China - reading, and links to my posts

I have written quite a bit on China, and would like to set this post up as a reference point for past and future posts.

However, to confuse matters further ☺ , I', going to start with a collection of recent links that I consider well worth reading.

• Added 20th Jan., 2020: How Confucius loses face in China’s new surveillance regime - https://aeon.co/ideas/how-confucius-loses-face-in-chinas-new-surveillance-regime; 
• Added 7th Jan., 2020: "Controversy has erupted after a leading Chinese university revised its charter to remove a reference to “free thinking” and adding a new stress on adhering to the leadership of the ruling Communist Party, Marxism and socialist theories of education." -  https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/communist-party-fudan-university-censorship-free-thinking-xi-jinping-a9253036.html;
• an examination of the "ethnic bias" (racism) in Xi's policies, as compared to Deng Xiaoping's policies: "Planting the Seed: Ethnic Policy in Xi Jinping’s New Era of Cultural Nationalism" - James Leibold; 
• a surprising story of city dwellers in China wanting, and being able, to find simpler lives: https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/city-dwellers-find-simpler-life-in-rural-china-commune; 
• bloggers outside of China are apparently popular: https://www.economist.com/china/2019/12/18/video-blogs-by-critics-of-chinas-communist-party-attract-many-fans; 
• From https://www.internationalaffairs.org.au/australianoutlook/us-perspectives-on-the-south-china-sea-in-an-era-of-strategic-competition/: 

In early July, the Washington Post published an open letter titled “China is not an enemy.” Written by five China experts and signed by dozens of others, the letter provided seven reasons why the United States should avoid treating China as an existential security threat, and argued that US actions – such as the so-called “trade war” – were contributing to a “downward spiral of relations.” The backlash was swift: a second open letter implored the Trump administration to “stay the course” in confronting China’s “totalitarian expansion” imperilling the US and its allies. One opinion article rejected the “tired chestnut” that treating China as an enemy will ensure that it will become one. Another declared engagement with China “dead.”

•  "China Has Lost Taiwan, and It Knows It So it is attacking democracy on the island from within": https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/01/opinion/china-taiwan-election.html; 
• "In the UN, China uses threats and cajolery to promote its worldview": https://www.economist.com/china/2019/12/07/in-the-un-china-uses-threats-and-cajolery-to-promote-its-worldview; 
• "Has Huawei’s Darkest Secret Just Been Exposed By This New Surveillance Report?" (link to repression/slavery): https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2019/11/29/has-huaweis-darkest-secret-just-been-exposed-by-this-new-report/amp/; and, for some variety 
• "The New China Scare - Why America Shouldn’t Panic About Its Latest Challenger": https://link.foreignaffairs.com/view/5c91936ab43a6155a952de07b7c4h.5eh6/8c24bdbf.

My postings on China:

•  <for next post> ; 
• When China won, and Hugh White;
• "China - reading, and links to my posts" (this post); 
• "Hello, China here"; 
• China and the South China Seas - link to AIIA article; 
• Interesting article on China's perspective on Hong Kong - link to Foreign Affairs magazine article; 
• How did China outmanoeuvre us and the rest of the world?;
• "Containing" China; 
• China; 
• Thoughts on crises: China; and
• (Mainland) China and Taiwan.