Links about China and China-EU relations that caught my eye this week
1) Happy Mid Autumn Festival! The Guardian has loads of photographs from China and Vietnam.
2) Noah Barkin’s quick thoughts on the Trump-Xi meeting from a European perspective:
“In reality, both Europe and the US are moving in the direction of a managed trade relationship with China.”
https://substack.com/@noahbarkin/note/c-343702355
3) (long) review of Minxin Pei’s “The Broken China Dream: How Reform Revived Totalitarianism”, on the very interesting “富强 Wealth and Power” Substack
https://belkw.substack.com/p/reading-china-the-dream-that-broke
4) “Would Beijing Accept Taiwan on These Terms?”
Report on recent discussion about three blog posts by Taiwanese scholar Ci-Ze Li on what “One Country, Two Systems” could look like for Taiwan.
I know another island where similar discussions are happening…
https://open.substack.com/pub/pekingnology/p/would-beijing-accept-taiwan-on-these?r=4422q
5) “There’s Something About Shua: The Playful Popularity of Shuaqi-ism” by Ruixin Zhang, with Manya Koetse
On the more relaxed approach to life – “shuǎqǐ” (耍起) – found in Sichuan and Chongqing, in the southwest. Is it Daoism, as opposed to Confucianism?
https://www.whatsonweibo.com/the-rise-of-shuaqi-ism-taking-starbucks-to-the-fields-and-pretending-to-go-to-work