The concept of "partnership" started after the Cold War. China has adopted the name "partnership" to define the bilateral relations. Since 1997 to 1998, China has established partnerships with Russia, the United States, France, and the E.U. Of the 172 countries with which China has diplomatic relations, China has established a formal partnership with 54 of them. Since China implemented a policy of non-alliance, there is no higher position in China’s diplomatic system than the "partnership" bilateral relationship.
Qiushi: China’s Socialism and Its Global significance
Qiushi published an article on the rise of China and its significance for the world. The article stated that China has promised that it will never seek hegemony or compete with the West for the “center.” In the 20th century, the West failed to dominate the world with the Western model. The West cannot do it in the 21st century either. China has proven this point with its own development. "The success of China’s way is the success of socialism. … The rise of China shows that world socialism has a strong vitality and there is hope for its revival. … Therefore, we are engaged in socialism rather than anything else. This should be very clear. We should be righteous and cannot avoid this point. … As long as a socialist China exists, there is hope that world socialism will revive.”
People’s Daily: Street Politics is not Democracy
People’s Daily published a commentary on “street politics” or “color revolutions,” citing interviews with three Chinese scholars of international political science.
Huanqiu: Lesson from Ukraine: China Must Strengthen Cyber War Capability to Counter the West
Huanqiu (Global Times) published an article explaining that China should learn a lesson from the Ukraine crisis and improve its ability to conduct both cyber-attacks and defense. Yang Chengjun, a senior fellow of the national security policy committee, and Jiang Zheng, an engineer at a government department, co-authored the article.
Beijing Business Today: What is the Biggest Problem for the Chinese Economy?
Beijing Business Today published an interview of Professor Huang Guoxiong of China People’s University on the Chinese economy. In Huang’s opinion, “The high growth rate with low efficiency is the biggest problem currently facing the Chinese economy. The development of the services industry is the key to expanding domestic demand.”
China Youth Daily: 73 Percent of Poll Respondents Support Increase of China’s Military Spending
In March 2014, the Guangzhou Public Opinion Research Center conducted telephone interviews on a sample 2,000 urban residents, collecting opinions on China’s national security and the growth in military spending.
81 percent of respondents believed the long run existence of the terrorism threat; 14 percent disagreed, and 5 percent found it "hard to say." On China’s defense and military spending, 44 percent believed that China’s military spending is "not much." 16 percent thought it was "too much," and 40 percent believed it was "just enough." 92 percent of the interviewees agreed that China’s "national defense capabilities must be commensurate with its economic development," and only 3 percent hold the opposite view. The poll also showed that 73 percent of the respondents supported the recent decision of the Chinese government to place a fiscal budget on military spending, with only 14 percent not supportive and 13 percent "hard to say."
According to the Guangzhou Public Opinion Research Center, the poll covered 23 provincial capital cities and four municipalities directly under the central government. It sampled over 2,000 urban residents of different genders, ages, occupations, and education levels.
Source: China Youth Daily, March 31, 2014
http://zqb.cyol.com/html/2014-03/31/nw.D110000zgqnb_20140331_5-04.htm
Beijing Daily on How to Use Beautiful Words to Promote Socialist China
On March 24, 2014, Beijing Daily published an article on how to use beautiful words to promote socialist China. According to the article, China must tell its own “good stories” with beautiful words supported by some theories so as to respond to all the different opinions that oppose China’s socialism with the Chinese characteristics.
For example, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) must solve a theoretical problem of how to understand “faith.” When the contemporary Chinese people are criticized for their lack of faith, the best explanation is that atheism is also a faith and the Chinese government must respect freedoms of faith and cope correctly with religious pluralism in the world. Another important theoretical problem that the Chinese Communist Party must solve is how to use theories to explain scientifically that the Chinese Communist Party’s character is also the character of the Chinese people. If the Chinese Communist Party cannot convince people that the CCP and the Chinese people are one and the same, it will be difficult to tell good Chinese stories inside out.
Source: Beijing Daily, March 24, 2014
http://bjrb.bjd.com.cn/html/2014-03/24/content_163545.htm
Guangming Daily: Create a New Generation Internet for Safety Control
On March 27, 2014, Guangming Daily published an article on how to strengthen Internet control in order to ensure the safety of China’s national Internet and its information. The article first blamed the United States for systematic spying on the Internet, giving the “Prism” incident as an example.
According to the article, China urgently needs to elevate the Internet Information safety issue to the national strategic level. To be specific, China must plan and design the national information Internet at the top-level of the government and create a new generation of Internet that the government can control completely. The article listed several ways to achieve this goal.
Source: Guangming Daily, March 27, 2014
http://epaper.gmw.cn/gmrb/html/2014-03/27/nw.D110000gmrb_20140327_1-16.htm