China is challenging US chip curbs at the WTO
The P.R.C. Economy and the People’s Republic of China: The Last Xi-Term, the East, and the Future
“The threat environment is always changing, and we are updating our policies today to make sure we’re addressing the challenges posed by the P.R.C. while we continue our outreach and coordination with allies and partners,” he said, referring to the People’s Republic of China.
The rules appear to impose the broadest export controls that have been issued in a decade. While the new rules are similar to the actions of the Trump administration, they are much more extensive and affected many Chinese firms. And unlike the Trump administration’s approach — which was viewed as aggressive but scattershot — the rules appear to establish a more comprehensive policy that will stop cutting-edge exports to a range of Chinese technology companies and cut off China’s nascent ability to produce advanced chips itself.
A senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security said that the U.S. government is going to really impair the ability of China to develop certain critical technologies.
China has faced coronaviruses with a zero carbon policy since it was first introduced by President XI. He feels that the country’s political system is better than the West’s because of the low death toll and case count.
For the past five years, Sun said that when it came to securing his third term, the focus was on convincing his party to abandon the term limit and move away from tradition. His political agenda is likely to change now that he’s in office.
The message when he talked about markets was established rhetoric. He lauded “socialist market economic reform,” while also arguing that China’s economy should “give full play to the decisive role of the market in resource allocation.”
They included a professor at the party’s top academy who helped train thousands of high-ranking cadres. An economist who would win China’s top economics prize for 2012. A young historian planning to teach a class about contemporary Chinese history, including sensitive periods like the Cultural Revolution.
Defending his hard-line reign, Xi said that the party must stay united and that it needs to be because of the hostile Western world.
China’s Uyghur Central Region: Ten Years of Human Rights Perspectives for a Long-Lived, Promising Scholar
In other news from China, the government said it was delaying indefinitely the release of economic data that had been expected to show continued lackluster performance.
A scholar named Ilham Tohti was paying close attention. Initially he was happy to see him rise in elevation to the top role of the party.
He sounded really excited. He thinks it’s going to change. Things are going to get better,'” says the scholar’s daughter, Jewher Ilham, who lives in the United States.
But the past decade in China has been marked by new levels of authoritarianism — and nowhere has it been clearer than in the country’s western region of Xinjiang.
The Uyghur ethnic group of which Ilham is a member is located in the western part of China’s Xinjiang province. He was a vocal advocate for the Uyghur rights and the Uyghur language and culture.
A million or more people would eventually be forced to be in jail. The U.S. has called it genocide. The top human rights official at the UN said in a recently published report that some abuses in Xinjiang may have been “crimes against humanity”. China denies any wrongdoing.
Source: https://www.npr.org/2022/10/18/1127852397/china-xi-jinping-10-years-perspectives
Ten-Years-Perspectives: Vina-Xi Jianging in the Closest Times of Communist Societies
It was a time when many felt the party was at risk of losing its moral authority due to its corruption. According to a common narrative, the Communist Party had dominated over the course of time and was in need of a clean up.
But it comes with a cost. The impact on the economy has been significant, with heightened uncertainty making it impossible to start a business.
The neighbors drafted a statement of protest because they were effectively imprisoned in their compound. They played it in public for everyone to hear, because he recorded it.
The lock down began in the spring. Since it was lifted in June, Vis has pieced his yoga business back together for the most part. But he says it left a scar on everyone.
“If it happened once, it could happen a second time,” Vis says. “In China there’s a saying: If you’re bitten by a snake, you’ll be afraid of coiled rope for a decade.”
Source: https://www.npr.org/2022/10/18/1127852397/china-xi-jinping-10-years-perspectives
The “child of revolutionaries” Xi Zhongxun and the fate of the free world: A tribute to the past, the present, and the future
It is hard to gauge public opinion in China. Independent polling on politics is banned, and speaking out against the Communist Party can get you thrown in jail. Many people think that Xi has done a great job as the leader of the country.
It was during the 1966-76 Cultural Revolution that he was sent to the northwestern Chinese countryside to work near the place where he was working when he was younger. Since that time, he’s known about Xi and liked his style.
Zhang believes Xi understands the plight of the country’s poor because of his experience in the Cultural Revolution, and has been able to take action that his predecessors could not because he is what is known as a “princeling” — the child of revolutionaries. Xi Zhongxun was a guerrilla fighter during the civil war and later a vice premier.
The situation in Hong Kong is an example. The former British colony had a vibrant pro-democracy movement, an active civil society, and the people enjoyed freedom of speech.
In 2014, a group of people in the city started talking about the need for a direct vote to choose the city’s leaders.
Five years later, a proposed extradition law sparked fresh demonstrations. She was going to Germany to get her master’s degree.
Beijing imposed a sweeping National Security Law on Hong Kong in 2020. The democracy movement in Hong Kong was decimated by the arrests.
The leader of the free world has not blinked. He said at the opening session that the “one country, two systems” model for running Hong Kong is a great innovation and that China has successfully overcome grave challenges to its national security.
The territory received an assurance that it would be able to maintain its system and manage its own affairs with a high degree of independence after being returned to Britain in 1997. Critics say China has reneged on that promise.
“Basically, my life has, like, gone to pieces because of Xi Jinping,” she said. “I lost my home. I lost a lot of my friends. I’ll never set foot in Hong Kong again.
Four different people had very different experiences under Xi. It is hard to capture the nation’s mood in this country of over one billion people.
China is going to reduce carbon emissions in order to slow global warming. He reiterated those goals in typically grandiose language this week. There is a principle that the waters and lush mountains are valuable assets. But he has also allied himself with a leader whose actions are threatening to throw the global climate fight in reverse: President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.
China experienced the most extended heat wave since the 1960s this summer, which lasted for more than two months. The river was running dry. Factories halted production to reduce the burden on power grids. Chen Lijuan is the government’s chief forecaster and told the Communist Party news outlet that the extreme highs could become a new normal.
No other leader has had a third term since Mao Zedong, who founded the People’s Republic of China. This break from historical norms would represent China moving into a new era, according to Yun Sun, a senior fellow and co-director of the East Asia Program and director of the China Program at the Stimson Center.
“This area is one that is going to be won by him”, Sun said, estimating that the area will prevail over other areas. “These people are going to operationalize his vision and his strategy with even more momentum and more precision.”
Sun said the political aides and loyalists ofXi would be put in key positions to help bring about his vision.
There are people within the government who do not believe that China’s policies toward the U.S. are the best, Sun said, but she predicts that those voices will be “eliminated from within the bureaucracy,” leaving China without a system of checks and balances.
Two key issues China and the U.S. are likely to clash over in the coming years are Taiwan and technology, according to Chris Li, the director of research at the Asia-Pacific Initiative at Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.
China’s strategy toward Taiwan has not fundamentally changed but there is a perception that Beijing is more and more focused on no longer just detering independence in Taiwan. but rather, compelling reunification.”
The perception of the U.S. has resulted in a catch-22 situation, with the result being congressional visits from Nancy Pelosi, Li said.
“You get this tit-for-tat retaliation where there’s not a lot of trust … and sort of a back and forth where the U.S. views its actions as responsive to China’s actions, [and] China views its actions as a response to the U.S.’s actions,” Li said.
Meanwhile, the tech industry has become a larger priority for China, especially as the country moves toward the “great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation” by the centennial of the People’s Republic of China in 2049, in which Xi aims to make China a modern socialist country.
As this has become more of a focus, China has worked to bolster its domestic research and innovation capacity, Li said, and that has then caused those in the U.S. to talk about decoupling from China when it comes to the technology and the supply chains that support it.
That’s led to what Li said is essentially an impasse. But that doesn’t mean progress can’t happen, only that achieving it will test both countries in the years to come.
Two Sessions in China: China’s Science, Technology and Finance Ministers Slammed by the U.S. Chip Correlations at the WTO
The country’s commerce ministry filed a formal complaint against the United States with the WTO on Monday, according to a statement. The two countries are both members of the trade body, which has a mechanism for resolving disputes.
The ministry stated that China filing a lawsuit at the WTO is a necessary way to defend its rights and interests.
The commerce ministry blasted the US move as threatening global supply chain stability and called it “a typical practice of trade protectionism.” China has complained against the US chip sanctions at the global trade body.
Washington has made certain security partners comply with curbs on chip manufacturing in China. Jake Sullivan, the White House national security adviser, said on Monday that Washington had spoken with its partners including Japan and the Netherlands to tighten chip-related exports to China, according to Reuters.
In November 2018, just months after Washington hit Chinese telecoms giant ZTE Corp with an export ban, the Chinese government set up an industry alliance of companies and research institutes as part of efforts to design advanced chips. The group is focusing on developing Risc-V, an open-source chip design architecture that has become a competitor to Arm, the current leader. The Chinese Academy of Sciences is a member of the consortium.
China proposes to vastly restructure its science, technology and finance regulators as part of an ambitious, ongoing effort to outcompete its competitors while also preventing it from deviating from its course.
The reorganization attempts to modernize the Science and Technology Ministry and will create a new, consolidated financial regulator as well as a data regulator.
The changes were proposed by the State Council, akin to China’s cabinet, during annual legislative and political meetings where Chinese leader Xi Jinping is also expected to formally confirm his third term as president.
Much of the annual meetings this year — called the Two Sessions in China — has been aimed at boosting the country’s self-reliance in key industry and technology areas, especially in semiconductors, after the United States imposed harsh export sanctions on key chip components and software on China.
“Western countries led by the U.S. have implemented comprehensive containment and encirclement against us, causing unprecedented severe challenges to our country’s development,” he was quoted as saying this week.
State Council Reshuffle of China’s Banking, Insurance and Property Laws: Recommending the China Cyberspace Administration for Data Security and Privacy
The State Council document laying out the proposed changes had few details about how they would be implemented, though the Science and Technology Ministry will be reconstituted to align with the priorities of the state. The proposal also urges China to improve its patents and intellectual property system.
These changes, released by the State Council on Tuesday, still need to be officially approved this Friday by the National People’s Congress, though the legislative body’s delegates seldom cast dissenting votes.
The country will set up a national data bureau to specifically deal with data privacy and data storage issues, a responsibility previously taken on by the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC). “A new regulatory body for data makes perfect sense,” said Kendra Schaefer, a Beijing-based partner at consultancy Trivium China. CAC was not designed to handle data security, particularly cross-border security.
The current banking and insurance watchdogs are going to be subsumed into one body, as well as expanding the number of provincial branches under the central bank.
Under Xi, China has stepped up regulatory oversight of banking and consumer finance. The finance regulators put the company under investigation after quashing the public offering. Regulators also cut off lending to heavily indebted property companies, sending the property prices and sale spiraling downward. China is struggling with ballooning local government debts after three years of costly COVID-19 controls.
“It is set to address the long-standing contradictions and problems in financial areas,” Xiao Jie, secretary-general of the State Council, said of the finance restructuring proposals in a statement.
