Associate Professor at @Politics_Oxford, @ox_chinacentre, @MertonCollege, and @BACS_China Council member;
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Apr 13, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Interesting RFA article: #China is experiencing rising deposits, high levels of debt & deflation-- all at the same time. What does it mean? 通缩、全民负债和高存款同时出现 中国经济怪现象？ rfa.org/mandarin/yatai…
Liu Yuhui at CASS "Simply put, #China's current situation is that deflation has begun, & the economy has slipped into the recession. 700 mil people are in debt...The debt ratio of the entire household sector has reached a very high level of 137.9% of its disposable income."
Feb 28, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
自由亚洲电台: Key State Council institutions are placed being placed under central Party control. #China is about to enter an era of strong Party & weak government. 国务院重要机构划归中共高层 中国即将进入强党弱政时代 rfa.org/mandarin/yatai…
The CCP Central Committee's Second Plenary released a "Party & State Institutional Reform Plan", which has the MPS, MSS & other key depts of state shifted to the jurisdiction of the Party's central leadership. Hong Xiangnan: "China's future can only be strong Party/ weak state"
Feb 26, 2023 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
歪脑 on Chizuko Ueno, #China's "backward" feminists, and whether wanting "to have it all" is a viable positio within feminism 评上野千鹤子对话全嘻嘻：如果女权的答案是“结不结婚都一样”，那我们在说什么废话呢？ wainao.me/wainao-reads/U…
SCMP: Quan Xixi posted an interview that she & two classmates from 北大conducted w/#Japan's most famous feminist on #Bilibili that began w/ the question "Are you not married because you have been hurt by men? Or is it bec. of the influence of your family?” sc.mp/didb?utm_sourc…
Feb 26, 2023 • 12 tweets • 6 min read
Very smart FT article on the new rules issued by #China's Security Regulatory Commission by Craig Coben: Don't you want a VIE, baby? ft.com/content/cba55a…
Challenging the claim that the new CSRC rules are a signal “reopening the avenue of fundraising after a 20-month obstruction,” Coben rightly points out "this is less a U-turn and more a reassertion of state power."
Dec 27, 2021 • 19 tweets • 7 min read
张俊华 for DW：From "world class universities" to one voice: can an intolerant CCP possibly coexist with #academicfreedom on any level? Even @HuXijin_GT recently acknowledged the need to protect "academic space" (学术空间）for inquiry 从一流大学到一种声音 p.dw.com/p/44aMQ?maca=z…
On 17 Dec., XJP presided over the 23rd meeting of the Central Committee for Comprehensively Deepening Reform, which reviewed & approved several documents emphasising #China's need to build world-class universities with top-class disciplinary divisions...
Dec 26, 2021 • 8 tweets • 6 min read
多維新聞: #Walmart is accused of completely delisting #Xinjiang products in its stores in #China, as per the US "Prevention of Uyghur Forced Labor Act" (in effect Dec 23). Chinese consumers are calling for a boycott 沃爾瑪被曝下架新疆產品,會員紛紛退卡抵制dwnews.com/%E4%B8%AD%E5%9…
Reports on #China's #Weibo claim that when the "Sam's Club" app is keyword searched using "#Xinjiang," relevant products do not display after being clicked on (inc. Xinjiang cantaloupe, Hotan dates, raisins, etc.) 疑似下架新疆产品？沃尔玛旗下山姆超市回应 mp.weixin.qq.com/s/QDX7-zaLjOlV…
Sixth Plenum Communiqué, 中国共产党第十九届中央委员会第六次全体会议公报 news.cn/politics/2021-…: 7 mentions of Mao (but 5 to MZD Thought), 5 mentions of DXP (but 4 to DXP Theory), only 1 mention of JZM (and 4 mentions of Three Represents), 1 of Hu Jintao (4 of Sci. Dev. Concept)
Seventeen references to Xi Jinping (and 7 to XJP's Thought-- not to the foreshortened 习近平思想 as some had conjectured)-- but to the full "Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era)
Nov 8, 2021 • 20 tweets • 5 min read
人民日报： New collection of 50 speeches by #China's Xi Jinping published under the title of "On Persisting with the People as Masters of the Country" (elaborating on the peoples democratic dictatorship) 习近平同志《论坚持人民当家作主》出版发行 paper.people.com.cn/rmrb/html/2021…
人民日报 p. 2 outlines some of the included speeches, including an address by XJP on implementing the spirit of the Sixth Plenum of the 18th Party Congress (so, of the *last* Sixth Plenum): "Maintain the authority of the Party Central Committee & implement democratic centralism"
Oct 15, 2021 • 12 tweets • 5 min read
The Palladium: "What is singularly remarkable about Wang Huning is that he’s managed to serve [as] court philosopher to not just one, but all three of #China’s previous top leaders palladiummag.com/2021/10/11/the…
Among the hints that the upcoming 6th Plenum in November will produce a third Resolution on Party History is that Wang Huning hasn't been seen much in public for the past several months.
Jul 23, 2021 • 14 tweets • 11 min read
BREAKING: 立場新聞 reporting HKUST's Ching Kwan Lee resigned, after having been accused of directly participating in & supporting the #HongKongProtests, is being pressured to turn herself in #香港 兩名科大學者被指離職 李靜君：已約滿離任 成名： 仲喺科大thestandnews.page.link/jnwdM1DoLXUx4y…#HKUST has issued a statement saying that it supports #academicfreedom but that all of its employees must strictly abide by #HongKong law; and that disciplinary charges have not been filed against her. #香港
Jul 2, 2021 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
1/端傳媒 with a fascinating piece on Worshipping Mao to Suppress Deng 崇毛抑鄧？習時代對兩個領導人的重塑和打通四個「三十年」的野心 Is Xi recovering Mao as the "great man" or "hero" of CCP history, and relegating Deng to a mere "inheritor" of socialism? theinitium.com/article/202106…2/ The author argues that by focusing on Mao's skill in Party-building, cultivating the "revolutionary tradition" & "red gene" of the CCP, Deng's decidedly secondary contribution is relegated to "reform & opening" & developing "socialism with Chinese characteristics".
Jun 10, 2021 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
Just underway now with the marvellous @Chri5tianGoebel speaking...
Cited yesterday's protest in Nanjing as an example of how quickly news of protests in #China actually disseminate internationally vial social media (on yesterday's protest in Nanjing in which students held their principal hostage see, for example, bbc.co.uk/news/world-asi…)
Apr 27, 2021 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
澎湃 on the overturning of the Henan High Court's decision on compensation for 吴春红： “a rare case in which the Supreme Court has changed its judgment on the compensation decision of the Provincial High Court." 最高法为何将吴春红精神损害抚慰金增加52万元？thepaper.cn/newsDetail_for…
Wu Chunhong's case was described by The Economist in this article last year: Righting wrongs – #China is growing more willing to review dodgy convictions economist.com/china/2020/07/…
Apr 23, 2021 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
New Thread: 人民日报: CCP has just released the long-awaited newly revised "Regulations of the Communist Party of #China on the Work of Grassroots Organizations in Regular Colleges and Universities" 中国共产党普通高等学校基层组织工作条例 paper.people.com.cn/rmrb/html/2021…
Spoiler alert: It does not mention #academicfreedom (or any other freedom); but it does mention Xi Jinping four times. Or, more rightly, it mentions Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics in the New Era (习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想) four times.
Apr 2, 2021 • 24 tweets • 6 min read
A few take-aways from the full text of XJP's February 20, 2021 speech at the Party History Study and Education Mobilization Conference in Beijing (and related recent speeches on new Party history campaign) 习近平：在党史学习教育动员大会上的讲话 12371.cn/2021/03/31/ART…
Lists the Taiping Rebellion, Self-Strengthening Movement, 100 Days Reform, Boxer Rebellion & Xinhai Revolution as successive attempts that "all ended in failure, having failed to change the tragic fate of the Chinese people" reduced to semi-feudal, semi-colonial state post-1842
Mar 30, 2021 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
白信 in DW: #China's revision of #HongKong's electoral law stole the show at this year's NPC. But we may have missed an equally big story: the NPC also voted to emasculate itself via its own organic law, undoing '82 Constitution 后疫情时代的“东升西降 #香港p.dw.com/p/3qVIa?maca=z…
According to the 1982 state constitution, "All power in the People’s Republic of #China belongs to the people.
"The National People’s Congress and the local people’s congresses at various levels are the organs through which the people exercise state power."
Dec 25, 2020 • 68 tweets • 41 min read
Chinese University of #HongKong (#CUHK) issues statement regarding the rumoured reorganization of the University Services Centre and its library "CUHK clarifies unfounded rumour," cpr.cuhk.edu.hk/en/press_detai… 中大澄清不實傳聞 cpr.cuhk.edu.hk/tc/press_detai…#香港#中文大學
In 2005, The #China Journal published an article on the 40th anniversary of the USC's founding on its history & importance to the field of Chinese studies; Harvard University's Ezra Vogel, who sadly passed away last week, wrote the forward: journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.2307/20…
Dec 13, 2020 • 18 tweets • 10 min read
SkyNews reporting "a major leak containing a register w/the personal identifying details of 1.95 mil Communist Party members [in #China], mostly from Shanghai, there are also the details of 79,000 Communist Party branches, many of them inside companies”. skynews.com.au/details/_62159…
What appears to be so newsworthy about this particular leaked list is the presence of CCP branches in not only foreign-invested firms in #China, but also in firms entirely located overseas.
May 21, 2020 • 8 tweets • 5 min read
"The end of OCTS. Beijing...has completely breached its promise to the #HongKong people, a promise that was enshrined in the Sino-British declaration." As UK FM, @BorisJohnson insisted that the Sino-British was "absolutely valid and operative" as of last year. What now, UK? #香港
Labour MP Geraint Davies in 2019: “Britain has a special responsibility by virtue of its legal & moral obligations to the people of #HongKong, with whom we share a deep and rich history...
Mar 30, 2020 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
NYT: #China Created a Fail-Safe System to Track Contagions. It Failed. "“Viruses like SARS could emerge anytime, but there’ll never be another SARS incident. That’s thanks to how well our national contagious disease surveillance system works.” nyti.ms/3byhGvH
"Some doctors have said they were unsure how to report early cases, which did not fit into the standard list of infections. But little-understood infections could still be logged as 'pneumonia of unknown etiology' ...when the patients did not respond to the usual treatment."
