China Articles - August 8, 2021
Friends,
This week’s edition of articles and reports on the malign activities of the Chinese Communist Party includes details on the continuing crackdown on civil liberties in Hong Kong. If anyone is curious about what life would be like under the international system that the CCP wants, one simply needs to travel to Hong Kong: a modern city, in which citizens live in fear of their government and their friends and neighbors.
Thanks for reading!
Matt
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Zachary Shore, Discourse Magazine, July 29, 2021
2. China takes pointers from Mao in protracted power struggle with US
Catherine Wong, South China Morning Post, August 2, 2021
3. Watching China in Europe, August 2021
Noah Barkin, German Marshall Fund, August 2021
4. PTU (Hong Kong Professional Teachers’ Union) is a tumour that must be eradicated: state media
RTHK, July 31, 2021
5. Memorandum on the Deferred Enforced Departure for Certain Hong Kong Residents
Executive Office of the President, August 5, 2021
Authoritarianism
6. Risch, Menendez, Rubio, Warner Stress Importance of Pursuing Covid Origins
Senate Foreign Relations Committee, July 27, 2021
7. Hong Kong’s Apple Daily Overkill
The Editorial Board, Wall Street Journal, July 30, 2021
8. Hong Kong Man Arrested on Suspicion of Booing China’s National Anthem During Olympics
Elaine Yu, Wall Street Journal, July 30, 2021
9. How China Helps the Cuban Regime Stay Afloat and Shut Down Protests
Leland Lazarus and Evan Ellis, The Diplomat, August 3, 2021
10. China quietly sets new 'buy Chinese' targets for state companies - U.S. sources
Andrea Shalal, Reuters, August 2, 2021
11. Hong Kong police arrest man for booing Chinese national anthem while watching Olympics
CNN, July 30, 2021
12. Cartoons and Commentary: Flood Victims and Rescuers "Are Human Beings, Not Bowls of Soup"
Joseph Brouwer, China Digital Times, July 27, 2021
13. Xi Jinping's politics in command economy
Dexter Tiff Roberts, Atlantic Council, July 29, 2021
14. Angry Chinese netizens use Olympics to unleash anti-Japanese sentiment
Jack Lau, South China Morning Post, July 31, 2021
15. Minitrue: Warn Vendors Against Foreign Media Interviews on Henan Floods
Samuel Wade, China Digital Times, July 26, 2021
16. Hong Kong pop star Anthony Wong arrested for singing at rally
Michelle Chan, Nikkei Asia, August 2, 2021
17. A Fire in Minnesota. An Arrest in Mexico. Cameras Everywhere.
Kashmir Hill, New York Times, August 1, 2021
18. China’s numbers game harms us all
Elliott Zaagman, Lowy Institute, July 23, 2021
19. Chinese champions wear Mao badges on cycling podium
Reuters, August 2, 2021
Foreign Interference and Coercion
20. Can the ICAO Recover After Chinese Stewardship?
Danielle Pletka and Bret Schaefer, Real Clear World, July 27, 2021
21. Germany says wife of man believed to be double agent also helped spy for China
Rachel Pannett, Washington Post, August 3, 2021
22. VIDEO – PRC Pressure on Taiwan
National Bureau of Asian Research, July 26, 2021
23. China Is Using Tibetans as Agents of Empire in the Himalayas
Robert Barnett, Foreign Policy, August 5, 2021
24. Chinese Defense University Conceals Partnerships With U.S. Schools
Jack Beyrer, Washington Free Beacon, July 28, 2021
25. China’s New Ambassador to the U.S. Adopts Placating Tone
Lingling Wei, Wall Street Journal, July 29, 2021
26. Xi Jinping Is Using Party Outreach to Build an Anti-U.S. Bloc
Jordan Link, Laura Edwards, Foreign Policy, August 5, 2021
27. Gunman in Pakistan Fires on Car Carrying Chinese Engineers
Saeed Shah and Waqar Gillani, Wall Street Journal, July 28, 2021
28. Philippine Leader Reverses Course, Keeps U.S. Defense Pact
Feliz Solomon, Wall Street Journal, July 30, 2021
29. China’s Afghan conundrum
Henry Storey, Lowy Institute, July 30, 2021
30. The long game: China’s grand strategy to displace American order
Rush Doshi, Brookings Institution, August 2, 2021
31. Analysis: China engages in fierce propaganda war during Sherman visit
Katsuji Nakazawa, Nikkei Asia, July 29, 2021
Human Rights and Religious Persecution
32. Chinese Social Media Nationalists Attack LGBTQ Film Festival Run by Foreign Consulates
Rebecca Davis, Variety, July 29, 2021
33. Apple China is censoring 27 LGBTQ+ apps, report shows
Shen Lu, Protocol, June 15, 2021
34. The End of Free Speech in Hong Kong
Timothy McLaughlin, The Atlantic, July 27, 2021
35. SFU academic assails Canada’s criticism of China on human rights
Steven Chase, The Globe and Mail, July 30, 2021
36. Fact Sheet on Criminal Authorities for Enforcing Against Forced Labor in China
U.S. Department of Homeland Security, July 30, 2021
37. Why it might be good for China if foreign investors are wary
Michael Pettis, Financial Times, August 2, 2021
38. United Nations Concerned About Organ Harvesting In China
Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes, July 8, 2021
39. A strategic framework for countering China’s human-rights violations in Xinjiang
Jeffrey Cimmino, Atlantic Council, July 23, 2021
40. VIDEO – Gravitas: Chinese citizens are fleeing Xi Jinping's rule
WION, July 29, 2021
41. The Geopolitical Olympics: Could China Win Gold?
Graham Allison, The National Interest, July 29, 2021
Industrial Policies and Economic Espionage
42. China’s Robotics Patent Landscape
Sara Abdulla, Center for Security and Emerging Technology, August 3, 2021
43. How China Played American Investors
Joseph C. Sternberg, Wall Street Journal, July 29, 2021
44. The Folly of China’s Hard-Tech Strategy
Daniel Tenreiro, The National Review, July 30, 2021
45. America’s Acceptance of Nord Stream 2 Will Redefine Europe
Andrew A. Michta, 1945, July 29, 2021
46. US Scientists Call for Closer Research Ties With China
Leif Le Mahieu, Washington Free Beacon, July 17, 2021
47. ‘Industrial Policy’ Is Back: The West Dusts Off Old Idea to Counter China
Greg Ip, Wall Street Journal, July 29, 2021
48. British state could buy stake in Sizewell nuclear plant to keep China out
Steven Swinford and Emily Gosden, Sunday Times, July 26, 2021
49. Pressure grows between African mineworkers and their Chinese bosses
Jevans Nyabiage, South China Morning Post, August 3, 2021
50. UK looks to remove China's CGN from nuclear power projects
Reuters, July 25, 2021
51. U.S. SEC says Chinese IPO hopefuls must provide additional risk disclosures
Echo Wang, Scott Murdoch and Kane Wu, Reuters, July 30, 2021
52. China’s Foreign Technology Wish List
Ryan Fedasiuk, Emily Weinstein and Anna Puglisi, Center for Security and Emerging Technology, May 2021
53. Britain Rethinks Letting China Enter Its Nuclear Power Industry
Stanley Reed, New York Times, August 2, 2021
54. Baffled investors fear nothing's off limits in China regulatory crackdown
Reuters, August 3, 2021
55. Comparing the United States’ and China’s Leading Roles in the Landscape of Science
Autumn Toney, Melissa Flagg, Center for Security and Emerging Technology, July 8, 2021
56. Without Safeguards, U.S. Risks Funding Foreign Innovation
Deborah Wince-Smith, Forbes, July 29, 2021
Cyber and Information Technology
57. Huawei launches new smartphones without 5G as U.S. sanctions, chip shortage bite
Ryan Browne, CNBC, July 29, 2021
58. Four Chinese Nationals Working with the Ministry of State Security Charged with Global Computer Intrusion Campaign Targeting Intellectual Property and Confidential Business Information, Including Infectious Disease Research
U.S. Department of Justice, July 18, 2021
59. Why China Is Cracking Down on Private Tutoring
James Palmer, Foreign Policy, August 5, 2021
60. ‘There‘s no playbook for this’: How Biden is tackling China amid globalisation
Jodi Xu Klein, South China Morning Post, July 31, 2021
61. China’s crackdown on the online-education business marks a turning-point
The Economist, July 31, 2021
62. China Big Tech ramps up US lobbying in hopes of Biden dialogue
Nikkei Asia, August 1, 2021
63. Chinese Hackers Compromised Telecom Firms, Researchers Say
Ryan Gallagher, Bloomberg, August 3, 2021
64. China smartphone shipments decline as Huawei exits top five rankings
Jane Zhang, South China Morning Post, July 29, 2021
Military and Security Threats
65. Arbitration Support Tracker
Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative, August 2, 2021
66. China’s Hypersonic Missiles: Methods and Motives
Richard Weitz, Jamestown Foundation, July 30, 2021
67. HMS Queen Elizabeth is leading Britain into a new era of security policy
Charles Moore, The Telegraph, July 30, 2021
68. German warship heads for South China Sea amid tension with Beijing
Sabine Siebold, Reuters, August 2, 2021
69. U.S. congressmen reach back into Cold War armory to respond to China
David Brunnstrom, Reuters, July 28, 2021
70. To Beat China In the Gray Zone, You Have to Be There
James Holmes, 1945, July 28, 2021
71. VIDEO – Enhancing deterrence in the Taiwan Strait
Franklin Kramer, Michael Mazza and Miyeon Oh, Atlantic Council, July 28, 2021
One Belt, One Road Strategy
72. Samoa's new leader confirms scrapping of China-funded port
Jonathan Barrett, Reuters, July 30, 2021
Opinion Pieces
73. Xi Jinping’s Capitalist Smackdown Sparks a $1 Trillion Reckoning
Tom Hancock and Tom Orlik, Bloomberg, August 1, 2021
74. China’s Nuclear Silos and the Arms-Control Fantasy
Matthew Kroenig, Wall Street Journal, July 17, 2021