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China’s Reaction to Trump’s Election Win

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Xinhua Commentary Series: Spotlight on the U.S. Presidential Election

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Wu Guoguang: Xi Jinping’s Reversal of the Course, Will China’s Transition be Peaceful or Marked with Bloodshed?

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Cheng Xiaonong: U.S.-China Strategic Relations Have Crystallized

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Outlook Weekly’s Special Interview with the Deputy Director of CCCMPS

[Editor’s Note: The Central Committee for the Comprehensive Management of Public Security (CCCMPS) is an agency in charge of social order. It is under the dual leadership of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and the State Council. The CCCMPS is a national system, with the Central Committee at the top of the hierarchy, and provincial and local level Committees penetrating to every level of the Chinese government. Zhou Yongkang, the CCP’s security czar and a member of Politburo standing committee, heads the national CCCMPS, while local Party secretaries or deputy secretaries head committees at the local level. Officials or Party cadres from Party agencies and government agencies in police, judiciary, state security, culture, and other fields staff the committees. Since the late 1990s, when social conflict in China started to increase, the CCCMPS has been playing a more and more prominent role in cracking down on or preventing social unrest and in exerting tight social control. The following is a translation of an interview with a senior official of the national CCCMPS regarding its most current practices.] [1]

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Reports | | |   Report

Anhui Province to Crack Down on Unregistered TV Stations

Yang Jian, an official with the Anhui Broadcast and Television authorities admitted, "In Anhui, privately operated illegal television stations do exist. The [Broadcast and Television] Bureau will increase its efforts to crack down on these illegal television stations.” Yang’s remarks were made in response to Internet blogs which state there are over 1,000 such unregistered TV stations. Yang denied that the number was that high. Either individuals or groups operate these unregistered TV stations. Due to their high degree of mobility and low start-up cost, it is difficult to detect them and crack down. These TV stations primarily broadcast entertainment programs, including movies and local performing arts. Their main source of revenue is from advertising.

Source: People’s Daily, March 22, 2011
http://politics.people.com.cn/GB/14562/14199499.html

Briefings | | |   Information/Technology

People’s Daily Critical of Color Revolutions in Africa

People’s Daily published an article on Libya titled “Social Unrest: the Wrong Path for a Country and a Tragedy for the People.” The article said, “From the end of last year through this spring, a number of countries in Eastern and Northern Africa have suffered from continued political instability and social disruptions, having a negative economic impact on their people. Moreover, Libya is now trapped in a vortex of war.” The article concludes that the Chinese people should treasure their current “harmony and stability.” “Every one of us should do our utmost, achieve more development under this stability and continuously reap happy fruits during our development.”

Source: People’s Daily, March 23, 2011
http://politics.people.com.cn/GB/30178/14212813.html

Briefings | | |   Geo-Strategic Trend

Xinhua: Air Strikes in Libya Are Disturbing; War Cannot Bring Stability

Xinhua published an editorial commenting on the U.S. and European nations’ recent air strikes in Libya saying, “Conflicts should be resolved through peaceful means. Wars cannot end violence or quickly bring about stability; rather, it will but aggravate human disasters.” The Xinhua editorial cited examples of the U.S. military actions in Afghanistan and Iraq. “Today, the two countries are still politically unstable with the local population suffering from continued violence and disasters. The international reputation and image of the instigator of the wars has also been tarnished. It shows that any action that lacks fairness and justice may bring unintended consequences to the initiator.”

Source: Xinhua, March 21, 2011
http://news.xinhuanet.com/observation/2011-03/21/c_121213681_3.htm

Briefings | | |   US-China Relations

Party’s Youth Movements to Launch Loyalty Campaigns across the Nation

Communist Youth League (CYL) is the youth movement run by the Chinese Communist Party for youth between 14 and 28, while Young Pioneers (YP) is for kids under 14. Very few Chinese people grow up without once being a member of either CYL or YP. Recently the national headquarters of both movements issued a notice, requiring all CYL and YP organizations to launch education campaigns with a theme of “studying the Party’s history, getting familiar with the Party, and following the Party’s lead,” as 2011 is the 90’s anniversary of the establishment of CCP. 

Suggested programs are named as “The Party is in My Heart,” “Always Follow the Party’s Lead,” “Dialogue with Faith,” and “Red Scarves Yearn For the Party”. (YP’s are required to wear a red scarf)

Source: Xinhua, March 22, 2011
http://news.xinhuanet.com/politics/2011-03/22/c_121218532.htm

Briefings | | |   Government/Politics

CMC Issues New Political Manual for the Military and Police Forces

The General Political Department, a chief political organ under the Central Military Commission (CMC) of the Chinese Communist Party, leads all Party and political activities of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA). PLA Daily recently reported that the General Political Department will circulate a “Practical Handbook for the Chinese Military’s Party Branches.” Its purpose is to “further implement CMC Chairman Hu Jintao’s instructions and the requirement to strengthen grassroots Party organizations.” The Handbook is an addition to two recent CMC documents: “Regulations of the Work of Party Committees” and “Regulations of the Political Work of the PLA,” which are to be distributed in the PLA and the People’s Armed Police (PAP) as training materials for cadres of all ranks, from new recruits to college graduates.

Source: PLA Daily, March 22, 2011
http://www.chinamil.com.cn/jfjbmap/content/2011-03/22/content_53191.htm

Briefings | | |   Defense/Military

Beijing’s Media Machine Runs Articles Opposing Allied Strikes in Libya

Even though Beijing abstained from voting on U.N. resolution 1973, since Saturday March 19, when the U.S. and allied forces started launching missiles and conducting air strikes against Libyan government forces, Chinese official media have run nonstop criticism against the military intervention. One March 22 Xinhua article titled “Western Forces Continue Air strikes in Tripoli; Anti-war Voices Rise in the International Community,” gives a list of countries (Russia, Turkey, Belarus, Bulgaria, Croatia, Slovakia, South Africa, Argentina, and Gabon) that are part of the anti-war camp; it also highlights the civilian deaths from the air strikes and suggests that the military intervention is for the purpose of occupation to obtain oil and gas resources.

Source: Xinhua, March 22, 2011
http://news.xinhuanet.com/2011-03/22/c_13791949.htm

Briefings | | |   Geo-Strategic Trend

Aircraft Carrier in Press and Publication Industry Set to Sail in a Couple of Years

Liu Bingjie, Director of the General Administration of Press and Publication, the government regulator of news media and publications, suggested in an interview that the industry is going through “major reform, major development, major changes, and a major leap forward.” Liu revealed that China is assembling an “aircraft carrier,” meaning a gigantic state corporation, with capital of 20 billion yuan (US$3 billion) and (annual) income of 20 billion yuan (US$3 billion). It will be launched in a couple of years.

Source: People’s Daily, March 9, 2011
http://2011lianghui.people.com.cn/GB/215096/14101912.html

Briefings | | |   Information/Technology