwan with Recall of Lithuania Envoy
Bloomberg, August 10, 2021
19. Chinese state media has seized on a Swiss scientist critical of a covid origins probe. The one problem: He might not exist
Adam Taylor, Washington Post, August 10, 2021
20. Why China Keeps Spinning COVID-19 Conspiracies
James Palmer, Foreign Policy, August 11, 2021
21. Ravaged by delta outbreak, Southeast Asia shifts away from China’s vaccines
Shibani Mahtani, Washington Post, August 10, 2021
22. Australia will not bow to Chinese demands to restart talks-foreign minister
Colin Packham, Reuters, August 6, 2021
23. VIDEO – PRC Pressure on Taiwan: Same Strategy, New Tactics
National Bureau of Asian Research, July 26, 2021
Human Rights and Religious Persecution
24. The Sexism Behind China’s Population Crisis
Ye Liu, Foreign Affairs, August 10, 2021
25. China Sentences Canadian Businessman to 11 Years in Prison
Chris Buckley, Dan Bilefsky and Tracy Sherlock, New York Times, August 11, 2021
26. This Is How Banned Goods From China's Xinjiang May Be Entering The US
Megha Rajagopalan and Alison Killing, BuzzFeed News, August 10, 2021
27. Sexual Assault Accusation at China’s Alibaba Sparks Reflection on Alcohol, Work and Women
Chao Deng and Stephanie Yang, Wall Street Journal, August 10, 2021
28. Exclusive poll: Trouble ahead for the Beijing Olympics
David Nather, Axios, August 7, 2021
Industrial Policies and Economic Espionage
29. China Is SoftBank’s Biggest Problem Now
Jacky Wong, Wall Street Journal, August 10, 2021
30. China Wants Manufacturing—Not the Internet—to Lead the Economy
Greg Ip, Wall Street Journal, August 4, 2021
31. SoftBank to Hold Off on New Investments in China Amid Tech Crackdown
Phred Dvorak, Wall Street Journal, August 10, 2021
32. China’s Corporate Intervention Drives Investors to Industries Beijing Supports
Xie Yu and Chong Koh Ping, Wall Street Journal, August 11, 2021
33. Making 'Made in China' Harder
Anastasiia Carrier, The Wire China, August 8, 2021
34. EXCLUSIVE Chinese retailer Shein lacks disclosures, made false statements about factories
Victoria Waldersee, Reuters, August 6, 2021
35. Wolfsburg, we have a problem: How Volkswagen stalled in China
Yilei Sun and Tony Munroe, Reuters, August 9, 2021
36. Another $158 billion for Xi Jinping
Derek Scissors, American Enterprise Institute, August 9, 2021
37. Analysis: China regulatory storm tests nerves, limits of top-down policy
Andrew Galbraith, Reuters, August 11, 2021
38. Will China's digital yuan vanquish the dollar?
Narayanan Somasundaram, Nikkei Asia, August 11, 2021
39. Why Xi Jinping waited years to launch his crackdown on tycoons
Business Standard, August 11, 2021
40. China Huarong Unit Rating Now Deep into Junk Territory at Fitch
Alice Huang, Bloomberg, August 11, 2021
41. What tech does China want?
The Economist, August 9, 2021
Cyber and Information Technology
42. Chinese Hackers Compromised Telecom Firms, Researchers Say
Ryan Gallagher, Bloomberg, August 3, 2021
43. Hoàng Nguyên Phong on How the Great Firewall Reflects Beijing's Policy
Katrina Northrop, The Wire China, August 1, 2021
44. U.S. warned Brazil that Huawei would leave it 'high and dry' on 5G
Jeff Mason and Michael Martina, Reuters, August 9, 2021
Military and Security Threats
Editorial Board, Wall Street Journal, August 13, 2021
46. Joint Russian and Chinese military exercise stirs US unease
Kathrin Hille, Financial Times, August 10, 2021
47. China’s focus on giant aircraft carriers makes it vulnerable to missile threat
Kathrin Hille, Financial Times, August 11, 2021
48. Blinken’s Warning on China’s Nukes
Editorial Board, Wall Street Journal, August 9, 2021
49. State Department Fines Radar Company for Unauthorized Exports to China, Russia
Brett Forrest, Wall Street Journal, August 9, 2021
One Belt, One Road Strategy
50. AUDIO – China’s Ambitions Toward Digital Colonization
Charity Wright, Recorded Future, August 2, 2021
51. China’s Digital Colonialism: Espionage and Repression Along the Digital Silk Road
Insikt Group, July 27, 2021
52. China to fund Myanmar projects in agreement with junta
Reuters, August 11, 2021
53. Human rights abuses claimed in hundreds of China belt and road projects
Kinling Lo, South China Morning Post, August 11, 2021
54. Belt and Road dam in Cambodia branded a ‘disaster’ for local communities
John Reed, Financial Times, August 10, 2021
55. Can Russia and China Edge the United States Out of Kazakhstan?
Temur Umarov, Carnegie Moscow Center, August 3, 2021
56. Adm. Faller: China exploiting corruption in Latin America
Phelim Kine, Politico China Watcher, August 12, 2021
Opinion Pieces
57. How Do You Stop Beijing from Bullying? Take Away Its Prada Bags
Elizabeth Braw, Wall Street Journal, August 10, 2021
58. China’s Strategy to Control the South China Sea: Defense of the Indefensible
James Holmes, 1945, August 6, 2021
59. Has China already peaked?
Dave Sharma, Nikkei Asia, August 3, 2021
60. What If China Never Reopens?
Eyck Freymann, The Wire China, August 1, 2021
61. The Chinese Communist Party’s New Socialism
Joseph W. Sullivan, The National Review, August 11, 2021
62. It’s unforgivable to hold the Olympics in Beijing
Sally Jenkins, Washington Post, August 9, 2021
63. The Chinese Communist Party’s 100th birthday vs. America’s 250th
Mitch Daniels, Washington Post, August 9, 2021
64. ‘The Long Game’ Review: Asia First, Then the World
David Wilezol, Wall Street Journal, August 9, 2021
65. The World Doesn’t Want Beijing’s Fighter Jets
Richard Aboulafia, Foreign Policy, August 11, 2021
66. The world is watching as China’s Delta outbreak hits an already vulnerable economy
Stephen Bartholomeusz, Sydney Morning Post, August 11, 2021
67. Why the Quad Alarms China
Kevin Rudd, Foreign Affairs, August 9, 2021
68. Multinationals in Hong Kong fear fallout from new law
Primrose Riordan, Financial Times, August 9, 2021
69. Investors in China should beware Beijing’s unpredictability
Brooke Masters, Financial Times, August 11, 2021