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…inese fighter jets allegedly harassed members of the Armed Forces of the Philippines near disputed islands in the South China Sea. China responded to frenetic protests from Vietnam and the Philippines that any exploration in the Spratly area without its consent is a violation of...

…ds of practice and due diligence. Reciprocity American institutions are deflected from their purpose of increasing US-China understanding, and become distorted as one-way channels of Chinese influence, when they are denied access to China on a basis that is reciprocal with the...

Then there’s Apple. The trade war combined with China’s slowing economy present a significant short-term threat to the company’s profits. As we note in section 1, smartphone handset sales in China in August were reported at 32.6 million units, a decline of 20.9% year-over-year a...

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…bservation: Lately, the Li Keqiang Index has accelerated much more than the reported GDP growth. One could surmise that China’s actual GDP growth (measured on a year-over-year basis rather than on an annualized sequential change) may have been greater than the reported 6.9% in th...

163 intervened with hotels where activities involving Taiwan (such as trade shows) flew the flag of the Republic of China. Probably in view of the costs incurred by cancelling a contract with their Taiwanese partners, the addressees in general did not comply. In a similar inci...

…l resource in the intelligence war. To get both electronic intelligence and human intelligence about the United States, China also had a highly-productive intelligence sharing treaty with Russia. It was signed in 1992 after the Soviet Union was dissolved. Although the terms of th...

…f course. We have to look at the short-term, mid-term, and long- term. Let’s look at the background to understand where China is today. This is the 40% year, the anniversary, of China’s reform and opening up. On December 18*, 1978, Deng Xiaoping made his famous speech, which tran...

190 businessman with business interests in China. There is an unsubstantiated rumor that the investment was subsidized by $1 million from the Ministry of Propaganda. e Duowei is another online source that was for years an independent Chinese- language media. It was purchased...

…tions Recent headlines that the trade war may be escalating to a cold war are not without merit, as we believe that US-China relations are changing on a more structural basis and will have a longer-term impact. On a short-term basis, however, US exposure to China is limited with...

…a second Tong declared its fealty to Beijing, and a competition broke out between the PRC and Taiwan in San Francisco’s Chinatown to see which side could fly the most flags. This competition can be vividly seen from the seventeenth floor of a public housing project overlooking Ch...

The Chinese Puzzle | 239 tains there its largest intelligence base outside mainland China. A large contingent of its officers are stationed officially in the Prince of Wales skyscraper in central Hong Kong and unofficially main- tain informers in Hong Kong’s police, governing au...

…nships and standards of living of all people. There are real issues and I think we need to discuss them. But right now, China is sending signals by what it's doing, that it wants to ratchet down the trade war. It recognizes that it cannot be TRADE unresponsive. H OW U.S. slapped...

…ition for activity to pick up, but not a guarantee after so many rounds of monetary stimulus. We therefore look east to China. Although industrial activity growth in China is likely to bottom out, the upcoming leadership change in the country (November 2012 to March 2013), will l...

166 But Japanese activists have never needed encouragement from China on this front. They lead homegrown movements with specific political targets in Japan itself, notably attacking the conservative establishment and defending the country’s “peace constitution.” These well-estab...