The Communist Party of China feted at Davos
On Jack Ma (http://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/18/chine...structure.html)
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It's not that other countries steal jobs from you guys…It's your strategy. Distribute the money and things in a proper way.
Does Jack mean for America’s leading 10,000 families? Is Trump not promulgating an approach to international trade that is self-interested rather than principled?
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The American multinational companies made millions and millions of dollars from globalization…The past 30 years, IBM, Cisco, Microsoft, they've made tens of millions — the profits they've made are much more than the four Chinese banks put together. ... But where did the money go?
It went to shareholders, Jack. Where does Alibaba’s money go. To the poor serfs of western China? Hardly.
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You're supposed to spend money on your own people…Not everybody can pass Harvard, like me…As a business person, I want the world to share the prosperity together.
No, Jack. You’re worried about the gravy train ending for China. Already, China is outsourcing to Ethiopia, Vietnam and Malaysia. We’ll see how long the CPC has the “mandate of heaven” when only millionaires and billionaires are left…
On Xi (http://www.economist.com/news/china/...rock-stability)
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No one will emerge as a winner in a trade war…[China]…will keep its door wide open and not close it
It’s almost as if Xi is defending the status quo that he wants so desperately to revise…How curious.
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[The Paris Agreement is] a responsibility we must assume for future generations
Well, look no further than the smog of Beijing to see how the CPC handles its responsibility. Given that China has deprived itself of future generations, this remark is laughable.
The PLAN is over the horizon
RUSI hosted this recent conference: 'RUSI International Sea Powers Conference: A European Net Assessment of the PLA(N)' and the Abstract is breathless:https://rusi.org/conference/rusi-int...ssessment-plan
There is a video (42 mins, skip the first 5mins)with two speakers:
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Vice Admiral Umio Otsuka, President, Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force Command and Staff College, and Dr Peter Roberts, Director, Military Sciences, RUSI on the growth and strategic capabilities of the Chinese Navy.
There's also a month old RUSI commentary by Dr Roberts:https://rusi.org/commentary/china%E2...ppears-horizon
Singapore's Success Continues to Inspire China
Not watching the region or China that closely I missed the significance of China watching, if not following Singapore's way ahead. This article explains and adds it is not all "happy":http://nationalinterest.org/feature/...re-china-19822
Base diplomacy: the regional implications
Hat tip to WoTR for having an Indian analyst, from India, contribute this wide-ranging review of the impact of the PRC's base - being built - in Djibouti:
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Beijing’s new base in Djibouti marks the start of a longer-term enterprise aimed at embedding China into the geopolitics of the Indian Ocean.
There is a curious part on how should India react, even advocating a naval response in the Western Pacific.
Link:https://warontherocks.com/2017/08/ch...ons-for-india/
There are African aspects to the base, background maybe found on this thread:China's Expanding Role in Africa
"This is the biggest player in the history of the world.”
The title is from a short quote by the late Singaporean leader Lee Kwan Yew of China’s rise, in full it was:
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It is not possible to pretend that this is just another big player. This is the biggest player in the history of the world.
Now who said this?:
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Taking the long view, we simply cannot afford to leave China forever outside the family of nations, there to nurture its fantasies, cherish its hates and threaten its neighbours.
The BBC's China Editor has a profile of President Xi Jinping’s, where she concludes:
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Xi’s China has so far married great wealth with great repression. If he continues to cage his tigers, clean up his comrades and silence discordant voices, the existential questions may be for others. Not since Chairman Mao has China’s dream of greatness rested so heavily on one man.
Link:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/...ts_Chairman_Xi
China and the United States: destined for war?
An IISS event last month with Professor Graham Allison talking about his new book (published May 2017) and entitled 'China and the United States: destined for war?'. There is a recording to listen to (68 mins).
Link:http://www.iiss.org/en/events/arunde...d-for-war-3469
The book is 'Destined for War: Can America and China Escape the Thucydides Trap?' and on Amazon USA as a 'best seller', where the summary ends with:
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explains why Thucydides’s Trap is the best lens for understanding U.S.-China relations in the twenty-first century. Through uncanny historical parallels and war scenarios, he shows how close we are to the unthinkable. Yet, stressing that war is not inevitable, Allison also reveals how clashing powers have kept the peace in the past — and what painful steps the United States and China must take to avoid disaster today.
Link with 150 reviews and mainly 5*:https://www.amazon.com/Destined-War-...ydides+Trap%3F