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October 11 , 2017
  • The Washington Post：China treats its foreign aid like a state secret. New research aims to reveal it.
    The Washington Post reports: "Since the turn of the century, China has become an unavoidable global provider of foreign assistance, funding everything from opera houses in Algeria to tobacco farms in Zimbabwe. Try to find in-depth data about these projects, however, and you are mostly out of luck. China treats its foreign assistance budget like a state secret, refusing to work with international bodies that try to coordinate and quantify foreign development funding.  In part due to this paucity of information, a reputation has spread among Western critics that China is a 'rogue donor' — one that lavishes illiberal regimes with cash to plunder raw materials for its own growth. An ambitious new research project released this week challenges that assumption by producing the first-ever global data set on Chinese overseas development spending between 2000 and 2014. Brad Parks, the executive director of AidData, a research lab at the College of William & Mary, said it took five years for a team of nearly 100 scholars and research assistants from all over the world to piece together data... 'What we're about to release is the most comprehensive and detailed source of project information about China's global development footprint ever,' Parks said. The end result is so unique, he said, that they've even had some inquiries from Chinese officials about using it."
  • The Wall Street Journal：China Charges Toward Electric-Car Supremacy
    The Wall Street Journal reports: "Watch out Detroit: A Chinese electric car revolution is on the way. China is placing big bets on a plan to reshape the global auto industry by replacing gas-guzzling cars on its streets with new-energy vehicles. Ahead of Donald Trump's trip to China in November, the White House is focused on holding back Chinese exports in traditional industries like steel and aluminum. But that's a sideshow. A titanic struggle is under way to control the industries of the future from robotics to medical equipment and artificial intelligence. In new-energy vehicles, China is firmly in the driving seat. Its industrial goal is to leapfrog over foreign car makers in the domestic market, by far the world's largest—and the most important for General Motors—and become an export powerhouse. Having tried and failed to catch up with Western and Asian makers of traditional vehicles, the country is throwing everything it has at electric cars... The "Made in China 2025" blueprint for how to dominate cutting-edge industries calls for at least 70% market share for homegrown plug-in vehicles by 2020."
  • Financial Times：Under Xi Jinping, China is turning back to dictatorship
    Financial Times comments: "This year, a Chinese court sentenced a man to two years in prison for the apparently heinous crime of referring to President Xi Jinping as 'steamed bun Xi' in private messages he sent to friends using online chat apps. The sobriquet has been censored in China since 2013, when online ridicule erupted at Mr Xi's attempt to portray himself as a man of the people by visiting a steamed bun restaurant. But prosecuting someone for using the phrase in private discussions is a new and worrying development. Wang Jiangfeng was found guilty of sending online messages to friends through the Tencent-owned WeChat and QQ messaging apps that caused 'negative thoughts about the Chinese Communist party, the socialist system and the people's democratic dictatorship, causing psychological confusion and public disorder of a serious nature and particularly egregious kind"... This is how dictatorships behave and China looks more like one than at any time in several decades... The reality is we know almost as little about the inner workings of China's top leadership as we do about North Korea's. What we do know is what Mr Xi tells us, in his speeches and in the political slogans he coins. His own words reveal that the biggest and most important change under his watch has been the complete rejection of democracy and other 'western values' such as free speech, constitutionalism, judicial independence and human rights."
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