The cost of Washington’s de-sinicized EV transition may be dire In 2021, Biden offered the American voters an alternative to trade barriers touted by the self-acclaimed “Tariff Man” in the Oval Office. “We’re going after China in the wrong way,” he said during the bumpy ride to the White House. Three years later, Biden, surrounded […]
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Washington’s protectionist instinct is counterproductive when Chinese EV firms are simply more competitive Janet Yellen’s trip to China this April laid bare Washington’s latest focus of China anxiety: the country’s alleged “excess industrial capacity” in electric vehicles (EVs), lithium-ion batteries, and solar panels. The U.S. Treasury Secretary complained to Beijing officials about China’s leveraging industrial
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The second session of the 14th National People’s Congress (NPC) is held in Beijing, March 5, 2024. (Xinhua/Fei Maohua) China is no longer cagey about calling itself a democracy. Authored by Xi Jinping, two articles were recently published in the latest issues of the flagship Party journal Qiushi, detailing all of the top leader’s remarks
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Name alteration of the country’s plateau region sparks controversy The Potala Palace in Lhasa, capital of Xizang Autonomous Region, March 15, 2020. (Xinhua/Pubu Zhaxi) Formerly referred to as “Tibet,” China’s southwesternmost administrative region now comes out in official publications as “Xizang,” as spelled in China’s standard transliteration system for Roman letters known as pinyin. There
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To embrace exceptionalism, to stoke nationalism, or else? The 2023 China International Confucius Cultural Festival is held in Qufu, China’s Shandong Province, Sept. 28, 2023. (Xinhua/Guo Xulei) If one has to pick a word of the year for 2023 that projects the future pattern for China’s policy behaviors, then I would go with “culture” or “civilization.” Earlier this December, President Xi Jinping sent a congratulatory letter to a
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Beijing’s embrace of market economy hardly relents, at least A huge portrait of Deng Xiaoping is displayed in the mass pageantry in Beijing, Oct. 1, 2019. (Xinhua/Wang Song) Forty-five years ago today, Deng Xiaoping held a watershed meeting that fired the starting pistol on China’s embrace of the market economy and ushered in four decades
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Beijing seeks to end cross-border telecom crime in a neighbor mired in civil war Members of the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) hold the group’s flag as they pose for a photograph on a captured army armored vehicle in Myanmar, Oct. 28, 2023. (“The Kokang” online media via AP) On Dec. 10, Chinese police
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How China’s call for home-grown development model helps further multipolar order As the Soviet flag fell down over the Kremlin, and the world scrambled to emulate the “final form of human government” incarnated in the Western liberal democracy, John Fairbank, a leading Harvard historian of China, defied the clamoring “end-of-history” narrative and opined that “no foreign model could fit the
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An overview of the Taiwan question three centuries ago that ended in military showdown In the year 1683, two consequential battles took place respectively in the West and East. In the wake of a siege-breaking bloodbath outside Vienna, King Jan III Sobieski of Poland wrote to his queen-consort about how his winged hussars had saved
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Explaining China’s new political term that is likely to take hold A high-speed train passes by an ancient city gate in China’s capital Beijing, Jan. 17, 2022. (Xinhua/Xing Guangli) On Oct. 16, Xi Jinping delivered a report to the landmark 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, and a political catchphrase less heard
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