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Editor’s Note for Wednesday, June 29, 2022
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn.
Xi will attend Hong Kong’s handover, but not the press
Hong Kong authorities have barred at least 13 journalists working for local and international news outlets from covering official events for the 25th anniversary of the handover this week, in a surprise to none.
‘Dare not, cannot, want not’: New regulations for dealing with the old problem of family corruption
With new regulations aimed at corruption that runs in the families of Party members, Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption drive has taken on an old and familiar foe.
Editor’s Note for Wednesday, May 25, 2022
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn.
Editor’s Note for Monday, May 23, 2022
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn.
Xi’s “little giants” are prospering on the Beijing Stock Exchange but they have a problem
China wants SMEs to invigorate the economy, and the plan seems to be working, according to the country’s newest stock exchange. But will smaller companies be able to withstand the supply chain shocks of the age of COVID?
Editor’s Note for Thursday, April 21, 2022
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn.
China Sets Aside Push to Spread Wealth in Pivotal Year for Xi
China has put the “common prosperity” push on the backburner in this “pivotal year” for Xí Jìnpíng 习近平, whose “rhetoric about redistributing wealth was aimed partly at drumming up public support,” but which “unnerved entrepreneurs and posed a drag on growth,” says the New York Times.
‘Ugh, here we are’ — Q&A with Geremie Barmé
We talked to renowned scholar Geremie R. Barmé about Shanghai under lockdown, Xi Jinping’s “empire of tedium,” nationalist thugs, and much more.
Xi, Zelenskyy weigh bilateral phone call
With the Russo-Ukrainian War entering its next phase, Beijing is considering its options and pursuing its own interests on an issue-by-issue basis.
China-Russia relations have ‘withstood the new test’ as Beijing’s balancing act continues
While China maintains a strategic friendliness with Russia and shared antipathy for the U.S.-dominated world order, Chinese companies have recently shown extreme caution in maintaining sanctions compliance. What is Beijing’s next move?
China's Xi strongly backs Afghanistan at regional conference
Beijing gave stronger backing to the Taliban, after Chinese leader Xí Jìnpíng 习近平 pledged China’s support at a regional conference on Thursday and Foreign Minister Wáng Yì 王毅 called on the U.S. to end sanctions and unfreeze Afghan assets.
Provinces: The Ongoing Reshuffling of Provincial Party Committees
Communist Party leadership has seen a remarkably fast turnover rate in the year leading up to the 20th Party Congress, slated to take place this fall, Brookings scholar Cheng Li notes. Most of the current provincial chiefs “are Xi’s longtime trusted associates, and some will likely play even more prominent roles in Xi’s third term.”
Biden and Xi have a “constructive” chat — Editor’s Note for Friday, March 18, 2022
A note for readers from Jeremy Goldkorn. Today: President Joe Biden and General Secretary Xi Jinping had a video meeting, and Ukraine was at the top of the agenda.
What happened to common prosperity?
A relatively new Xí Jìnpíng 习近平 slogan, “common prosperity,” is almost completely missing in official government documents for 2022, suggesting a lack of clarity in Beijing over how the slogan should be implemented.
Opinion | Taking Dictators Literally and Seriously
“Take autocrats literally and seriously when they tell us what they intend to do,” writes the Wall Street Journal editorial board. Vladimir Putin warned of his attack on Ukraine as early as 2007, and even wrote about Russia’s sovereignty claim on the region in an essay last summer, yet the West was quick to dismiss his words as a fever dream.
“In Beijing, Xí Jìnpíng 习近平 speaks of Taiwan in much the same way Mr. Putin does Ukraine… Beijing’s strong-arm repression of Hong Kong demonstrates the Xi regime is ready to trample treaties and violate its economic self-interest in pursuit of a nationalist agenda that fulfills Mr. Xi’s ambition. China’s concentration camps in Xinjiang reveal a regime immune to global embarrassment. How convincing is the argument that Mr. Xi would never be so foolish as to invade Taiwan?”
Stability takes the spotlight at China’s ‘Two Sessions’
China is hosting its “Two Sessions,” the nation’s biggest annual political gathering. Throughout the long list of issues on the central government’s agenda, stability emerges as the guiding principle.
Editor’s Note for Wednesday, February 23, 2022
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn. Today: Beijing stands firmly by Russia over Ukraine, and some words from Ambassador Winston Lord, who there with Nixon and Mao when they met 50 years ago.
Editor’s Note for Wednesday, February 16, 2022
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn. Today: Hong Kong is more and more a part of China, except when it comes to the city’s outbreak of COVID-19.
China is stepping up its agritech industry
China doesn’t want to depend on other nations for food security. Cue big investments in agriculture technologies.
A Succession Drama, Chinese Style, Starring Xi Jinping
Will Xi ever name a political heir? As a Party congress approaches, General Secretary Xí Jìnpíng 习近平 will likely serve another five-year term. However, nobody “except maybe a tight-lipped circle of senior officials” has any idea on how long he wants to stay in power, or if he ever plans to appoint a political successor. See also: The Reshuffling Report: “A series of articles — based on empirical research by Brookings scholar Cheng Li — anticipating and analyzing leadership changes at China’s 20th Party Congress.”
The results of the Xi-Putin Olympic lovefest — China-Russia weekly update
Beijing and Moscow have affirmed their close ties, but China seems to be leaving itself wiggle room in its communications about the meeting between leaders Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping.
The ‘Winter Olympics Pact’ between Moscow and Beijing
This week in the China-Russia weekly update: Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin are going to schmooze in Beijing, and more.
No reason for Ukraine war fears, China tells UN meeting
“No reason for concern” over Ukraine, Beijing says: At the UN Security Council on January 31, China’s envoy, Zhāng Jūn 张军, downplayed the risk of war over Ukraine, and accused “the United States of obstructing efforts to resolve the crisis through dialogue,” the South China Morning Post reports. Meanwhile, Russia and China continue to solidify ties, and when Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Xí Jìnpíng 习近平 meet in Beijing on February 4, they “could sign more than 15 agreements…with lots of new deals being prepared in relation to natural gas,” per Reuters.
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In clash with U.S. over Ukraine, Putin has a lifeline from China / NYT (paywall) Beijing throws weight behind Moscow: China-Russia weekly update / SupChina
In Clash With U.S. Over Ukraine, Putin Has a Lifeline From China
President Biden could find his plans to punish Russia undermined by Xi Jinping, a longtime ally of Mr. Putin. But China moves cautiously during crises.
Beijing denies that Xi asked Putin to delay Ukraine invasion
A Bloomberg report suggested that Chinese leader Xi Jinping might have asked his Russian counterpart not to spoil the Olympics with a military offensive in Ukraine. China called the report “a hoax and provocation.”
Editor’s note for Wednesday, January 19, 2022
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn. Today: At the World Economic Forum, Xi Jinping warns against countries like the U.S. building “exclusive yards with high walls,” even as Beijing builds its Great Firewall ever higher; meanwhile, in the U.S., there is a flourishing industry of professional China threat-mongers.
Editor’s note for Tuesday, January 11, 2022
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn. Today: Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Kazakh Foreign Minister Mukhtar Tileuberdi have a phone call, in which China expresses support for Kazakhstan “in maintaining stability and curbing violence” after popular protests.
What’s Behind China’s Regulatory Storm
Scholar Barry Naughton comments on China’s “regulatory storm”: “The reality is that many of the Chinese actions have a reasonable regulatory rationale, and can be easily defended on an individual basis. But taking a broader view, there is no question that the latest government actions represent a substantial expansion of the power of the government and the Chinese Communist Party,” Naughton writes in the Wall Street Journal. “This new hyperpoliticized reality is likely to do long-term damage to the performance of the Chinese economy and certainly poses new risks to investors and business operators.”
Leaked papers link Xinjiang crackdown with China leadership
More excerpts from the Xinjiang Papers have been published. Two years ago, the New York Times published a story based on one of the most significant leaks of Chinese government documents in decades, which, among other revelations, showed Xí Jìnpíng 习近平 in 2014 demanding that comrades “show absolutely no mercy” in dealing with Xinjiang residents infected with “extremist religious thought.” The NYT only published small excerpts of the reported 400 pages of source material, which China did not deny the authenticity of but accused the newspaper of “taking out of context and hyping.”
Now, 300 pages of the Xinjiang Papers from 11 documents have been published at Uyghurtribunal.com. German academic Adrian Zenz wrote an introduction to the papers that was peer reviewed by Georgetown University scholar James Millward and University of Sheffield lecturer David Tobin. Zenz says an analysis of the full document cache, which almost certainly matches the original leak to the NYT, “shows that the linkages between statements and mandates made by Xi and other central government figures and policies that were implemented after 2016 are far more extensive, detailed and significant than previously understood.”
U.S. and China to Elevate Military Talks in Bid to Ease Tensions
U.S.-China arms talks could be held at a high level, Bloomberg reports, as during the virtual meeting between U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xí Jìnpíng 习近平, Xi “agreed to support such discussions between the U.S. military and top officials from the People’s Liberation Army, including the vice chairman of the country’s powerful Central Military Commission.” This would be an upgrade from a “Track II dialogue, among nongovernment defense analysts and academics,” which is what one Chinese source suggested to the Wall Street Journal, and potentially even a step up from semiofficial talks between 2004 and 2009.
Biden to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday
The Biden-Xi virtual meeting has been confirmed: On Monday, November 15, the two leaders will discuss “how to ‘responsibly manage the competition’ between the two nations, as well as avenues ‘to work together where our interests align,’” the White House said, per the Washington Post. “The meeting will be held in the evening, and a joint statement is not expected after it concludes.” See also, from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: At Biden and Xi’s virtual summit, what can be accomplished?
New Beijing Stock Exchange to Open on Nov. 15 With First 10 Stocks
The new Beijing Stock Exchange will open on November 15: Ten companies are slated to list just two months after Xí Jìnpíng 习近平 revealed the plan for the bourse.
China blamed for cancellation of events for German book on Xi Jinping
Publisher says situation is a ‘disquieting signal’ after presentations pulled at short notice
China's Xi calls for new progress in military equipment, weapons
China's President Xi Jinping called for efforts to "break new ground" in military equipment and weapons development for the People's Liberation Army, China's armed forces, according to a report from the official Xinhua media on Tuesday.
Xi’s ‘Common Prosperity’ in Theory and Practice
President Xi Jinping’s vision for a more equal China has spooked investors. The recent release of a fuller version of his August remarks contains important hints on what “common prosperity” really means.
Opinion | This Is How Biden Can Get the Edge Over China
Is the U.S. pushing China on too many things? Susan Thornton, former acting assistant secretary of state for East Asia and Pacific Affairs, argues in the New York Times that Washington should prioritize “the issues where the United States can realistically make progress with China: trade and investment, climate change measures and limits on dangerous weapons.”
Xi Jinping leads tributes to fallen heroes in Tiananmen ceremony
Xi and other members of the leadership attend the Martyr’s Day ceremony in the heart of Beijing one day before the country celebrates National Day.
China's Xi leads Martyr's Day ceremony amid patriotism drive
BEIJING (AP) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping paid respects at a solemn commemoration Thursday for those who died in the struggle to establish Communist Party rule, as he leads a national drive to reinforce patriotism and single-party authority.
