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November 14 , 2018
  • The Atlantic：Why Young Pakistanis Are Learning Chinese
    The Atlantic reports: "On a July morning, Saqlain Abbas, 26 years old, stood before rows of students, Mandarin textbook in hand, while a Pakistani soldier sat silently at the back of the classroom with a gun at his side. Hanging on the wall was a collection of idyllic Chinese landscapes—the reddish-orange mountains of Gansu, the placid waters of a lake in Xinjiang. Here, at Karakoram International University, in a remote, rugged terrain that is still contested territory between India and Pakistan, the Pakistani military has been sponsoring free Mandarin courses for indigent students.'Previously, students were more inclined toward English,' Muhammad Ilyas, the director for the university's Institute of Professional Development, told me. Today, that's changing, as young Pakistanis increasingly gravitate toward Mandarin in search of jobs and degrees." 
  • The Wall Street Journal：China, the U.S. and the Oil Blame Game
    The Wall Street Journal reports: "Investors in the black stuff found themselves with a big black eye Tuesday. U.S. oil prices dropped by more than 7%, the worst one-day fall since 2015 following a bearish report from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and more Twitter bluster on oil supply from President Trump. The market's main focus has been on what the report had to say about oil supply, particularly figures that showed rising production in Russia and from other OPEC members more than offsetting cuts from sanction-hit Iran. More worrying is what the report didn't say. In particular, its estimates for demand growth next year from China, the world's second-biggest consumer, are starting to look a little too rosy." 
  • The New York Times：U.N. Rights Officials Criticize China Over Muslim Internments
    The New York Times reports: "United Nations human rights officials have sharply condemned regulations issued by China that seek to provide a legal basis for the mass internment of Muslims in the Xinjiang region. Six United Nations officials and rights experts said in a letter sent on Monday to the Chinese government that the regulations were a violation of international law, and they urged that those responsible be held accountable. The regulations were issued by the authorities in Xinjiang in western China, who said they were intended "to contain and eradicate" extremism. The United Nations experts contended that the new rules to justify mass internments in "re-education centers'' were based on overly broad definitions of extremist behavior and amounted to criminalizing the legitimate exercise of basic rights." 
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