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[...]Chinese manufacturers long ago wreaked havoc on the U.S. textile, apparel, toy and electronics industries, but the disruption came slowly to the brush business. There are simply so many types of brushes for so many applications that many Chinese manufacturers thought the business wasn’t worth the hassle. For decades, China lagged behind in the main categories (toothbrushes, brooms, mops and, of course, paintbrushes) and only dominated the lowest rung of the business — extracting bristles from boars. “It’s dirty, smelly, foul work,” David Parr, executive director of the American Brush Manufacturers Association, told me. “Nobody wants to go to West Texas to try to catch a boar and figure out how to get the bristles off him.”

The collapse of the housing market in 2007 and the subsequent recession turned out to be a boon for China’s brush exports. With far less construction and far fewer jobs, not as many people needed paintbrushes (or brooms or toothbrushes). Those who did need them chose cheap imports over more expensive products made in America. Retailers, who stood to make more from the cheaper products, jumped at the opportunity to sell them. Now everyone in the business has to account for the Chinese.

That’s a familiar story for U. S. manufacturing. The strange thing here is that there are still more than 200 brush, broom and mop makers in the U.S. These companies have employed two strategies to stave off Chinese competition: 1) change everything all the time, or 2) don’t ever change a thing.[...] [Source]

Click through to read these rare U.S. success stories in their entirety.  Also see “China Manufacturers Move to Asian Neighbors,” or all prior CDT coverage of manufacturing.

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Lei Zhengfu’s trial opened on Wednesday at the Chongqing No. 1 Intermediate People’s Court in southwest China.

[...]Mr Lei is accused of accepting bribes of around 3.16m Chinese yuan ($0.51m; £0.33m), Chinese media said.

The businessman who arranged the alleged trap and the woman in the video with Mr Lei are also due to face court.

The businessman, Xiao Ye, is accused of luring several officials into so-called “honey traps”. [Source]

While the narrative has been that the young woman in the tape was hired by blackmailers, a report from the South China Morning Post notes that an unexpected twist emerged yesterday as Lei was on the stand:

The former Chongqing Communist Party official embroiled in an unfolding sex-tape scandal yesterday in court retracted his confession over alleged bribes, saying he and the woman in a video were genuinely in love.

[...]Lei questioned the reliability of witness testimony and said his confession had been made when he was suffering from high blood pressure, media reports said.

[...]The 55-year-old argued that he did not think most of the money stated in the prosecutor’s charges amounted to bribery.

Lei said he and Zhao Hongxia , the woman who appeared in the sex video with him, were in a loving relationship. The prosecution and earlier media reports said she was hired by developers seeking favours in bids for construction projects. [Source]

Early reports on Lei’s sex-tape scandal from the Chinese media suggested that fallen Chongqing officials Wang Lijun and Bo Xilai, both mired in a separate scandal of epic proportions, may have been linked to the initial cover up of the tape which was filmed in 2009. Lei’s case is one of many salacious scandals to hit Chinese officialdom—for more see a “Letter From China” by Evan Osnos.

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A new judicial explanation took effect on Wednesday guaranteeing the enforcement of environment-related laws and regulations, which has long been lax and superficial in China.

The country’s supreme court and procuratorate jointly issued the new judicial explanation on Tuesday that imposes harsher punishments on polluters. In the most serious cases the death penalty could be handed down. [Source]

Reuters looks elsewhere in China’s state media for more on now-possible death penalties for the country’s most serious polluters:

A new judicial interpretation which took effect on Wednesday would impose “harsher punishments” and tighten “lax and superficial” enforcement of the country’s environmental protection laws, the official Xinhua news agency reported.

“In the most serious cases the death penalty could be handed down,” it said.

“With more precise criteria for convictions and sentencing, the judicial explanation provides a powerful legal weapon for law enforcement, which is expected to facilitate the work of judges and tighten punishments for polluters,” Xinhua said, citing a government statement. [Source]

A continued “growth first” mentality has been noted to undermine the leadership’s stated goals of “ecological progress.”  China—still the global leader in death penalty use—begins to use the death penalty to dissuade illegal pollution as ongoing judicial reforms strive for a more “prudent application” of capital punishment.

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In the past, Chinese grassroots groups were almost entirely supported by grants from foreign foundations and governments—such as the Ford Foundation, Open Society Institute, and embassy grants. Funding from overseas remains significant, but in the past few years, a handful of private foundations have arisen in China and begun to support local nonprofits. Last year, China’s central government also announced the launch of a 200 million renminbi ($32.5 million) fund for social initiatives—and it invited nonprofits to submit applications. Some critics worry that state funding could co-opt NGOs’ missions, but others point out that the creation of the fund is also an acknowledgement by China’s government that civil society has a legitimate role to play. That’s especially true today, as the state struggles to meet fast-expanding demand for such services as eldercare.

Another notable change is the more assertive stance of Chinese grassroots groups today, as compared with seven years ago. In 2006, a majority of groups that answered a CDB survey said they saw their primary role as “raising awareness” or collaborating with government programs. “In 2013, we see a different picture,” Shieh told a group of foreign journalists last week in Beijing. “Now more Chinese NGOs are adopting a rights-based perspective for public advocacy.” [Source]

One reason for the expansion of the non-profit sector is a rise in charitable giving, which has accompanied the growth of wealth in the country. The Wall Street Journal reports:

Despite the drop in donation value, the number of nonprofit organizations rose 6% in 2012 as more Chinese want to play an active role in philanthropy. Businessmen are increasingly turning to nonprofits where they feel they can contribute. For example, the Society of Entrepreneurs and Ecology, a non-profit organization run by property developers, uses its $4.7 million of assets on projects such as waste-water treatment.

“Chinese donors are very hands-on,” said Wei Wei, Asia director of UBS’s Optimus Foundation, an independent foundation that offers the Swiss bank’s clients options to support charity projects. “They don’t want to just write checks. They visit often and do a lot of due diligence.”

Philanthropy is on the rise in China as many realize that charitable giving can bring substantial benefits to their finances, careers and families. Being perceived as a caring entrepreneur can helpful in a society that tends to resent those who get rich fast. [Source]

The charity sector has faced public skepticism in recent year following high-profile scandals involving the Chinese Red Cross. Read more about NGOs and civil society in China, via CDT. See also the China Development Brief for more news about China’s civil society.

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Three drunk local male residents attacked the students, who had arrived in France two months ago to study winemaking, late Friday night at the students’ home in Hostens, Gironde, about 50 kilometers southwest of Bordeaux. One female student sustained serious facial injuries after a glass bottle was thrown at her.

Local police had called on the three suspects that night due to rowdy behavior. The men then went to the students’ home, perhaps thinking they  were the source of the complaint, hurling “racist insults” at them, AFP reported.

Wu Jing, a female Chinese student in Bordeaux who has studied there for four years, told the Global Times that for a long time, she didn’t dare go out at night as she and her friends believe that Chinese people may be targeted. [Source]

The three have since been charged with aggravated violence, using or threatening to use arms, and drunkenness, according to local authorities, while the French Interior Minister issued a statement condemning the attack as “xenophobic”. From Michel Rose at Reuters:

The attack comes amid reports that wealthy Chinese tourists are being increasingly targeted by muggers in Paris. It will do little to ease tensions between France and China, locked in a trade dispute ranging from solar panels to wine.

[...] Interior Minister Manuel Valls’ office issued a statement saying Valls “condemns very severely this xenophobic act, for which perpetrators will have to face justice”.

Amid trade disputes between China and Europe on Chinese solar panels and European wine sales, this incident happened just one day before the world’s largest wine fair, Vinexpo, adding tension to the wine trade between France and China. From Jason Chow at The Wall Street Journal:

About half of China’s imported bottled wine came from France in 2012, with much of that from Bordeaux, France’s most important wine region. Bordeaux’s vineyards have been increasingly snapped up by wealthy Chinese investors, which has stirred emotions in the proud wine-growing area.

[...] As China grows increasingly infatuated with French wines, more young Chinese are enrolling in French schools to learn about the alcoholic beverage. Lu Qingqing, a 27-year-old native of China’s Hubei province recently completed her sommelier studies in southern France in Provence  and said there’s been a proliferation of wine programs geared towards Chinese students, especially in Bordeaux. While she didn’t encounter any racial tension herself during her nearly four years in France, she says that the Chinese presence can be a particularly touchy topic in Bordeaux. [Source]

As the head of the students’ school described a victim’s identity as “the daughter of a former mayor of a large city“, however, some weibo users revoked their sympathy for the students. From South China Morning Post:

The topic of politicians sending their children abroad to study provokes widespread resentment in China. It is rarely discussed by the tightly controlled press, which seldom comments on the family life of senior officials.

Still, some internet users speculated that the students were wealthy. “Those who can afford to study abroad are either the children of government officials or rich families,” one user said.

[...] Others reading English-language reports turned their anger on the students. “Even foreigners can’t bear with the migration of corrupt officials and are punishing them abroad. This is karma,” said a user. [Source]

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“Emotionally Stable” (Rebel Pepper, @变态辣椒)

情绪稳定 (qíngxù wěndìng): emotionally stable

Stock phrase used by state media to describe people affected by a disaster. This phrase has drawn scorn from netizens for its premature application to catastrophic events, and for suggesting that were it not for the government’s intervention, the victims would be hysterical. Official accounts of mining accidents, often written just days after the accident, will read something like, “The relevant leaders rushed to the scene to comfort the families. The families are now all emotionally stable (死者家属情绪稳定).” An account of an explosion might read, “The bodies have been taken care of and the families are all emotionally stable.” In the comment pages of these stories, netizens will often remark that “the deceased is now very emotionally stable” (死者情绪稳定).

The phrase is also applied to social unrest. For example, Foxconn factory workers in Fengcheng, Jiangxi Province protested low wages and unfair treatment in January 2013. A number of protesters were arrested. The Jiangxi Daily soon reported that the dispute had been settled, “the workers are emotionally stable, and the factory grounds have returned to order” (员工情绪稳定，厂区恢复秩序).

“Emotional stability” resonates with the government’s emphasis on social stability. When an official report suggests that people affected by the calamity are “emotionally stable,” the government saying that social stability has prevailed, when in fact it may be quite tenuous. Resentful netizens speak of being emotionally stabilized (被情绪稳定 bèi qíngxù wěndìng).

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The following deleted weibo were selected by CDT Chinese editors from FreeWeibo.

Shen Jilan in 1953. (Xinhua)

慕容雪村: The Global Times claims that the assault on Shen Jilan does not contribute to Chinese political culture. They probably want people to disregard, even tolerate, the “Shen Jilan phenomenon.” In reality, it is precisely due to the discourse around Shen Jilan that more people are beginning to understand the basic propositions of the representative system of government: What kind of person is qualified to be a representative? What are the procedures and steps involved in becoming a representative? What makes a quality representative? If we can’t even discuss these, how can we begin to discuss political culture?

环球时报说攻击申纪兰无助于中国的政治文明，大概是希望人们无视、甚至包容“申纪兰现象”。事实上，正是通过对申纪兰现象的讨论，才让更多人明白了代议制的 几个基本命题：什么样的人才有资格当代表？当代表要经过哪些程序、哪些步骤？怎样才算是合格的代表？假如这些都不能讨论，那还谈什么政治文明？

Shen Jilan is the longest-serving representative of the National People’s Congress. She claims she owes her tenure to casting only “yes” votes. Writer Murong Xuecun has been punished for his social media outspokenness: every one of his microblog (weibo) accounts were deleted in May.

荣剑2013: They got themselves off the ground on two poles—the gun and the pen. That’s why they always say they are occupying the battleground of public opinion. When General Luo Yuan started using Weibo, he went about microblogging with that same attitude. He spoke about a zero-sum game: whatever we don’t occupy, they will. It’s the same old class warfare mentality, in which different opinions are perceived as unorthodox. Their scope grows until the people are made into the enemy. The real objective behind regulating freedom of expression is to keep the people in the dark. The essence of the two poles is violence and deceit.

他 们是依靠两杆子起家的，枪杆子和笔杆子，所以他们老是说要占领舆论阵地。罗援将军开微博，也是这个腔调，什么我们不占领，他们就要占领，一副你死我活的样 子。这依旧还是阶级斗争思维，视不同意见为异端，进而扩大化，视人民为敌。控制言论自由，目的是实行愚民政策，两杆子的实质是暴力和欺骗。

摆古论今: When Deng Xiaoping visited the United States in 1979, then U.S. president Jimmy Carter criticized China’s one-child policy as an assault on human rights. In response, Deng replied, “Would you like us to give you several million people every year then?” Upon hearing this, Carter was silent. (from the widely-circulated Chinese version) The American version: Upon hearing Deng’s suggestion, Carter burst into laughter and said, “It’s the first time I’ve ever heard a country’s leader treat their citizens as commodities that can be bought and sold.” Upon hearing this, Deng was silent. (from Carter’s memoir) Pass it on.

1979 年邓小平访美，时任美国总统卡特批评中国计划生育不讲人权，邓小平说：“那我们每年给你几千万人，如何？” 卡特听后，沉默了（广为流传的中国版本）。美国版本：卡特总统听完邓的话后哈哈大笑地说：“我还是第一次看到一个国家的领导人，把国民当物品送来送去。” 邓听后沉默了（卡特的回忆录）转

Via CDT Chinese. Translation by Wen Xin Liu.

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State Council Information Office: All websites are asked to remove information related to “Jike and Panguso merger” and “Jike and Panguso leaving the search engine market,” and to tell your respective communities [i.e. forums] to clean out [discussion of these topics]. (June 13, 2013)

国新办：请各网站查删“即刻搜索和盘古搜索合并”、“即刻、盘古退出搜索市场”等相关信息，并通知所属社区清理。

Panguso, a state-run search engine, was launched in February 2011, while Jike (pronounced “gee-kuh”) was launched by People’s Daily in June of the same year. Neither have faired well against Baidu and Sogou. Rumors of their merger reached the tech news website Huxiu on June 8; the article has since been removed from the site, but is available from Google’s cache [zh].

Central Propaganda Department: The trial of Chongqing’s Lei Zhengfu will be held June 19, followed by the trial of Zhao Hongxia  on the 20th. Related coverage must use Xinhua wire copy and authoritative information released by the court. Do not sensationalize or elaborate on the trials. (June 18, 2013)

中宣部：重庆雷政富案和赵红霞案分别于6月19日、20日开庭。相关报道采用新华社通稿和法院权威信息，不炒作、不渲染。

Zhao Hongxia secretly recorded a sex session with former Chongqing official Lei Zhengfu in order to blackmail him. Whistleblower Zhu Ruifeng released the video last November, along with other tapes of 11 extorted officials.

CDT has collected the selections we translate here from a variety of sources and has checked them against official Chinese media reports to confirm their implementation.

Since directives are sometimes communicated orally to journalists and editors, who then leak them online, the wording published here may not be exact. The original publication date on CDT Chinese is noted after the directives; the date given may indicate when the directive was leaked, rather than when it was issued. CDT does its utmost to verify dates and wording, but also takes precautions to protect the source.

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Want more? Check out CDT Chinese’s Sunday series, Empire Illustrated (图说天朝).

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Representative Chris Smith, who heads the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on human rights, said that New York University controlled Chen’s movements and tried to monitor the congressman’s conversations with the activist.

“That is not the way you treat a world-class human rights defender who has suffered torture and every other depravation to combat abuse in China. It really is a black mark against NYU,” Smith said.

Smith, a Republican from New Jersey, said that US universities faced a “huge systemic problem”.

“I have no problem with higher education having a constructive engagement with China as long as you don’t gag human rights defenders. Frankly, you should be providing them with space; otherwise, wittingly or unwittingly, you’re enabling a dictatorship,” he said. [Source]

George Washington University’s Donald Clarke, however, thinks “NYU is more sinned against than sinning here.” He quotes Georgetown Law School’s James Feinerman, who doesn’t buy Chen’s allegations:

[...]Finally, Chen mistakes what he knows (and what he knows works) in China for the way things work in the US. He assumes that the PRC government – or government in general – can make academics fall in line. How little he knows us. Nothing rankles the academy more than a heavy governmental hand – especially that of one viewed by most as a vile totalitarian autocracy – trying to wield influence. It’s more likely to cause academics – even academic administrators – to react in opposition. We prize our freedom more than that. It’s a shame he’s failed to learn at least that much about the institution that has sheltered him and his family for the past 16 months or the country of his exile. This latest screed, however, is likely to backfire. Remember Solzhenitsyn? Despite his heroism, his Nobel prize, and his writerly brilliance, he was remembered more as a reactionary scold, ranting about the West while enjoying its perks. From various accounts, Chen also risks becoming a captive and a mouthpiece for the religious right, anti-abortion, and China-threat factions here in the US. His current story will resonate with them, but in the longer run it promises he will receive even less attention from influential mainstream opinion makers in this country. [Source]

Elizabeth Redden of Inside Higher Ed says that whether or not Chen’s departure can be traced to Chinese pressure, his allegations about US academic freedom “being greatly threatened by a totalitarian regime” are worth noting:

“I think that’s basically right,” said Perry Link, a professor at the University of California at Riverside who is among the China scholars who have been blacklisted from obtaining visas to conduct research in China. Link did say, however, that the words “greatly threatened” seemed to him a little over the top. “It is a big problem, and it’s a long-term problem, and it’s a subtle problem. It’s gotten dramatized in the last few days as a university kicking out a blind human rights lawyer at the behest of a totalitarian government.” (Chen is blind.) “This is spectacular, almost Hollywood-ized, but that’s not the way it works. The influence problem is pervasive and serious but it doesn’t happen that way.”

“It happens when scholars are induced, whether for fear of not getting visas or because of the lure of getting money, to censor themselves and not raise questions that they otherwise would raise and to speak using words that they know would be acceptable in Beijing rather than words they would view as being more accurate,” said Link, who noted, for example, that the massacre in Tiananmen Square (a subject of his own research) is frequently described by scholars as an “event” or “incident” or even by a Chinese word meaning “tempest in a teapot.”

“Chen is absolutely right when he says that the Chinese government has influenced intellectual freedom in the West,” said Maochun Yu, a professor of history at the United States Naval Academy. “On the other hand, this is not NYU’s problem. It’s a larger problem.” [Source]

Georgetown University’s James Millward similarly writes that the broader issue of academic freedom will continue to gain traction as U.S. and Chinese academic communities become more intertwined:

As we go forward, should more such incidents arise, here’s what both sides should do: China, please abandon counterproductive efforts to intimidate foreign institutions and scholars. Ham-fisted bullying only undermines the very soft power that was your goal in the first place, and ticks off the teachers who teach foreigners about China.

And deans and provosts at U.S. institutions: Don’t be craven about academic freedom. Join together with other institutions and take a firm, principled stand to support scholars. Don’t be afraid to do what NYU did in hosting a dissident or to take bold steps if China denies a visa to one of your professors. We are the No. 1 global brand in university education, largely because of our principles. Where else is China going to go? [Source]

Meanwhile, Chen weighs his next move – he reportedly has an offer to join Fordham University’s School of Law as a visiting scholar at a human rights program and another offer to join a pro-life think tank. Verna Yu at the South China Morning post writes today that Chen’s connections with pro-life and other right-wing groups has stoked concern that he has become a politicized figure:

Professor Jean-Philippe Beja, a senior researcher at the French Centre on Contemporary China, said exiled activists were political capital for a while after they arrived in the West but siding with one political camp would tend to diminish their credibility. “If you appear to be siding with right extremists, it will hurt your image,” Beja said. “The problem with exile is that you are isolated, and when you’re isolated, it’s easy to be taken advantage of.”

But Beja said it was understandable that someone like Chen, who went from being an oppressed activist to enjoying hero status in the US, might not fully understand the situation he was getting into. “From his village in Shandong to a place where he is put in high US politics is definitely a destabilising experience. It’s very hard for him … I’m sure there are people trying to convince him that’s the only way to carry on his advocacy.”

But Beja said he hoped Chen could still change his mind.  “This is a very sad episode but it’s too early to judge.” [Source]

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The vulnerability of both Chinese employers and Ghanian employees is central to the problem. The Chinese are vulnerable because they are in a foreign and possibly hostile environment with a different language and culture, while there is a lot at stake for them in terms of financial investment. They expect honesty, proactivity and dedication from their workers in order for their mutual relation to be successful (Giese&Thiel 2012, 16). In exchange, they pay Ghanaians wages that often exceed the local average (2012, 6). The Ghanaians that work for the Chinese, on the other hand, are vulnerable because they are overall economically marginalized and uneducated young men. They come from a cultural background where one’s employer is also supposed to be one’s guardian and protector. Employment relationships are characterized by the employer taking care of his workers in terms of fees or gifts in order to build on long-term loyalty; the employment relation, in this way, somewhat resembles a family relationship. The Chinese employers do not get what they want from their Ghanaian workers (hard work and loyalty) because they do not give them what they want (symbolic gifts or extra fees) (Giese&Thiel 2012: 6,16). This results in structural dissatisfaction; a derailed relationship where discrimination and violence eventually emerges as the consequence of complete mutual misunderstanding. [Source]

See also Edward Bishop’s video China in Africa, which presents a range of perspectives on China’s changing role:

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The new rules say people wanting to adopt must go through official channels and meet requirements, which under Chinese law include being healthy, over 30 and childless.

People who use abandoned children for illegal and profitable ends will be severely punished, the rules say, without specifying.

The document also sets out measures that should be taken when an abandoned baby is found, requiring that police try to track down the parents or guardians, and transfer children to a government-sanctioned nursing home for temporary care if they fail. These homes should only take the children under official care if no guardian is found within a certain period. [Source]

The new directive treads into the sensitive territory of child abandonment and trafficking in China – recent media claimed that nearly 200,000 children disappear in the country every year, according to the South China Morning Post. An Shanghai Daily investigative report sheds more light on China’s black market for adoption, as undercover reporters find that most would-be parents prefer to pursue illegal avenues:

Only orphans with physical or mental problems were sent to orphanages while healthy unwanted babies would go to families “via other ways,” staff told undercover reporters.

One of these other ways, a middle-aged woman who posted ads on hospital walls in the central Henan Province, told reporters by phone that she was selling babies who were only a month old.

“A boy costs 36,000 yuan and a girl 24,000 yuan,” the woman said. “You arrange a place so we can take the baby to see you. If you want to buy it, we can take it to the hospital to make sure it is healthy.”

She told the reporter that a favorite could be picked from many others. The woman said many of the babies were born to migrant workers. [Source]

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Human, Rights by Crazy Crab of Hexie Farm for CDT:

 

Read more about Hexie Farm’s CDT series, including a Q&A with the anonymous cartoonist, and see all cartoons so far in the series.

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