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Qiushi Theory on the Negative Internet Culture

Qiushi Theory published an article on the “negative Internet culture.” The article described this as “negative cultural contents and phenomenon that bring damage to or have a negative impact on China’s mainstream ideology.” It stated that China must be on guard against it and take action to promote positive culture online.

According to the article, the impact of negative culture includes the “weakened feeling that Internet users have towards the Party as well as in their support of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics.” The article stated that it was caused by the negative social trend and value system which is gaining the discourse right on the Internet. Meanwhile “the U.S. has been leading the Western countries to use their dominance in Internet technology to cause China’s ideology system to be permeated with Neoliberalism.” The article also listed a number of negative moral crises which include Internet contents that are full of violence, pornography, gambling, drugs, and cheating; as well as psychological and mental illnesses affecting those who are addicted to the Internet.

The article made a number of recommendations to minimize the impact of the negative Internet culture. In addition to establishing legal guidelines, the article suggested that the completion of the real-name registration system for all Internet users would help. It also suggested that an award system could be used for people who gave tips about the information. Lastly it suggested that, in order to stop relying on the Internet technology that the Western countries provide, with the U.S. as leader, there is a need to develop technology teams with the skills that are able to eliminate and prevent the spread of negative online culture contents.

Source: Qiushi Theory, July 18, 2015
http://www.qstheory.cn/zhuanqu/zywz/2015-07/18/c_1115966275.htm

Briefings | | July 19, 2015 | Government/Politics

People’s Daily Criticized Guanxi in Relationships between Leaders and Their Subordinates

China Review News republished an article that People’s Daily had originally published. It criticized the current tendency of “Guanxi” or interpersonal relationships between leaders and their subordinates, calling them "twisted relationships.” The article said that such relationships are heavily “contaminated” with various kinds of “implicit rules” and “personal favoritism.” It listed examples of different types of these relationships and stated that all Party members should work on themselves to improve their interpersonal relationships and make them more normal, pure, and less complicated.

Source: China Review News, July 15, 2015
http://hk.crntt.com/doc/1038/4/5/0/103845075.html?coluid=241&kindid=13576&docid=103845075&mdate=0715095617

Briefings | | July 19, 2015 | Government/Politics

PLA Daily: China Must Clean up the Soil that Breeds Traitors

On July 13, 2015, People’s Liberation Army Daily published a full page article on how the Chinese puppet army collaborated with Japan during China’s resistance to the Japanese invasion. The article stated that, during World War II, China was the only country where the number of puppet army soldiers exceeded the number of invaders.

Comparing it with the present, the article stated that some people in China have become the new generation of "economic traitors," "political traitors," and "Internet traitors" who betray the national interest. As Western countries’ "color revolutions" and "politically transgenic" projects intensify, people with weak political will and those full of greed have been or are becoming new recruits for the hostile forces. The article concluded that today’s China still has fertile soil that breeds traitors and that such soil should be cleaned up.

Source: People’s Liberation Army Daily reprinted by People’s Daily, July 13, 2015 http://military.people.com.cn/n/2015/0713/c1011-27295892.html

Briefings | | July 17, 2015 | Government/Politics

CRN: U.S. Is Sowing Discord Rather Than Resolving Disputes in the South China Sea

On July 16, 2015, China Review News (CRN) published a commentary on the U.S. involvement in the South China Sea. It stated that, as the U.S. gets more and more involved in South China Sea issues, it actively pushes its own geostrategic agenda.

According to the commentary, the U.S.’ strategic goal is to maintain its hegemony in the Western Pacific region by maintaining military control over the South China Sea and the political legitimacy of such control. The U.S. actively uses the disputes China has with Vietnam and the Philippines over sovereignty in the South China Sea islands and reefs to implement a strategic entry point for the U.S. to contain China. The U.S. provides political, economic, and military assistance to Vietnam and the Philippines to contend with China. “In fact, the United States does not come to solve the South China Sea issues, but to use the South China Sea issues to sow discord between China and the ASEAN countries.”

Source: China Review News, July 16, 2015

http://hk.crntt.com/doc/1038/1/9/8/103819825.html?coluid=1&kindid=0&docid=103819825&mdate=0716001306

Briefings | | July 17, 2015 | US-China Relations

China’s SEC Cracks Down on Improper Disclosure of Information

On July 15, 2015, the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) announced that it was investigating 10 cases that involved improper disclosure of information. The effort was the fifth if the CSRC’s 2015 campaign to crack down on illegal activities in stock trading.

The 10 cases focus on five types of behavior: obtaining approval for IPOs through the use of fictitious assets and profits; covering up major stock holders’ illegal acquisition of the listed companies through the fabrication of major stock transactions; forging bank documents to inflate assets and profits and whitewashing listed companies’ financial statements; making up the achievements of listed or targeted companies during the merger and acquisition period; and failing to disclose information in a timely manner or selectively disclosing important information, leading to abnormal fluctuations in the stocks of listed companies.

Source: Xinhua, July 15, 2015

http://news.xinhuanet.com/fortune/2015-07/15/c_1115936989.htm

Briefings | | July 15, 2015 | Economy/Resources

National Defense University Professor: If China Can Hold on, U.S. May Become Hopelessly Rotten First

The article below is an excerpt from a lecture that Qiao Liang, a professor at China National Defense University, gave at the 2015 Summer Industry Investment Forum. The article was first published on Huanqiu (Global Times). Later a top Chinese military newspaper website www.81.net and many other top Chinese websites republished it.

“The famous American geopolitical strategist Brzezinski has brought back the theory of the ‘Thucydides trap.’ Brzezinski believes that China and the U.S. are about to fall into the Thucydides trap. Americans once again remind the Chinese people of this. The purpose is nothing more than to let the Chinese people recognize their own strength and status and so they do not fall into the plight of challenging the United States, which would result in the two sides killing each other. Today, times have changed. Not every instance of a great powers’ rise will experience an occurrence of the Thucydides trap. A zero-sum game is not the only choice for great powers’ competition. At least when the U.S. took over the dominating power from Great Britain, the U.S. itself avoided sinking into the Thucydides trap.

“What do China and the U.S. truly need to be alert to today? It is not China challenging the U.S. in the Thucydides trap. Rather, it is the United States launching a ‘boor-style fight’ against China because that might lead to China’s fighting back in the same ‘hard-hard’ way. Some Chinese scholars believe that, since China’s current focus is to develop the ‘one belt and one way’ strategy, [China] should not be in direct confrontation with the United States on the South China Sea issue. Otherwise China might lose big for a penny. In my opinion, there are two scenarios in the ‘losing big for a penny’ situation. One is penny wise and pound foolish; the other is losing the cavalry because of the loss of a horseshoe, then losing a battle because of the loss of the cavalry, and then losing the war and finally losing the entire country. In the current South China Sea, I think China is in the situation of the second scenario. If China retreats from the South China Sea under pressure, it is by no means just losing a horseshoe.

“Now China’s ‘one belt, one way’ strategy is about to roll out. The South China Sea is one of its starting points. More importantly, being eager to manufacture a dispute in the South China Sea, the United States has a profound strategic intent, which is certainly not simply to safeguard the freedom of the sea. In Europe, by using the Ukrainian event, the United States has successfully manufactured dissension between the EU and Russia. Now, with the crisis in Greece, the United States is having a battle with Europe for international capital. At the same time, the U.S. also hopes to drive capital away from China and China’s neighboring areas. The Americans placed a lot of ‘bombs’ around China for this purpose, e.g., the Diaoyu Islands, the Huangyan Island, and the Hong Kong ‘occupy central’ movement. Unfortunately [for Americans], none of these bombs exploded. The United States finally had to start action on its own, coming to the South China Sea to pressure China. Contrary to the Americans’ expectations, the China-sponsored Asian investment bank was established at this time. Not just in Asia, many other countries have also stood behind China one after another. Even America’s hardcore British ally also joined the bank. How could some Americans not get angry as a result? In addition to accusing the British of being traitors, the U.S. is creating a tense atmosphere in the South China Sea. What the U.S. is seeking is not hard to understand. In this case, could China retreat? Once it retreated, domestic public confidence in the government’s authority would plummet and global investors confidence in China might ebb. Therefore, China can never retreat because, at the moment, the South China Sea issue is both about ‘face’ and about ‘everything else.’

“It is foreseeable that the grand strategy game between China and the U.S. will revolve around ‘one belt, one way’ to develop. To this, we must have a clear understanding. In today’s global economic crisis, it is not a time [to find out] who is better than whom; it is the period to find out who-is-more-rotten. China’s economic fundamental, compared with other countries, is relatively better. If China can hold on, the United States may become hopelessly rotten [ahead of China]. China’s stock market ‘distress’ this time could be a stress test in advance and the release of the crisis ahead of time. From the perspective of the long term, it is not a bad thing. Especially, if we once again hold steady in our position after rescuing the market, the prognosis can be expected.”

Source: Huanqiu, republished by 81.net July 13, 2015 http://www.81.net/pinglunjingxuan/2015/0G4592942015.html

Briefings | | July 15, 2015 | US-China Relations

The Beijing News: Chinese Police Take Action against Malicious Short Sellers

On July 14, 2015, The Beijing News published an article on new findings from a recent investigation on “Malicious” short selling of A-shares (Chinese domestic stocks).

On July 9, 2015, Vice Minister of China’s Public Security Meng Qingfeng entered China Securities Regulatory Commission with a police team in order to look for “malicious” short sellers. On July 12, 2015, the Ministry of Public Security in conjunction with the China Securities Regulatory Commission discovered some clues leading to the crimes of “malicious” short selling of stocks and indexes. Some trading companies have been involved in manipulating securities and futures exchanges. China’s Public Security Ministry and the China Securities Regulatory Commission will take action against “hostile short sellers.”

Source: The Beijing News, July 14, 2015
http://www.bjnews.com.cn/finance/2015/07/14/370518.html

Briefings | | July 14, 2015 | Economy/Resources

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

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

Xinhua Commentaries: “Exposing the Three Major Political Deficits of the U.S.”

The CCP’s Performing Arts Troupes in the U.S.