Questions tagged [china]
Questions related to the government or politics of the People's Republic of China (PRC)
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What is China's official policy in case a third country attacks Taiwan?
Taiwan, similar to the People's Republic of China, has territorial claims on islands in the South China Sea resulting in territorial disputes with regional countries such as Philippines and Vietnam.
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On China's labor law and industrial overcapacity [closed]
Regarding the issue of overcapacity in China, I know its root causes, and a significant factor is the connection between overcapacity and China's labor laws. When China joined the WTO, it committed to ...
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Has the U.S. Defense Department ever lost a designation lawsuit?
Chinese drone giant DJI sued the U.S. Defense Department (DOD) for being designated a "Chinese military company".
Has the DOD ever lost a lawsuit involving such a designation?
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How does one recognize an "official envoy" or "Chargé d’Affaires" or even an ambassador without recognizing a government?
14 Feb 2024:
At an official ceremony held by the Chinese government in Beijing on January 30, a queue of foreign diplomats lined up to present their credentials to President Xi Jinping. Among the 309 ...
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Why couldn't/wouldn't Scholz just block the EU tariffs on Chinese cars?
According to Euronews, in a speech in the Bundestag, Scholz criticized the (recently adopted) EU tariffs on Chinese electric cars.
Why just criticize though? Couldn't Germany have blocked those ...
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How many islands has Vietnam militarized in the South China Sea, and how many has China?
The WSJ says that Vietnam is copying the Chinese strategy of militarizing islands in the South China Sea, but that it's lagging behind China in that department.
However, it doesn't give any numbers, ...
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Has China occupied any Indian land in Indian North East?
I know that China controls a significant portion of land in Jammu & kashmir and that area is called Aksai Chin. Also, very recently Rahul Gandhi claimed that China has occupied 4000sqkm of land in ...
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What is the standing of Russia and China regarding Israel's imminent attack on Iran?
On October 1, Iran carried out a significant ballistic and hypersonic missile attack on Israel some of which evaded the air defense systems and hit their targets. Since then, Israel has been ...
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How effective have US sanctions been in detering or disrupting Pakistan's long range missile programs?
The United States recently imposed sanctions on Chinese companies supplying components for Pakistan's ballistic missile program, citing concerns over the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction:
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Does China have any sanctions on Hezbollah, or do they at least implicitly obey some US sanctions in that regard?
I'm slightly curious why Hezbollah bought the famous pagers apparently from Taiwan. (The Taiwanese firm is actually denying that they made them now, saying they were actually made by a mysterious ...
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Who represented Myanmar at the 10th anniversary of the BRI, relative to other countries?
US-sponsored Radio Free Asia commented last year:
But as the BRI prepares to celebrate its tenth anniversary at a summit in Beijing in October, China, unhappy with the slow pace of CMEC ...
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What is China's current official position vis-a-vis Myanmar, as of 2024?
Until recently I thought that China was least roughly favorable to Myanmar's government. This was based on China's UN vetos as well as the presence of significant Chinese heavy weapons of recent ...
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How much of a power projection capability has China's navy demonstrated in the Indian Ocean?
Some analysts have been fretting/talking about a "triangle of death" encircling India, meaning Chinese access to ports in Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh.
How much of a power projection ...
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How much of Bangladesh's trade with China is by sea vs by road+rail?
Bangladesh only borders India and Myanmar by land, but trades a fair bit with China, I understand. On a quick search, back in 2019, PM Hasina even offered China some kind of CPEC-like access to ...
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Is there any indication that China is fuelling the unrest in Manipur of India? [closed]
Recently, high-tech drones and rocket propelled grenades have been used by Kuki insurgents in the north-eastern state of Manipur in India.
The following photo shows an artillery rocket (also aftermath ...
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In its interference/disinformation campaigns of the US presidential election, has the PRC/CCP shown a preference for either Trump or Harris?
Based on an analysis of what a Harris or Trump administration will be like and what China's interests are, Wang, Hu, and Zhao (Foreign Policy, 2024-08-01) conclude:
overall, from a Chinese ...
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What does Lai-Ching Te want to talk to China about? [closed]
This article includes this paragraph (in the context of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan):
President Lai, whom China calls a "separatist," has repeatedly offered talks with Beijing but has been ...
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Has the US considered or offered selling TLAMs (cruise missiles) to Taiwan?
Taiwan appears to have developed their own indigenous cruise missiles. Has the US considered/offered to sell them some US-made ones, or was that considered too escalatory towards China?
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Given Houthis' proven ability to disrupt shipping, how does the US hope to stop the PRC from doing something like that to Taiwan?
Assuming the PRC goes 'all out' on an economic blockade of Taiwan, including sinking by any available means any ship that goes close to Taiwan, how does the US hope to prevent that, given e.g. the ...
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How many ballistic missiles does the PRC have 'pointed' at Taiwan, according to Western estimates? [closed]
In his essay why Ukraine can't win JD Vance argued (among other things) that
in March alone, Russia reportedly launched over 3,000 guided aerial bombs, 600 drones and 400 missiles at Ukraine. [...] ...
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Does China or some Chinese entity with influence in Chinese government/SOE decisions rank countries for corruption?
I'm curious if corruption, which China itself sometimes publicly fights against, is considered a yardstick for China or at least its state-owned enterprises investing abroad.
So, does China or some ...
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Are there any polls in Bangladesh on how the influence of China and India are perceived there?
Bangladesh has been at the intersection of Chinese and Indian efforts to expand their 'soft power' (at least) in that country.
How are all these efforts perceived in Bangladesh? I know there are ...
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How could China benefit from formally joining the MTCR?
China expressed intent to formally join the Missile Technology Control Regime MTCR but was reportedly rebuffed.
Besides the obvious benefits of them joining like some slight boost to their ...
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Is there any reason to believe Temu goods are more likely to involve slavery than the equivalent goods from other retailers?
There are questions about the use of forced labour in the supply chain of consumer goods. One particular company that have been highlighted as a risk is the Chinese retailer Temu, with a ...
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Did any other country than China buy real estate as a buyer of last resort?
In a housing crisis that shows no end, the Chinese government is
stepping in as a buyer of last resort.
Chinese officials on Friday took their boldest step yet, unveiling a
nationwide plan to buy up ...
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Did any other European leader praise China for its peace initiatives since the outbreak of the Ukraine war?
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping called on world
powers to help Russia and Ukraine resume direct dialogue during a
meeting Monday with Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, state
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Why wasn't Turkey made a full SCO member yet?
In 2010, the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) approved a procedure for admitting new
members.[57][better source needed] In 2011, Turkey applied for
dialogue partner status,[58] which it ...
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Is there any other reason to stockpile minerals aside preparing for war?
“The Chinese central government stockpiling minerals is one potential
indicator that it may be preparing to invade Taiwan,” Gregory
Wischer of Dei Gratia Minerals told the Commission in a prepared
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Why won't the Chinese government increase salary in order to reduce political corruption?
It just got slightly less difficult to be a clean Chinese official.
State media reported on Jan. 20 that Chinese civil servants had
received their first pay raise in ten years, a move that includes a ...
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Is there a reason why the Saudis shifted away from the dollar?
The US dollar’s dominance is in decline as Russia and Saudi Arabia eye
the Chinese yuan for oil trades, and investors may need to begin to
revise their long-term investment strategies, warns the CEO ...
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Is there any country outside the West that's planning to put tariffs against Chinese EVs?
The European Union moved Wednesday to hike tariffs, or import taxes,
on electric vehicles made in China. EVs are the latest flash point in
a broader trade dispute over Chinese government subsidies and ...
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Is there a reason why countries in the Global South don't complain about Chinese overcapacity?
China said on Thursday that U.S. and European assertions of excess
capacity were "naked trade protectionism" and that efforts to
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Does Biden or any other US president besides Trump have a common nickname in China?
Today I learned that in China Trump is (derisively) called "Comrade Nation Builder"--the nation referred to is not the US though, but China, in the sense/claim that Trump has built up ...
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Why did the Iranian president use an old American helicopter?
Why did the Iranian president use such an old helicopter, and for which, being American-made, there were difficulties in procuring spare parts? Why Iran is not buying new Chinese or Russian ...
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Why do I not see the result of the family planning carried out by China?
To control the population of the country, China imposed the one-child policy since 1979, which means for each nuclear family (not the extended one), only one child was permitted, or that children born ...
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Are communist parties in India neutral or siding with Chinese authorities on the India-China conflict?
Are communist parties in India neutral or siding with Chinese authorities in the India-China conflict?
What arguments can be given in favour and against of Chinese alliance with communist parties?
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Is there an official source for the list of province-level divisions along with their capital acording to the People's Republic of China's government? [closed]
I have found this this article on Chinese Wikipedia that shows a table with the columns 省会 (provincial capital) and 省份 (province) (see screenshot below).
The table above contains the information that ...
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Did any African country accuse China of debt-trap diplomacy?
China has been accused of debt trap diplomacy through its Belt and
Road Initiative (BRI). Starting with the Hambantota Port in Sri Lanka,
commentator William He examines the rhetoric surrounding the ...
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Why does China stress the importance of people-to-people exchanges between China and the U.S.?
The agreement reached between the top leaders of China and the US
during their meeting in San Francisco on promoting people-to-people
exchanges is of great significance. There were corresponding ...
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Has China ever attacked countries within the Global South for protectionism?
https://www.ft.com/content/8703874e-44cb-4197-8dca-c7b555da8aef
The Chinese government did not immediately reply to a request for
comment. It has consistently attacked what it calls “protectionism”,
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Why did Russia and China veto the recent UN resolution for a ceasefire?
Reuters reported that Russia and China vetoed the UN resolution proposed by US for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war.
Given that their apparent stance was pro-ceasefire recently (just like the ...
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Why does a plurality of Israelis hold a favorable view on China before October 7?
Majorities in nine of the 11 European countries surveyed also hold
unfavorable views of China. Those in Sweden, the Netherlands and
Germany are particularly negative: About three-quarters or more say
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What makes Arunachal Pradesh a geopolitical region and geostrategically important for China?
India has dismissed China’s objections to a recent visit by Prime
Minister Narendra Modi to the northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh,
which Beijing claims is its territory.
The spat is the latest ...
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What were the negative effects that private companies had to face due to a lack of legal status in China?
In 2002, China promulgated the SME Promotion Law, which emphasizes
SMEs’ scientific and technological innovations and upgrading. In 2004,
China amended the constitution to grant non-state-owned firms ...
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How geostrategically important is the Maldives to China?
India has said its military personnel were stationed in the Maldives
to maintain and operate two rescue and reconnaissance helicopters and
a small aircraft it had donated years ago. Removing Indian ...
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Is there conclusive evidence for Western society’s human rights accusations against China, especially in Xinjiang? [closed]
I noticed the previous human rights accusations in Xinjiang, and when I checked the relevant Wikipedia entries, I found that key statements seemed to lack evidence, such as "incarcerated more ...
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What is the rationale behind building an expensive and inefficient nuclear power plant on the moon? [closed]
Russia's space agency chief Yuri Borisov said that Russia and China consider putting a nuclear power plant on the Moon in 2033-2035.
Trouble is that on the moon there is no atmosphere and too little ...
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What intelligence was released in order to "blunt Chinese saber-rattling in the Taiwan Strait"?
From Time Magazine's March X, 2024 Inside the White House Program to Share America’s Secrets:
The motivation behind the program, the officials say, is that it works. Strategic declassification has ...
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When the U.S. Congress discussed about increasing China's voting shares within the IMF, what were the arguments for and against that were used?
Experts say the US's reluctance for a quota reform that includes a
realignment of voting shares stems from concerns that such an exercise
would inevitably give more voting power to China.
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Are there other (internationally controversial) annexations that China has refused to condemn?
The Western press likes to remind from time to time that:
Beijing has refused to condemn the invasion of Ukraine, despite purporting to uphold countries’ territorial integrity under international ...