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

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

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

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PLA to Replace License Plates for All Military Vehicles

Xinhua reported that, on March 29, 2013, the PLA General Staff Department, the Political Department, the Logistics Department, and the Armament Department jointly held a teleconference on carrying out the orders that President Xi and the Central Military gave on replacing license plates for all military vehicles. It was reported that the purpose of the new measure was to prevent “counterfeiting, wide distribution, misplacement, theft, and loss of military vehicle license plates."

Source: Xinhua, March 30, 2013
http://news.xinhuanet.com/politics/2013-03/30/c_124522432.htm

Briefings | | |   Defense/Military

Qiushi: China’s Reform Must Stay on the Socialist Path

[Editor’s Note: Qiushi published an article discussing different opinions on whether to continue reform in China. It talked about the importance of reform and how reform is needed. However, it then stressed that the most critical issue is the political direction that reform takes. China’s reform must take place under the direction of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The major political reform that Western countries hope will take place in China will never happen. To strengthen its point, the article discussed Deng Xiaoping’s words, "It is a dead end if we don’t reform or open up," which some people keep quoting in order to promote further (political) reform. The article argues that the correct way to say it is, "It is a dead end if we don’t insist on using Socialism as the basis of our reform; and it is also a dead end to insist on reform that embraces Capitalism." The following is a translation of the article.] [1]

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Reports | | |   Report

People’s Daily: The United States Is Building a “Hacker Empire”

People’s Daily continues to fight back against the Mandiant report from the U.S. regarding Chinese hackers attacking U.S. companies and other entities. An article titled “The United States Is Building a ‘Hacker Empire’" accused the U.S. of being the top “hacker” in the world. The article listed the following facts as “evidence”: 

“Even the United States’ own Internet security experts also admit that activities of the U.S. ‘Cyber Army’ are not entirely in the military field. Their work may already have ‘infiltrated’ into industrial, commercial, and financial service industries, and other areas in the national economy and the people’s livelihood. The ‘Cyber Army’ is actually developing into a ‘Hacker Empire.’" 
“Based on estimates made by foreign military experts, the U.S. ‘Cyber Army’ has surpassed 100,000 people in scale which is the equivalent of eight 101 air assault divisions.” 
“The United States was the first country to develop the ‘worm’ virus, ‘logic bombs’ and other ‘cyber weapons’ and was the first to use them in combat.” 
“The U.S. military has developed as many as 2,000 types of cyber weapons; it is the world’s number one big country of ‘cyber weapons.’" 
“U.S. companies and the U.S. media jointly hype the ‘China hacker attacks’ and have the intention to attack and suppress Chinese IT companies.” 
In conclusion, the article also argued, “Cyber security rules cannot be set by Americans alone. All the countries in the world are both participants and rule setters.” 
Source: People’s Daily, March 25, 2013
http://military.people.com.cn/n/2013/0325/c1011-20899428.html
Briefings | | |   US-China Relations

The People’s Daily Front Page Displayed in Washington, D.C. for the First Time

On March 27, 2013, the front page of China’s state-run media People’s Daily was displayed on the bulletin board (Today’s Front Pages) of the U.S. news museum (Newseum) located on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C. At the same time, Newseum’s sixth floor exhibition hall also showed the day’s front page of People’s Daily. People’s Daily reported this news and bragged that the front page of People’s Daily was displayed in the U.S. capital in Washington, D.C. for the first time. [Editor’s note: As a news museum, Newseum has many galleries displaying the news from different periods in history and major events, as well as front pages from each state and 80 samples from over 700 countries around the world.]

Source: People’s Daily, March 28, 2013 
 http://world.people.com.cn/n/2013/0328/c1002-20941680.html
Briefings | | |   Government/Politics

China’s Development Cannot Advance without Africa

ZHAO Changhui, a scholar at the Contemporary World Research Center, expressed the belief that China’s future development lies in Africa. He said the following in an opinion article published by Xinhua: 

“The geographic distribution of global business is being re-shuffled. Emerging markets will become the basic source for revenue and profit, whereas Africa is the battleground that all the players in the world will want to control.” 
“For the future, the most important issues are that China should do three things without any hesitation: 

1) Strategically, conquer Africa. The Chinese government, think tanks, the press, and the public need to adjust their view of the world, implement aggressive and mass scale African policies that are supportive and complementary to each other, and help the Chinese business community, especially the different central and local state-owned enterprises, to advance firmly and coherently in African. 

2) Tactically, steer China’s financial and monetary direction. China’s financial banking institutions, particularly the national financial institutions, should wake up and determinedly enter the most lucrative African market. The United States, as China’s geopolitical rival, is unrestrained in trade and financial protectionism, while Europe will remain flat over the next 10 years. 

3) As a goal, establish a unified market. Africa is eagerly looking forward to forming an alliance with China to have all-around cooperation in which China’s trade and investment will benefit Africa and the transfer of technology and productivity will lift Africa out of hunger, poverty, and social risks due the unemployment of young people. In today’s world, only China has strong finances, the technology, and the political will at the same time.”

“In short, the ‘China Dream’ is a new model for the world. Africa is the bridge for the ‘China Dream.’”
Source: Xinhua, March 27, 2013 
http://news.xinhuanet.com/world/2013-03/27/c_124509082_2.htm

Briefings | | |   Geo-Strategic Trend

The World China Studies Forum Held in Shanghai

On March 23 and 24, 2013, the "World China Study" Forum was held at the Shanghai World Expo Center. It was co-sponsored by the State Council Press Office and the Shanghai municipal government, including the Shanghai Social Science Academy and the Shanghai City Press Office. About 500 scholars in China studies came from around the world to discuss the relationship between China and the rest of the world, as well as China’s development road in the next decade.

Three scholars were given awards for their contribution to China studies:

Сергей Леонидович Тихвинский, a Russian Science Academy member, the former Russian special ambassador to China; Ezra Feivel Vogel, the Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus at Harvard University, former Director of the Fairbank Center for East Asian Studies; and Jao Tsung-I (Mandarin Pinyin: Ráo Zōngyí), the emeritus Chairman of the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). He is currently the Wei Lun Honorary Professor of Fine Art and Emeritus Professor of Chinese Language and Literature at CUHK.

Source: Guangming Website, March 23
http://politics.gmw.cn/2013-03/23/content_7094334.htm

Briefings | | |   Government/Politics

IHL: The Best Strategy is to Form an Alliance with Russia

According to the International Herald Leader, Yan Xuetong, Dean of the Institute of Contemporary International Relations at Tsinghua University in Beijing, said that, given the current international environment, the best strategy for China and Russia is to form an alliance with each other.

Yan pointed out that President Xi’s visit to Russia is not out of consideration of bilateral relations with the United States, but represents a totally new strategic paradigm shift. Yan further stated that the most important benefit such an alliance with Russia will bring to China is to solidify a favorable security environment for northern and western China so that China can focus on handling the pressure in eastern and southern China. Moreover, it may help re-balance the votes at the U.N. Security Council. Yan advised that China should take a proactive approach to forming an alliance and making proposals to Russia.

Source: International Herald Leader, March 26, 2013
http://ihl.cankaoxiaoxi.com/2013/0326/183592.shtml

Briefings | | |   Geo-Strategic Trend

China Will Limit Hong Kong’s Rights in Electing the Chief Executive of the HKSAR

On March 24, 2013, Qiao Xiaoyang, director of China’s National People’s Congress Law Committee, spoke at a forum where he explained the central government’s bottom line on the universal suffrage discussed for Hong Kong in 2017. Qiao said that anyone who stands against the central government will never be accepted as chief executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR).

Qiao’s purpose was to  reaffirm the bottom line on behalf of the central government: to ensure that Hong Kong residents consciously not choose a candidate who opposes the Chinese Communist Party.

Source: Hong Kong Wenweipo, March 25, 2013
http://trans.wenweipo.com/gb/paper.wenweipo.com/2013/03/25/WW1303250003.htm

Briefings | | |   Government/Politics