After 19 months of talks and quarrels, the phase one of the agreement between China and the US is about be materialized. Judging from the text, both sides have made concessions. The US got its way regarding intellectual property rights and lowering trade deficit; China secured the cancellation of some of the tariffs imposed. From the perspective of the respective needs of both sides, Xi Jinping got a breather in alleviating domestic economic pressure; Trump got to free his hands to focus on the general election in 2020. Only two groups of people felt particularly dissatisfied with the deal. One group being the people do not want to see Trump reelected. Paul Krugman for one wrote a piece for the New York Times on December 17, insisting that Trump lost in this trade war. The other group being the opposition camp in China, a camp that wished Trump to directly bring about the collapse of the Communist party by means of the trade war. These two groups people had basically disregarded the fact that the fruit of victory for the US lay not in such trivial matters as tariffs but in forcing the Communist Party to revert from the aggressive mode back to the defensive mode.
Showing posts with label foreign affairs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label foreign affairs. Show all posts
China’s mouthpiece media lack social pain nerves
By He Qinglian on January 3, 2012
In late December 2011, the People’s Daily picked as usual the top ten news stories of the year. Unfortunately in that list I found that the social pain nerves of the most superior mouthpiece have ceased to function altogether. That newspaper would soon become rouge powder that Beijing uses to make itself look good.
Uncertainties of North Korea's Outlook
By He Qinglian on
Beijing as an Outcast
By He Qinglian on December 12, 2011
After a succession of diplomatic
setbacks in the last two years, this year has been even worse for
Beijing. In just the several weeks from G-20 Summit and APEC Summit
in early November to East Asia Summit in the middle of that month,
the United States has initiated frequent offensives that were
seamlessly interrelated and ended with the meeting between US
President Barack Obama and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao at the East
Asia Summit. The result: the United States got a complete victory,
returning to the Pacific politically and militarily; and China
suffered a total defeat, losing the dominant position of the
Asia-Pacific region that the country thought was firmly within its
grip.
U.S. capital reflux, the crucial bond between China and the United States began to loosen—a retrospective of changes in Sino-American relations (two)
(translated by kRiZcPEc)
As said in the previous article, one of the main reasons the Sino-American relations has changed was that one American multinational giant after another withdrew from the Chinese market. China only acknowledged that there had been instances of U.S. businesses withdrawal, but denied that it had become a trend. In its research report, Made in the USA, Again, the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) pointed out that “the [gap of production costs] with China shrinks”, U.S. enterprises had left China and moved back to America. What were once made in China are now made in America. (Source in Chinese)
Why China-U.S. ties are falling apart: a retrospective of changes in Sino-American relations (one)
By He Qinglian on November 25, 2011
There are signs that the Sino-American wedding bed is quickly falling apart, and no remedy is possible in the near future. Apart from U.S. President Barack Obama's tough talk that criticized China for not abiding by international rules and its “not being invited” to Trans-Pacific Partnership, there was an even more important directional indicator: the annual report from the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. In that report forty-three recommendations had been listed, the first of which was: the U.S. Congress should commission the National Security Council to carry out assessments of the current China policy.
How to make China happy?
How to make China happy?
By He Qinglian on
November 17, 2011
China has been very upset recently. The US-led APEC
summit commenced with China not being invited to sign the
Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement; at the same time, the
ANZUS treaty was renewed, an
incident that upset China all the more.
Has China the Capacity to Save Europe?
Has China the Capacity to Save Europe?
Written by He Qinglian on November 3, 2011
Written by He Qinglian on November 3, 2011
(translated by krizcpec)
[Words in brackets are added by translator]
In this half a year or so, the expectation that China would invest and rescue the EU became the pillar of faith that hold up the Euro market. On October 28, after being lobbied by various EU members, China's Vice Foreign Minister, Fu Ying, officially announced that “the proposition of China rescuing Europe does not exist”. The topic that was being heatedly discussed for months has finally settled. Now that Beijing is determined not to assume the role of “White Knight” to save Europe, European leaders like Nicholas Sarkozy will have to discard their illusion and rely on themselves to weather this crisis.
[Words in brackets are added by translator]
In this half a year or so, the expectation that China would invest and rescue the EU became the pillar of faith that hold up the Euro market. On October 28, after being lobbied by various EU members, China's Vice Foreign Minister, Fu Ying, officially announced that “the proposition of China rescuing Europe does not exist”. The topic that was being heatedly discussed for months has finally settled. Now that Beijing is determined not to assume the role of “White Knight” to save Europe, European leaders like Nicholas Sarkozy will have to discard their illusion and rely on themselves to weather this crisis.
Traps made by Chinese Media
Written in April 2007
(translated by krizcpec)
(translated by krizcpec)
For
those foreign media that aspire to enter China, it surely is good to
know that their reports have been reproduced on Chinese media and
attracted comments from readers. “Losers
and Winners”,
an article about a documentary of the same title, published on
November 13, 2006 on Deustche
Welle.
That article was first reproduced on Global
Times
(Huanqiu Shibao/环球时报),
a subsidiary of Xinhua News Agency and widely circulated in China
after it appeared on Xinhua
Net,
attracting much discussion among netizens. However, Deutsche
Wellewould definitely feel startled if it realize its article has been
reproduced with the title altered, key content removed and became a
report promoting the spirit of the Chinese workers – work hard in
arduous conditions, triggering sentiment of national pride in some
Chinese netizens.
Beijings Inept Diplomacy Toward Japan and Taiwan
The Chinese government has virtually eliminated its citizens' right to publicly assemble, protest or express any kind of political aspirations. Yet last weekend saw mass demonstrations in several major Chinese cities. These protests marked the climax to an anti-Japanese movement among Chinese inside China and abroad in response to the possibility that Japan might be granted a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council.
Why Does Beijing Strongly Support the Myanmar Government?
Why Does Beijing Strongly Support the Myanmar Government?
Reproduced from Epoch Times
Beijing's silent support for the Myanmar government and its brutal
suppression against its people angers the international society. Even
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Price laureate and a South African
cleric, a religious leader who is seldom involved in international
politics, came out and urged China to intervene in the confrontations in
Myanmar or he (the Archbishop) would "join a campaign to boycott the
Beijing Olympics". Some Internet users in China continue to show their
misplaced loyalties based on their ignorance and applaud Beijing's
action.
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