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Chinese Scholars’ Views on China and the U.S. over the Next 10 Years

[Editor’s Note: Qiushi Theory republished a report from the International Economic Review, a bi-monthly publication by the Institute of World Economics and Politics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. The report was based on what a few people from Chinese think tanks expressed about the global leadership positions of the U.S. and China over the next ten years. Their discussions touched multiple areas, including international relationships, politics, economics, culture, and science. The following are excerpts of some of their views.] [1]

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Reports | | July 5, 2012 | Report

China’s Telecom Companies Promise to Effectively Censor the Internet

According to an article published in Xinhua on April 24, 2012, officials from China Telecom Corporation, China Mobile Communications Corporation, China United Network Communications Group Co., Ltd. and other telecom companies separately issued statements regarding taking effective measures to resolutely curb “rumors” spread on the Internet and to create a “civilized and healthy Internet space.”

Source: Xinhua, April 24, 2012
http://news.xinhuanet.com/politics/2012-04/24/c_111836250.htm

Briefings | | July 5, 2012 | Information/Technology

China’s Energy Strategies in Light of the Changes in the Global Energy Pattern

On July 3, 2012, China Review News published an editorial discussing China’s energy strategies from the perspective of the current changes in the global energy pattern. The 2012 World Energy Statistics Yearbook showed that China’s primary energy consumption increased 8.8% last year, far exceeding the decline in the level of consumption in developed countries. China’s dependence on foreign oil increases about 3% every year. In 2011, China depended on foreign oil for 56.5% of its usage. Meanwhile, the U.S. energy self-sufficiency rate has been gradually increasing; in 2011, it reached 81.4%.

The article asserted that China must speed up its domestic oil exploration and development in the sea and the western territory. At the same time, China must make full use of energy resources around the world by jointly developing oil and gas resources with the countries in Central Asia, Russia and the Middle Eastern areas. China must also actively study and track major trends in energy technologies and lay a solid foundation in energy technology and innovation.

Source: China Review News, July 3, 2012
http://www.zhgpl.com/doc/1021/5/3/5/102153504.html?coluid=136&kindid=4710&docid=102153504&mdate=0703002045

Briefings | | July 5, 2012 | Economy/Resources

China Is Worried about the U.S. Return to Asia

On June 29, 2012, China Review News published an article titled “China Also Needs to ‘Re-Balance’ with the United States.” The author of the article concedes that China is worried about the Obama administration’s strategy of the U.S. return to Asia. Due to the deterioration of China-ASEAN relations and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the East Asian cooperation that China has worked on in the past 15 years has ceased.

Because the United States participated in the “East Asia Summit” that the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) recently led, China was subjected to a series of regional diplomatic and multilateral security mechanisms that ASEAN, under United States control, directed. Several Asia-Pacific countries asked the United States to honor its security commitments. For example, when it had a territorial conflict with China, the Philippines repeatedly cited the “Philippine – US Mutual Defense Treaty.” The United States, South Korea, and Australia have upgraded their multinational security relations. All of these have pushed China into a “security dilemma in the Asia-Pacific region.”

Source: China Review News, June 29, 2012
http://www.zhgpl.com/doc/1021/5/4/9/102154979.html?coluid=148&kindid=7550&docid=102154979&mdate=0630002703

Briefings | | July 5, 2012 | US-China Relations

China ExIm Bank Finances Press and Publication’s “Going Out” Activities

On July 3, China’s General Administration of Press and Publication (GAPP) and the Export-Import Bank of China reached an agreement in Beijing on “cooperation to support and foster key enterprises and key projects of the press and publication industry’s going out strategy.” GAPP’s president Liu Binjie and China’s ExIm Bank’s president Li Ruogu signed the agreement. It allows the Export-Import Bank of China to provide no less than 20 billion yuan (US$3.14 billion) or its equivalent in foreign currency financing to support and promote the press and publishing enterprises’ overseas activities in the coming five years.

According to the People’s Daily report, the Export-Import Bank in recent years has “conscientiously implemented the Party’s Central Committee and State Council’s series of instructions on promoting the development of culture industries and making full use of a range of financial instruments to lead the financial industry in supporting the international development of culture industries.” As of the end of 2011, the Export-Import Bank of China had supported the international development of culture industries through different types of loan contracts amounting to nearly 26 billion yuan ($US4.10 billion).

Source: People’s Daily, July 4, 2012
http://politics.people.com.cn/n/2012/0704/c70731-18444926.html

Briefings | | July 5, 2012 | Geo-Strategic Trend

China’s Telecom Companies Promises to Effectively Censor the Internet

According to Xinhua on April 24, 2012, officials from China Telecom Corporation, China Mobile Communications Corporation, China United Network Communications Group Co., Ltd. and other telecom companies separately issued a statement regarding taking effective measures to resolutely curb “rumors” spread on the Internet and create a “civilized and healthy Internet space”.

Source: Xinhua, April 24, 2012
http://news.xinhuanet.com/politics/2012-04/24/c_111836250.htm

Briefings | | July 4, 2012 | Information/Technology

China Is Worried about the US return to Asia

China Review News published an article on June 29, 2012 titled “China Also Needs to ‘Re-Balance’ with the United States”. The article admits that China is worried about the US return to Asia under the Obama administration. Due to the deterioration of China-ASEAN relations and Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the East Asian cooperation that China has worked on in the past 15 years has stopped.

As the United States participated in “East Asia Summit” led by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), China was forced to subject to the series of regional diplomacy and multilateral security mechanisms led by ASEAN and controlled by the United States. Several Asia-Pacific countries asked the United States to honor its security commitments. For example, Philippines repeatedly cited the “Philippine – US Mutual Defense Treaty” when it had a territorial conflict with China. The United States, South Korea and Australia have upgraded their multinational security relations. All of these have made China inevitably fall into the “security dilemma in the Asia-Pacific region”.

Source: China Review News, June 29, 2012
http://www.zhgpl.com/doc/1021/5/4/9/102154979.html?coluid=148&kindid=7550&docid=102154979&mdate=0630002703

Briefings | | July 4, 2012 | US-China Relations

CRN: After Making a Big Contribution, China Should have More Rights in the IMF

China Review News (CRN) recently published a commentary on the fact that China made a US$43 billion contribution to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as a way of helping Europe. The announcement was made at the G20 meeting that was recently held in Mexico. The commentary emphasized that the size of the Chinese contribution is the third largest, after Japan and Germany. However, the country controlling the largest voting share in the IMF, the United States, did not offer a single penny. The author expressed the belief that this is one important means China is using to have more say in the IMF, where the United States has veto power and Europe has chaired the organization for over 60 years. The commentator suggested that some cost may be involved on the side of the emerging countries in the process of changing the “unfair” situation and obtaining more control.

Source: China Review News, June 28, 2012

http://www.chinareviewnews.com/doc/1021/4/9/0/102149081.html?coluid=136&kindid=4710&docid=102149081&mdate=0628001505

Briefings | | July 3, 2012 | Economy/Resources

China’s Reaction to Trump’s Election Win

Xinhua Commentary Series: Spotlight on the U.S. Presidential Election

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