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12.16.16Finding Balance in the US-China Relationship
Diplomat
As Donald Trump ascends to the Oval Office, he must recognize the larger vision required to see clearly at the height of power
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12.16.16When China Bullies Its Neighbors, India Gets More Muscular
Quartz
China’s increasingly rough-handed and assertive foreign policy towards its neighbors is raising India’s diplomatic and economic clout in the region
Viewpoint
12.15.16
The Missing Topic in Trump’s Tough Talk on China
President-elect Donald Trump’s rhetoric suggests he will push China on many issues, not just one. Some observers have held on to the hope that his phone call with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen, his burst of anti-China tweets, and his most recent...
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12.15.16Taiwan is Both Exhilarated and Unnerved by Trump’s China’s Remarks
New York Times
What does it mean for one’s homeland to be put on the table by Mr. Trump, in negotiations with China’s leaders, who are not known for making concessions easily?
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12.15.16China’s Economic Policy Under Pressure After Fed Flags New Era
Financial Times
Rising US rates complicate balancing act for Beijing as it faces capital flight
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12.14.16GM China Reportedly Under Antitrust Investigation: A Warning for Trump?
Forbes
The surprising report of an investigation of GM comes suspiciously close to President-elect Trump’s incendiary recent comments on Taiwan
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12.14.16‘Friends Forever’? China Wary of Rex Tillerson Wooing Away Russia
Guardian
Trump will have close ties to Moscow via its Secretary of State, but relations with Beijing are frosty. Could Sino-Russian ties be under threat?
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12.13.16China’s Richest Man Threat to Trump ’Should Things Be Handled Poorly’
Quartz
Wang Jianlin says 20,000 American jobs and $10 billion in investment are at stake
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12.13.16China Stocks Drop as Insurers Face Crackdown
Wall Street Journal
China’s top securities regulator has accused some big insurers of behaving like ‘barbarians’
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12.13.16Is Latin America of Strategic Importance to China?
Diplomat
For China, Latin American countries will be a key part of its bid to influence global governance
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12.13.16If Donald Trump Pushes, How China Could Push Back
New York Times
Here are five ways the Chinese could make life difficult for a Trump administration
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12.12.16Beijing Concerned by Trump Questioning ‘One China’ Policy on Taiwan
Wall Street Journal
President-elect Donald Trump questioned U.S. support for the idea that mainland China and Taiwan are part of ‘one China’
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12.12.16Trump Says China is Not a Market Economy. Here’s Why That is a Big Deal
Washington Post
In 2001, in China’s view, the U.S. promised it would treat the Asian country as a “market economy” starting in December 2016. Trump has a different idea.
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12.12.16Small Investors Join China’s Tycoons in Sending Money Abroad
New York Times
It's Chinese investors and a developer in Brooklyn- with a digital lending twist
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12.12.16Going Green in China, Where Climate Change Isn’t Considered a Hoax
Salon
Chinese leaders want to improve the quality of life in their nation's cities
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12.12.16Meet the Ma Family: How Millennials are Changing the Way China Thinks About Money
Reuters
China's millennials - roughly those aged between 18 and 35 - are embracing debt like never before
Viewpoint
12.09.16
I Think That Chinese Official Really Liked Me!
“Friendship” is everywhere in China, at least when it comes to dealing with foreigners. International societies are friendship associations. The stores once accessible only to foreign currency holders were called Friendship Stores. Provincial cities...
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12.09.16China Has Gained Hugely from Globalization, So Why Are Its Workers So Unhappy?
Economist
Now, more than ever, working-class Chinese fret about rising inequality, the impact of mass migration from the countryside into cities and job losses
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12.09.16China Faces off Against World on Open Global Markets
Wall Street Journal
Anniversary of China’s accession to World Trade Organization highlights global rift over Beijing’s economic policy
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12.09.16I Think That Chinese Official Really Liked Me!
Foreign Policy
Trump's pick for U.S. Ambassador to Beijing is apparently 'old friends' with President Xi Jinping. That will mean very little.
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12.09.16China Takes Aim at South Korea’s Lotte After Missile Move
Financial Times
Series of probes follows Lotte’s surrender of golf course to host US-made Thaad missile shield
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12.08.16China Exports Snap Seven-Month Losing Streak as Imports Surge
Bloomberg
China’s exports gained as a cheaper yuan aided foreign purchasing; Imports jumped the most in more than two years on strong demand for raw materials
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12.08.16Uganda is Worried About the Number of Chinese Men Marrying Their Women
Quartz
An increasing number of Chinese men are marrying Ugandan women to gain residency and continue their business interests in the country
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12.08.16How a Midwest Governor Rose to Become America’s Top Official in China
South China Morning Post
Trump administration hopes Terry Branstad’s long-standing friendship with Xi Jinping will smooth often-strained ties between the two nations
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12.07.16Trump Picks Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad as Beijing Ambassador
Washington Post
Branstad has extensive ties to China and a personal friendship with Chinese President Xi Jinping
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12.07.16After 1,000 Year Slumber, China Vows to Invent Again
Wall Street Journal
Beijing spends billions on moonshot projects, hoping to shake off its reputation as a copycat economy and curb dependence on foreign powers
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12.07.16Taiwan Feels Forgotten. But Not By Trump.
New York Times
Despite facing a sober future, Taiwanese will continue to celebrate what they see as an overdue recognition of their hard-won existence
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12.07.16China is Outsourcing Its Pollution
Foreign Policy
Beijing's diplomacy is increasingly green, but its international trade is getting ever more coal-black
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12.06.16China’s Currency Didn’t Really Drop, Despite Jitters Over Trump
New York Times
Early Tuesday it appeared the RMB had suddenly fallen more than 8%, but no deliberate devaluation took place. Instead, the culprit was a technical problem
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12.06.16In China, Trump-Style Infrastructure Partnerships are Used to Hide Debt
Wall Street Journal
To pay for a highway project, Wenling’s government teamed up with Bank of China to create an ‘industrial fund’ that pulls in money from ordinary investors
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12.06.16Xi Jinping to be ‘First Chinese President to Attend Davos Summit’
South China Morning Post
Trip has yet to be officially announced but preparations well underway for Chinese head of state’s visit to World Economic Forum in Switzerland
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12.06.16Trump’s China Tweets are Just Tough Talk
Guardian
A trade war would be damaging for the US, and the president-elect is likely to need Beijing’s help with North Korea. Wait until he’s in office
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12.06.16A China Economist Told Us How China Could Hurt the US in a Trade War
Business Insider
BI caught up with Gene Ma, IIF's Chief Economist, to ask him some questions about where the Chinese economy is going in the age of Trump
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12.05.16After the Call: Does Taiwan Have a Plan for the Trump Years?
Diplomat
What is Taiwan looking for from Donald Trump?
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12.05.16How China Could React to Trump’s Taunts: Best Case to Worst Case Scenarios
Quartz
In the wake of #TaiwanFreakout and the latest Twitter-storm, here’s a range of things Beijing could do, from the shrug-worthy to the downright terrifying
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12.02.16China Seizes Opening in U.S. Backyard as Trump Upends Policy
Bloomberg
As Trump weighs plans to tear up trade deals and deport illegal migrants from Latin America, China's Xi is moving swiftly to reset relations in America’s backyard
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12.02.16Microsoft, Intel, IBM Push Back on China Cybersecurity Rules
Wall Street Journal
Comments offer rare glimpse at tussle between Beijing and U.S. tech companies
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12.01.16China Stands to Gain from OPEC Deal
Wall Street Journal
Output agreement could boost the country’s oil industry and reduce its reliance on Saudi crude
Reports
11.30.16
Made in China 2025
Jost Wübbeke & Mirjam Meissner
Mercator Institute for China Studies
This report analyses China’s ambitious plan to build one of the world’s most advanced and competitive economies with the help of innovative manufacturing technologies (“smart manufacturing”). China’s industrial master plan “Made in China 2025” aims...
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11.30.16China’s Approach to the Middle East Looks Familiar
Diplomat
Despite repudiating American foreign policy, China now borrows heavily from U.S.-style Middle Eastern diplomacy
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11.30.16China Adds Curbs on Pulling Money Out of the Country
Bloomberg
New restrictions added as authorities seek to prevent a flood of capital outflows from destabilizing the financial system
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11.30.16Despite Climate Change Vow, China Pushes to Dig More Coal
New York Times
Desperate to deliver coal before power stations run out, China mobilizes trains and half-mile lines of trucks
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11.29.16Stuck at the Bottom in China
New York Times
If the Chinese government is serious about fostering a stable and harmonious society, it must address limits on social mobility before it’s too late
The China Africa Project
11.29.16
How Rwanda Attracts Chinese Money and Migrants Without the Lure of Natural Resources
Quartz’s Africa correspondent Lily Kuo recently returned from a reporting assignment to Rwanda where she discovered a very different side of China’s engagement in Africa. Rwanda lacks many of the resources and large markets that other African states...
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11.28.16Castro’s Death a Reminder in China of Changed Communist Axis
Washington Post
China and Cuba frequently nod to their shared ideological history, but relations revolve more around developing beach resorts or Chinese telecoms investments
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11.28.16China Cites ’The Art of War’ as Trump Signals Trade Battle
Bloomberg
You can kill 1,000 enemies, but you would also lose 800 soldiers
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11.28.16Animosity in a Burmese Hub Deepens as Chinese Get Richer
New York Times
Locals view Chinese as taking advantage of Mandalay’s location and resources. Chinese view locals as beneath them, slow at business and making money.
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11.28.16China Risks Wasting $490 Billion on New Coal Plant, Say Campaigners
Guardian
Carbon Tracker says many plants running at overcapacity but China reluctant to wean itself off coal, fearing unemployment and unrest
China in the World Podcast
11.23.16
U.S.-China Trade Relations in the Trump Era
from Carnegie China
Donald Trump’s election injects greater uncertainty, and potentially increased contention, into the trade and investment relationship between the United States and China. In this podcast, Paul Haenle spoke with Claire Reade, a senior associate with...
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11.23.16China Expands UN Peacekeeping Role as U.S. Influence Wanes
Financial Times
‘Blue helmet’ deployments offer opportunity to burnish international image
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11.23.16China is Poised to Benefit from Trump’s Ambiguous Africa Policy
Huffington Post
By neglecting to propose a clear approach toward the continent, the future U.S. president may end up boosting Beijing
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11.23.16China Touts its Own Trade Pact as U.S.-Backed One Withers
Wall Street Journal
Nations begin to coalesce around China-led trade group after Trump reiterates plan to withdraw from TPP
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11.22.16Rwanda is a Landlocked Country with Few Natural Resources. So Why is China Investing So Heavily in it?
Quartz
Rwanda doesn't fit the usual narrative of China's interest in Africa-- namely that China is only interested in the continent's resources
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11.22.16Will Trump’s Love of Deals Work With China?
Wall Street Journal
A president known for deal-making could change the landscape in East Asia
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11.22.16U.S. Won’t Tolerate Pressure from China on Fugitive Families
Reuters
China has upset Western countries by sending undercover agents to try and get suspects back, although it says it has changed tactics after complaints
Conversation
11.21.16
Will China Take the Lead on Climate Change?
At a time when the world is looking to China and the United States, the leading emitters of greenhouse gasses, to cooperate under the terms of the Paris Climate Change Agreement of 2015, will China now take the lead in fighting climate change?
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11.21.16As Trump Tweets about SNL and Hamilton, China’s Xi Embraces a New, Powerful Role
Quartz
Trump’s talk of increasing trade barriers and disdain for global organizations and agreements could create a more isolationist US, leaving China to fill the gap
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11.21.16India’s China Policy Off Target, Says Modi’s Mandarin- Speaking ‘Guided Missile’
South China Morning Post
Delhi’s go-to guy for talking to Beijing is one of the few Indian leaders who openly advocate closer ties
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11.21.16A Retreat from TPP Would Empower China
New York Times
China will take full advantage of the American shift to press its own trade vision--the Beijing-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership
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11.21.16China’s Xi Calls for ’Smooth Transition’ in Relationship With U.S.
Reuters
During a meeting in Peru, Xi Jinping praised outgoing President Obama for strengthening ties between the two nations