![]() For one bookseller in Istanbul, accusations of copyright infringement suspected to be prompted by the Chinese government drove more than 50 Turkish police to burst into his shop to cart off sackfuls of his 11,000 Uyghur books. Chinese publishers are barred by Beijing from granting permission to reprint Uyghur books. The country’s rapid economic rise also means that the foods that Chinese people eat are changing - impacting the country’s health, food security, and environment.Ĭhina pressured Turkey to bust a Uyghur bookseller. In four decades, Chinese people went from using food coupons to eating fatty meals delivered via mobile phone apps. The position paper marks an important milestone and irreversible shift in wider European relations with China, writes Jacob Mardell. The German government’s recently released “Strategy on China” has struck a balance between the country’s pro-China business interests and the China-skeptic foreign policy establishment. Billionaires are vocally supporting the plan, but will it work? Then on July 19, Beijing announced a new 31-point plan to promote the private sector and juice the economy, after more than two years of crackdowns on entrepreneurs. These numbers are much better than most countries can boast of but they were lower than many had expected, and there are other troubling signs, for example, youth unemployment in China hit a new record high, with the jobless rate of 16- to 24-year-olds in urban areas rising to 21.3% in June. Gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 6.3% in the second quarter from a year ago, and 5.5% over the first half of the year. On July 17, China released official economic statistics for the first half of 2023. īeijing’s plan to motivate private business and juice the economyīeijing, July 12, 2023, REUTERS/Thomas Peter. If you’re not already a subscriber, sign up for our Daily Dispatch, or our free Weekly. Our Phrase of the Week is: Appeared out of nowhere (横空出世 héngkōng chūshì), which social media users have been using to describe a fictional university that became a viral meme after China’s competitive university examination season in June. These are just some of the contradictions of the week’s news. ![]() ambassador to China, Nicholas Burns, in an attack that is believed to have compromised at least hundreds of thousands of individual U.S. ![]() relations, but just today, the Wall Street Journal reported that “hackers linked to Beijing accessed the email account of the U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Secretary of State Antony Blinken, apparently a sign of a thaw in the frosty China-U.S. Kissinger and Kerry’s visits followed those of U.S. Xi did however meet with the 100-year-old master of realpolitik, Henry Kissinger, a man whose vision of great powers dividing up the world into spheres of influence and staying out of each other’s domestic affairs is appealing to Beijing. ![]() climate envoy John Kerry had a series of meetings in Beijing aimed at restarting climate cooperation, but Chinese leader Xí Jìnpíng 习近平 emphasized that his country would choose its own path to emissions reductions, and he avoided meeting Kerry. Most experts agree on the need for governments and companies to regulate AI, but would you trust the Cyberspace Administration of China to do it? ![]() The rules aim to foster innovation but give the government powers to control the output of consumer-facing AI applications like Ernie Bot, Baidu’s answer to ChatGPT. New rules to govern generative artificial intelligence were finalized. Less-than-stellar economic numbers were followed by a plan and pledge from the Communist Party to give full backing to private enterprise it was greeted with public expressions of support from some of the country’s leading entrepreneurs. It’s been a week of mixed-up news about China. ![]()
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