At the recent annual work conference on political and legal affairs in Beijing, President Xi Jinping called on China’s judges and law enforcement officials to clean out corruption from their own ranks. The remarks were made amid a wide-ranging probe into leaders in charge of China’s political and legal affairs.
Chinese Academician: China Must Develop Its Cyber Warfare Forces
Wu Jiangxing, an academician with the Chinese Academy of Engineering and former president of the PLA Information Engineering University, recently attended a grand interview program of "academicians talking about strengthening the military." Wu called for the establishment of a Chinese cyber frontier defense army as an imminent task.
Outlook: Five New Trends in the International Arena
Outlook News Weekly, a publication under Xinhua disseminated an article on international trends in which it reviewed 2013 and foretold developments in 2014. The article stated that there are five new trends in the international strategic situation.
China Foresees the Negative Impact of Asia-Pacific Regional Trade Negotiations on China’s Exports
On January 8, 2014, China Review News Agency published an article on how to deal with a new round of Asia-Pacific regional trade negotiations. As China is not one of the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership [TPP] countries (Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, the United States, and Vietnam), China is worried about the negative impact of the TPP on China’s exports to those countries. Therefore, China will make a good effort to make up the loss in the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) trade negotiations. RCEP is a Freed Trade Agreement among Australia, China, India, Japan, Korea and New Zealand.
Asia-Pacific countries do not really trust China, which may have a negative effect on China’s economics. According to the article, in order to avoid such a negative impact, China should take the following actions:
- Support the WTO reform and make the multilateral trading activity operate within the framework of the WTO;
- Actively promote the eventual establishment of the Asia-Pacific free trade zone;
- Promote frequent communication among Asia-Pacific countries during the APEC summit next year when China is the host;
- Conduct domestic economic reform in the Shanghai Free Trade Zone, the Shenzhen Qianhai Experiment area, and other reform testing regions;
- Get ready to deal with any negative impact from the changes in the future Asian-Pacific trade rules and further promote the domestic reform of state-owned enterprises.
Source: China Review News Agency, January 8, 2014
http://hk.crntt.com/doc/1029/6/7/1/102967142.html?coluid=53&kindid=0&docid=102967142&mdate=0108075139
China’s Minister of Public Security: Resolutely Resist the Infiltration of Western Ideology
Guo Shengkun, China’s Minister of Public Security, recently published an article on People’s Daily calling for firm resistance to ideological infiltration from the Western anti-China forces. Chinese Review News Agency reprinted the article on January 3, 2014. According to the article, China has over 2 million police. Public security departments at all levels must “take resolute action to protect the Chinese Communist Party’s leadership, safeguard the people’s democratic dictatorship, and defend the socialist system with Chinese characteristics.” The article particularly called for “resolute resistance to the ideological infiltration from Western anti-China forces” in order to “ensure national security and social stability.” Therefore, systematic Internet control and a crackdown on “Internet slander, Internet fraud, and other online criminal activities” will continue.
Source: Chinese Review News Agency, January 3, 2013
http://hk.crntt.com/doc/1029/5/7/8/102957811.html?coluid=151&kindid=0&docid=102957811&mdate=0103091923