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The Chosun Ilbo: Xi Jinping’s Hard Line Talks

During the Fourth Plenary Session of the 17th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the focal point was whether Xi Jinping would be crowned as the next leader of the Communist Party. The Chosun Ilbo, or North Korea Daily, reported some of Xi’s hard Line talks:

“China can solve the problem of feeding 1.3 billion people. That has already been the greatest contribution to the global community. Some foreigners who had nothing to do after being fed kept pointing fingers at us. China does not export revolution, does not export hunger or poverty, and does not try to stir up your lives, either. Why should you criticize China?”

Response on “How to view the Tibetan turmoil.” “There are many birds in a cage. If we drive the noisy birds out, the cage will no longer be active. We have already been immunized and seen too much. The key is how we settle our scores.”

Source: The Chosun Ilbo, September 18, 2009
http://chn.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2009/09/16/20090916000019.html

International Herald Leader: How to Understand U.S.’ Attitude Change to China

The International Herald Leader, a newspaper under Xinhua, published a commentary about the “U.S. National Intelligence Strategy.” It noted that the U.S. identifies China, Russia, Iran and North Korea as its “imaginary intelligence enemies” and stressed China and Russia’s capability of Cyber War against the U.S. The commentary said that the U.S. changes its face toward China, from cozy relationship at the G2 to punitive taxes on Chinese tires, and then to directly pointing to China as its “main challenger.” The U.S. did a complete turn-about.

The bottom line is, that it is unimportant that they claim China to be their imaginary enemy or praise the G2; it all is an outgrowth of the U.S. national interest. At certain times, the U.S. might need to ask for favors from China, but in reality, it is on high alert concerning China.

Source: International Herald Leader, September 21, 2009
http://news.xinhuanet.com/herald/2009-09/21/content_12087872.htm

Xinhua: International Chinese Media Alliance Founded in Shanghai

The creation of the International Chinese Media Alliance was announced on the closing day of the Fifth International Chinese Media Forum on September 20 in Shanghai. Chinese language media around the globe have been challenged since the second half of 2008, which is a general trend that remains unchanged. Other than a few newspapers that were hit hard by the financial crisis, nearly all Chinese language media are still running. Internet based Chinese language websites actually had a 30% traffic increase.

China News Services took the initiative to call for the creation of the Alliance. The preparatory work started two years ago and received 116 agreement letters from various countries.

Source: Xinhua, September 20, 2009.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/politics/2009-09/20/content_12084814.htm

Xinhua: Ministry of Culture Implementing Culture Industry Development Plan

Minister of Culture Cai Wu said on September 14th that the Ministry is actively coming up with policies to stimulate the development of the culture industry. The primary efforts are focused on these aspects: (1) improving resource integration to speed up establishing leading “culture enterprises"; (2) encouraging private capital to enter the area of the culture industry; (3) establishing large scale model concentrated culture bases; (4) improving technology-oriented creativity; (5) following the “Go Out” strategy and internationalizing the culture market; (6) building corresponding financial and human resource systems.

Source: Xinhua, September 14, 2009.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/politics/2009-09/14/content_12052037.htm

China Economy: Satellite Agreement Signed between China and Pakistan

The governments of China and Pakistan signed an agreement based on a framework of China providing loans with favorable terms to support Pakistan’s satellite projects. The loans are limited to no more than RMB 1.35 billion and the projects will be implemented by a joint effort between the two countries. A covered communications satellite will be launched in August 2011 with an expected life cycle of 15 years. The Chinese Ambassador to Pakistan Luo Zhaohui said that the Chinese government will continue to support Pakistan’s economic and technological development.

Source: China Economy Net, September 18, 2009.
http://www.ce.cn/xwzx/gnsz/gdxw/200909/18/t20090918_20048492.shtml

China’s Think Tanks to Learn From Western Model and Increase Domestic Influence

As an important component of the nation’s softpower, the Chinese think tank is striving to learn from the Western “think tank” model to increase China’s ability to deal with various challenges. One example is the formation of the China Center for International Economic Exchanges (CCIEE) in March and its 2009 Global Think Tank Summit in July.

Composed of mostly active and retired high ranking officials, CCIEE is trying to build its own funding sources so as to maintain independence. 

The statistics show China has 2,500 research institutes that have policy study as their core research topic, out of which, 2,000 provide services to the government directly or indirectly. Most of the think tanks are owned by the government with a small number belonging to universities or independent entities.

Source: Xinhua, September 20, 2009
http://news.xinhuanet.com/politics/2009-09/20/content_12084960.htm

Chinese Internet Users Face Unprecedented Challenges to Break the Internet Blockade

In the time before the celebration of National Day, China’s Golden Shield Internet blockade project has become stricter than ever before. Lately, many Chinese Internet users, who have been utilizing software developed by the Global Internet Freedom Consortium to access overseas Internet sites, are complaining about difficulties in making connections.

Source: Secret China, September 17, 2009
http://www.secretchina.com/news/311166.html

Qiu Shi Calls For Unity of Socialism and Patriotism

Qiu Shi Journal published its 18th issue on September 16, 2009. It carried an article on socialism titled “Socialism with Chinese Characteristics Is the Unity of Socialism and Patriotism.” The article reaffirmed the ideology that only socialism can save China. It also stated that "in facing new opportunities and challenges, China must reshape the nation’s spirit using the unity of socialism and patriotism."

Source: Xinhua, September 15, 2009
http://news.xinhuanet.com/politics/2009-09/15/content_12057134.htm