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12 Nov, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Xi's favorite blogger challenges China's censorship regime, while also admitting that he paid to promote his essays. Image
Zhou's points:
#1. How can you say my content is OK before taking my money, but then delete my content without even making a refund? Image
#2. Even if you ban certain content, how could you also ban other contents which were deemed OK before? Image
#3 (& my favorite!):
"It is the bounden duty of government agencies to protect the basic online human rights of netizens on Chinese Internet in accordance with the law."

Not sure which agency he's referring to: CAC, MOFCOM, or SAMR?

& what are the "basic online human rights"? Image

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14 Nov
The CAC just issued its draft Cyber Data Security Administrative Rules for comments. Several interesting points: Image
1. it confirms my warning 2 weeks ago that even foreign firms like @Google, @Meta
& @Twitter are required to comply with the new law even if they are not operating in China, and further expands the list of covered activities under Art. 3 of PIPL by adding
another category: involving important domestic data processing. If all these giant digital firms have not designated a China-compliance officer (even though they have no operation in China), they should do it now. Image
Read 18 tweets
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28 Oct
State Council Info Office held a special press con today on China's 8th TPR:
scio.gov.cn/xwfbh/xwbfbh/w…
What are the hot issues from Member's 2562 questions?
Under WTO agreements:
China's implementation of WTO TFA;
consistency of its Cyberseucity law with GATS;
disclosure of info in IPR cases as per TRIPS requirements.
Questions beyond WTO rules:
China to further open up the market, relax restrictions on foreign investment access, reduce the negative list of foreign investment, and promote the innovation of the pilot free trade zone system to be replicated and promoted throughout the country.
Read 15 tweets
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27 Oct
China's WTO Ambassador Li Chenggang spoke at a conference on China's 20 years in the WTO last week, where he made some interesting remarks on China's views on various WTO issues.

1. WTO reform in general:
China should consider the issue in a broader context rather than just the Sino-US trade war.
2. DSM, which was a key issue in his discussion with @AmbassadorTai, where he calls for new thinking "not only in the framework of Sino-US game, but from perspective of multilateral trading system, & perspective of a membership structure with increasingly divergent interests."
Read 4 tweets
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22 Oct
A lot of gems from the interview:
"Both the EU and the US suffer from overcapacity. Neither of us is at the origin of that. It is somewhat absurd that we should be the ones paying the price for this. So we have to find a solution."
"Since relations with China broke down last March over the issue of human rights sanctions, we have noticed that in the economic field, a division of labour between EU member states and the EU institutions has set in.
The EU as such has been paralysed by the issue of the sanctions, whereas member states were then continuing their economic engagement with Beijing at national level.

Now there is a realisation that that is not a sustainable approach."
Read 8 tweets
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15 Oct
Interesting article in QS where Xi explains reasons behind the "common prosperity" drive:
1. Taking the promotion of common prosperity for all people as the focus of seeking happiness for the people, and constantly consolidating the foundation of the party’s long-term governance; Image
2. High-quality development requires high-quality workers. Only by promoting common prosperity, increasing the income of urban and rural residents, and enhancing human capital, can we increase total factor productivity and consolidate the foundation for high-quality development. Image
3. The problem of global income inequality is prominent. Some countries are divided between the rich and the poor, ...leading to social tearing, political polarization & populism. China must resolutely prevent polarization, & achieve social harmony & stability.
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13 Oct
Hugely important decision from @EU_Commission, which used the role of CCP members in company management and decision to infer state interference on prices and costs, which led to the rejection of Chinese prices as the basis for normal value determination in anti-dumping cases.
In response, Xiamen Xiashun, one of the companies under investigation, argues that CCP membership is nothing more than joining "a religion or political party of its choice and it has no bearing on the decision making in the company".

This argument was rejected by @EU_Commission Image
Personally, I find the reasoning of @EU_Commission a bit weak. Instead, I'd suggest @EU_Commission use this direct quote from Board Chairman of the company, as reported in 2015:
"Party organization & party members have played a vital role in ensuring our impressive performance." Image
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