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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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Qiushi Explains the Leadership Mechanism in China’s Higher Education

In an article published on February 1, 2011, the CCP Central Committee journal Qiushi explained the leadership mechanism in China’s education system – the school president assumes overall responsibility under the leadership of the Party committee.

“First, the Party committee is the core of the school’s leadership and is responsible for the school’s direction. Second, the school president is a university’s or a college’s legal representative, and is in charge of the school’s teaching, research, and other administrative functions under the leadership of the school Party committee. Third, the school Party committee shall be accorded collective leadership, and must support the school president in exercising power independently.”

Sources: Qiushi, Feburary 1, 2011
http://www.qstheory.cn/zxdk/2011/201103/201101/t20110128_64923.htm

Briefings | | |   Government/Politics

Government Report Obscures Trend in Funding Officials Overseas Trips

The National Bureau of Corruption Prevention of China announced that it made a “significant achievement” last year in preventing officials from using public funds to make overseas trips. “Compared to the average from the three years from 2006 to 2008, the number of government tourist groups going abroad, the number of person-trips involved, and public funds used for this purpose in 2010 registered a decline of 47.1%, 43.9%, and 32.6% respectively.”

However, a local newspaper, Beijing News, pointed out that, compared to 2009 figures, the above three measures actually increased by 1.9% for tourist groups, 1.6% for person-trips, and 5% for public funds.

Sources: Xinhua and Beijing News, February 4 and 6, 2011
http://news.xinhuanet.com/2011-02/04/c_121050638.htm
http://epaper.bjnews.com.cn/html/2011-02/06/content_198562.htm?div=-1

Briefings | | |   Government/Politics

How China Deals with the U.S. Strategy to Contain China

[Editor’s Note: On December 10, 2010, the website of Qiushi Journal, the official publication of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, published an article examining six strategies that the U.S. has developed to contain China: a trade war, an exchange rate war, a public opinion war, an anti-China campaign, military exercises and simulated warfare, and the development of an anti-China alliance. The author also analyzed seven counter-strategies for China to adopt. The entire article is translated below.

Days after Chinascope published this translation, Qiushi website took down the original Chinese and then restored the article with an additional sentence added at the end: “The above article only represents the personal views of the author and does not represent the position or views of Qiushi Journal or this site.” Chinascope has kept a Google cached copy of the original article. To read that copy, please click here.] [1]

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Reports | | |   Report

Qiushi: Persist and Perfect the President Responsibility System under the Party Committee

In 1989, Chinese Communist Central Committee passed a resolution to implement the president responsibility system under the direction of the Party Committee in all institutions of higher learning (colleges and universities). Over the last 20 years, the system has ensured the socialist direction of China’s institutions of higher learning. … This system must be continued.

There are problems in implementing the policy. In practice, some people have arbitrarily separated the “Party’s leadership” and the “president responsibility.” Some people have even questioned the necessity of the system.

Due to the above issues, the Organization Department and Education Working Committee of the CCP Jiangsu Provincial Committee has clarified that “The Party Committee’s function is to make decisions and set policy, and the president’s task is to execute those decisions.

Source: Qiushi, February, 1, 2011
http://www.qstheory.cn/zxdk/2011/201103/201101/t20110128_64923.htm

Briefings | | |   Government/Politics

Beware of the U.S.’s New Strategies toward China

Since 2005, Americans have admitted that they can’t prevent China’s rise. They have even realized that the U.S. needs China more than China needs the U.S. They have fewer and fewer cards to play. Thus, the U.S. must seek new strategies to hinder China’s rise and international expansion. 1) Regarding regional security, the U.S. is mobilizing its allies, and uses conflicts between China and its neighbors to establish allies to guard against the “China threat.” 2) In finance and the RMB exchange rate, it maintains pressure on China. 3) In the international media, the U.S. spreads the view that “China is arrogant” and uses various new versions of the “China threat.”

In this battle, China must maximally maintain the stability of its “strategic opportunity phase.” China should not act emotionally. It should remain calm and make no changes to cope with outside changes. The future of China-U.S. relations is totally dependent on how the two side’s compare in how much power they have. At present, China’s biggest advantage is its own development.

Source: Huanqiu, January 30, 2011
http://finance.huanqiu.com/roll/2011-01/1473479.html

Briefings | | |   US-China Relations

Xinhua: Obama Has Mentioned China in Every State of the Union Address

Every year for the three years that Obama has been in office, he has mentioned China in his State of the Union address. The number of times he brought up China has doubled each year, from once in his first address to four times most recently. He only casually mentioned China in 2009. In 2010, he declared that the “U.S. won’t accept second position.” In 2011, he admitted the reality of the U.S.’s declining status. The delicate changes in Obama’s outlook on China were clearly reflected in his three addresses.

Source: Xinhua, January 26, 2011
http://news.xinhuanet.com/world/2011-01/26/c_121027738.htm

Briefings | | |   US-China Relations

Chen Lei: Two-Thirds of China’s Cities Suffer from a Water Shortage

On January 30, 2011, after the State Council issued its first document of the year, Chen Lei, the Minister of Water Resources, held a press conference where he announced, "China has an annual water shortage of 40 billion cubic meters. Two-thirds of its cities suffer from a shortage of water." Chen said that the No. 1 Document sets targets to improve China’s plan to conserve water over the next five to 10 years.  According to the No. 1 Document, China will intensify its efforts to accelerate the development of the nation’s water conservation and promote the sustainable use of water resources.

Source: Xinhua, January 30, 2011.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/2011-01/30/c_121040588.htm

Briefings | | |   Economy/Resources

Qiushi: The U.S. Strategy Is to Transfer Its Domestic Crisis to China

According to an article in Qiushi Journal, economic strategy remains the heart of the U.S. overall long-term strategy, which is to transfer its domestic crisis to China. The economic strategy includes friction over the exchange rate, trade, agricultural produce, currency, resources, and energy. The exchange rate issue has always been the focus and is the make or break point. Political and diplomatic moves are designed to support the economic strategy. Politically, the U.S. uses human rights, climate, the China threat, and China’s "arrogance." Its diplomacy includes joining forces with the European Union and Japan and controlling China’s neighboring countries, thus encircling China politically. For the U.S. to re-enforce its military presence in the Northeast Asian region also supports its economic strategy.

Source: Qiushi, January 26, 2011
http://www.qstheory.cn/lg/zl/201101/t20110126_63559.htm

Briefings | | |   US-China Relations