Xi Jinping in Policymakers abroad
On Civil Rights:
Many discriminated against for rural household registration
Some efforts to address inequality will invariably prove inadequate. It may take generations for people across China to recover from the Party's exploitative practices: more than two-thirds of children experience discrimination as a result
of having rural household registration. Many of them have little education and poor health. Some are even traumatized as they are "left behind" by parents who flock to cities for work.
Source: Human Rights Watch on Foreign Influences: "Tightening Up"
Oct 20, 2021
On Civil Rights:
Shut down LGBT social media accounts; boycott "sissy idols"
In July, the WeChat accounts of dozens of LGBT student organizations across China were shut down permanently in a move that took the groups by surprise. In September, China's top media regulator announced a boycott of what
it called "sissy idols", among other new guidelines, during an ongoing "clean-up" of the entertainment industry. This group includes pop idols who wear make-up or who do not conform to male stereotypes prevalent in traditional Chinese culture.
Source: South China Morning Post on Foreign Influences: "LGBT"
Oct 30, 2021
On Corporations:
Purge capitalist excess; business must heed state guidance
Xi Jinping is waging a campaign to purge China of capitalist excesses. China's president sees surging debt as the poisonous fruit of financial speculation and billionaires as a mockery of Marxism.
Businesses must heed state guidance. The party must permeate every area of national life.
The crackdowns are also making business harder and less rewarding. The party had been creating a regulatory and legal framework, but Mr Xi is imposing big top-down changes so fast
that regulation has started to seem arbitrary. Consider, for example, "tertiary redistribution", in which shamed tech companies hand over cash to the state in an attempt to redeem themselves.
Source: The Economist on Foreign Influences: "Rife with Danger"
Oct 2, 2021
On Crime:
Use an iron fist against Uighurs, claiming Islamic terrorism
After a visit to Xinjiang in April 2014, Xi argued that Islamic extremism had infected a large swathe of Uighur society and called on party officials to chase 'violent terrorists' like rats: 'strike early, strike small, strike fast and use an iron fist
to destroy [them]'.The following month, the Xinjiang Party Committee launched a ..year-long Counterterrorism Strike Hard Campaign that has been subsequently extended. Officials seen adopting a "soft" approach in governance were promptly replaced.
Nearly a million Uighurs and other indigenous people in Xinjiang have been rounded up and interned in what Chinese authorities call "vocational education and training centres" since the spring of 2017, as part of the Re-education campaign.
"Teach like a school, manage like the military, and defend like a prison"--this has been the approach in running these centres. Detainees are held without legal recourse
Source: Times of India on Foreign Influences: "Uighur births"
Oct 25, 2021
On Drugs:
War on drugs tied to welfare of the Chinese people
One city, Zhongshan, is monitoring wastewater to evaluate the effectiveness of its drug-reduction programs, says Li Xiqing, an environmental chemist at Peking University. President Xi Jinping said that the country's war on drugs was tied to national
security and the welfare of the Chinese people. Li says the central and local governments will invest at least 10 million yuan (US$1.5 million) in wastewater-based epidemiology monitoring by the end of the year.
Source: Nature magazine on Foreign Influences: "Illegal Drug Use"
Jul 16, 2018
On Education:
Give physical education top priority in Chinese schools
With obesity and myopia continuing their unrelenting climb among kids and teens today, China has made it clear that physical education should be given top priority in its ongoing, major education reform intended to shape the next generation of
Chinese youth. The commitment was once again on display at a press conference, where the country's top sports authority unveiled a package of measures to encourage physical fitness among schoolchildren.
Source: SupChina.com blog on Foreign Influences: "Fit children"
Oct 30, 2021
On Education:
Eliminate teaching minorities in native languages in schools
After experiments aimed at assimilating ethnic minorities in Tibet, Inner Mongolia and Xinjiang, the Chinese government now is moving to apply its cultural assimilation policy for managing all minority populations by eliminating classroom
instruction in native languages. Beijing released an updated blueprint for childhood development that removed a guarantee of the rights of minority children to be educated in their native language.
Source: Voice of America on Foreign Influences: "Banning Languages"
Oct 24, 2021
On Energy & Oil:
Promote green, low-carbon and sustainable development
We need to promote green transition. A sound eco-environment is the most basic public good that benefits all. We in the Asia-Pacific should make its post-pandemic recovery a green one and take the lead in making a science-based response to climate
change. Working together, all of us can embark on a path of green, low-carbon and sustainable development.China's carbon reduction action is a profound economic and social transformation.
However formidable the task may be, we will work tirelessly to make our contribution to promoting global green transition. Our carbon reduction action will also require massive investment, thus creating huge market opportunities and room for
cooperation. The business communities across the Asia-Pacific are warmly welcome to join us in this endeavor. Together, we can usher in a future of green development.
Source: Global Times on Foreign Influences: "APEC Keynote"
Nov 11, 2021
On Foreign Policy:
Don't relapse into confrontation, division of Cold War era
We should be forward-looking, move ahead and reject practices of discrimination and exclusion of others. Attempts to draw ideological lines or form small circles on geopolitical grounds are bound to fail.
The Asia-Pacific region cannot and should not relapse into the confrontation and division of the Cold War era.
Source: Global Times on Foreign Influences: "APEC Keynote"
Nov 11, 2021
On Free Trade:
Building high-standard Asian Pacific free trade areas
Openness is the sure way for realizing human prosperity and progress. Over the past 30-plus years, thanks to our concerted efforts such as the adoption of the Bogor Goals and the Putrajaya Vision as well as macroeconomic policy
coordination and the building of high-standard free trade areas, we in the Asia-Pacific have succeeded in sustaining fast development for a fairly long period of time.
Source: Global Times on Foreign Influences: "APEC Keynote"
Nov 11, 2021
On Government Reform:
China is strengthening regulation over some sectors
Recently, the competent Chinese government departments are improving and better enforcing anti-monopoly laws and regulations and strengthening regulation over some sectors. This is called for to promote the sound development
of the market economy in China. As a matter of fact, it is also a common practice in other countries. We will unswervingly consolidate and develop the public sector.
Source: Global Times on Foreign Influences: "APEC Keynote"
Nov 11, 2021
On Gun Control:
Only a few groups of people are allowed to own guns
By 1996, a national gun control law had been promulgated by the National People's Congress. Under the law, only a few groups of people are allowed to own guns, including law enforcement, security personnel, government-approved
sports shooters and government-approved hunters.In recent years, authorities have carried out more raids and offered freedom from prosecution in firearms amnesties.
Source: CNN on Foreign Influences: "On Gun Control"
Sep 20, 2021
On Homeland Security:
Defend territorial sovereignty and land border security
China adopted a land border law, which will take effect on January 1, 2022, in an endeavor to strengthen its border control and protection. Through the enactment of this new law, Beijing appears to be signaling determination to resolve the border
disputes on its preferred terms. The law sets an overall tone of resolve upfront, stating that China will "resolutely defend territorial sovereignty and land border security" while continuing to seek to settle disputes through negotiations.To the
extent that Beijing sees a close link between reinforcing a "common identity of the Chinese nation" and consolidating control over China's ethnic minority-populated land frontier, modulation in Beijing's current policy toward these regions may not be
over the horizon. Beijing could invoke the law to close China's border to prevent the spillover of terrorism and extremism from Central Asia, an influx of refugees from North Korea, Myanmar, or Afghanistan, or the spread of a pandemic.
Source: Brookings Institution on Foreign Influences: "Border Law"
Nov 4, 2021
On Principles & Values:
Resolution makes Xi the equal of Mao and Deng in history
The Chinese Communist Party has passed a "historical resolution," cementing Xi Jinping's status in political history. The document, a summary of the party's 100-year history, addresses its key achievements and future directions.
It is only the third of its kind since the founding of the party--the first was passed by Mao Zedong in 1945 and the second by Deng Xiaoping in 1981.
Source: BBC on Foreign Influences: "Historic Resolution"
Nov 12, 2021
On Principles & Values:
Moral review councils use public shaming for enforcement
[On "China's New Reality"]: "Moral review councils" and "moral clinics" are enforcing orthodox behaviour using public shaming. Although there is as yet no prospect of anything as awful as the Cultural Revolution,
Chinese people are becoming less free to think and talk. As well as promoting his own doctrines, Mr Xi has played up Red nostalgia and cast Maoism as a vital stage in building a New China, broadening his support before the party congress.
Source: The Economist on Foreign Influences: "Rife with Danger"
Oct 2, 2021
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