Administration
Nov 30 | WSJ
Even as she emphasized steps the U.S. is taking to safeguard its technology to ensure its economic competitiveness, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo highlighted the importance of promoting trade and investment in areas outside of core economic and national security interests. More
Nov 30 | U.S. Embassy in China
Ambassador Burns overviews Beijing's response to the protests, U.S. trade policy, and the long-term future of U.S.-China relations. More
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Protests In China
Dec 02 | NYT
As the authorities seek to track protestors, they are turning to powerful tools of surveillance the state has spent the past decade building for moments like this, when parts of the population turn out and question the authority of the ruling Chinese Communist Party. More
Dec 01 | Politico
The dramatic protests that erupted in Chinese cities over the weekend handed an opportunity to GOP lawmakers to attack the Biden administration over perceived weakness in its dealings with Beijing. More
Nov 30 | NYT
President Xi's Covid policy has exposed the system's inherent weakness, and he is losing the two most critical bases of political support in China: university students and the middle class. Wu Qiang. More
Covid-19
Dec 06 | Reuters
Residents of China's capital were allowed into parks, supermarkets, offices and airports without a negative COVID-19 test on Tuesday, the latest in a mix of easing steps nationwide after unprecedented protests against a tough zero-COVID policy. More
Dec 06 | The New Yorker
Peter Hessler surveys his former students in China about their experience with the pandemic and their feelings on the country's COVID policies. More
Geopolitics
Dec 06 | NYT
Xi Jinping is expected to sign a flurry of contracts with the Saudis and other Gulf States, highlighting Beijing's growing clout in the region when Washington has pulled away. More
Dec 05 | VoA
Beijing is taking its first steps toward recovering from years of setbacks to its scientific, land-based projects in the Arctic, sending personnel to two outposts that have been vital to its policy of establishing China as a "near-Arctic" state. More
Nov 30 | FA
Xi Jinping's ideology and motivations are clear: deep fear of subversion, hostility toward the United States, sympathy with Russia, a desire to unify mainland China and Taiwan, and, above all, confidence in the ultimate victory of communism over the capitalist West. The end state he is pursuing requires the remaking of global governance. Matt Pottinger, Matthew Johnson, and David Feith. More
Nov 30 | Reuters
IMF Strategy Chief Ceyla Pazarbasioglu said she will travel to China next week for high-level meetings, part of efforts to press the world's largest sovereign creditor for quicker progress on debt restructurings for countries in need. More
Inside China
Dec 01 | Reuters
With private Chinese tech, finance, and tutoring firms shedding tens of thousands of jobs, sending youth unemployment to record levels, more and more young people – about 2.6 million – are sitting for the nationwide civil service exam. More
Nov 30 | FA
When he was thrust into the limelight as China's paramount leader in the immediate aftermath of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, Jiang Zemin was dismissed by many analysts as a likely short-lived transitional leader. Yet Jiang, who died on November 30 at age 96, proved to have remarkable staying power. David Shambaugh. More
Military & Maritime
Dec 05 | Defense News
To confidently deter our nation's adversaries, America's domestic industrial base will need to produce historic levels of battlefield replacements for munitions, conventional capabilities and exquisite platforms. Rep. Ken Calvert (R-CA). More
Dec 04 | SCMP
The proposed return of U.S. forces to a vast former military base in the Philippines after a three-decade-long absence looks set to heighten superpower rivalry in the South China Sea, as it weighs on Manila-Beijing relations. More
Dec 03 | AP
The U.S. is at a pivotal point with China and will need military strength to ensure that American values, not Beijing's, set global norms in the 21st century, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Saturday. More
Tech & National Security
Dec 06 | Nikkei Asia
Chipmaker TSMC announced on Tuesday it will increase its investment in Arizona, where it is currently building a $12 billion chip facility, to $40 billion in order to build the first plant in the U.S. to make 3-nanometer chips, the most advanced currently available. More
Dec 02 | AP
Director Wray said the FBI was concerned that the Chinese had the ability to control the app's recommendation algorithm, “which allows them to manipulate content, and if they want to, to use it for influence operations.” He also asserted that China could use the app to collect data on its users that could be used for traditional espionage operations. More
Nov 30 | WSJ
Despite placing Chinese drone maker DJI on the "Chinese military companies" list, parts of the federal government are still purchasing DJI drones a new investigation reveals. Lars Erik Schönander. More
Business & Investment
Dec 05 | Bloomberg
The directive from Republican Representatives Gallagher and Smith, as well as Senators Rubio and Cotton, signals tough oversight of the issue after the GOP takes control of the House in January. Trade curbs in the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act are already thwarting imports of solar panels and other gear critical to renewable power projects, potentially at the expense of clean energy goals in the Inflation Reduction Act. More
Dec 03 | WSJ
Apple is telling suppliers to plan more actively for assembling Apple products elsewhere in Asia, particularly India and Vietnam, they say, and looking to reduce dependence on Taiwanese assemblers led by Foxconn. More
Dec 03 | Axios
A federal judge on Friday dismissed charges of financial fraud against Huawei's Meng Wanzhou. Meng entered a deferred agreement with federal prosecutors last year in which she acknowledged having made false statements about Huawei's Iran business. The DOJ agreed to dismiss all charges when the deferral period ends as long as Meng is not charged with a crime during that time. More
Trade & Commerce
Dec 02 | The Hill
Congress has been unable to agree on one important topic: international trade. The consequences of failing to open new markets for U.S. exporters, help workers hurt by trade, fight unfair trade practices, and reauthorize expiring trade benefit programs all add up to two things: fewer good jobs for American workers and weakened U.S. influence around the world. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH) and Chris Coons (D-DE). More
Human Rights
Dec 06 | NYT
The sight of Han Chinese protesting the deaths of Uyghurs is unusual and poignant, because for years, the Chinese party-state has justified its Xinjiang policies by demonizing Uyghurs as terrorists and religious extremists, or at least as ignorant peasants in need of forceful “vocational training.” And now, the images from the Urumqi fire have humanized and normalized Uyghurs for the entire country. James Millward. More
Dec 02 | Reuters
Secretary Blinken in a statement said those designated as countries of particular concern - which also include North Korea and Myanmar - engaged in or tolerated severe violations of religious freedom. More
Dec 01 | RFA
In a letter to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and Representative Jim McGovern (D-MA), said around 80 percent of Tibetan children are now being sent to Chinese boarding schools where they are taught a “highly politicized curriculum.” More
Influence & Repression
Dec 05 | FP
In an effort to expand its influence within the domestic politics and societies of other countries, China in the past decade dramatically expanded its tools of influence. These have included the use of disinformation online, payments to politicians to spout pro-China ideas, control of Chinese student associations in many countries, the funding of programs at universities, and other tactics. More
Dec 04 | CNN
Beijing has set these so-called overseas police stations across the globe to monitor, harass and in some cases repatriate Chinese citizens living in exile, using bilateral security arrangements struck with countries in Europe and Africa to gain a widespread presence internationally. More
Higher Education
Dec 04 | SCMP
Chinese students are paying education 'consultants' to get them into top US universities by falsifying grades, academic transcripts and personal statements. More
Dec 02 | NBC
FBI Director Christopher Wray offered a full-throated defense Friday of the Justice Department's efforts to investigate and prosecute academic fraud linked to China, saying that there is no “more serious, more persistent threat to our innovation, our ideas and our economic security than the Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese government.” More
Cybersecurity
Dec 05 | NBC
The theft of taxpayer funds by the Chengdu-based hacking group known as APT41 is the first instance of pandemic fraud tied to foreign, state-sponsored cybercriminals that the U.S. government has acknowledged publicly, but may just be the tip of the iceberg, according to U.S. law enforcement officials and cybersecurity experts. More
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