Questions tagged [china]
Questions related to the government or politics of the People's Republic of China (PRC)
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Is there a historical precedent for an official in China being removed due to an extramarital affair?
On 11 July 2023, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin
announced that Qin would not be attending the ASEAN foreign ministers
meetings held in Jakarta, Indonesia, on 13 and 14 July due to ...
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Through what channels does China communicate with business people like Elon Musk?
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/28/chinas-ccp-warns-elon-musk-against-sharing-wuhan-lab-leak-report.html
Chinese state-run media warned Tesla CEO Elon Musk that he was risking
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Is there a precedent for a country sending a spy vehicle without doing any actual spying?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6G1kFbUmUy0
The video describes the U.S. detecting an alleged spy balloon and a U.S. general claiming that the balloon was a spy balloon, but that it did not send any ...
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Is fiscal responsibility more difficult to practice in China since most of the spending is done by local governments? [closed]
Local government debt reached 92 trillion yuan ($12.8 trillion), or 76% of economic output in 2022, up from 62.2% in 2019. Part of it is
debt issued by local government finance vehicles (LGFVs), which ...
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Why does China not consider itself to be a member of the G77 while the G77 itself lists China as one of its members?
The Group of 77 lists China as one of its members.[14] The Chinese
government provides consistent political support to the G77 and has
made financial contributions to the Group since 1994, but it does ...
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Why disappear government Ministers and army officials? [closed]
So recently two Chinese Government Ministers and a few high ranking PLA officers have gone missing.
China's Defense minister Li Shangfu, been missing since late August. Initially said to be a health ...
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Authoritative sources for the Chinese balloon's sensors "had never been activated while over the Continental United States?" Activated beforehand? [closed]
CBS News' September 17, 2023 almost clickbait title The bizarre secret behind China's spy balloon left me disappointed (but not surprised.
See also CBS video including bits of interview with Milley: ...
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How do union advocates explain worker salary and conditions improvement in countries where unions are banned? [closed]
On the one hand, unions are entirely banned in China as well as any forms of public protests. On the other hand, no one can deny the fact that Chinese workers have seen a tremendous increase in ...
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Is China's definition of spying one of the loosest in the world?
The United States government, analysts, and lawyers say that the
revisions to Beijing's anti-espionage law are vague and will give
authorities more leeway in implementing already opaque national
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Could there have been advantages to extending an invitation to North Korea to observe the Belt and Road Initiative?
Could there have been advantages to extending an invitation to North Korea to observe the Belt and Road Initiative?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belt_and_Road_Initiative
Observers
North Korea[72]
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Aside from market size, what kind of leverage does a government have to negotiate lower prices for drugs from pharmaceutical companies?
The Chinese government has launched six rounds of national drug price
negotiation since 2016 to lower the price and expand access to
innovative drugs, many of which are anticancer drugs. This study ...
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Why wasn't the China-Japan-South Korea Trilateral Meeting held since 2019?
The 6th trilateral summit was held on 1 November 2015 in Seoul,
resuming the summit since 2012 due to a variety of disputes and issues
ranging from World War II apologies to territorial disputes among ...
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How does the CCP prevent the minority parties from obtaining too many seats and is there a hard cap on how many seats they can get?
While only the CCP holds effective power at the national level, there
are officially eight minor parties that exist alongside the CCP.[2]
Founded before the proclamation of the People's Republic of ...
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Are Chinese citizens allowed to move freely in and out of free trade zones?
Are Chinese citizens allowed to move freely in and out of free trade zones in China? I heard they can't while foreigners such as tourists from the U.S. can. If this claim is true, why is it so hard to ...
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Was the U.S. surprised about the Huawei breakthrough, how much time did the government or think-tanks expect China to take to produce a 7nm chip?
With its export controls last year, the US administration tried to
draw a line at preventing China from getting access to 14nm chips, or
about eight years behind the most advanced technology. The US ...
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Apart from censorship, how does the Chinese government control the media?
China’s constitution affords its citizens freedom of speech and press,
but the opacity of Chinese media regulations allows authorities to
crack down on news stories by claiming that they expose state ...
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Why there is little report about Huawei's launch of Mate 60 Pro phone? [closed]
Last week Chinese social media went viral about Huawei's launch of Mate 60 Pro phone (Aug 29). To the Chinese people, this is just another example of what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.
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Where is the text banning live animal trade in China?
The first SARS virus of 2002 is described here...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SARS-CoV-1
SARS-CoV-1 passed through “live wild mammals in a retail market” in China.
A source from 2003 published in ...
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Did China bail out its local governments in 2011?
There's this rumor-ish CNBC piece from 2011 (which is actually quoting Reuters on this part) claiming that:
China’s regulators plan to shift 2-3 trillion yuan ($308-463 billion) of debt off local ...
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Apples-to-apples comparison of the public debt structure in the US vs. China
I'm looking for a comparison (i.e. two pie charts) of the public debt structure in the US vs. China. I can easily find data on the [hidden] municipal debt problem in China (as it's been repeatedly in ...
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What benefit does lending the land give to China instead of giving it outright?
What benefit does lending the land give to China instead of giving it outright
Last Wednesday, Premier Li Keqiang said a real estate protection
provision that would ensure individual’s access to ...
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How is China's municipal debt problem different from that of the U.S.?
https://www.reuters.com/markets/asia/china-can-no-longer-extend-pretend-municipal-debt-2023-08-06/
Most economists expect Beijing to instruct state-owned banks to keep
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How do you measure debt sustainability (private and public)?
How do you measure debt sustainability (private and public)?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_government_debt
China has a lot public debt to gdp ratio.
China’s debt is more than 250 ...
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Did either Chinese government (Beijing or Taipei) operate an administrative structure in the Kowloon Walled City at any time between 1898 and 1994? [migrated]
The Kowloon Walled City was a 6-acre enclave in Hong Kong that was accepted by the British authorities during the time of British rule over Hong Kong as being under de jure Chinese sovereignty. One of ...
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How does expanding the BRICS group of emerging markets increase China's political clout?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-28/india-brazil-push-back-against-china-over-brics-expansion#xj4y7vzkg
India and Brazil are pushing back against a Chinese bid to rapidly expand the ...
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Why does China consider capital control necessary for an independent, sovereign monetary policy?
https://www.businessinsider.in/policy/economy/news/3-reasons-why-even-china-doesnt-want-the-yuan-to-replace-the-dollar-as-the-worlds-reserve-currency/articleshow/100578664.cms
Even though China ...
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How dependent is India on China in terms of trade?
For instance, is it possible for India to start a trade war (just like the USA did during Trump's presidency) with China and maintain its usual GDP growth? If yes, how? If not, why not?
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Is there a legally binding agreement between a country and the United States that prevents it from letting China build a military base within it?
In terms of Saudi-Chinese relations, Washington has three main
demands, according to the Wall Street Journal:
“assurances that Riyadh will use U.S. dollars, not Chinese currency,
to price oil sales”,
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Can the U.S. do anything to block China's ability to block merger deals?
https://www.reuters.com/technology/intel-walk-away-54-bln-acquisition-tower-semiconductor-sources-2023-08-16/
NEW YORK, Aug 16 (Reuters) - Intel Corp (INTC.O) scrapped its $5.4
billion deal to buy ...
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Is it common to have territorial claims that exceed by the limitations established by the UNCLOS?
China’s demands exceed the legal claims established by UNCLOS, even
though that treaty was ratified by Beijing. The PRC claims are based
in a map named ‘Map of Chinese Islands in the South China Sea,’
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What "whizzy new tools" in space are America and its allies using to track China’s military activity and illegal fishing? (The Economist) [closed]
Background and evidence of research effort
The non-paywalled part of the Economist's August 15, 2023 Keeping tabs on China’s murky maritime manoeuvres; America and its allies are using whizzy new ...
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What does China have to gain from improving its relationship with the Holy See?
Relations between the Holy See and the PRC have been strained over
various issues, especially the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) policy
of restricting religious activities and the appointment of ...
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How come Brazil didn't join the Belt and Road Initiative even though it is a member of the BRICS and a member of the AIIB?
How come Brazil didn't join the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) even though it is a member of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) and a member of the AIIB (Asian Infrastructure ...
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How does the CCP insure fair ethnic representation within the CCP?
How does the CCP insure fair ethnic representation within the CCP?
Representation at the Party Congress itself will not mean much in
terms of actual authority. It remains to be seen how many and ...
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Following "The top priority now is to stop Lai Ching-te's visit to the United States." did China take any measures to try to do so?
Politico's August 12, 2023 Taiwan’s VP defies Beijing with New York City transit stop includes:
Lai, the leading presidential candidate in Taiwan’s upcoming election, is using the Big Apple stop to ...
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Do countries other than China protect genetic data from access by other countries?
https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/11/china/china-human-genetic-resources-regulations-intl-hnk-dst/index.html
With DNA increasingly seen as a valuable natural resource like oil or
land, China is keen to ...
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How does healthcare tie to residency and work in rural China?
I know China has "universal healthcare", but I do not understand how Chinese healthcare works. I am told that healthcare in China is regional, and based on residency with the only way out of ...
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Why did the Chinese government transferred responsibility for managing the border to the army from the police in 2003?
The Chinese government transferred responsibility for managing the border to the army from the police in 2003.[17] Chinese authorities began building wire fences "on major defection routes along ...
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Are ex-Politburo members protected from jail time in China?
Are ex-Politburo members protected from jail time in China? I am wondering to what extent Chinese high-ranking officials are protected from the law. To me, it seems like there's nothing as such and if ...
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Is China actively trying to undermine Israel?
“There’s still a lot of discussing to happen here,” Kirby told
reporters.
“There is no agreed-to set of negotiations, there’s no agreed-to
framework to codify normalisation or any of the other ...
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Did China's scientific incentives address the fact that the system can be gamed?
These guys have surveyed the financial incentives offered by the top
100 universities in China and mined that data for interesting trends.
They say that cash-per-publication incentives are common and ...
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How does Russia deal with illegal Chinese immigrants?
Aside from resident contract workers, 1.1 million Chinese also went to
the border areas of the Russian Far East on tourist visas from 1997 to
2002.[28] Despite the perception that many remain ...
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What's the highest position a woman has ever reached within the CCP?
Today under Xi, the CCP took a step back, also eliminating women from
the next level of power too, the now 24-member Politburo. The new
all-male line-up was revealed the day Xi formally extended his ...
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Is there anything that prevents Xi from creating a dynasty like the Kim dynasty in North Korea?
Is there anything that prevents Xi from creating a dynasty like the Kim dynasty in North Korea?
The presidency is the one position that had official term limits
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Why are most developing countries not using China's mercantilistic and state-led economic policies with heavily subsidized state companies?
The commitments and concessions that China made were deeper than those
made by almost all other WTO members. Countries that joined the WTO
after 1995, including China, acceded through the process ...
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Why is there such a large gap between the census and the population estimates when counting the number of Chinese residents in Russia?
Ethnic Chinese in Russia officially numbered 39,483 according to the
2002 census.[2] However, this figure is contested, with the Overseas
Community Affairs Council of Taiwan claiming 998,000 in 2004 ...
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What can the EU do against China's mineral bans?
It appears that the Commission and some trade diplomats want to
discuss the problem at the WTO, where the EU could bring a case
against China — much as it did when Beijing slapped its export ban on
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Who's the most powerful critic of Xi within the CCP? [closed]
Before Channel NewsAsia released the second video documenting what
happened before, there were many commentaries on the first video
recording. James Palmer, a deputy editor at Foreign Policy,
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Is Wang Yi more hawkish than Qin Gang?
On 25 July 2023, Qin was removed from the office of Minister of
Foreign Affairs by a decree signed by president Xi Jinping, after a
list of appointments and removals was passed by the 14th National
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If Kissinger is not acting as a diplomat in an official capacity, how could it help improve U.S.-China ties?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/18/henry-kissinger-meets-china-defence-minister-beijing
The veteran US diplomat Henry Kissinger has met China’s defence
minister in Beijing.
According to a ...
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