Shi Jingtao reports for the South China Morning Post from Beijing, via Elite Chinese Politics blog:
A leading Communist Party-sponsored publication has sounded an alarm about the rise of foreign interest groups on the mainland, saying they pose severe threats to economic security and social stability.
In a strongly worded article published by Xinhua’s weekly news magazine, Outlook, foreign businesses and investment groups came under attack for their alleged heavy intervention in the mainland’s policymaking process and negative influence on the country’s development.
The article by Jiang Yong, director of the Centre for Economic Security Studies at the China Institute of Contemporary International Relations, raised grave accusations about the role of foreign businesses in China in the past three decades – claims rarely seen in official publications.
But mainland analysts criticised the article – which echoed the recent nationalist sentiment on the mainland after a spate of protests in Tibet
and around the world – for failing to present a full picture of China’s economic and social problems.
