From China’s “new era and new thought” propaganda campaign to Russian President Vladamir Putin’s visit ahead of the Winter Olympics, Chinascope brings you the major stories from and about China last week in the news.
China over the week
Chinese think tanks have, in the past, surprised the world by publishing bold predictions such as falling birth rate and slowing economic growth. But this month, the Institute of International and Strategic Studies at Peking University has pulled a report that suggested China will suffer if it decouples from the United States. The report had said: “In the future, China can narrow its gap with the US in more technological areas and China can achieve ‘self-sufficiency’ in some core technologies, but it remains a long way off before China comprehensively surpasses the US.”
The 7,600-character-long report was pulled from the WeChat account of the think tank. A copy of the report was later made available by the US-China Perception Monitor.
According to the South China Morning Post, China has been wary of this threat for a long time. The news article mentions previous attempts by organisations to warn China about the consequences of its tech war with the US. It said: “a Chinese state think tank last month listed ‘targeted decoupling of supply chains’ as one of the top 10 global risks for China in 2022, along with mutations of the Covid-19 virus, underlining how serious the issue is viewed by top scholars in the country.”
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