Quick Glance: Fantasy of Harmony: The Eternal Competition Between America and China
- As U.S.-Chinese relations deteriorate more than in the last 50 years, an old tale resurfaces: If only the United States spoke more with China and enabled its rise, the two countries could live in peace.
- Some analysts argue the United States and China could potentially strike a significant deal through dialogue, establishing stable spheres of influence and something akin to a G-2 to address global issues such as climate change and pandemics.
- The United States made repeated attempts to collaborate with China, yet Chinese leaders consistently saw these efforts as insidious containment, aiming to weaken the grip of the Chinese Communist Party and force China into economic and political subservience to the West.
- To achieve this, the United States and its allies must deter Chinese aggression in the short term and avoid concessions that disrupt positive long-term trends.
Quick Glance: The Power and Limits of Xi Jinping
- Xi may have more power than any Chinese leader since Mao Zedong, but he can't fully implement his policy preferences.
- It's recognized that Xi Jinping is the most powerful leader in China since Mao Zedong.
- Xi is the most powerful Chinese leader since Mao and not constrained by the party norms and institutions of the post-Mao era.
- Xi recognized the bureaucracy problems and addressed these through the anti-corruption campaign, but still relies on the bureaucracy for policy implementation.
Quick Glance: Xi Jinping may need a fall guy in 2023.
- With so much power, China's top leader would require a lightning rod or two to deflect the full force of the difficulties that await him.
- Western commentators have dubbed him the "Chairman of Everything" in reference to his broad influence over how China is managed, and the President could take some ideas from his predecessor, Mr Jiang Zemin, who saw him as a potential leader.
- Mr Jiang, who died in November, presided over China for a decade beginning in 1993.
- As president, Mr Jiang had a contentious relationship with then-Premier Zhu Rongji, dubbed the "economic czar" of his country.
Quick Glance: Tencent suspends gaming in China to mourn late leader Jiang Zemin
- GUANGZHOU, China – Tencent Holdings and other major gaming suppliers in China are shutting down their games across the country on Tuesday in an apparent tribute to late President Jiang Zemin, despite Beijing's increasing regulation of the gaming business.
- NetEase Games, the country's second largest gaming company, has also suspended operations.
- Neither firm gave an explanation for the outage.
Quick Glance: China party officials pay tribute to former leader Jiang Zemin
- BEIJING, China (AP) – Former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin, who died last week at the age of 96, was remembered Monday by Chinese President Xi Jinping and other current and former top officials. State television showed Xi, his predecessor Hu Jintao, and others kneeling in front of Jiang's body in a military hospital in Beijing.
- Jiang, a qualified engineer and former mayor of Shanghai, was president for a decade until 2003 and led the ruling Communist Party for 13 years until 2002.
- Jiang died of leukemia and multiple organ failure on November 30 in Shanghai, according to state media.
- The Communist Party hailed him as a "great proletarian revolutionary" and "long-tested Communist fighter."
Quick Glance: Jiang Zemin's Obituary: He Made China's Boom Possible
- Jiang Zemin owes the pinnacle of his political career to a heinous occurrence.
- Zhao was placed under house arrest as a result, and Jiang Zemin took his position.
- Jiang built a parallelism between government and private enterprise. As CP leader, Jiang took over a country whose foreign reputation had deteriorated as a result of protest suppression in 1989.
- This occurred during Jiang Zemin's presidency, which is why he is now seen as a reformer.
Quick Glance: Xi's Expensive Security Obsession
- China's growth dilemma has only become worse.
- That is the unambiguous conclusion that can be derived from the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) 20th National Congress.
- Although China's growth should continue to be healthy, such a significant downturn from the previous hypergrowth trajectory is the Chinese equivalent of a recession.
- With the working population declining, productivity growth must pick up to keep the economy on track.
- The party congress also sounded the death knell for Chinese entrepreneurial activity, which had promised a productivity windfall in recent decades.
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Quick Glance: Jiang Zemin: The Leader Who Put China on the Path to Becoming a Global Superpower
- The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) confirmed the death of former Chinese President and CCP General Secretary Jiang Zemin on Wednesday.
- Ascend to power Jiang Zemin was born in 1926 and worked as an electrical engineer in vehicle industries.
- Deng chose Jiang as a stand-in candidate for the position of general secretary.
- Jiang departed as General Secretary in 2002 and as President in 2003, but remained in power as Chairman of the Central Military Commission until 2004 – two years into Hu Jintao's tenure as General Secretary, preventing the latter from effectively exercising power.
Quick Glance: Young Chinese express excitement and defiance in COVID "tipping point" protests
- HONG KONG/BEIJING, 30 November (Reuters) - When Yang, a Shanghai office worker, viewed video recordings of a burning building in western China, a calamity in which ten people died, she claimed she couldn't hold back her rage with the pandemic's draconian COVID-19 regulations three years in.
- Six young people interviewed by Reuters in four cities across China, all of whom are dipping their toes into activism for the first time, describe a mix of elation, anxiety, and defiance following a restless weekend and tightening of security.
- People chanted, "Down with the Chinese Communist Party," and some removed their masks.
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Quick Glance: Why Do China's Leaders Fear Anniversaries?
- Censors were given orders to keep internet discussion of Jiang's death from devolving into unsafe territory.
- Going back even further, on September 18, a bus crash killed 27 individuals who were being transported from Guiyang to a quarantine center in another section of Guizhou province.
- This human tragedy sparked a flood of online criticism of the zero-COVID policy's implementation.
- Xi Jinping and his allies will have to hope that by relaxing the zero-COVID policy, the Chinese people will be less moved to protest when the anniversaries of Li's death and the Urumqi fire arrive next year.
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Quick Glance: General Secretary Xi Jinping is accurate in his assertion that Marxism works.
- This relates to the Marxist notion expressed in the "Communist Manifesto" that the state will swiftly create productive forces during the socialist transition.
- Of course, China's application of Marxism to its own conditions was fraught with errors and difficulties, but rather than rejecting Marxism as a theoretical tool of analysis, China adapted.
- "Marxism attaches utmost importance to developing productive forces."
- China's realization and acceptance that socialism is more than narrow collectivism and collectivisation is possibly one of the most crucial drivers of its current and future prosperity.
Former Chinese President Jiang Zemin has died – state media
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Quick Glance: Xi Jinping has silver linings for the rest of the world
- The economy is suffering as a result of Xi's policies.
- In the first decade of this century, China grew at a rate of 10.3% each year on average.
- An economist who has been warning for years that China's economic model is unsustainable, George Magnus, believes the country's trend growth rate is between 2% and 3% every year.
- China's emissions may have already peaked if the economy grows at a slower rate.
Quick Glance: Scholz of Germany: It is apparent that China and Germany are not supporters of 'decoupling.'
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Quick Glance: China's Xi secures a third term and fills the leadership with loyalists
- Shanghai party chief Li Qiang is widely regarded as the possible next premier.
- Shanghai Communist Party boss Li Qiang accompanied Xi onto the platform at the Great Hall of the People to present the new Politburo Standing Committee, placing him in line to succeed Li Keqiang when he retires in March.
- The formation of the Standing Committee and the 24-member Politburo comes a day after the Communist Party's 20th Congress concluded, with modifications to the party charter reinforcing Xi's fundamental status and the guiding role of his political ideology within the party.
- Beijing welcomes new members of the Politburo Standing Committee.
Quick Glance: The Delay in China's GDP Data Points to a Cloudy Economic Picture
- The data set comprised not just China's economic growth from July to September, but also manufacturing output, retail sales, fixed-asset investment, and property prices in September.
- Questions have long been raised regarding whether China's economic growth statistics are somewhat exaggerated or smoothed from year to year.
- Underlying statistics on China's international commerce, the country's principal source of growth, was accessible.
- "If delays start to become a regular occurrence," said Julian Evans-Pritchard, senior China economist at Capital Economics, "then that could reduce confidence in the official economic data and the professionalism of China's bureaucracy."