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Outlook Weekly: China Lacks Awareness of Ocean Development

Outlook Weekly, a magazine under Xinhua News Agency, recently published a commentary calling for “ocean development.” The commentary suggested that the oceans will provide China’s future “living space.” To develop awareness and to improve the sustainability of the Chinese civilization, China must change its old fashioned “land centric” mentality. The author suggested that the oceans connect all continents and are the cheapest “highway” that needs no construction. If China uses the potential of the oceans, it immediately brings vast economic benefits. The commentary drew on Japan as an example to increase awareness of how it used the oceans to protect Japanese interests. It expressed the belief that China should have a strategic view of the oceans and should take full advantage of ocean development for solving the problems of growth, unemployment and lack of resources.

Source: Outlook Weekly, September 17, 2011
http://news.sohu.com/20110917/n319690526.shtml

Mainland Media Tour Group Visited Taiwan

On September 22, 2011, Zhou Xishen, vice director of Xinhua, led a group consisting of leaders from 10 major Chinese media entities to tour Taiwan for an 8 day visit. China Times, one of the four biggest newspapers in Taiwan, arranged the tour. It included meetings with major Taiwan news media to establish future cooperation.

The media group included People’s Daily, Xinhua, Economic Daily, China National Radio, CCTV, and China Radio International. This is the third time that top Chinese central media have come together to visit Taiwan.

Source: Xinhua, September 22, 2011
http://news.xinhuanet.com/tw/2011-09/22/c_131154634.htm

Sixth International Forum for Chinese Media Held in Chongqing

China News Service published an article on the sixth International Forum for Chinese Media that was held in Chongqing, Sichuan Province from September 17 to 19, 2011. There were close to 600 participants from 50 countries and regions. The forum focused on the ongoing changes in the world’s media environment, transformation opportunities for Chinese media, and the scientific development of the social livelihood issues that Chongqing faces.

The “Chongqing Declaration” was released at the end of the forum. It focused on the subject of the roles that overseas’s Chinese media play on the world’s media stage. According to the Declaration, oversea’s Chinese media will have growing opportunities as “the western language dominance weakens on the world’s media platform.” The article stated that in order to make themselves known to mainstream society, oversea’s Chinese media need to rely closely on the overseas Chinese people to promote further cooperation with and development of the local economy. While the emergence of new media technologies presents both challenges and opportunities for oversea’s Chinese media, they should maintain close cooperation and connections with their home countries including the mainland, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau, so they can be an international media outlet that speaks for their country.

Source: China News Service, September 18, 2011
http://www.chinanews.com/hr/2011/09-18/3335313.shtml

Xinhua: Oversea’s Chinese Condemn the U.S. Arms Sale to Taiwan

Xinhua quoted the National Association for China’s Peaceful Unification (NACPU), which is based in Washington DC as strongly condemning the U.S. arms sale to Taiwan. NACPU claims that the oversea’s Chinese population in the Washington DC region strongly oppose the U.S. arms sale to Taiwan. Wu Huiqiu, president of the NACPU called it an “unwise decision” which “casts a shadow over the US-Sino relationship” and will “hinder the development of cross strait relations.”

On September 21, 2011, the U.S. announced the decision to sell arms to Taiwan. A number of times, China has strongly criticized and objected to the decision.

Source: Xinhua, September 22, 2011
http://news.xinhuanet.com/2011-09/22/c_122073286.htm

Qiushi Journal: How the Socialist System in China Is Superior to Capitalism in the West

[Editor’s Note: Qiushi Journal republished an article from Beijing Daily on China’s political system. The author stated that China’s establishment of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics was inevitable in accordance with social evolution and claimed that socialism is superior to capitalism. The following is a translation of the author’s comparison of the capitalist and socialist systems.] [1]

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Qiushi: Advocating Courses on Communist Party History in Universities

Qiushi published an article that advocates enforcing a requirement that, as a means of fostering loyalty, students at institutions of higher education in China must take courses on Communist Party history. “The Party history materials can enrich the content of ideological and political education.” Such courses, according to the article, will help students establish a firm belief in communism, patriotism, nationalism, and revolutionary traditions.

Source: Qiushi, September 22, 2011
http://www.qstheory.cn/hqwg/2011/201118/201109/t20110922_112018.htm

Huanqiu: We Hope Gary Locke Can Focus on His Work as Ambassador to China

Recently, Chinese media have paid a lot of attention to Gary Locke, the new U.S. Ambassador to China. The media have highly praised him for his humble and simple lifestyle, which is in sharp contrast to Chinese government officials. For example, he flies economy class, has no servants, carries his own backpack, and buys coffee with a coupon.

Huanqiu (Global Times), a state media under Xinhua, published an article on the media’s attention, warning against “inappropriate” reports about Mr. Locke. The article stated, “They are gradually becoming like Paparazzi,’ reporting on Locke. His every little action is packaged as ‘high moral trivia.’” The article criticized such reports as being ignorant of common international ways. It continued, “For Mr. Locke’s part, he should purposely avoid being a ‘star’ in the Chinese media. As a matter of fact, he may have unintentionally cooperated (with the media), perhaps out of his own preferences, or out of his ‘new tasks’ at the U.S. Embassy in China. He seems to enjoy this ‘moral show’ in the Chinese media, although he is very clear that he is not as ‘humble’ as reported on China’s Internet.

“The U.S. ambassador should focus on the development of Sino-U.S. relations and resolve misunderstandings, not play a character in the internal conflicts within China’s media so as to interfere with Chinese media in a sneaky (but really smart) way and increase the misunderstandings and suspicion between China and the U.S. … Those Chinese media that actively report Gary Locke’s ‘moral show’ should also have more self respect and dignity. They can find other angles for criticizing the corruption and bureaucracy of China’s government officials. To overly beautify a foreign ambassador in China, particularly when his China task is ‘quite complicated,’ is very inappropriate. … We hope Gary Locke can focus on his ambassador’s job in China. To those Chinese media: don’t have any illusions about [Mr. Locke]’s identity.”

Source: Huanqiu, September 22, 2011
http://finance.huanqiu.com/data/2011-09/2026319.html
http://news.xinhuanet.com/world/2011-09/22/c_122073734.htm

People’s Daily: The U.S. Arms Sales to Asia Will Likely Increase

An article on the People’s Daily website anticipates an increase in U.S. arms sales to Asian countries. “The large sale of arms to Taiwan once again shows that U.S. arms exports are an important part of its Asia Pacific strategy. In recent years, the United States has increased its arms exports to the Asia Pacific region and, in particular, to ASEAN countries. Further it is trying to bundle its weaponry systems with these countries’ need for munitions so as to serve its own strategic goals.”

Source: People’Daily Online, September 23, 2011
http://world.people.com.cn/GB/15735907.html