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August 01 , 2018
  • CNBC reports: "China said on Wednesday that "blackmail" wouldn't work and that it would hit back if the United States takes further steps hindering trade, as the Trump administration considers slapping a 25 percent tariff on $200 billion worth of Chinese goods. The proposal would increase the potential tariff rate from 10 percent the administration had initially put forward on July 10 for that wave of duties in a bid to pressure Beijing into making trade concessions, a source familiar with the plan said on Tuesday. The tariffs target thousands of Chinese imports, including food products, chemicals, steel and aluminum and consumer goods ranging from dog food, furniture and carpets to car tires, bicycles, and baseball gloves and beauty products."
  • The Wall Street Journal reports: "As trade tensions with Washington rose, Chinese Vice President Wang Qishan used a meeting with American businessmen in May to rebuff U.S. criticism of Beijing's industrial policies, expounding on what he called American ignorance of Chinese history. Describing himself as a "student of America," Mr. Wang chided the U.S. for failing to appreciate China's struggle to escape poverty, suggesting that if Americans did they would be more understanding of the Communist Party and its policies... He punctuated his message with a maxim from Sun Tzu's ancient strategy treatise, "The Art of War": "Know yourself and know your enemy." A confidant of President Xi Jinping who ruthlessly prosecuted the anticorruption drive that tightened his friend's grip on power, Mr. Wang returned from a brief retirement to be installed in March in the ceremonial vice presidency."
  • The Verge reports: "Google is reportedly planning to relaunch its search engine in China, complete with censored results to meet the demands of the Chinese government. The company originally shut down its Chinese search engine in 2010, citing government attempts to "limit free speech on the web." But according to a report from The Intercept, the US tech giant now wants to return to the world's biggest single market for internet users. According to internal documents provided to The Intercept by a whistleblower, Google has been developing a censored version of its search engine under the codename "Dragonfly" since the beginning of 2017. The search engine is being built as an Android mobile app and will reportedly "blacklist sensitive queries" and filter out all websites blocked by China's web censors (including Wikipedia and BBC News)."
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