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This week on TikTok: Fighting climate change, imaginary universities, and China’s plan to reinvigorate the private sector
Want more like this? Subscribe to The China Project’s official TikTok channel, The China Project, where Susan St.Denis explains complex topics about China clearly and simply in TikTok’s fast-evolving visual and verbal language.
Climate cooperation or tech clash: America can’t decide
Sino-U.S. science and technology partnerships can help or hurt both sides, depending if you’re talking to the faithful or the fearful.
‘Appeared out of nowhere’ — Phrase of the Week
A new fictitious university that started as an online joke came out of nowhere.
China sets restrictions on generative AI, but leaves room for innovation
Earlier this month, China released a national regulation on generative artificial intelligence. The primary purpose is to assert control, but revisions from a previous draft suggest Beijing understands the importance of leaving space for development.
Beijing’s new plan to promote the private sector and juice the economy
The Chinese Communist Party Central Committee and the State Council published a plan to reinvigorate private business after more than two years of crackdowns on entrepreneurs. Billionaires are vocally supporting the plan.
China pressured Turkey to bust Uyghur bookseller
Is an Istanbul bookstore guilty of copyright infringement or cultural preservation?
Transnational repression and China’s ‘overseas police stations’
This week on Sinica, Kaiser welcomes back Jeremy Daum, senior research scholar in law and senior fellow at the Paul Tsai China Law Center. Jeremy has a well-deserved reputation as a debunker of myths and misperceptions about China. This time, he takes on the much-discussed “overseas police stations,” and examines who they are and aren’t related to China’s transnational repression.
Editor’s note for July 20, 2023
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn.
Chinese queer feminists react to ‘Wave Makers,’ the show that sparked Taiwan’s #MeToo movement
Discussion about “Wave Makers” — a TV show that follows the fictitious lives of Taiwanese political staffers working on an election — has largely been censored on Chinese social media, but that hasn’t stopped some people from openly talking about it.
What the U.S. looked like to an early 20th-century Chinese diplomat
“Of all nations in the world, America is the most interesting to the Chinese…It is certainly a most extraordinary country. The people are wonderful and are most interesting and instructive to the Chinese.”
Tennis stars and Chinese fans rally around Zhang Shuai after Budapest controversy
“When I get mistreated, I have to tolerate it,” Zhang wrote on Weibo. “If I don’t tolerate it, I’ll be criticized for having bad manners. If I get riled up, I will be criticized for being big-headed. Someone who’s good at handling situations like this please tell me if you should get angry or not.”
Africa’s debt isn’t mostly to China and many Beijing-financed projects are for clean energy
China is neither laying a debt trap nor building a lot of fossil projects in Africa. Rather, it’s been relatively generous with debt relief, and in developing Africa’s renewable energy capabilities, argues Kenyan economist Anzetse Were.
China’s meatier, fattier diet is impacting its health, food security, and environment
In four decades, Chinese people went from using food coupons to eating fatty meals delivered via mobile phone apps. The country’s rapid economic rise also means that the foods that Chinese people eat are changing — and most of it’s unhealthy.
Germany’s new China strategy is a diplomatic high-wire act
The German government’s recently released “Strategy on China” has struck a balance between the country’s more pro-China business interests and the China-skeptic foreign policy establishment. While it is only a position paper, there is reason to believe that it marks an important milestone and irreversible shift in wider European relations with China.
Editor’s note for July 19, 2023
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn.
The problem with Mao’s ‘continuous’ revolution
Wuhan fractured in the summer of 1967 amid Mao’s Cultural Revolution. On one side were the Red Guards, who believed in continuous revolution against institutions, including the military. On the other side…the military, which fought back, with deadly results.
Ji Qiong’s contemporary take on traditional art
The mindfulness and attention with which Ji approaches her art is rare. More than a method of painting, what she preserves is a certain artistic charm, an interest in exploring inner realms.
Editor’s note for July 18, 2023
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn.
Eclipsing Russia: China’s green energy expansion into Central Asia
China has a significant comparative advantage in green energy. Growing incentives for Central Asian countries to diversify their energy mix are creating opportunities for Chinese companies, with significant implications for Russia, as well as the U.S. and EU.
China’s relations with Chile, its oldest friend in South America
For Chile, China is a bigger destination of exports than the next five countries combined. For China, Chilean resources are crucial in sustaining its solar panel, wind turbine, and EV output. But prosperous partnerships aren’t always trusting ones.
