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Coronavirus: How China is keeping busy during quarantine - BBC News

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-51628693

Should Canada treat China’s state media outlets as foreign missions? This MP wants to talk about it | The Star

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2020/02/25/canada-should-consider-following-us-in-making-chinas-state-media-register-as-foreign-missions-says-mp-on-canada-china-committee.html

Global Affairs warned Trudeau gov’t about Chinese development bank Canada has joined - iPolitics

https://ipolitics.ca/2020/02/26/global-affairs-warned-trudeau-govt-about-chinese-development-bank-canada-has-joined/

Diplomats warned federal government about getting too tight with China, committee hears

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/china-global-affairs-canada-commons-committee-1.5476075

Countering China’s Influence Campaigns at European Universities – The Diplomat

https://thediplomat.com/2020/02/countering-chinas-influence-campaigns-at-european-universities/

Trump Administration Considers Punishing Chinese News Organizations

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/24/us/politics/trump-punishing-china-journalists.html

Russia and China are taking different but equally dangerous approaches to coronavirus - The Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/russia-and-chinas-coronavirus-response-is-endangering-lives/2020/02/26/cfc8441e-58d9-11ea-ab68-101ecfec2532_story.html

Every Other Market Is Buckling And Yet China Is Doing Fine

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-27/chinese-borrowers-buck-trend-as-global-bond-deals-grind-to-halt

The Sleeping Giant: how Chinese posters pushed products and propaganda | Art | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/feb/26/the-sleeping-giant-how-chinese-posters-pushed-products-and-propaganda

To deter war with China, US must commit to defend Taiwan | TheHill

https://thehill.com/opinion/international/484686-to-deter-war-with-china-us-must-commit-to-defend-taiwan

Coronavirus Weakens China’s Powerful Propaganda Machine

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/26/business/china-coronavirus-propaganda.html

How China uses national identity as a weapon

https://www.ft.com/content/378988a4-594f-11ea-abe5-8e03987b7b20

Gui Minhai's daughter says China 'buried' his sentence amid coronavirus outbreak | China | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/27/gui-minhais-daughter-says-china-buried-his-sentence-amid-coronavirus-outbreak

China's top container ports unclog backlog as virus curbs ease | Article [AMP] | Reuters

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-ports-graphic-idUSKCN20L0V5

How Much Money Does the World Owe China?

https://hbr.org/2020/02/how-much-money-does-the-world-owe-china

Pandemic simulation game Plague Inc. pulled from iOS App Store in China | Ars Technica

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/02/pandemic-simulation-game-plague-inc-pulled-from-ios-app-store-in-china/

Plague Inc. removed from Apple App Store in China

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/27/plague-inc-removed-from-apple-app-store-in-china.html

Saudis Slash March Crude Oil Exports To China As Demand Slumps | OilPrice.com

https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Saudis-Slash-March-Crude-Oil-Exports-To-China-As-Demand-Slumps.html

Investors are using alternative data to track Chinas recovery from coronavirus - MarketWatch

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/heres-how-investors-are-using-alternative-data-to-track-chinas-recovery-2020-02-27

Chinese Communist Party Exec Wants State Monopoly on Digital Currency

https://cointelegraph.com/news/chinese-communist-party-exec-wants-state-monopoly-on-digital-currency

China Wants Food. Brazil Pays the Price. National efforts to strengthen food security have an impact far beyond any single country’s borders.

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2020/02/china-brazil-amazon-environment-pork/606601/

China, Japan, and the art of economic statecraft

"  Economic security is fast becoming the new frontier of Asian power competition." https://www.brookings.edu/research/china-japan-and-the-art-of-economic-statecraft/

China and the return of great power strategic competition

"  Chinese leaders exude optimism while American politics is in disarray. But this is misleading. While in the short term, the dynamics of great power competition afford China (and Russia) some opportunities, the United States still has a better balance of risk and opportunity to shape international affairs in the period that lies ahead. What's more, there's continued strength and some emerging vitality among America's most powerful allies — Japan, Germany, even Britain — and putative partners like India. Mobilizing that strength to confront the new realities of great power rivalry is  the challenge for American statecraft in the period ahead." https://www.brookings.edu/research/china-and-the-return-of-great-power-strategic-competition/

China Economy: Facts, Effect on US Economy

https://www.thebalance.com/china-economy-facts-effect-on-us-economy-3306345

China – Travel guide at Wikivoyage

https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/China

Why Chinese Communism Could Be the Final Casualty of the Coronavirus - Foundation for Economic Education

https://fee.org/articles/why-chinese-communism-could-be-the-final-casualty-of-the-coronavirus/

How China Is Humiliating Pakistan | The National Interest

Pakistan sees itself as a major regional power but recent events show that Beijing considers Pakistan little more than a subordinate colony to be exploited but not heard. https://nationalinterest.org/feature/how-china-humiliating-pakistan-126101

More Evidence of China’s Horrific Abuses in Xinjiang | Human Rights Watch

https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/02/20/more-evidence-chinas-horrific-abuses-xinjiang

Is China Totalitarian? | The National Interest

Has China become more liberal with the passing of the years? Has it demonstrated a willingness to respect the political and human rights widely honored by the world community? https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/china-totalitarian-126577

Facing Up to China’s Military Interests in the Arctic by Anne-Marie Brady

 Facing Up to China's Military Interests in the Arctic by Anne-Marie Brady Republished and edited for OE Watch in collaboration with the Jamestown Foundation, The China Brief, Vol: 19, Issue: 21, dated 10 December 2019. For the full article, see: https://jamestown.org/program/facing-up-to-chinas-military-interests-in-the-arctic/ OE Watch Commentary: China's military ambitions in the Arctic and its growing strategic partnership with Russia have rung alarm bells in many governments. Chinese submarine-based ballistic missile submarines (SSBNs) operating in the Arctic could restore China's nuclear deterrence capability. China currently operates six nuclear-powered attack submarines, four nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines, and 50 diesel attack submarines, with more under construction. If Chinese nuclear-armed submarines were able to access the Arctic basin undetected, this would be a game-changer for the United States, the NATO states and their partners, and the w

China’s Communist Government: Technological Revolution under Orwellian Dictatorship | National Review

https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/02/china-communist-government-technological-revolution-orwellian-dictatorship/

U.S. Designates China’s Official Media as Operatives of the Communist State

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/18/world/asia/china-media-trump.html

TSA bans employees from using China-owned TikTok for social media outreach - Axios

https://www.axios.com/tsa-tiktok-app-china-ban-81e37f95-abe6-4c18-a2c2-136f0bf828d9.html

How the Coronavirus Revealed Authoritarianism’s Fatal Flaw

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/02/coronavirus-and-blindness-authoritarianism/606922/

How China is destroying a precious Cambodian paradise

https://nypost.com/2020/02/22/how-china-is-destroying-a-precious-cambodian-paradise/

China's strong push into Colombia

https://www.aljazeera.com/ajimpact/china-strong-push-colombia-200221222239198.html

Chinese Military Turns to U.S. University to Conduct Covert Research - WSJ

https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinese-military-turns-to-u-s-university-to-conduct-covert-research-11582466400

Calling out China’s contempt for western values

https://nypost.com/2020/02/19/calling-out-chinas-contempt-for-western-values/

China's Military Hacked Equifax (148 Million Americans Are at Risk). Really. | The National Interest

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/chinas-military-hacked-equifax-148-million-americans-are-risk-really-126316

Cincinnati FBI Wants To Partner With Local Business To Stop Chinese Espionage | WVXU

https://www.wvxu.org/post/cincinnati-fbi-wants-partner-local-business-stop-chinese-espionage

Why Harvard Professor Charles Lieber Was Arrested : NPR

https://www.npr.org/2020/02/14/806128410/harvard-professors-arrest-raises-questions-about-scientific-openness

China faces a new threat as US cracks down on economic espionage

https://www.business-standard.com/article/international/china-faces-a-new-threat-as-us-cracks-down-on-economic-espionage-120022200992_1.html

Intelligence: China Does Harvard

https://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htintel/articles/20200223.aspx

House Democrats launch probe into NIH and FBI suspecting Chinese Americans of espionage | TheHill

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/483910-house-democrats-launch-probe-into-nih-and-fbi-suspecting-chinese-americans-of

As FBI Tackles Chinese Espionage, Some Fear A New Red Scare

http://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2020/02/19/fbi-chinese-intellectual-property

As The Navy Preps A New Force Structure, Debates Rage Over Robots

https://www.forbes.com/sites/craighooper/2020/02/22/as-the-navy-preps-a-new-force-structure-debates-rage-over-robots/

National flags, military presence and pregnant women - the battle for Antarctic dominance | Climate News | Sky News

https://news.sky.com/story/antarctica-faces-growing-threat-as-vital-treaty-comes-under-pressure-11918962

China-France oceanography satellite put into service

https://www.spacedaily.com/m/reports/China_France_oceanography_satellite_put_into_service_999.html

China's 36th Antarctic expedition team put two buoys into ocean - Xinhua | English.news.cn

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2020-01/29/c_138741332.htm

China's 36th Antarctic expedition team uploads supplies at Great Wall station - Xinhua | English.news.cn

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2020-02/13/c_138781040.htm

Russia’s shifting views of multilateral nuclear arms control with China

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2020/02/19/russias-shifting-views-of-multilateral-nuclear-arms-control-with-china/

Target, Best Buy could be hit by supply-chain disruptions because of coronavirus | Star Tribune

http://www.startribune.com/target-best-buy-could-be-hit-by-supply-chain-disruptions-because-of-coronavirus/567819212/

Charles Richard: China nuclear buildup troubling - Washington Times

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/feb/19/charles-richard-china-nuclear-buildup-troubling/

China Looks to Further Its Arctic Role by Constructing Arc7 LNG Carriers | Hellenic Shipping News Worldwide

https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/china-looks-to-further-its-arctic-role-by-constructing-arc7-lng-carriers/

New Pentagon Map Shows Huge Scale Of Worrisome Russian and Chinese Naval Operations - The Drive

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/32145/new-pentagon-map-shows-huge-scale-of-worrisome-russian-and-chinese-naval-operations

Ambassador of China in Norway calls report by the Norwegian Foreign Intelligence Service ‘flawed’ and ‘false’ - ScandAsia

https://scandasia.com/ambassador-of-china-in-norway-calls-report-by-the-norwegian-foreign-intelligence-service-flawed-and-false/

Russia Doubles Down On Its Arctic Ambitions | OilPrice.com

https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Russia-Doubles-Down-On-Its-Arctic-Ambitions.html

China-France oceanography satellite put into service

https://www.spacedaily.com/m/reports/China_France_oceanography_satellite_put_into_service_999.html

Norwegian Foreign Intelligence Services: China and Russia the Biggest Threats Against Norway

https://www.highnorthnews.com/en/norwegian-foreign-intelligence-services-china-and-russia-biggest-threats-against-norway

Kirkenes: Where Arctic Norway Meets Russia

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidnikel/2020/02/01/kirkenes-where-arctic-norway-meets-russia/

Coronavirus rocks the China-Russia partnership - Nikkei Asian Review

https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Coronavirus/Coronavirus-rocks-the-China-Russia-partnership

Chad Sbragia warns Xi Jinping, China military buildup threatens U.S. - Washington Times

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/feb/20/chad-sbragia-warns-xi-jinping-china-military-build/

Take Greenland Seriously and Literally as a Vital National Security Issue - Lawfare

https://www.lawfareblog.com/take-greenland-seriously-and-literally-vital-national-security-issue

Russia turns up the heat on Svalbard

https://www.newsinenglish.no/2020/02/21/russia-turns-up-the-heat-on-svalbard/

NORCOM General: 'The Arctic Is the New Frontline of Our Homeland Defense' | CNSNews

https://cnsnews.com/article/international/susan-jones/norcom-general-arctic-new-frontline-our-homeland-defense

Melting sea ice is opening a new frontier in US-China rivalry - Inkstone

https://www.inkstonenews.com/politics/arctic-next-frontier-china-us-struggle-global-control/article/3047352

Norway’s ‘northernmost Chinatown’ eyes Beijing’s Arctic investments – EURACTIV.com

https://www.euractiv.com/section/arctic-agenda/news/norways-northernmost-chinatown-eyes-beijings-arctic-investments/

China and Russia taking advantage of global warming to elbow US aside in the Arctic

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/china-and-russia-taking-advantage-of-global-warming-to-elbow-us-aside-in-the-arctic

China’s ambassador brushes off allegations his country is threat in Arctic | The Independent Barents Observer

https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/arctic/2020/02/chinas-ambassador-brushes-allegations-his-country-threat-arctic

China's Government Is Like Something Out of '1984' | RealClearPolitics

China's Government Is Like Something Out of '1984' | RealClearPolitics "  The Chinese technological revolution is overseen by an Orwellian dictatorship. Predictably, the Chinese Communist Party has not developed the social, political or cultural infrastructure to ensure that its sophisticated industrial and biological research does not go rogue and become destructive to itself and to the billions of people who are on the importing end of Chinese products and protocols." https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/02/20/chinas_government_is_like_something_out_of_1984_142444.html China's Government Is Like Something Out of '1984' ‌ The Chinese communist government increasingly poses an existential threat not just to its own 1.4 billion citizens but to the world at large. China is currently in a dangerously chaotic state. And why not, when a premodern authoritarian society leaps wildly into the brave new world of high-tech science

A Kenyan Painter Casts a Critical Eye on China’s Role in Africa

And Chinese officials are noticing. In 2014, Mr. Soi said that four Chinese officials came to his studio and started lecturing him about how "ungrateful" he was for "all that China is doing for Kenya." Mr. Soi, who has visited Hong Kong but not mainland China, said the group handled the paintings lying around the studio roughly and marred some of the artwork that was on display. "To me, that was a sign that the Chinese are watching," Mr. Soi said. "I have been told numerous times that there are people in the government and in the embassy here in Nairobi who don't like my work." https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/21/world/africa/michael-soi-kenya-china.html

Beijing’s Appointment of Xia Baolong Signals a Harder Line on Hong Kong - Jamestown

https://jamestown.org/program/beijings-appointment-of-xia-baolong-signals-a-harder-line-on-hong-kong/

China’s Military Power Projection and U.S. National Interests | U.S.- CHINA | ECONOMIC and SECURITY REVIEW COMMISSION

https://www.uscc.gov/hearings/chinas-military-power-projection-and-us-national-interests

The Future of Chinese Foreign Economic Policy Will Challenge U.S. Interests, Part 1: The Belt-and-Road Initiative and the Middle Income Trap - Jamestown

https://jamestown.org/program/the-future-of-chinese-foreign-economic-policy-will-challenge-u-s-interests-part-1-the-belt-and-road-initiative-and-the-middle-income-trap/

VOLUME 19 • ISSUE 9 • MAY 9, 2019 SPECIAL ISSUE: CHINA’S UNITED FRONT OPERATIONS AROUND THE WORLD

https://jamestown.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Read-the-05-09-2019-CB-Issue-in-PDF4.pdf?x44765&mc_cid=28360b19a2&mc_eid=c53f6a8ef5

China Explores Economic Outreach to U.S. States Via United Front Entities - Jamestown

https://jamestown.org/program/china-explores-economic-outreach-to-u-s-states-via-united-front-entities/

1 big thing: A China-centric 21st century

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Chinese social media censors hashtag 'I want freedom of speech' after coronavirus whistleblower doctor dies

"  One of the first doctors who flagged the new coronavirus outbreak in the city of Wuhan,  China  has died." https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/07/hashtag-censored-after-coronavirus-whistleblower-doctors-death.html

Austin Bay's On Point'Chinese Communist Espionage: An Intelligence Primer': A Resource for Understanding the U.S.-China Clash

https://www.strategypage.com/on_point/2020020583343.aspx

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The Chinese Navy’s Marine Corps, Part 2: Chain-of-Command Reforms and Evolving Training - Jamestown

https://jamestown.org/program/the-chinese-navys-marine-corps-part-2-chain-of-command-reforms-and-evolving-training/

The Chinese Navy’s Marine Corps, Part 1: Expansion and Reorganization - Jamestown

https://jamestown.org/program/the-chinese-navys-marine-corps-part-1-expansion-and-reorganization/

New Wine Into New Wineskins: The Evolving Role of the PLA Navy Marine Corps in Amphibious Warfare and Other Mission Areas - Jamestown

https://jamestown.org/program/new-wine-into-new-wineskins-the-evolving-role-of-the-pla-navy-marine-corps-in-amphibious-warfare-and-other-mission-areas/