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By Yang Sheng China cannot go it alone in trying to get Pyongyang back to the negotiating table over the nuclear issue, and while it can mediate, both Washington and Pyongyang should think about accommodating each other’s positions, experts said. Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi said at the 53rd Mu- nich Security Conference in Germany on Friday, in reference to the Korean Peninsula nuclear crisis, “there is still a chance of resuming negotiations; the hope for peace still exists.” Wang said that China will uphold the UN Security Council-led sanctions, but also stressed that all parties should not give up the fight to resume negotiations. Since the Six-Party Talks US Vice President Mike Pence (second from left) stands behind the gate with the infamous phrase “Work sets you free” during a were halted in visit to the former Nazi concentration camp in Dachau, near Munich, Germany on Sunday, one day after he attended the Munich 2009, the situa-  2 Security Conference. Photo: AP tion has been in a Coal vicious circle with See also repeated “nuclear Page 14  Strong possibility Trump could raise interference: experts Inside

Top News: China marks US carrier enters China sea Deng Xiaoping’s life 3 Nation: Tsinghua denies foreign students prioritized 4

By Liu Xin and Zhao Yusha The US Navy said in a state- US began several “freedom of fore it happened, and warned World: Iraq attacks IS-held ment Saturday that the force, navigation operations” in the Washington against challeng- Mosul 7 The deployment of the US air- including the Nimitz-class air- area in 2016, with its USS De- ing its sovereignty. craft carrier USS Carl Vinson to craft carrier, began “routine catur conducting operations “China respects and up- Asian Review: Trump-Abe the South China Sea on Satur- operations” in the South Chi- near Triton and Woody Islands holds the freedom of naviga- summit won’t alter US’ policy day is a military threat to China, na Sea on Saturday, Reuters in the Xisha Island chain off the tion and overflight in the South 15 experts said, adding although reported. coast of Vietnam in the South China Sea, which countries US President Donald Trump’s This is the first time the US China Sea in October 2016. enjoy under inter- Forum: Time for a reset in policy remains unclear, there’s has conducted disputed patrols At a news conference  2 national law, but China-US relations 16 a strong possibility that he in the South China Sea after Wednesday, China’s foreign Impact firmly opposes any could increase interference in Trump took office in January. ministry said it heard about the See also country’s attempt to Business: Lotte ‘near deal’ the area. Despite China’s opposition, the planned deployment days be- Pages 15, 16 undermine China’s on THAAD site B2

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tests and sanctions,” Wang said. The Chinese foreign ministry said that Wang reiterated this message when he met with South Korean counterpart Yun Byung-se on the sidelines of the Munich conference on Saturday. The Six-Party Talks, involving China, North Korea, the US, South Korea, Russia and Japan, were a multilateral mechanism aimed at solving the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue. The talks began in 2003 and stalled in December 2008, with Pyongyang quitting the process in 2009. Jin Canrong, associate dean of the School of International Studies at the Renmin University of China, told the Global Times that “Wang’s statement shows China has the will and determination to solve the problem peacefully,” adding that it is “also a response to the US.” US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Friday urged China to “use all available tools” to moder- ate North Korea’s behavior which will further de- stabilize regional peace after the latest missile test by Pyongyang, when he met Wang in Munich, Tillerson’s spokesman Mark Toner said. Since the US urges China to use all available tools, China believes there is no tool better than multilateral negotiations, Jin said. Said Gonzalez shouts at a march to the First Unitarian Church in Denver, Colorado on Saturday in support of “Unlike the US, China doesn’t have multiple Jeanette Vizguerra, an undocumented Mexican national, who has taken sanctuary in the church. Vizguerra is facing choices for a solution. Apart from negotiations, deportation and has been living in the church since Wednesday when she avoided a scheduled meeting with US the US finds regime change, internal collapse Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials for fear of immediate detention and deportation.Photo: AFP and military strikes all acceptable, but China will not risk other measures which might bring military conflict, especially so close to our borders,” Jin noted. Impact of carrier’s patrol on Need for compromise “Subjectively, we can see there is the possibility of resuming the Six-Party Talks. New US US-China ties unclear: expert President Donald Trump wants to change his predecessor’s policy [of strategic patience] and has the will to solve the problem, rather than simply ignore North Korea’s desire,” said Lü Chao, a US, from Page 1 are looking forward to demonstrat- US would never give up its military research fellow at the Liaoning Academy of Social ing those capabilities while building presence in the South China Sea,” Sciences. sovereignty and security in the name upon existing strong relationships Shi said. There will be a power shift in South Korea in of the freedom of navigation and with our allies, partners and friends China has always exercised self- mid-year, with hard-liners not so popular as be- overflight,” China’s foreign ministry in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region.” restraint when faced with provoca- fore, Lü said. spokesperson Geng Shuang said. Compared with his predecessor, tion, and this will not change for now “Pragmatic, dovish political groups and politi- Trump may increase interference especially when tensions in the area cians are increasingly popular, such as Moon Jae- Flexing its muscles in the South China Sea and China have subsided, Shi said. in, the Democratic United Party’s candidate for Military activities conducted by the should prepare diplomatically and Shi added that it’s unlikely that the president,” he said. US in the South China Sea under the militarily, Li said. Trump administration would with- Jin said he feels that the sanctions will be ef- Obama administration were aimed Three Chinese warships on Fri- draw from Asia since it’s crucial to fective in making Pyongyang think twice about at denying China’s right to construct day wrapped up a week of scheduled global US strategy. its behavior, especially the coal sanctions, which man-made islands, and deploying training exercises in the South China Aside from normalizing its “free- normally form about 20 percent of the country’s its powerful carrier to the waters is Sea. The flotilla, including a guided dom of navigation” operations in the exports to China. meant to exert military pressure, missile destroyer, had been conduct- waters, the carrier may also join the From Sunday, China banned all imports of Shi Yinhong, director of the Center ing drills since last Friday and was forthcoming joint military drills be- coal from North Korea. for American Studies at the Renmin sailing toward the Indian Ocean and tween the US and South Korea, Ni As for Russia and Japan, their basic claims on University of China, told the Global the Western Pacific, the official Xin- Feng, vice director of the Institute the issue have not changed, and they will support Times. hua News Agency said. of American Studies at the Chinese a resumption in talks if other parties do, Lü said. Shi said that the US Navy’s moves The training included sudden at- Academy of Social Sciences, told the Any international response to the recent mis- on Saturday served as a military de- tack drills and was successfully car- Global Times. sile launch should be made jointly within the UN terrent to China. ried out under poor sea conditions, Ni said the impact of Saturday’s framework or the Six-Party Talks, and “unilateral By sending the high-speed, nu- Xinhua said. patrol on bilateral ties remains to actions” will only ratchet up the already high ten- clear-powered aircraft carrier to the The drills were “without a script” been seen following the strain to re- sions, Konstantin Kosachev, chair of the Foreign South China Sea, the US is also and “as close as possible to real com- lations caused by Trump’s moves on Affairs Committee of the Russian upper house of showing off its power to its allies in bat,” military affairs expert Yin Zhuo the Taiwan question. parliament, was quoted by the RIA Novosti agen- the East Asian region as well as to was quoted by China Central Televi- Trump may have learned his les- cy as saying on Sunday. challenge China’s sovereignty and sion on Friday as saying, adding that son from earlier attempts to use the “Objectively, the resumption of Six-Party Talks maritime interests, Li Jie, a Beijing- regular exercises by the Chinese navy one-China policy as a bargaining is not very likely now. It needs cooperation and based naval expert, told the Global in the high seas were an “unchange- chip, but he may also damage bilat- compromise from both the US and North Korea,” Times on Sunday. able trend.” eral ties by committing to the policy said Wang Junsheng, a research fellow on Korean The strike group’s command- while improving military cooperation studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sci- er, Rear Admiral James Kilby, was Impact on bilateral ties with Taiwan, Shi said. ences. “North Korea wants everyone to acknowl- quoted by the Navy News Service as “Although Trump has yet to an- edge it as a nuclear state, but the US needs North saying that weeks of training in the nounce a clear policy on the South Page Editor: Korea to abandon its nuclear program and won’t Pacific had improved the group’s “ef- China Sea, the US Department of De- [email protected] guarantee not to use military options to solve the fectiveness and readiness,” and “we fense and the White House said the problem,” he noted. Monday February 20, 2017 3 TOPNEWS Support for refugees Protesters Thousands in Barcelona question stage a rally with a banner, sentence of 7 “Enough excuses! Let’s HK policemen welcome now,” demanding the entry of Hong Kong residents on Sun- refugees on day staged a protest against Saturday. the recent sentencing of seven Some 160,000 Hong Kong policemen for kick- people ing and punching an Occupy participated Central movement supporter, in the rally, which has raised questions over saying Spain regional justice. must fulfill the commitment On Sunday, Caring Hong it made in Kong Power, a civil organization 2015. Photo: created in 2011 which claims to AFP oppose anti-Hong Kong forces, marched outside the police headquarters demanding an appeal for the convicted police, news portal hk.on.cc reported. The seven policemen were sentenced to two years in prison on Friday for intentionally causing grievous bodily harm on Ken Tsang Kin-chiu in 2014,  a member of the Civic Party, ac- Legacy as architect of reform lingers 20 years after death cording to Judge David Dufton of the District Court of Hong Kong, the Straits Times reported. Dufton said he had noticed China marks Deng Xiaoping’s life the policemen had been working under “immense stress” during the protest, but that there was no justification for By Leng Shumei have thought you were crazy if told the Global Times, add- and development,” Hou said. their behavior, BBC reported. you said Shenzhen could coming that Deng’s policy brought Lin Xiaofeng, 31, from Many Net users said the Oc- Activities over the weekend pete with Hong Kong one day. China back to the right path of Nanchong, Sichuan, attended cupy Central movement was il- across China were held to com- But looking at its development, socialism. the ceremony and told the legal, and that the Hong Kong memorate the 20th anniversary the city will very likely overtake “Other socialist coun- chinanews.com that “Deng police had suffered from verbal of the death of Deng Xiaoping Hong Kong in the near future,” tries like Vietnam and Cuba brought great changes to my abuse and physical resistance. – the chief architect of China’s Zhang said. had learned from China and generation, and I miss him.” A commentary on xiakedao, economic reform, opening-up Shenzhen, which used to be launched economic reforms The Guang’an government the WeChat account of the Peo- and modernization – which fell a small fishing village, became as well, but a vital experience Wednesday published a book, ple’s Daily’s overseas edition, on Sunday. China’s first special economic we could share is to combine Deng Xiaoping and Guang’an, published on Friday, said that Zhang Yonggang, a 43-year- zone in 1980. The city now national conditions with the to trace Deng’s life and how the Dufton’s personal views largely old resident of Shenzhen, has a population of nearly 12 socialist path, maintaining the city developed during the re- affected his decision, and that South China’s Guangdong million and its yearly GDP in country’s independence and form and opening-up era. much of Hong Kong’s legal Province, as well as a volunteer 2016 – 1,930 billion yuan ($281 keeping the initiative in our The Democratic Parties system is controlled by British guide at the Shenzhen Mu- billion) – ranks fourth after own hands,” Su said. History Museum of China on judges or people cultivated by seum, presented a bouquet of Shanghai, Beijing and Guang- Hou Xiaochun, the munici- Thursday held a photo exhibit the then-British Hong Kong flowers together with around zhou, the National Bureau of pal Party secretary of Guang’an, in Chongqing, where Deng government. 200 others to a statue of Deng Statistics said in January. Sichuan Province, which is also served as the municipal Party “Hong Kong police suffer in Lianhuashan Park Sunday “Deng made the decision to Deng’s hometown, attended secretary from 1949 to 1952, from a lack of authority … and afternoon. reform and open up based on a ceremony on Friday to pres- displaying 140 photos of Deng the government is not strong Zhang told the Global Times China’s sad experience from ent flower baskets to Deng’s working in Chongqing, many enough, allowing for rampant that “Shenzhen is the epitome the Cultural Revolution (1966- bronze statue, Guang’an Daily of which were revealed to the populism … and the sentence of China after the reform and 76),” Su Wei, a professor at the reported. “As the founder of public for the first would worsen the situation,” opening-up, which has shown Party School of the Chongqing the socialist path with Chinese  See also time, Chongqing said the article. the way for China’s future.” Municipal Committee of the characteristics, Deng’s life is Pages 12-13, Daily News report- “In the 1980s, people would Communist Party of China, closely related to China’s rise 14 ed Friday. Global Times 4 N.Koreans fled Malaysia on day of Kim Jong-nam’s murder: police

Malaysian police said Sunday they be- tor-General of Police Noor Rashid Ibra- comment on any political motive for the Vietnamese suspect Doan Thi Hu- lieve five North Koreans were involved in him told a press conference, in addition killing, saying only that investigations ong, 28, worked as an “entertainment the murder of the half-brother of leader to their 46-year-old compatriot Ri Jong were ongoing. outlet employee”, police said. Kim Jong-un, with four having fled the chol who was arrested in Kuala Lumpur Pyongyang has demanded Jong- Huong grew up in a small rice farm- country on the day of the killing. Saturday. nam’s body be returned but Malaysia ing village in Vietnam’s Nam Dinh prov- Kim Jong-nam died after an uniden- Suspects Ri Ji Hyon, O Jong Gil, Ri has said it must remain in the country ince and left around 10 years ago, former tified liquid was sprayed in his face at Jae Nam and Hong Song Sac, aged be- until it is identified through a DNA sam- neighbors said, but always stood out on Kuala Lumpur International Airport. tween 33 and 57, entered Malaysia in ple from a family member. visits back home. “She has always been Seoul says the attack was carried out by February or late January, the police chief “We are trying very hard to get the very fashionable, with colorful hair,” female agents on Pyongyang’s orders. said. Three more North Koreans were next of kin to come and assist us in the neighbor Maria Nguyen told AFP. The case has sparked a diplomatic row wanted for questioning, he said. investigation,” Noor Rashid said, but between Pyongyang and Kuala Lumpur, Officers have already arrested one added no such family member had yet AFP after Malaysia rejected demands quickly North Korean, an Indonesian woman come forward. to hand the body over to the North. and her Malaysian boyfriend, as well as Police were still waiting for the results Page Editor: Four North Korean men were being a Vietnamese woman. of an autopsy conducted on Wednesday, [email protected] sought over the killing, Deputy Inspec- The deputy police chief refused to he said. 4 Monday February 20, 2017 NATION  Netizens complain admission for overseas undergrads has been eased Tsinghua denies foreign students prioritized

By Zhao Yusha five examinations. compared to the former test- tional students does not affect sities, Tsinghua is less attractive According to an enrollment taking policy, Tsinghua told the the number of places offered to international students. China’s Tsinghua University guide for undergraduate inter- People’s Daily. The university to Chinese students, said the “That’s the reason why Ts- said international students national students on the uni- has attracted more internation- People’s Daily. inghua is trying to become need to do more than just pass versity’s website, international al students at undergraduate Xiong Bingqi, deputy direc- multicultural. Canceling the a Chinese proficiency test to ap- students need to pass HSK level in recent years. tor of the 21st Century Educa- examination doesn’t mean the ply for admission to the school, (Chinese Proficiency Test) level A Tsinghua engineering tion Research Institute, said university has lowered its stan- after netizens complained of 5, which means they can recog- graduate, who asked for ano- that Chinese universities are dards, it doesn’t reflect a stu- preferential policies toward for- nize 2,500 Chinese characters. nymity, told the Global Times eager for international students dent’s potential either,” he said. eigners. The university also requires that Tsinghua is particularly as they benefit from a multicul- Many universities are keen An article titled “Foreigners academic transcripts and ref- emphasizing its international tural campus. to attract foreign students as can go to Tsinghua Univer- erences, and says students are reputation, so to conform with A university with a large they pay much higher fees than sity without examination? Ten only chosen after strict evalu- international standards, it ad- number of international stu- domestic ones. Tsinghua’s web- years of hard work cannot com- ations and interviews. At the opted the same enrollment dents can increase its creativity, site says that international stu- pete with foreign citizenship” start of the 2015 academic year, standards as Western countries. Xiong said, adding that Chi- dents have to pay 30,000 yuan went viral on February 13. The there were 3,380 international But, he said it was important nese institutions fail to attract ($4,370) in tuition per year, and article claimed that interna- students from 119 countries at to manage the quota of interna- as many international students a minimum of 40 yuan per tional students can apply for an Tsinghua, the website says. tional students and put a halt to as world-leading universities day for accommodation, while undergraduate degree at Tsing- The new standard aims to Chinese students from chang- like the US’s Harvard Univer- the Tsinghua graduate said he hua University without sitting attract more excellent interna- ing their nationality just to get sity. only has to pay 12,000 yuan in any examination in 2017, while tional students, but increases in. He also conceded that com- tuition, and 1,200 yuan for ac- before they had to pass four or the difficulty of getting a place The number of interna- pared to the world’s top univer- commodation per year.

Baby steps URL in high school Zookeeper Li Shanxiang with poetry textbook leads Penglai Polar Aquarium in East China’s students to porn site Shandong Province teaches newborn polar China’s education publishing house announced bear cub Irina Saturday that the website address printed in a how to walk on high school Chinese textbook was changed after Saturday. The netizens found it directed students to a porn web- cub has survived site. the dangerous The People’s Education Press (PEP), which is phase and is in under the direct leadership of the Ministry of Ed- good condition, ucation, said in a statement published on its Sina weighing 5 Weibo account on Saturday that “the web page kilograms and is had been altered and we have reported the situa- 50 centimeters long. Photo: CFP tion to the Internet supervision department.” The website linked to poems that eulogize Zhuge Liang, a character from the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms written by Luo Guanzhong. A Net user reported to the Internet supervision department on Saturday, saying that the Chinese Ancient Poetry and Prose Appreciation textbook used by high school seniors contains a porn website address, according to Beijing-based newspa- Enraged locals sabotage, discard ride-sharing bikes per the Legal Mirror. The newspaper said that a 15-year-old girl stumbled across the porn website after trying to access the address provided in the By Liu Caiyu statement on Friday that Mobike of- has flourished. Beijing had more textbook, quoting her mother. fers convenience for tourists, but can than 100,000 Mobikes and rival ofo After the PEP investigated, it found that the China’s mobile bicycle-sharing plat- “disturb the spot’s management.” put 110,000 bikes on the city’s street URL which should have taken students to a page forms have seen their bikes sabo- The head of security was fired Friday in 2016, data from Beijing Municipal of poetry instead took them to a website filled taged in many cities, as their expan- and asked to compensate Mobike. Commission of Transport shows. with pornography. sion across the country runs into Mobike has said they will provide “On average, fewer than 1 percent The Legal Mirror uncovered that the website local resistance, while a leading bike designated parking spaces and em- of the bikes in cities have been sabo- was registered on January 17 for one year by sharing app said it would not be put ploy people to help the public learn taged, and we won’t let this behavior “Minghuizhao” instead of the People’s Educa- off by this behavior. how to park the shared bicycles. put us off,” ofo spokesperson Shi tion Press. The registration listed the website’s A man in Jinan, East China’s In Xiamen, East China’s Fujian Shaochen said Sunday. owner’s name, address and phone number, but Shandong Province, was detained for Province, rival ofo bikes have been “We call on local authorities to no one answered the phone. stacking up over 10 bikes provided sabotaged, with the QR codes used to crack down on illegal behavior like The PEP somehow lost control of the domain by Mobike because they blocked his unlock the bikes being destroyed or this, and we believe this behavior will name and it was then purchased by another per- newsstand, local police reported on locals attaching their own locks, the disappear gradually. People really love son who then changed the content, Zou Liang- Sina Weibo on Saturday. West Strait Morning Post reported on these bikes.” dong, an Internet expert, told the Legal Mirror. In Wuhan, Central China’s Hu- Sunday. Mobike, founded in 2015, has The page is inaccessible as of press time. bei Province, several Mobikes were To better regulate the bicycle shar- launched bike-sharing services in 20 thrown into a ditch by security guards ing market, Xiamen Gardens Bureau cities in China. Global Times at a National 5A Scenic Area before has published a guide on locations Both schemes have major tech being recovered, the Xinhua News to park the bicycles, Xinhua reported backers, with Mobike backed by Ten- Page Editor: [email protected] Agency reported on Saturday. Saturday. cent, and ofo by car hailing company The East Lake scenic spot said in a The scale of bike-sharing in China Didi Chuxing. 7 2 0 1

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hen Mingshen has been running unit. The biggest newborn weighed Drug abuse Reproductive Hospital Affiliated to around trying to raise money to 2.2 kilograms and the lightest one While medicine which increases Shandong University, was quoted by Spay for medical care for his four only 2 kilograms, news portal iqilu. ovulation and other kinds of assisted the Shandong-based Jinan Times as premature newborns, who are still in a com reported. reproductive technology are legal in saying that over 10 percent of families neonatal intensive care unit after com- The source of these multiple births China, prescribing them to people in China are suffering from infertility ing into the world after around seven is no mystery, as Heze is home to without first checking if they are suf- due to lifestyle reasons. months in the womb. many clinics and hospitals that offer fering from fertility problems – as the “Only mothers with ovulation This was the second batch of to give nature a helping hand when Heze doctor approached by the under- disorders should receive treatment but babies to which Shen’s wife has given it comes to fertility. A reporter with cover reporter did – is illegal. some nonstandard clinics abuse these birth, after she had a pair of prema- news portal iqilu.com found that assis- Some hospitals, driven by their own medicines, which raises the possibility ture girls in 2012, one of which is tive reproductive technology is easily interests, prescribe ovulation medi- of multiple births,” said Sheng. Pre- blind, the Shandong Business Daily available after going undercover as an cine to families who are eager to have mature babies often suffer from organ reported. The health problems of the infertile man at a clinic in the city. babies immediately or who want mul- failure or are underweight, he added. quadruplets are worrying the Heze, After consulting with a gynecology tiple babies at one time, even though Many of the women who have mul- Shandong Province family, who have doctor in Laohuangkou Hospital, the many are healthy, iqilu.com wrote. tiple and premature births live in rural even considered giving up some of the reporter was advised to buy 10 bags “Ovulation medicine treats areas and visit doctors at poorly regu- children due to financial pressure. of medicine to cure his problem, al- endocrine dysfunction and ovulation lated hospitals that are more interested “Their feet were purple when they though his wife wasn’t present and no problems,” Lian Fang, director of the in satisfying their patients’ demands came into this world,” Shen recalled. physical checks were conducted. reproductive health department at by giving them restricted medicines The four, delivered via caesarean and The doctor claimed the medicine Shandong Chinese Medicine Hospital, than abiding by regulations, the Jinan weighing just 5 kilograms in total, he offered could cure infertility and was quoted by news portal iqilu.com Times wrote. were all barely clinging to life when allow the reporter to decide how many as saying. China has no specific policy on they were born. The three girls and children he would have and their sex However this kind of medicine can families that have had multiple births, their brother had to spend their first for just a few hundred yuan. harm the kidney function of women but Wang Zhongwu, a sociologist at few days in an incubator after getting “And I can guarantee you, with 80 who do not require it, and can also Shandong University, has proposed insufficient oxygen during their birth. or 90 percent certainty, that you can cause premature and multiple births, introducing local regulations to offer have boys if you want,” the doctor said. Lian said. The claim that this kind of subsidies to those in need of financial ‘Pick your children’ The cost of ensuring a son is 600 medicine can allow parents’ to choose help. Shen and his wife’s experience of yuan ($87) and the price for twins is a child’s sex is false, Lian said, explain- multiple births is not unusual in Heze, 900 yuan, the doctor said. ing this is decided by genetics. Global Times where people often have twins, triplets “And if you want to have multiple Sheng Yan, associate head of the and even quadruplets and many try to births, you only choose the sex of their children. need to consume For example, 31-year-old Wu Jun- medicine that ping had five babies in January 2015, causes more four daughters and one boy. However, ovulation,” the youngest girl died and the other the doctor four babies needed treatment in an told the re- intensive care porter.

 Shandong couples resort to fertility pills in pursuit of multiple births of boys Take two for triplets

Quadruplets from Qian county, Northwest China’s Shaanxi Province pick up snacks on December 27, 2016. Photo: CFP

Taiwan cops arrest scammers linked to Tsinghua professor fraud case

Taiwan police arrested eight city of Taichung during a joint for management,” Qingshui smart phones and 2,544 Taiwan police will continue people suspected of involve- Taiwan-mainland crackdown police officer Li Guoxing told documents related to voice call the investigation. ment in telecom fraud that on Wednesday. the media. systems in an apartment in Chinese police solved cost a professor at Beijing’s The professor, surnamed Mainland police held a joint downtown Taichung. 83,000 cases of telecom and prestigious Tsinghua Univer- Huang, was fooled by a fraud- crackdown with their Taiwan The suspects were not di- Internet fraud in 2016, up sity around 18 million yuan ster pretending to be a judicial counterparts after finding that rectly involved in Huang’s case 49.6 percent year on year, the ($2.6million), Beijing Youth official on July 23 , 2016 and some of Huang’s cash was but offered assistance to the Xinhua News Agency reported. Daily reported Saturday. was reportedly scammed out of withdrawn from a Taiwan scammers such as providing According to a notice is- some 18 million yuan. ATM and some was trans- the voice call system they used, Global Times sued on the official website “The suspect told the victim ferred online by devices using citizens’ private information of Qingshui district police that she was involved in a IPs registered in the region. and online transfer platforms. Page Editor: dengxiaoci@ Thursday, seven men and one fraud case and that her assets The suspects were found The eight will be charged globaltimes.com.cn woman were arrested in the needed to be handed over with seven computers, 22 with fraud by a Taichung court. 7 WORLD Monday February 20, 2017  Expected to be most brutal fighting Pence tells Turkey PM US Iraq attacks IS-held Mosul wants ‘new start’ to ties US Vice President Mike Pence He strongly denies the has told Turkish Prime Minis- charges but Ankara has repeat- ter Binali Yildirim that the new edly called for his extradition. Iraqi forces launched an of- A top army commander ground support from the US- administration wanted a “new The issue became a bone fensive Sunday on jihadists de- then announced that forces led led coalition. start” in relations between the of contention between Ankara fending Mosul’s west bank, in by federal police units retook The Joint Operations Com- two NATO member states, local and the Obama administration what could be the most brutal villages south of Mosul, includ- mand coordinating the fight media reported Sunday. after Washington said a pos- fighting yet in a four-month-old ing Athbah, which leaves them against IS declared eastMosul Turkey is looking to improve sibly slow legal process should operation on the country’s sec- within striking distance of the “fully liberated” on January 24. relations with Washington un- take its course. ond city. airport. But it took Iraq’s most sea- der President Donald Trump Yildirim said moves towards They swiftly retook at least “We launched our operation soned forces – the elite Coun- after ties soured during Barack his extradition by the new ad- five villages and set their sights at 7:00 am... We are heading to- ter-Terrorism Service – more Obama’s time in office. ministration would “open a on Mosul airport, which lies wards the airport,” said Abbas than two months to clear the Pence said the US was ready new page” in relations, accord- just south of the city, marking al-Juburi of the interior minis- eastern side of Mosul. to further develop ties during ing to NTV. a new phase in Iraq’s largest try’s elite Rapid Response force. After a pause, federal forces a meeting on Saturday on the The official statement from military operation in years. “We destroyed two car now face what was always billed sidelines of the Munich securi- the White House on their meet- The Islamic State group has bombs and killed several Daesh as the toughest nut to crack: ty conference, the private NTV ing said Pence reiterated the put up stiff resistance to defend members,” he told AFP. Mosul’s west bank, home to the channel reported. US commitment to Turkey as Mosul, the city where its leader Military vehicles blared pa- narrow streets of the Old City. Last week, new CIA chief a strategic partner and NATO Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi pro- triotic songs as heavy bombard- “West Mosul had the po- Mike Pompeo visited Ankara ally. claimed a “caliphate” in 2014. ment and shooting could be tential certainly of being more less than 48 hours after Trump “The two leaders also dis- “Our forces are beginning heard in the distance. difficult, with house-to-house spoke for the first time by cussed ways to accelerate our the liberation of the citizens The jihadists overran Mosul fighting on a larger and more phone with his Turkish coun- joint efforts to defeat ISIS from the terror of Daesh,” Iraqi and swathes of other territory bloody scale,” said Patrick Skin- terpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan. (the Islamic State group),” the Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi north and west of Baghdad in ner, from the Soufan Group in- Yildirim told Pence that White House added. said in a short televised speech, 2014, sweeping aside security telligence consultancy. Turkey was “ready for all kinds The two men also discussed using an Arabic acronym for forces ill-prepared to face the The streets around the his- of cooperation” on the issue finding a permanent solution to IS. assault. torical center will be impass- of Turkish Islamic preacher the Syrian conflict, NTV added. “We announce the start of a The Iraqi government able for many military vehicles Fethullah Gulen, NTV said. new phase in the operation. We launched the offensive to re- and force government fighters Gulen, who lives in self-im- AFP are coming, Nineveh, to liberate conquer Mosul on October 17, to take on IS in perilous dis- posed exile in Pennsylvania, is the western side of Mosul,” he throwing tens of thousands of mounted warfare. accused by Ankara of ordering Page Editor: wangbozun@ said, referring to the province forces into the long-awaited the failed coup which tried to globaltimes.com.cn of which Mosul is the capital. counter-attack with air and AFP overthrow Erdogan last July. US slams Russia’s move on recognizing Ukraine rebel documents

The US says it is disturbed by Russia’s A participant at a rally in solidarity decision to recognize passports and oth- with the Donbass people shows a er documents issued by rebel authori- passport of the Donetsk People’s ties in eastern Ukraine, AP reported on Republic on Saturday. Photo: CFP Sunday. The recognition, in an order signed by President Vladimir Putin that was announced Saturday, “is alarming and contradicts the agreed-upon goals of the Minsk Agreement,” the US Embassy in Ukraine said Sunday on Twitter, referring to a 2-year-old agreement on ending the fighting in eastern Ukraine. President Vladimir Putin ordered Russian authorities on Saturday to tem- porarily recognize civil registration documents issued in separatist-held areas of eastern Ukraine, a decision strongly criticized by Ukraine’s president. The decision will enable people from the conflict-hit region to travel, work or study in Russia. According to Putin’s order, published on the Kremlin website, Russia will tem- porarily recognize identity documents, diplomas, birth and marriage certificates and vehicle registration plates issued in the eastern Ukraine regions of Donetsk and Luhansk. Authorities in pro-Russian rebel held areas last March began distributing passports very similar to Russian ones Ukraine’s President Petro Porosh- chynov, secretary of Ukraine’s National erful signal that the USA stands with bearing a two-headed eagle on a red enko sharply criticized Putin’s decision, Security and Defence Council, which is Ukraine, that Ukraine is among the top backdrop. saying Russia had violated the Minsk headed by Poroshenko. priorities for the new US administra- Earlier this month, Kremlin spokes- peace process. Later Saturday, the Ukrainian leader tion,” Poroshenko said after the meet- man Dmitri Peskov insisted that Mos- “For me, this is another proof of Rus- met with US Vice President Mike Pence ing. “The issue of Crimea and decisive cow would recognise papers issued by sian occupation as well as Russian viola- and “informed him on that decision of struggle for the liberation of Crimea also the separatist authorities “only for hu- tion of international law,” Petro said. Russian President Putin,” according to remain among priorities.” manitarian reasons,” and even then, “This step completely negates the Poroshenko’s office. only in exceptional cases. Minsk process,” said Oleksander Tur- “We have once again received a pow- Agencies – Global Times 8 Monday February 20, 2017 WORLD  UN envoy says Trump still working out priorities on conflict US involvement in Syria questioned

UN envoy Staffan de Mistura on Sun- “How you square this circle, that I un- Any political solution has to be infor closer cooperation with Moscow to day questioned US President Donald derstand is what they are discussing in clusive to be credible, he said, stressing combat IS in Syria and Iraq, leaving the Trump’s engagement in solving the Syr- Washington,” he said. that peace talks in Astana last week or- Assad question open. ian war, just days ahead of a new round He did not say who the regional play- ganized by Russia, Turkey and Iran, and For Anas al-Abdeh, who heads the op- of peace talks in Geneva. er or major ally were but the first refer- the ceasefire deal provided an opening position National Coalition, the question “Where is the US in all this? I can’t ence appeared to be to Iran, with the sec- that should be explored. over Assad’s future is a clear roadblock tell you because I don’t know,” he said, ond likely to be either Turkey or Saudi The US envoy for the anti-IS coali- in the path for peace. adding that the new administration was Arabia. tion, Brett McGurk, acknowledged that No solution can be found “as long as still trying to work out its priorities on Mistura stressed that what was Trump’s administration is “re-looking at Assad remains in power,” he told the the conflict. ultimately key was an inclusive po- everything, which is a very healthy pro- Munich forum. The top three US priorities include litical solution to end the six-year cess from top to bottom.” More than 310,000 people have died fighting Islamic State jihadists, “how conflict. Under Trump’s predecessor Barack since a popular uprising in 2011 against to limit the influence of some major re- “Even a ceasefire with two guarantors Obama, Washington insisted President Assad morphed into all out civil war, gional players and how to not to damage can’t hold too long if there is no political Bashar al-Assad had to go, putting it at with more than half the population one of their major allies in the region,” horizon,” he said, referring to a fragile odds with Moscow which backs the Syr- forced to flee their homes. de Mistura told the Munich Security truce brokered by Russia and Turkey in ian leader. Conference. December. At the same time, Trump has called Reuters

Venezuela, Deadly journey US clash over political prisoners

Venezuela and the US locked horns again over political prisoners held by Caracas, including a jailed opposition leader whose supporters took to the streets of the capital Saturday to demand his release. Hundreds of opposition supporters marched in Venezu- ela’s capital city, blocking one of the main highways in Caracas to protest Leopoldo Lopez’s im- prisonment. Lopez, in a letter he wrote in his cell read out to supporters, urged an electoral “rebellion” to press for general elections in the country mired in economic and political crisis. Referring to gubernatorial elections set for last Decem- ber that were delayed and not yet rescheduled, Lopez called instead for a referendum on whether the presidential elec- A bus that overturned sits idly, leaving at least 19 of the 40 passengers dead and more than 20 injured, near the town of Uspallata tion set for 2018 should be held in the Argentine province of Mendoza on its way to Chile, early Saturday. Photo: CFP in 2017 instead. “His only crime was to demonstrate non-violently. And now, more than 80 percent France slams suspected Russian cyberattacks in election of Venezuelans want (Presi- dent Nicolas) Maduro to leave power,” said David Smolansky, Suspected Russian cyberattacks es preference for in the French is pushing for closer ties with ligence of hacking Democratic mayor of metro Caracas’ El Ha- on the French presidential electoral campaign,” Foreign Moscow. Party emails that embarrassed tillo district. campaign are “unacceptable,” Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said “Russia is the first to say that Trump’s rival Hillary Clinton. Smolansky said the elected France’s foreign minister said in an interview with Journal du non-interference in domestic Earlier this week, Ayrault socialist Maduro’s government Sunday, adding it was clear that Dimanche. affairs is a cardinal rule and I told French parliament: “After amounted to a dictatorship that pro-Europe candidate Emman- “Whereas Emmanuel Ma- understand that. Well, France what happened in the United makes “Venezuelans go hungry uel Macron was being targeted. cron, who is pro-Europe, is be- won’t accept its choices being States, it is our responsibility while it protects criminals,” he A spokesman for Macron, ing targeted by cyberattacks,” dictated to it either,” he added. to take all steps necessary to stressed: who is currently riding high he added. “This form of inter- France warned Russia ensure that the integrity of our The State Department is- in the polls, has accused Mos- ference in French democratic Wednesday against meddling democratic process is fully re- sued a new call for the release cow of being behind a flurry of life is unacceptable and I de- in the elections, after a spokes- spected.” of Lopez and other dissidents, cyberattacks on his campaign nounce it.” man for Macron -- the 39-year- days after the Venezuelan Su- website and email servers over Le Pen, of the far-right Na- old centrist former economy AFP preme Court upheld his im- the past month. tional Front, is anti-immigra- minister -- pointed the finger of prisonment. “It’s enough to see which tion and anti-European Union, blame at Moscow. Page Editor: candidates, Marine Le Pen or while Fillon is the conservative US intelligence agencies had wangbozun @globaltimes.com.cn AFP Francois Fillon, Russia express- Republicans candidate who already accused Russian intel- Monday February 20, 2017 9 WORLD Keeping poverty at bay SpaceX poised to launch cargo from historic NASA pad

An unmanned SpaceX space- ship carrying food and equipment to the astronauts living at the International Space Sta- tion is poised to blast off from a historic NASA launch pad on Saturday. The Falcon 9 rocket launch of the Dragon cargo ship is scheduled for 10:01 am (1501 GMT) from Cape Canaveral’s launchpad 39A, which was built and used for the US’ pio- neering missions to the moon in the 1960s and 1970s. It was also the blastoff point for sending American space shuttles into orbit, until the shuttle program came to an end in 2011. SpaceX, headed by billionaire internet entrepreneur Elon Musk, negotiated a lease with A nomadic baby plays with leaves in a cloth hammock as its mother prepares fancy flowers to sell to pedestrians in the eastern NASA for the launchpad in Indian city of Bhubaneswar on Saturday. India’s nomads, often the poorest of the poor, travel from their tribal lands to cities to try 2013, beating out its competitor to earn a living. Photo: IC Blue Origin, which is headed by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. By the time the launch pad  is completely outfitted for send- Film about Syrian rescue group nominated for award ing astronauts to space in 2018, the company will have spent over $100 million to adapt it for modern day spaceflights, said White Helmets to attend Oscars SpaceX chief operating officer Gwynne Shotwell. “I wouldn’t say we saved a bunch of money here,” she told Rescue workers from Syria’s The documentary titled about the suffering happening ducer Joanna Natasegara, Saleh reporters, but added that the White Helmets – the subjects The White Helmets, directed in Syria,” Saleh said. will be joined by fellow White launchpad’s singular place in of an Oscar-nominated docu- by Orlando von Einsiedel, was More than 310,000 people Helmet Khaled Khatib, who American space lore made the mentary – said Saturday they named a contender in late Jan- have died since Syria’s conflict shot much of the footage. price tag worthwhile. have received US visas to attend uary in the Oscars short docu- erupted in March 2011, and Natasegara told AFP by “My heart is pounding to next week’s prestigious Acade- mentary category. over half the country’s citizens phone that the last few weeks come out here today,” she told my Awards ceremony. Since it emerged in 2013, have been forced to flee. had been a “roller coaster” ride. an outdoor press conference For weeks, the rescuers the rescue group has attracted “The documentary took a “Initially, we were totally de- near the launchpad on Friday, and the film’s staff had been over 3,000 volunteers and says lot of effort to make and we’ve lighted at the nomination and recalling how she watched the nervously watching the fallout it has saved more than 78,000 been working on it for a long invited them to join us, and two Apollo 11 mission’s July 1969 from US President Donald lives. It is named for the distinc- time. People who are featured days later the executive order lunar landing on television Trump’s now-suspended travel tive white hard hats worn by its in the film have since died. came through,” she said. with her father as a child. ban for seven countries, includ- volunteers and has gained in- There’s equipment that you see Natasegara said she and the “I can tell you it is an extra ing Syria. ternational renown for its dar- that has been destroyed,” Saleh film’s team would “be nervous special launch tomorrow, for “We got our visas yesterday ing rescues, often filmed and said. until [Saleh and Khatib] are on sure. Maybe extra nerve-wrack- [Friday], but we’re not yet sure circulated on social media. “This film is history for us. US soil.” ing,” she added. if we’ll be able to travel or not,” The Oscars award ceremony We hope that we win the Os- “It’s their day. Their mes- SpaceX has endured two Raed Saleh, leader of the res- will take place on February 26 car, because that would provide sage is one of hope and peace. costly explosions, including cue group, told AFP by phone in Hollywood. moral support to the White Hel- We’re just really excited to share one on a launchpad, in the last on Saturday. “We don’t want to “With so many people mets and show them that their that day with them.” two years. have problems at the borders or watching, it would be such an sacrifices weren’t for nothing.” the airport,” he said. important opportunity to talk According to the film’s pro- AFP AFP Protests against coal power station in resort area spark rare Thai junta climb down

Thailand’s military government on Sun- Three protest leaders were detained The gathering was a rare act of defi- common. Krabi protesters say the mili- day shelved plans to build a coal-fired on Saturday and held in a barracks ance of the junta’s ban on public pro- tary government should use renewable power station in a popular beach region, prison but released on Sunday in a deal tests. The military government is largely energy to plug the gap. a rare success for demonstrators in a struck with authorities. popular in Thailand’s south. But some They fear a coal-fired power station country where the right to protest has In a statement, government spokes- Krabi residents were alarmed at the could ruin the environment in a country been severely curbed. man Lieutenant General Sansern decision to push ahead with the power where safety standards are poor and cor- Hundreds of protesters had gathered Kaewkamnerd said the government had station. The junta says the power plant ruption is rampant. outside government offices in Bangkok ordered a new environmental impact is desperately needed to combat energy since Friday to demonstrate against assessment to decide whether the plant shortages in the south. AFP the junta’s decision to approve an should be built, reversing the cabinet’s Thailand’s southern beach regions 800-megawatt coal plant on the coast of decision last week to press ahead. are a comparatively wealthy part of the Page Editor: [email protected] Krabi, a southern region renowned for Protesters said they would end their country but suck up significant energy tropical beaches and limestone hills. demonstration in response. resources. Blackouts have become more 10 Monday February 20, 2017 WORLD

in Nepal, with energy production system should be an energy-pro-  The man severely depressed by chronic under- ducing powerhouse. investment and inefficiencies in Experts say it could who turned the power network. be generating 83,000 The result has been crip- megawatts of power, the lights on in pling for domestic indus- but its total installed try and deterred foreign generation capacity energy-starved investment, while crucial currently stands infrastructure development at less than two Nepal has flagged in the years of percent of that. political paralysis that fol- Construction on he continuous whirl of hair lowed the end of the Maoist two long mooted dryers is a novel sound at the insurgency in 2006 and the projects is finally TBlush Beauty Point parlor in overthrow of the monarchy two expected to begin later Nepal’s capital Kathmandu, which years later. this year. until just five months ago had to close It will take around at regular intervals because of power Political alignment seven years before they outages. Ghising’s formula to end the come online, but even one would Scheduled power outages – known power outages involved tackling some double Nepal’s current generation as load-shedding – have been a part basic inefficiencies. the backing of the prime minister and capacity, eventually transforming it of daily life in the impoverished land- He overhauled the hydropower the energy and finance ministers. into an energy exporter. locked country for decades, forcing generation system – storing water at For one of the first times in Ne- That would be a game changer for small businesses to rely on expensive times of low demand so more could pal’s short history as a parliamentary the Himalayan nation, which cur- generators or simply close when the be generated at peak hours. He also democracy, all four are members of rently relies on India for electricity in lights went out. ended a policy that provided electricity the Maoist party and that political the dry winter season. “We had to run our business ac- round the clock to certain industries. alignment is bearing fruit. But, with the average tenure of cording to the load-shedding sched- The policy was meant to give Later this year, the country is due governments in Nepal at around ule. Clients would call and check if 24-hour power to approximately 20 to hold its first local elections in seven months, many are concerned there was light,” the salon’s owner big employers, but had expanded nearly two decades and the Maoists that another change at the top could Anita Shrestha told AFP. after decades of mission creep – and need to show results to boost their reverse the recent gains. But that has changed since Kul- backhanders. chances at the polls. “Development of hydro energy man Ghising was appointed head “Before, there was some misman- infrastructure requires a long-term of the Nepal Electricity Authority in agement that some industries get 24 Hydro potential view. And with these short-term gov- September last year. hours (of power), some industries get But while Ghising might have ernments, it’s very difficult to believe Load-shedding – previously up to 12 hours, some industries only get 8 turned on the lights for much of Ne- they can have a long-term view,” said 16 hours a day in the dry winter sea- hours. There was unequal distribu- pal, the country will need to harness Shakya. son – has all but ended in the coun- tion of electricity that was not as per its huge hydropower potential to keep And on the now lit streets of Kath- try’s three largest cities and in other the rules of NEA,” said Ghising. the electricity flowing. mandu, suspicion darkens the mood. major towns and has been reduced to In addition, he brought online “It’s cautious optimism because “I don’t know the details, but I feel around two hours on alternate days. some power plants that had been we are known to squander opportuni- like Nepalis were kept in the dark for “When I was appointed, I set the sitting idle due to poor maintenance, ties,” said Sujeev Shakya, founder of too long,” said Shrestha as she styled goal that I would at least make Kath- and launched a public awareness the Kathmandu-based Nepal Eco- a client’s hair into cascading curls. mandu load-shedding free,” Ghising campaign to encourage people to nomic Forum, of the recent drop in “There is a tension that there will told AFP. avoid electricity-guzzling activities – load-shedding. be power outages again if the govern- “But at that time I felt that what- like ironing and pumping water – in He added: “Now at (the) NEA you ment changes.” ever I said I could manage more than the evenings when demand for power have a good guy and he may try to that.” is at its highest. reform, but the system is designed to AFP Demand for electricity has But, arguably, the single greatest take care of the interests of few.” long outstripped supply weapon Ghising has is Nepal, with its mountain river Page Editor: [email protected] Bringer of electricity

This photograph taken on January 19, shows a nighttime view of the Kathmandu Valley. Demand for electricity has long since outstripped supply in Nepal, with energy production severely depressed by chronic under-investment and inefficiencies in the power network. Top: A Nepalese man starts a power generator after a power cut at his shop in Kathmandu on December 26, 2008. Photos: AFP Monday February 20, 2017 11 MOSAIC Cheeky charity MomentofNeti-zen

Editor’s Note: 10 native speakers of Manchu Are you up on what the hun- left, according to 2015 statistics dreds of millions of Chinese ne- from UNESCO. tizens are talking about? Take a Yang Zunyi, a local historian, moment and get the rundown of said the edict was issued by the what’s hot, what’s trending, and emperor to Wu Chenglong, what’s drawing the most buzz then magistrate of Nanchuan on the Chinese blogosphere. county, Chongqing, in praise of his public service. 300-year-old Qing The edict also praised Wu’s Dynasty document late wife and his second wife for kept safe on farm their homemaking skills. Some things you’d expect to Local records show the Wus find on a farm. A 17th century enjoyed prestige during the document in a near-dead lan- Qing dynasty, with six fami- guage is not one of them. ly members holding official But at his farm in Linxi, positions. Hebei Province, a man It was not mentioned how surnamed Wu has carefully the farmer Wu acquired the been preserving an imperial edict or whether he was a rela- A New Yorker takes his pants off for charity at the annual Cupid’s Undie Run in New York City, the edict written during the Qing tive of the late magistrate. US, on Saturday, a charity event held to benefit the Children’s Tumor Foundation. Photo: IC Dynasty (1644-1911) by one of Netizens praised the its greatest rulers, the Kangxi preserved document. “[I] Emperor, kankanews.com have never seen such beauti- Man returns 9,300 yuan after couple leaves it in ATM reported Sunday. ful calligraphy before. Nice!” A good Samaritan in Chongq- chine that he noticed the thick called police. Dated September 24, 1684, wrote “shuiyiyangdenvren” on ing alerted police after he found wad of 100-yuan notes sticking Officers tracked down the the 1.2-meter-long document qq.com. a total 9,300 yuan ($1,354) left out of the slot. owners as a couple who had contains text in both Chinese “Hurry and hand it over! in an ATM at his local bank. “There was thousands, [I tried to deposit the cash but and Manchu, language of the It belongs to the State,” wrote The 45-year-old surnamed Li thought] who could it belong forgot to push the button to ruling tribe of the Qing dynasty. “buzhidaoshishui.” went to the Industrial and Com- to?” Li told local media. complete the transaction. Originating in what is now mercial Bank of China ATM to Li said he first called his wife Bank employees held on Northeast China, there are only youth.cn check his son’s account balance to come and wait for the owner to the cash until the couple on Friday. to return as he tried to contact claimed it. Li said it was when he heard the bank about the left cash. TV pundit hits right note after anthem mix-up a sound from an adjacent ma- When no one showed up, Li Chongqing Morning Post A Russian TV commentator join the gold medal-winning rushed to the rescue to sing the Russian men’s relay team on right national anthem when the podium as an anthem organizers played the wrong used between 1990-2000 was ‘Good grade’ deposits a bad idea tune during a medals ceremony mistakenly played instead of the at the world biathlon champion- current version, which he and ships on Saturday. the quartet duly sang. A middle school teacher in at Fuxing Middle School at “We handed in money The incident follows an The organizers were also Chengdu, Sichuan Province the beginning of the spring voluntarily,” said a student in embarrassing mix up at a Fed swift to apologies and quick to is being investigated by local semester. the class. “The money would Cup tennis match between the find the right tune, which they education authorities for Xiao said her students had be returned to us eventually US and Germany in Hawaii eventually played. collecting cash deposits from come up with the system, anyway.” last week where a soloist sang The Russians beat arch-rivals students that she planned to which would deduct fines County education bureau an old version of the German France in the relay with hosts dock if they got bad grades. from the deposits for falling officials forced Xiao to return anthem that begins “Deutsch- Austria taking bronze. The policy was brought to grades or “wrong answers.” a total 2,660 yuan she col- land, Deutschland ueber light after a netizen posted “It was their idea to put lected from her students. alles” – a reference to German AFP Friday that the teacher, sur- down cash for disciplinary The investigation is still supremacy. named Xiao, had collected a purposes. And it was openly underway. At Saturday’s event Russian Page Editor: [email protected] minimum of 100 yuan ($14.6) discussed with parents, who biathlon commentator Dimitri from each of her students also approved,” Xiao said. Chengdu Business Daily Guberniev leapt into action to Eye for talent Olympics: French collective to sue Paris bid over ‘Trump language’ A collective of associations aimed at preserving the French language will legally challenge the Paris 2024 Olympic bid slogan for using “the language of Donald Trump”, their lawyer said on Friday. French language enthusiasts have been irked by the use of English in the Paris 2024 slogan: “Made for Sharing.” A motion will be filed at the Paris adminis- trative court on Monday accusing the slogan of infringing a 1994 law aimed at protecting the French language, and also of being against the Olympic charter, lawyer Emmanuel Ludot told AFP. In the motion, the collective has described the slogan as an “insult” to the French language. One of the member associations is the French literary organisation the Academie Goncourt, whose president Bernard Pivot said: “Obviously, I find this slogan a mistake, an absurdity. “Paris, the capital of the francophone world is bowing to the language not only of Shakespeare but also that of Donald Trump!” Fan Jing, of Jingning county, Northwest China’s Gansu Province, lifts barrels from hooks on his face at a local event AFP on Saturday night. Photo: CFP 12-13 Monday February 20, 2017 INDEPTH

Henry Kissinger, US President Richard Nixon’s National Security Advisor, made a ○ Deng aimed to complete his predeces- wider society towards China. While opening-up policy at the 3rd Plenary July 9-11 secret trip to Beijing, breaking the ice in China-US relations. sors’ unfinished mission to normalize the establishment of bilateral ties Session of the 11th Central Commit- 1971 relations with the US meant the US legally recognized the tee of CPC in December, 1978, are US President Richard Nixon visited China at the invitation of Pre- Sin mier Zhou Enlai, starting the process of normalizing China-US rela- ○ Thanks to Deng’s wisdom and persis- People’s Republic of China, his visit widely considered complementary to o-US February exc tions. The two sides signed their first Joint Communiqué (February tence, the enforcement of reform and made it into an emotional recogni- each other and mutually reinforcing. han ges 1972 28, 1972), known as the Shanghai Communiqué. opening-up policy was unaffected by the tion. He broke the stereotype that “Deng’s diplomatic approach was have in th 1989 Tiananmen Square incident and Westerners had about Chinese with to proceed from the actual situation, a general under- e fi rst China and the US issued their second Joint Commu- ensuing negative international opinion his humor and volubility,” said Liu which means he paid attention to standing of the US, our coun- de ○ The calm and confident way in which Yawei, director of the China Program the economy and national interest terpart has gone into detail in a lot of ca December niqué, announcing the establishment of diplomatic de 16 relations between the two sides as of January 1, 1979. how Deng dealt with Sino-US relations at The Carter Center. instead of conceptions and doctrines. studies about China,” said Qian. Presi- of can be instructive for today’s Chinese lead- “Deng’s boosting of the establish- This is still instructive today,” said Liu believes China should focus dency and re 1978 la ers at a time when Trump’s presidency is ment of Sino-US ties created a peace- Qian. on doing its own business well, and brought bilateral tio The two countries officially estab- causing uncertainty in bilateral ties ful environment for the two coun- Liu believes that Deng played an try to shelve disputes over regional relations into a bumpy n lished diplomatic relations at the am- n bassadorial level. The US announced tries. For decades, peace has been the important role in difficult phases of issues like the South China Sea. period. For example, when or January 1 cornerstone of the bilateral diploma- the development of Sino-US rela- US President Donald Trump has Trump took protocol-breaking a m that it would sever its “diplomatic a 1979 cy, though there have been frictions ment and the significance of Sino-US Watergate scandal. tions. seemed to challenge the foundations phone call from Taiwan leader Tsai l relations” with Taiwan, withdraw By Zhang Xin iz and disagreements at times,” Qian ties to the world. He chose to shelve After Zhou and Mao died, it was “For example, when China’s di- of Sino-US ties. Bilateral relations Ing-wen, Beijing brushed it off as a a its military forces from Taiwan, and t terminate the Mutual Defense Treaty. hen Deng Xiaoping told the Global Times. the disputes,” Liu told the Global difficult to bring the topic back to the plomacy faced a great challenge from took a hit in December 2016 when ‘petty trick’ by Taipei. Being calm and io visited the US [in The total volume of Sino-Amer- Times. top of the agenda again, as domestic the international community after Trump threatened to use the one- confident in dealing with Sino-US n “W1979], I was a univer- ican trade has exploded in recent Being pragmatic in dealing with opposition against China building a the events of June 1989, the Bush China policy as leverage in trade ties is what China’s current leaders sity student. I read newspaper reports decades. According to statistics from Sino-US relations is something we friendship with the “US imperialists” administration was under a great talks. The tense atmosphere was should learn from Deng’s approach, Deng Xiaoping made the first January 28 [about the trip] almost word by word, the Chinese Ministry of Commerce need to learn from Deng’s approach, remained strong. pressure to sever US’ relations with only relaxed after he said he would he said, adding that both sides official visit by a Chinese leader -February 5 including every single piece of news released in January, Sino-US trade Liu argued upon the 20th anniver- But Deng was determined to com- China; Deng demonstrated to the honor the policy in a phone call with should work on enhancing mutual to the US, opening a new page 1979 in the People’s Daily,” recalled Qian volume today is 211 times greater sary of Deng’s death this Sunday. As, plete his predecessors’ unfinished world that China would stick to the Chinese President Xi Jinping in Feb- trust. in China-US relations. Jiang, journalist and author of Deng than it was 38 years ago, going from in the words of former US President mission, Qian told the Global Times. reform and opening-up policy by his ruary. In addition, Trump seems to “It takes two to tango. The way Xiaoping and The Establishment of $2.5 billion in 1979 to $519.6 billion Barack Obama, the Sino-US relation- On the other hand, in the process South China tour and the important oppose globalization, and has threat- Sino-US ties have developed is influ- Sino-US Diplomatic Relations, in his in 2016. China surpassed Canada ship will “shape the 21st Century,” of secret diplomatic negotiations speeches he made during the trip in ened to impose a 45 percent tariff on enced by the combined forces from blog. to become the US’s biggest trade Qian and Liu stressed that it’s im- between China and the US, Deng 1992,” said Liu. Chinese goods. His Defense Secre- the two sides,” said Liu, adding that The two sides signed their third Joint Communiqué, under which the US China and the US established partner in 2015, according to statistics portant for the two sides to enhance became confident that other domestic tary Jim Mattis just reaffirmed US both sides should keep calm in front August 17 promised to gradually reduce its arms diplomatic ties on January 1, 1979, issued by the United States Census mutual trust today. actors would allow him to take action Mutual trust a must commitment to the Terminal High of conspiracy-like misunderstand- sales to Taiwan and eventually stop selling 1982 when Deng was serving as China’s Bureau. on US-related diplomacy, said Qian. Compared with the Deng Xiaop- Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) ings. weapons to Taiwan. vice premier and was de facto Without Deng’s courage and Creating history Qian believes that Deng was ing period, when China had to rely anti-missile system in South Korea, “Is the US really trying to contain paramount leader of the Communist determination, Sino-US ties wouldn’t According to Qian, a normalized determined to do all he could to thaw on the US for support, there’s now which China considers a threat to its China? Does China really expect to Party of China. He then paid an of- have been normalized in 1979, as Sino-US relationship was already the Sino-US relationship. “He was space for the two countries to com- security. dominate the world and replace the US President Ronald Reagan paid a state visit to ficial visit to the US at the invitation there were still a lot of obstacles and high on China’s diplomatic agenda determined to lead China toward the pete. Experts claim that enhancing “Actually the Korean Peninsula US with its rise? We should often ask China. During his meeting with Reagan, Deng said April 26 of US President Jimmy Carter in late difficulties at that moment which are before Chairman Mao Zedong and road of reform and opening-up, and mutual trust and understanding be- issue can be a good opportunity for these questions of ourselves.” Chinese government had made greatest efforts to January. As the first visit by a Chinese explained in Ezra Vogel’s book Deng Premier Zhou Enlai passed away in China had to work on the Sino-US tween China and the US is especially China and the US to cooperate and solve the Taiwan question to allow the principle of one to May 1 leader to the US in history, Deng’s Xiaoping and the Transformation of 1976. Beijing expected to establish relationship first if it wanted to open important under such circumstances. work out a resolution,” said Liu. country, two systems, and hoped the US would not 1984 trip caused a sensation in the US and China, said Liu.“Despite the great ties with Washington during Presi- up,” said Qian. Qian warned that the level of mu- Liu believes the Chinese govern- impede the unification of the mainland and Taiwan. around the world. many obstacles and difficulties, Deng dent Richard Nixon’s second term af- The normalization of China’s rela- tual understanding between China ment has done a good job and has “Documentaries recorded that decided to establish diplomatic ties ter he made his historic visit to China tions with the US and the normaliza- and the US is uneven. been “poised and low-key” in dealing Deng’s nine-day trip changed the with the US because he saw the big in 1972, though this was thwarted tion of China’s economy, marked by “China doesn’t have a long history with Sino-US ties since last No- Deng met visiting former president view of the US government and picture of China’s future develop- by his resignation in the wake of the the announcement of the reform and of studying the US. While we only vember, when Trump won the US Richard Nixon in Beijing, saying that “we and the US should close the past October over the last few months [the criticisms 1989 of China over the Tiananmen square  Deng Xiaoping’s approach toward Sino-US ties still provides insight today incident] and open up the future.” Source: Global Times – Agencies Graphics: GT PAST PRAGMATISM

Scan to read and share Citizens in Shenzhen, South China’s Guangdong Province, visit a portrait of Deng Xiaoping on story on your phone Sunday, who passed away that day 20 years ago. Photo: CFP Inset: US President Jimmy Carter welcomes Deng Xiaoping in Washington, US. Deng made the Page Editor: huangjingjing@ frst official visit by a Chinese leader to the US from January 28 to February 5, 1979, opening a globaltimes.com.cn new era in China-US relations. Photo: Gilbert UZAN/CFP 12-13 Monday February 20, 2017 INDEPTH

he Chinese Commerce Ministry China’s deci- the most unsafe advantage in confronting the UN Secu- and General Administration of sion to cease coal The international country in the rity Council resolutions. TCustoms announced Saturday imports from community will never world. Strategists When two countries have a huge that China would suspend all imports North Korea dem- tend to believe that gap in the strength of conventional of coal from North Korea starting Feb- onstrates that the allow North Korea to with the advance- forces, the weaker side is unable to ruary 19 until the end of 2017 to imple- international com- possess nuclear weapons. ment of North deter the other by developing nuclear ment UN Resolution 2321. Last month, munity has moved Korea’s nuclear weapons. Some countries, including China released a new list of items closer in sanc- and missile tech- Ukraine and Kazakhstan, abandoned banned for export to North Korea and tioning Pyongyang, which will find it nology, a military clash between the their nuclear weapon ambitions after the decree is unprecedented. much more difficult to break sanctions US, South Korea and the North will the disintegration of the former Soviet About 40 percent of North Korea’s by creating confrontations among big eventually break out. The possession of Union because they realized nuclear foreign currency is said to be earned powers. The international community nuclear weapons is more likely to bring weapons are of no use to them. from coal exports to China. Therefore, will never allow North Korea to possess conflict to North Korea rather than help If the current confrontation drags China’s latest decision is considered nuclear weapons. Pyongyang should be it avoid war. on, North Korea’s isolation may last very powerful. Coming after the death conscious of this reality. Even if North Korea is able to pro- for decades, which could become the of Kim Jong-nam, some Western ana- Pyongyang so far has displayed a duce nuclear weapons that can be used source of a variety of political risks. lysts hold it is “a response to the assassi- confrontational stance that it would not for actual combat, it will be unlikely to Pyongyang needs to think carefully nation incident.” Scholars interviewed abandon its nuclear weapons in any form a deterrent. All the great powers about whether nuclearization is benefi- by the Global Times all agreed that the eventuality. The sharp confrontation do not believe North Korea dare launch cial to it or not. Despite participating in speculation is ludicrous. For one thing, will last and all parties involved will suf- a pre-emptive nuclear strike, as it can- UN sanctions, Chinese society’s friend- there is still no conclusion about who is fer losses. Obviously, North Korea will not afford the subsequent devastating ship to the North remains unchanged. responsible for Kim’s death. For anoth- suffer the most. retaliation. Chinese sanctions only target at its er, Kim Jong-nam as a “political card” Its nuclear weapon program un- International society won’t yield to nuclear weapon program, and we are of Beijing doesn’t conform to the logic doubtedly impairs North Korea’s na- its rudimentary nuclear missile tech- firmly opposed to Seoul’s political fan- of contemporary Chinese diplomacy. tional security. It has made the North nology, which puts Pyongyang at a dis- tasy against Pyongyang.

Carrying tensions Voices

“The White House is running so smoothly, and believe me, I and we inherited one hell of a mess.”

Donald Trump, US President, at what he billed as a campaign rally in Florida, despite being newly elected, after his turbulent first weeks in the White House, quoted by the Telegraph on Sunday.

“Astana is the only place for Illustration: Shen Lan/GT the cessation of hostilities and Geneva is to see if there is any Deng’s legacies continue to inspire China across the years space for political discussion.”

Staffan de Mistura, UN Special Envoy for Sunday marks the 20th anniversary BSERVER enshrining economic construction as Syria, of the death of former Chinese leader O China’s long-term main task. on the upcoming Syrian peace talks in Geneva, quoted by Deng Xiaoping. As can be seen from These are far from all of Deng’s Reuters Sunday. the Internet, many Chinese remem- exploits. After bidding goodbye to ber the day and are spontaneously tion’s modernization on the basis of leftism, the nation faced the spread of commemorating Deng, one of the industrialization is a positive charac- Western values. Deng then raised the greatest men of the last century. ter that has made great contributions Four Cardinal Principles, to prevent Deng was one of the most distin- to China. China from going from one extreme guished politicians of the 20th cen- In that sense, both Mao Zedong to the other. Please send submissions to [email protected]. Pieces should tury, and is addressed by the Chinese and Deng Xiaoping fulfilled their Deng’s speech during his south- be no longer than 800 words. The opinion expressed in the published articles are those of the writer alone and do not necessarily reflect the government respectfully as the “chief political missions. The reform and ern tour in 1992 was another adjust- position of the Global Times. The Global Times reserves the right to edit designer of reform and opening-up.” opening-up that Deng promoted ment to reform and opening-up. So- the articles for length and clarity. Inquiry: (8610) 65367563 As time goes by, historical evalua- was of greater significance than any cialist market economic theory was tions of him may be higher than that. other revolution in the world. Most comprehensively established after Check out our mobile apps for iPhone, iPad and Android During the years in which Deng pro- social reform is achieved through that. After several twists, turns and foundly influenced China from the revolution, which tends to come at revisions, socialism with Chinese beginning of reform and opening-up a huge social price, and many fail to characteristics was formed with clear until the 1990s, he received plenty transform into real social progress. outlines and direction. Follow us on of praise, but was also a controver- Reform, on the other hand, comes at The greatness of Deng lies in his Twitter sial figure at the same time. Look- a low price but is more likely to fail success. He gifted the following gen- http://twitter.com/globaltimesnews ing back, as more time has elapsed, due to strong resistance. Successful erations an abundant, solid political the more overwhelming the compli- reforms in history are thus extremely legacy. He promoted China’s mod- Facebook ments and admiration toward him rare both in China and abroad, let ernization, changed the country’s http://facebook.com/globaltimesnews both in and outside China are. alone successful reformers. social landscape and generally set a The pursuit of independence and Deng enhanced the principle of sustainable development path. Sina Weibo prosperity has been the main theme seeking truth from facts while strong- http://weibo.com/globaltimescn of modern China with a majority of ly initiating the idea of emancipating Page Editor: [email protected] The Global Times is published six times a week policies during the period focused on the mind, leading China away from from Monday to Saturday. it. Whoever could help realize the na- its long-term swerve to the left, thus Monday February 20, 2017 15 ASIANREVIEW Trump-Abe summit won’t alter US’ policy

By Li Ruoyu apanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and US President Donald Trump held a summit meeting on February 10 in Washington DC. Abe’s tour took place when Trump’s newly released immigration ban attracted widespread criticism. Tokyo was hoping that the visit, considered as Japan’s timely support to the White House, can help build a close personal relationship between Abe and Trump. After the meeting, Abe traveled to Trump’s private resort in Florida via Air Force One to spend the weekend together with the US president. Japa- nese media widely reported the story as proof that their personal relationship has been solidified. As a matter of fact, attempting to achieve Japan’s diplomatic goals through developing personal ties with foreign leaders has been Abe’s Illustration: Liu Rui/GT usual diplomatic tactic. According to an article published in The Asahi Shimbun on April 30 last have a big impact on diplomatic rela- ated a great disturbance in the global Washington relations will only make year, “Abe has repeatedly held meetings tions between countries. community with his belief that many matters worse. Trump won’t be pleased with Russian President Vladimir Putin This time, Abe brought a package iron-clad laws in international relations with it. That’s why he mentioned the in an effort to develop a closer personal which is expected to generate 700,000 can be sold at the right price. Tokyo has “very warm conversation” with Chinese relationship to resolve the long-stand- US jobs and help create a $450 billion paid an enormous economic price for President Xi Jinping during the joint ing territorial dispute over the Northern market to Trump. This is perhaps the a promise that has only been reiterated press conference with Abe. Territories.” In Trump’s case, Abe has main reason behind the latter’s smiley without any practical action. If Japan The Trump-Abe summit will not not only given him a golf driver when faces. For Japan, apart from its highly really needs Americans to support its overturn the current trend in the Asia- they first met in November, but also hyped friendship with Trump, the most territorial claims at the cost of their Pacific region. Compared with China, played 27 holes of golf with Trump on pragmatic achievement on this trip is lives one day, will Abe be able to offer which is in persistent pursuit of peace- this trip. Therefore, some media are Trump’s assurance that the US-Japan what Trump asks for? For the moment, ful development, North Korea, which calling the meeting “golf diplomacy.” Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and it is unknown whether US will grant just launched a ballistic missile, is more Trump’s smile can be seen at all Security covers the Diaoyu Islands. But Tokyo’s wish. likely a variable that can trigger greater times during Abe’s visit. But do their the assurance has also been made by Apart from practical interests, regional tension. After all, whether Abe smiling faces represent what they really former US presidents. For instance, national image, which is established on and Trump feel like old friends at the think? Can personal ties between heads Barack Obama said in April 2014 that morality and justice, is also a critical fac- first summit meeting, the imaginary of states bridge the gap in their national the Diaoyu Islands “fall within the tor in building diplomacy. The Diaoyu China threat theory won’t be the factor interests? scope of Article 5 of the US-Japan Treaty Islands are an inherent part of China’s to hold together US-Japan ties. It is common sense in international of Mutual Cooperation and Security.” In territory. This is a widely acknowledged politics that the objective of any coun- other words, Trump got a lucrative gift fact. Denying it will undoubtedly break The author is an assistant research fellow at tries’ foreign policies is to advance their from an overjoyed Japan by striking up the current global order. Since the im- the Institute of Japanese Studies, Chinese own national interests. That being said, the same old tune. migration ban has already blotted the Academy of Social Sciences. opinion@ personal ties among top leaders do not Since assuming office, Trump cre- US national image, sabotaging Beijing- globaltimes.com.cn South China Sea may see new waves as Carl Vinson begins patrolling

By Li Jie USS Ronald Reagan in Yokosu- continue its construction work In the past few years, the The South China Sea is ka, Japan. These will contribute on the islands and reefs in the US administration under then China’s largest body of water According to the US Navy, Nim- to the US’ mission in this area. South China Sea and protect president Barack Obama lim- with the most abundant natu- itz-class aircraft carrier USS According to Western me- its rights and interests. In addi- ited the US Navy operations ral resources. It occupies an Carl Vinson began patrols in the dia, one of the goals for Carl tion, China has to make more in disputed areas such as the important position on the 21st South China Sea amid tensions Vinson in the South China Sea efforts to improve its relation- Nansha Islands and did not Century Maritime Silk Road. on Saturday. It arrived at Naval is to implement the “freedom ship with countries around the perform freedom of navigation Because of its significance, the Base Guam on February 10 af- of navigation” cruise. The free- South China Sea, and reach operations in the South China Trump administration will cer- ter leaving San Diego. dom of navigation claimed by a consensus that the territo- Sea from 2012 to 2015 so as to tainly be involved in the region The aircraft carrier belongs Washington means US military rial disputes should be solved avoid unnecessary clashes. to curb China and maximize to the US Navy Third Fleet, vessels are free to go through through consultation and ne- After all, frequent US activi- the US interests. which is in charge of the East territorial waters of other coun- gotiation among the countries ties in the waters can easily lead By sending Carl Vinson to Pacific and North Pacific region tries. This is an arbitrary prin- involved. to clashes with China. Obama’s the South China Sea, it appears since WWII. But it is now sent ciple. The US’ frequent criticism restriction has to some extent that the US wants to create on missions to the western Pa- China should strongly object of China’s construction activi- prevented such scenario from provocations and drive a wedge cific. This proves that the US to the US in this case. Having ties in the South China Sea is happening. Recently, a Chinese between China and the relevant military will increase its provo- freedom of navigation is rea- unjustified since the South early warning aircraft nearly countries. This may trigger fric- cation and involvement in the sonable in certain areas in the China Sea islands are China’s collided with a US Navy pa- tions or even military clashes South China Sea. But, it is un- open sea. But, in an exclusive inherent territory. trol plane. In matters like this, between China and the US. certain what the degree, scale economic zone over which a By chastising China, the US Trump needs to learn from his and way the US intervention in country has exclusive rights is trying to obstruct China’s predecessor. The author is a Beijing-based the region will be. to explore and use the marine construction and inviting its al- Among China’s surround- naval expert. opinion@ After Carl Vinson arrives in resources, the US’ freedom of lies in the region to be involved ing maritime regions, the globaltimes.com.cn the western Pacific, it can get navigation does not apply and it so as to disturb the peace and South China Sea is one that familiar with the maritime situ- may harm the economic inter- stability in the South China attracts the most interest from Page Editor: sunxiaobo@ ation, which facilitates its co- ests of other countries. Sea. Washington wants to make the US, which thus poses the globaltimes.com.cn operation with aircraft carrier Besides, China needs to its hegemonic presence known. biggest threat to China. 16 Monday February 20, 2017 FORUM Time for a reset in China-US relations

By Robert A. Manning principle that should be con- still too long. ing problem which requires understandings on the global sidered in Sino-US economic If cash-rich Chinese firms, enhanced cooperation. As two commons as well as nuclear, ven if Donald Trump relations: reciprocity. On trade, some of whom have been nuclear-armed states, we are space, cyber and missile had not won the US both sides have the WTO to seeking to buy US technol- vulnerable to mutual destruc- defenses. This will not be easy Epresidential election, help arbitrate trade disputes. ogy companies, for example, tion. or quick, but a framework for some rethinking of US-China The US is concerned about want access to the US market, Unimpeded access to space stability with more transpar- policy would have likely oc- subsidies and other advan- Beijing will have to remove is another area where both ency and clear-cut rules are curred. The core assumptions tages that Chinese firms have. restrictions for US firms to countries are increasingly de- necessary. underlying the bipartisan con- Obama filed 16 anti-dumping invest in China. A BIT would pendent for digital economies There is already overlap on sensus that guided US policy cases against China. deepen Sino-US economic ties and militaries. In the air and US and Chinese interests on from Nixon through Obama The most important tool to and help expand trade on a maritime domains, the US and global issues such as counter- have eroded. The question now strengthen Sino-US economic more level playing field. Chinese navies are in increas- terrorism, counter-narcotics, is: what ideas and principles relations would be a Bilateral For resetting the political ing proximity. We have begun and climate change. And there should guide a Sino-US reset? Investment Treaty (BIT). This and strategic aspect of the to reduce risks for conflicts by is potential to expand the From the beginning, it would create reciprocal access Sino-US ties, the guiding agreeing to protocols to give already considerable coopera- has been a relationship that for investment and expand principle should be: mu- notification and avoid inciden- tion. is partly cooperative, partly trade. The US and China have tual vulnerability. The US and tal air or sea clashes. In regard to the structure of competitive. But there is a been negotiating on a BIT for China are both threatened by Looking ahead, there is a the relationship, there is wide- sense among US analysts that almost two years, but the US North Korea’s nuclear weapons need to construct a framework spread consensus amongst the two countries have become thinks China’s “negative list” is and missile program, a grow- for strategic stability and new China hands in the US that more competitive rather than the Strategic and Economic cooperative as China has be- Dialogue needs to be reviewed. come more assertive as a rising Illustration: Liu Rui/GT It has become a cumbersome, power. bureaucratic checklist for The strongest support for many agencies in the US and the Sino-US relationship has Chinese government. Trump come from the US business and his Chinese counterpart Xi community. But as China has Jinping should have a summit pursued more nationalistic and decide on three to four big economic policies like “Made issues to tilt the relationship in China 2025” and strength- toward cooperation and find ened State-owned enterprises, ways to better manage the dif- the US business community ferences between their respec- has become less enthusiastic tive countries. At the end of the about China. In a recent survey day, as the world’s two largest by the American Chamber economies, two largest military of Commerce in China, 80 powers and nuclear states, and percent of US businesses said two largest emitters of green- they felt less welcome in the house gas, the US and China country. must cooperate to solve global The Trump administration problems and find a balance is reviewing its China policy, of interests with each other. looking for a new bargain. World order depends on it. Trump has focused on currency issues, which are no longer The author is a Senior Fellow a major problem. The primary of the Brent Scowcroft Center issue is equal treatment on for International Security at the trade and investment. Atlantic Council. Follow him on There is a simple guiding Twitter: @RManning4. Switzerland’s denial of ‘Tibet’ nationality a blow to separatists

By Cui Hongjian rights advocate and has accepted some think how they would play the Tibet card land, which, together with China, is one “Tibetans-in-exile,” which Beijing rec- to pressure Beijing once the Buddhist of the major beneficiaries from global- The “Tibetan-in-exile” community in ognizes as separatists, claiming to pro- monk is gone. ization. Once Berne learns that it has a Switzerland has found it more difficult mote human rights. Now, some Euro- In the past, European countries have common vision with Beijing, it would to obtain an official identification of- Ti pean countries including Switzerland taken in refugees from some socialist certainly support China in its pro-glo- betan refugee since Berne revised its im- are now reviewing their alleged role as countries like Vietnam to achieve politi- balization efforts, despite the Tibet ques- migration policy and asked those Tibet- human rights defenders in light of their cal objectives after World War II. Rather tion. Western politicians used to play the ans to change their nationality to China divergent policies on the refugee crisis. than identifying them as political, eco- Dalai Lama card to show off their ideo- in July 2016. In reality, the humanitarian model the nomic or war refugees, these countries logical superiority. But, nowadays, the is- Swiss media said recently that the Western world created has been dwin- used them as political instrument to sue could be used to offset China’s clout approval rate for this group of asylum dling. exert pressure on other nations. At the in the international community. seekers fell to 50.2 percent at the end of As the international order changes, it present, economic refugees are recog- Apart from toning down the Dalai November while the rate in 2015 ranged seems inevitable for Berne to review and nized as illegal immigrants and many Lama issues, Beijing should work on from 65 to 85 percent. adjust its policies. In the short term, the war refugees from countries like Paki- finding other solutions while making ef- Switzerland, for a long time, has al- EU would be more inclined to adhere to stan and Iraq, as well as the Balkan re- forts to better integrate China’s minority lowed Tibetans to identify themselves more conservative policies by sticking to gion, have been expatriated. groups as the Tibet question wouldn’t as the citizens of “Tibet” or “Stateless.” political correctness and be the defender Berne refusing labeling the “Tibetan- vanish upon Dalai Lama’s demise. Switzerland has more than 4,000 Tibet- of traditional values against the political in-exile” as from “Tibet” or as refugees is ans, the largest “Tibetan-in-exile” group changes in the US and Britain. a result of the positive Sino-Swiss diplo- The author is director of the Department in Europe, and is a major base for Tibet- Berne’s denial of recognizing the matic cooperation. Berne must have re- of European Studies under the China an separatists on the continent. Some “Tibet” nationality has no doubt dealt alized it has more to gain from a strong Institute of International Studies. opinion@ activists would fly to places in Europe a blow to Tibetan separatists, as well as bilateral relationship with Beijing rather globaltimes.com.cn where important Chinese officials may the so-called “government-in-exile” led than supporting the Tibetan separatists. visit. by the 14th Dalai Lama. Since the in- In January, Chinese President Xi Jin- Page Editor: As a small European country, Swit- fluence of the separatists is declining, ping defended globalization at the Davos [email protected] zerland has a high profile as human some Western countries will have to re- forum during his official visit to Switzer- Monday February 20, 2017 17 VIEWPOINT Good behaviors benefit Chinese tourists

By Xu Liping n some Southeast Asian countries, immigration officers frequently ask IChinese travelers for tips. Recently, a male tourist from China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region was beaten by Vietnamese customs officers in Mong Cai, Vietnam, when he refused to pay tips upon his exit. The customs and immigration is like a country’s gate and it gives the first and last impression of a nation. Therefore, staff members at the immigration office, who are supposed to act in -ac cordance with regulations, should feel shameful when they demand tips from foreigners. Most Southeast Asian countries have developing or underdeveloped economies and incomes of the customs officers there are below average. But generally speaking, foreign tourists in these countries are financially better- off. Some travelers, especially Chinese, believe they can bribe the officers with tips so they can smoothly pass through customs. Gradually, the customs officers have developed a habit of claiming tips from Chinese travelers. Illustration: Liu Rui/GT Despite the poor management of customs officers in countries includ- media should update and distribute ing Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia and prepared to avoid unnecessary trouble. information on incidents of customs Thailand, Chinese travelers’ mindsets Sometimes, Chinese tourists may officers asking for tips and contact have made demanding tips a common flown to Southeast Asian countries by take pictures with their phones while information for Chinese embassies practice. illegal means and thus, often bribe the waiting in line at customs and immi- and consulates in a timely manner. The As China promotes the One Belt customs officers for entry. gration. This may cause a misunder- inter-governmental coordination is es- and One Road initiative, an increasing Tour groups traveling to Southeast standing as it may be considered rude sential. China’s foreign ministry should number of Chinese enterprises have ex- Asian countries are used to paying col- in some cultures. Therefore, travelers urge its Southeast Asian counterparts panded their business operations over- lective tips to the immigrant officers so need to learn some basic etiquette to step up efforts to facilitate people-to- seas. They prefer to hire workers from that the members of their tour group before going abroad. people exchanges. China given their efficiency. However, don’t have to wait in line for entry. The man beaten at Mong Cai de- As more and more Chinese people most companies don’t help their Chi- Some groups can even be exempt from serves our sympathy, but he may have now travel overseas, they need to mind nese employees to apply for work visas, customs inspection upon their exit. had verbal clashes with Vietnamese their behaviors. Instead of showing off so these workers often hold a travel visa Therefore, independent travelers are customs officers. Since border officers their economic status or being loud in when they go to work in a foreign coun- more likely to be confronted by customs are entitled to reject the entry of any public, they need to behave themselves try. This provides the customs officers officers upon entering a country, like travelers, one should always be polite to in a civilized manner, respect the local another opportunity to ask for tips to let the latest incident in Mong Cai. them. Even if a traveler is asked for tips, traditions and customs when travel- the employees pass through customs. But, this does not encourage Chi- he or she should decline it in a courte- ing abroad. Improving one’s behavior The same circumstances apply to those nese tourists to join a package tour if ous manner. can also contribute to China’s effort to who have visas that are inconsistent they want to visit Southeast Asia. On Once a conflict arises, travelers expand its soft power. with the purposes of their trips. the contrary, more Chinese are choos- should report it to the Chinese embassy As Chinese government has intensi- ing to be independent travelers and or consulate in the country and local The author is an expert on Southeast Asia fied its crackdown on prostitution in hence, need to be knowledgeable of the police. at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. recent years, some sex workers have local customs and laws, and to be well Chinese foreign ministry and the [email protected] Japanese ultra-right wingers discredited over double-faced acts

By Liang Junqian they don’t have to pay any taxes. international criticism. But last hypocritical and what a snob sibility of losing advertisement Many Jewish people support time, he was more hostile. they are. No matter what, for profits, the publisher not only Japan’s APA Group CEO Toshio the Democratic Party.” Earlier, the Japanese ho- the Japanese right-wing com- apologized, but even shut down Motoya, an extreme right wing- The comments sparked con- tel chain had refused to pull munity, upsetting the Jewish the magazine itself. er, has recently come under demnation from Jewish groups the controversial publication, people and other victims of hei- Motoya and other unapolo- international criticism again, in Canada. In response to which denied the Nanjing Mas- nous historical acts has and will getic right-wingers should and this time it was for his anti- strong resistance by the Jewish sacre, during which hundreds inevitably lead to backlash. stop their “shameful” actions. Semitic comments. Federation of Greater Vancou- of thousands of Chinese were In 1995, the Japanese maga- Or their offensive and hurtful In the February edition of ver, Motoya denied being “anti- killed, and the forced recruit- zine Marco Polo, owned by a statements and acts will dis- the group’s magazine Apple Semitic” in a statement posted ment of “comfort women,” major Japanese publisher, ran credit them even more and in- Town, distributed in at least on the Federation’s website and from its guest rooms. The ho- an article denying the Holo- cur stronger backlash. six Coast Hotels in Canada, was forced to remove the of- tel defended the publication’s caust entitled “There were no Motoya equated “international fending material. placement on grounds of “free- Nazi gas chambers.” The author is a writer with finance capital” with “Jewish “It is very unfortunate that dom of speech.” The Simon Wiesenthal Cen- the Xinhua News Agency. The capital” by saying that “Jewish my writings gave you an erro- Being habitually double- ter, an international Jewish hu- article first appeared on Xinhua. people control American infor- neous impression that I hold faced and grovelling selectively, man rights group, immediately [email protected] mation, finance, and laws, and anti-Semitic beliefs,” wrote Japanese ultra-right wingers’ protested and sent the English they benefit greatly from global- Motoya. He also promised to so-called “freedom of speech” translation of the article to com- Page Editor: sunxiaobo@ ization because they move their remove the magazines. or the alleged “historical out- panies that advertised in the globaltimes.com.cn massive profits to tax havens so The hotelier is no stranger to look” once again show how magazine. Faced with the pos- 18 Monday February 20, 2017 LIFE

Cesar (right) and Leo Troisgros cook together in the kitchen of their new family restaurant The Troisgros on February 15 in Ouches, France. Photo: AFP

he Troisgros more modern restaurant, a than Michel’s. Tveritable shrine He’s more inspired to France’s haute cuisine, by the countryside and is pulling out of the town it put very involved with our sup- on the map thanks to the three Mi- pliers.” chelin stars it has boasted since 1968. Michel said the Maison Troisgros The move out of the central town decided to move out of the town of Roanne to a rural village just eight because it wanted more space, land to kilometers away may seem modest, grow its own ingredients and better but to the Troisgros dynasty it is a sea light. change. The new, ultra-modern restaurant “It’s not an uprooting,” said Michel in a 19th-century manor estate sitting Troisgros, 58, who took over the reins on 17 hectares of land opens Saturday in 1996. “On the contrary, we are putin the sleepy village of Ouches, home ting down new roots.”  to fewer than 1,500 people. For Michel’s 30-year-old son Cesar, Great-grandson to reinvent iconic Michel, Marie-Pierre and Cesar the great-grandson of the restaurant’s served their last meals at the Roanne founder who is being groomed to three-star French restaurant restaurant – where one could enjoy head the new kitchen, Saturday’s the likes of rabbit, crab and mint move is nothing short of a rite of pas- bisque or white asparagus with chives, sage. walnut and saffron with lemon zest – “He will be another man in anoth- on January 1. er place,” said Michel, whose father The family invested eight million Pierre and uncle Jean helped start the ‘INSPIRED BY THE euros ($8.5 million) in the new estab- nouvelle cuisine craze in the 1960s. lishment, which includes a hotel with But Cesar “is not an heir like I 15 rooms. was,” Michel said, praising his son’s Floor-to-ceiling windows give “effervescent creative powers.” guests the impression of eating al “He’ll run a kitchen operation of COUNTRYSIDE’ fresco amid sculptured steel pillars his own conception.” evoking trees. The restaurant’s two Cesar, the second of Michel’s three wings flank a towering old oak tree. children, admitted, “I feel more at Rostang in Paris, the Roca brothers in them at all.” While the lunch menu will dip ease than I did in Roanne in a kitchen Spain and Thomas Keller in Califor- Cesar’s great-grandparents in price to 140 euros from the old with more than 80 years of history.” nia, Cesar started work at the family Jean-Baptiste and Marie started the restaurant’s 205 euros, dinners will be The bespectacled young man with restaurant six years ago. restaurant in 1930 at a prime location as high as 410 euros. a short-cropped beard like his father’s “I’m really proud of what my par- across from the rail station in Roanne, The family also runs restaurants in began his training at the Paul Bocuse ents achieved and... what my grand- some 100 kilometers from France’s nearby Iguerande and in Paris, as well Institute along with his younger parents did,” he said. “It’s not easy for gastronomic capital, Lyon. as in Tokyo and Moscow. brother Leo. me, because I tell myself that if I can’t Cesar’s mother Marie-Pierre said After stints with top chefs Michel do things just as well I shouldn’t do his approach to cuisine is “obviously AFP Paramount CEO Grey to depart as soon as next week – sources

Brad Grey, the chairman and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: and Viacom’s former chief much-needed cash and sup- to leave Viacom since Bak- chief executive officer of Via- Out of the Shadows and Ben- executive, Philippe Dauman. port as it attempts to grow. ish took over. In December, com Inc’s Paramount Pictures Hur. The battle began when During his tenure at Para- Denise Denson, the head of film studio is expected to leave Viacom Chief Executive Dauman, who resigned in mount, Grey was responsible distribution for Viacom, left. with an announcement com- Bob Bakish will work with an August, proposed selling a for a seven-year marketing In January, Doug Herzog, ing as early as next week, ac- interim management team at stake in Paramount against distribution deal with Marvel a 25-year veteran who oversaw cording to two sources familiar Paramount, according to one Redstone’s wishes. and the 2008 acquisition of Comedy Central and MTV, left. with the situation. of the sources. Last month, Grey helped to DreamWorks SKG for $1.6 Grey’s departure from the Paramount was at the center arrange a deal for two Chinese billion, from which Paramount Reuters studio, which he has headed of a bruising power struggle film companies, Shanghai got the Transformers franchise. for 12 years, comes after years between Viacom’s controlling Film Group and Huahua However in recent years, the Page Editor: weixi@ of underperformance, produc- shareholder, Sumner Red- Media, to invest $1 billion in studio has struggled. globaltimes.com.cn ing box office bombs such as stone, and his daughter, Shari, Paramount, giving the studio Grey is the latest executive Monday February 20, 2017 19 LIFE

‘Funky Drummer’ behind hip-hop classics dead ngelina Jolie unveiled her and she has been given Cambodian birth parents may have gone through. Clyde Stubblefield, one of new film on the horrors of the citizenship. And I wanted to know him better and funk’s defining drummers AKhmer Rouge era on Saturday The Hollywood star previously said I wanted to know this country better,” whose solo in a James Brown at the ancient Angkor Wat temple it was Maddox who pushed her to she said. song became a standard complex in Cambodia, a country the make the film. Jolie’s six children, three of whom sample for hip-hop but earned star shares a deep affinity with through At a press conference in Siem Reap, are adopted, accompanied their moth- him little money, died Satur- her adopted son Maddox. Jolie described Cambodia as a “second er for an audience with King Norodom day. He was 73. Cambodia’s king and survivors of home,” adding that she chose Loung Sihamoni before the premiere. Stubblefield’s death from the communist regime were among Ung’s book because she wanted to In a tribute to those who survived kidney failure was confirmed hundreds of people invited to the tell the story of the Khmer Rouge era the brutal regime, Jolie pushed to en- by Joey Banks, a fellow drum- debut screening of First They Killed My “through the eyes of a child.” sure the film would be both made by mer who played with him in Father, directed by Jolie and based on It also brought her closer to her Cambodians and accessible to them. his home of Madison, Wiscon- the memoirs of Loung Ung. son, she said. Almost the entire film is in the sin. Loung Ung was 5 years old when “I wanted to focus not just on the Khmer language while the cast mem- The self-taught Stubblefield Khmer Rouge troops, led by Pol Pot, war but on the love of family and on bers and much of the crew were local in 1965 joined funk legend swept into Phnom Penh plunging her the beauty of the country and in fact I hires, including the two child protago- James Brown’s band and be- family into a harrowing ordeal that saw wanted to understand what my son’s nists. came best known for the 1970 them sent to brutal labor camps before The film is also co-produced by Ri- track “Funky Drummer,” in her eventual escape to the US. thy Panh, Cambodia’s most acclaimed which Stubblefield breaks out a In its quest for an agrarian Marx- filmmaker. solo at the singer’s urging. ist utopia, the regime killed up to two He lost almost all his immediate The solo, danceable while million Cambodians between 1975-79 family during the Khmer Rouge years projecting utter confidence, through execution, starvation and but went on to produce searing years later would become one overwork. documentaries that helped break of the most frequent samples It is the second movie by Jolie to the silence surrounding the in music history as rappers tackle the subject of genocide – in 2011 genocide. built off its beat. she made a film about the Bosnian Some of the classic rap conflict featuring mostly local actors. AFP tracks to sample his solo But her latest silver screen offering include Public Enemy’s “Fight is more personal. Angelina Jolie attends a the Power,” N.W.A’s “Fuck tha Jolie adopted her first child Mad- press conference in Siem Police” and LL Cool J’s “Mama dox from an orphanage in Cambodia’s Reap Province, Cambodia on Said Knock You Out.” Saturday. Photo: IC western Battambang Province in 2002 It was not only hip-hop. His solo was sampled in George Michael’s hit “Freedom! ‘90” and in “Baby Love Child” by Japanese pop group Pizzicato Five. But artists were not required to compensate for samples until a landmark 2005 court decision. “I never got a ‘thanks,’ I never got a ‘hello, how’re you doing?’ or anything from any of the rap artists,” Stubblefield said in a 2009 documentary on sampling, Copyright Crimi- nals. Questlove, one of the most influential drummers in hip- hop, on Saturday paid tribute to Stubblefield on Instagram, ‘EYES OF writing: “The spirit of the greatest grace-note left-hand snare drummer will live on through all of us.” A CHILD’ AFP

First season of Sohu TV streaming drama ‘Fox in China Heute project to celebrate 45 years of Sino-German relations the Screen’ receives more than 330 million views A series of live performances such as ballet, clas- The first season of Chinese and production has always sic concerts and operas as well as documentary drama Fox in the Screen, one been a tradition of ours. In screenings and literature salons from Chinese of Sohu TV’s biggest self- 2016, Sohu TV released seven artists and writers will take place in Germany produced shows, has received a to eight high quality dramas. throughout 2017 to celebrate the 45th anni- total of more than 330 million We plan to double that number versary of the establishment of Sino-German views, according to a statement this year,” Zhang Chaoyang, diplomatic relations. released by the streaming CEO of Sohu TV, said during The China Heute cultural project will work platform on Sunday. a promotional event for Fox in with various German art and music festivals to The statement also said that the Screen on Friday in Beijing. present Chinese performance and contemporary topics related to the show have Zhang explained that Sohu art in Germany this year, according to China’s been viewed more than 65 mil- TV is looking to establish itself Ministry of Culture, which is also organizing the lion times on Chinese social as not only a streaming plat- project. The National Ballet of China performs Soul of media platform Sina Weibo. form, but also a content creator Xie Jinying, director of the Bureau for Crane in Beijing in May 2016. Photo: CFP Straying away from the by partnering with excellent External Cultural Relations at the Ministry of recent popular trend of producers and scriptwriters on Culture, said at a press conference on Wednes- of China and the Hamburg Ballet will stage Soul adapting online novels into original dramas. day that “culture and art are universal languages of Crane in Hamburg in July as part of the city’s streaming shows, Fox in the and bridges that can help people in different Hamburg Ballet Days. Additionally, a collection Screen is based on an original Global Times countries to understand and communicate with of Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) dy- script about three fox spirits each other. The China Heute will help increase nasty portraits will be on display at the Staatliche who help the main character Page Editor: Germans’ understanding of China and deepen Museen Zu Berlin in October. change her destiny. [email protected] the friendship between the two countries.” “Original IP development As part of the celebrations, the National Ballet Global Times 20 Monday February 20, 2017 LIFE

at Night Alone, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Japan co-production Mr. Long all took part in the main competition. However, only On the Beach at Night Alone took GOLDEN home a Bear. Have a Nice Day, a Chinese animated crime/comedy film is the first animated feature film from Asia to make it into List of winners the Competition section at the Ber- NIGHT linale since Japanese animated film Golden Bear for Best Film Spirited Away by Miyazaki Hayao took  Asian films tackle LGBT issues at ffOn Body and Soul by Ildikó Enyedi part 15 years ago. The film’s producer, Yang Cheng, Berlin International Film Festival wrote on his personal WeChat page Silver Bear Grand that “the reaction from the audience, Jury Prize By Li Jingjing in Berlin our peers and the press have made ffFélicité by Alan Gomis us feel great and we will continue to he results of the 67th make good films as usual.” Berlin International Asian films also shined in other TFilm Festival (Berlinale) Silver Bear Alfred sections. In the Generation section, were announced on Saturday Bauer Prize (for a Ben Niao (The Foolish Bird) from night, with director Ildikó feature film that opens China won a Special Mention from Enyedi’s Hungarian romance new perspectives) the jury. filmOn Body and Soul taking ffPokot by Agnieszka Holland The film focuses on a 16-year-old home the night’s biggest prize girl whose parents move away to – the Golden Bear for Best Film. Other Side of Hope, which tells the another city for work, leaving her to “The jury fell in love with this stories of refugees. Silver Bear for deal with loneliness, being bullied and movie not only because of her superior “It takes a great artist to actu- Best Director relationship troubles on her own. The craftsmanship, but because it reminds ally move us politically. No one has ffAki Kaurismäki for The Other Side film reflects China’s current social -is us of a word we often use too easily, language like his,” jury member Dora of Hope sue of “left-behind” children. compassion,” said jury president, Bouchoucha Fourati said, describing Small Talk, directed Huang Hui- Dutch director Paul Verhoeven, at the the film. chen from Taiwan, won Best Docu- award ceremony. Austria actor Georg Friedrich won Silver Bear for Best Actress mentary at the Teddy Award, a queer The film’s love story takes place in the Silver Bear for Best Actor for his ffKim Min-hee in On the Beach at film award at Berlinale. a slaughterhouse in Budapest where performance in the filmBright Nights, Night Alone by Hong Sang-soo In her film, Huang documents two people realize they have the same while South Korean actress Kim the 20-year relationship between her dreams at night and try to make them Minhee won the Silver Bear for Best and her mother, who is a lesbian, and a reality. Actress for her performance in On Silver Bear for Best Actor explores her mother’s little-talked- “We couldn’t know if the audience the Beach at Night Alone, directed by ffGeorg Friedrich in Bright Night by about past. would join us because this film is Berlinale veteran Hong Sang-soo from Thomas Arslan Close-Knit from Japan’s Naoko approachable only with a generous South Korea. Ogigami won the Teddy Award’s heart,” Enyedi said at a press confer- A Fantastic Woman, a film depicting Special Jury Award. The film focuses ence after the award ceremony. a transgender woman, won the Silver Bear for Best on a family in which the mother is Félicité, a multi-country Silver Bear for Best Screen- Screenplay transgender and the couple’s daughter production, depicts a play. ffSebastián Lelio and Gonzalo is actually the husband’s niece. woman working as a Maza for A Fantastic Woman by “This is the only film that made singer living in Kin- Asian perspective Sebastián Lelio me and classmates want to cry many shasa, Congo, and the Asian films per- times,” a graduate student of tough turn her life formed rather well filmmaking at the University takes after her son has this year. Have a Silver Bear for College London, Hao Yilei, an accident. Nice Day from the Outstanding Artistic told the Global Times. Finish director Chinese mainland, Contribution “Its themes include fam- Aki Kaurismäki won South Korea’s ff Dana Bunescu for ily relations, parent-child the Silver Bear for On the the editing in Ana, relations and transgender, Best Director for Beach Mon Amour by homosexual and adoles- his filmThe Cãlin Peter Netzer cence issues. It is very deep and heartwarming,” she said.

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Hometown hero Brett Rum- ford nailed his final drive to beat Thai teenager Phachara Khongwatmai 2&1 in the six- hole match-play final to win the inaugural World Super 6 title in Perth on Sunday and claim back his European Tour card. Despite the innovative format, the 39-year-old Austra- lian put together what was effectively a wire-to-wire victory at the Lake Karrinyup Country Club, having finished the first three rounds of stroke play with a five-shot lead. The final was all square until the fourth hole when Rum- ford somehow got himself out of the trees, over a bunker and onto the green with a brilliant second shot before sinking a Zhao Jiwei (left) of the Liaoning Flying Leopards is blocked by Zhang Zhengxin of the Zhejiang Golden Bulls during their Chinese 10-foot (3.05-meter) putt to take Basketball Association game on Sunday in Benxi, Liaoning Province. The Flying Leopards routed the Golden Bulls 155-95. Photo: CFP the lead. At the par-three penulti- mate hole, Rumford hit his tee  shot to within three feet of the Victory confirms Austrian’s status as top male skier flag, while Phachara found the greenside bunker and had no luck putting his way out of the sand to effectively concede the Hirscher wins world slalom contest. “It’s amazing, particularly with the new format, the first win in that,” said Rumford. It was a sixth European Marcel Hirscher was at his im- Hirscher’s victory was his als at three different editions. on a giant slalom bronze by just Tour victory for Rumford, who perious best as he sped to vic- sixth world gold, two coming In a nerve-racking race down five-hundredths of a second. turned professional the year tory in the slalom at the World in team events, and confirmed the Suvretta course basked in This time around Kristof- after Phachara was born, and Ski Championships on Sunday his status as men’s skiing’s top sunshine, Austrian duo Marco fersen, winner of five slaloms resecured him the tour rights to add to his triumph in the performer, although he only Schwarz and Michael Matt, this season and considered a he lost at the end of last year. giant slalom and silver in the has one Olympic medal to his second- and third-fastest after gold medal contender here, was While Rumford dominated combined. name – slalom silver in the the first run, dropped valuable 0.11 seconds short of a medal. all four days of the tourna- The 27-year-old Austrian, Sochi Games. seconds to eventually finish Norway, in the absence of the ment, Phachara had trailed by who also won the world slalom Only Austrian Toni Sailer seventh and eighth. injured Aksel Lund Svindal, nine shots after Round 3 and title on home snow in Schlad- (seven) has more world titles Sweden’s Mattias Hargin finished fourth in all five of the grabbed the 24th and final spot ming in 2013, led after the first than Hirscher, who is now level looked to be set for a podium men’s events in St Moritz. in Sunday’s match-play knock- run and went on to clock a com- with France’s Jean-Claude Killy. place, with a healthy lead time Britain’s Dave Ryding, out series with a par at the third bined total of 1 minute 34.75 Hirscher has also notched as he dropped into the bottom whose second place in the Kitz- playoff hole. seconds. up 43 victories and 105 podi- section, only to ski out. buehel slalom in January was The 17-year-old was on fire That was a massive 0.68 ums in the World Cup and is Teammate Andre Myhrer, the country’s best for a male on Sunday, however, and wins seconds ahead of teammate seemingly on track to claim a winner at last season’s World skier since 1981, also threat- over locals Sam Brazel, Lucas Manuel Feller, whose silver was sixth consecutive overall title on Cup finals on the same slope, ened in the first run, in which Herbert, Matt Millar and Jason a career-first podium finish. the season-long circuit. came in sixth, one place behind he was fourth-fastest. But a bad Scrivener put him into the final Germany’s Felix Neu- His slalom/giant slalom Russia’s Alexander Khoroshi- mistake on the second descent of the event, also co-sanctioned reuther, victor in 10 World Cup double was the first since leg- lov. saw him clock up just the 22nd- by the Australasian PGA and slaloms and previously a silver endary Italian Alberto Tomba There was the disappoint- fastest time for 11th place over- Asian Tours. and bronze medal winner at achieved the feat in 1996. The ment of another fourth place all. the last two worlds, claimed Austrian also becomes the first for Henrik Kristoffersen, the AFP bronze, at 0.93 seconds. man to claim three world med- Norwegian having missed out AFP

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Figure skating despite placing second behind Japan’s Golf 17th followed by a brilliant birdie at the Olympic champion Yuzuru Hanyu in 18th to reach 10-under 282. Chen winner at Four Continents the free skate at Gangneung Ice Arena. Jang claims Australian Open Jang defeated Denmark’s Nanna American Nathan Chen skated to the Skating to the music of “The Polovt- South Korea’s Jang Ha-na stormed to Madsen on seven-under 285 with a men’s title at the Four Continents sian Dances,” 17-year-old Chen landed a three-shot victory in the Australian group of four including world No.2 Figure Skating Championships in five quadruple jumps. His total score Open at Royal Adelaide with a blistering Ariya Jutanugarn at joint third. South Korea on Sunday, cementing his of 307.46 was enough to see off Hanyu eagle-birdie finish on Sunday. status as one of the sport’s rising stars and win his debut Four Continents The world No.6 claimed her fourth Agencies and one to watch at next year’s Winter competition. Chen rose to prominence LPGA tournament win with a sensa- Olympic Games. last month when he became the first tional flourish to her final round. Page Editor: Having won the short program on skater to land five quads in free skate to Jang, 24, conjured a remarkable fin- [email protected] Friday, Chen claimed the overall title win the 2017 US nationals. ish with an eagle from long range at the Monday February 20, 2017 23 SPORTS  First non-league club to reach FA Cup quarterfinals since 1914 Lincoln boss hails ‘life-changing’ run

The manager of non-league 1914 to reach the quarterfinals They had already knocked est senior football knockout “And it has galvanized our team Lincoln City said his club of the FA Cup. out Ipswich and Brighton, tournament was slowly being football club.” had been on a “life-changing” “It was an incredible feel- from English football’s second- downgraded. Burnley manager Sean run in the FA Cup after they ing really to win the game like tier Championship, during But Cowley believes East Dyche, who as a player featured knocked Premier League side we did,” said Lincoln manager their Cup run before seeing off Midlands club Lincoln’s suc- in Chesterfield’s surprise run Burnley out of the competi- Danny Cowley. Burnley. cess has highlighted the endur- to the FA Cup semifinals in tion in one of the all-time great “We grew in confidence I For several seasons now, ing appeal of the FA Cup. 1997, was aware of the scale of upsets. thought and to score with a with Premier League and even “I think maybe we’ve Lincoln’s achievement. Sean Raggett’s 89th-minute set piece, which we work really Championship clubs fielding brought some of the magic “We’ve unfortunately played header secured a famous 1-0 hard on, was pretty apt.” under-strength sides in the back,” he said. “It is a brilliant a part in Lincoln’s fairy tale and win for Lincoln at Turf Moor as Saturday’s stunning success FA Cup, because of commit- cup competition. Whoever says obviously we didn’t want to do the Imps, who play in the fifth- saw Lincoln into the last eight ments in other competitions, the FA Cup is dead hasn’t lived that,” said Dyche. tier National League, became of the FA Cup for the first time there have been fears that in Lincoln for the last six to the first non-league club since in their history. the status of the world’s old- eight weeks. AFP

RoundUp Inter win in Bologna Danilo Football D’Ambrosio (right) of Bielsa to coach Lille Inter Milan Marcelo Bielsa will return to competes Ligue 1 next season when he for the ball takes charge of Lille two years with Bruno Petkovic after leaving Olympique de of Bologna Marseille unexpectedly. during an The former Argentina Italian Serie coach, nicknamed “El Loco” A match on (the Crazy One) quit Marseille Sunday in after just one league game Bologna, in the 2015-16 season, citing Italy. conflict with the club’s man- Brazilian agement. striker Bielsa, 61, also left Italy’s Gabriel Lazio abruptly last year only Barbosa two days after being appointed. handed Inter Under Bielsa, who also all three points and coached Chile from 2007 to kept his 2011, Argentina won the South side within American qualifiers for the reach of the 2002 World Cup but failed to European get past the first round in the places with tournament. his maiden In 2004, Argentina won Serie A strike the Olympic gold medal before in the 1-0 Bielsa resigned after six years win. Photo: IC in charge and was replaced by Jose Pekerman. Villarreal edge Sociedad Villarreal kept their hopes of FA Cup 5th-round shocks are proof that romance is not dead Champions League football next season alive as Samu Castillejo’s 93rd-minute “Football, bloody hell!” Those be joined in the pot by fellow inspiration going into their winner secured a vital 1-0 win were Sir Alex Ferguson’s National League side Sutton own fifth-round tie against TALKINGBALLS at Real Sociedad in La Liga on famous words to describe United, at least until the final Leicester City. The Lions Sunday. his Manchester United side’s whistle of their game on Mon- had already knocked out JONATHAN WHITE Just a second win of 2017 comeback over Bayern Munich day night. Bournemouth and Watford moved sixth-placed Villarreal to in the 1999 Champions League Sutton were actually meant on their way to the fifth round, unique qualities of the FA Cup. within two points of Sociedad final, but they would have been to host Lincoln City in the but they must have thought that Cynics will instead argue and six of Atletico Madrid in just as apt to describe the FA league this weekend, instead it was the end of the road when that Premier League sides los- fourth. Cup this weekend. the visitors to Gander Green they went down to 10 men after ing is proof they no longer take The visitors suffered the Nowhere more than Turf Lane are Arsenal. While Lin- 52 minutes. the competition seriously, but ignominy of a 4-0 thrashing at Moor, where non-league Lin- coln City beating Burnley is They found a hero in full- tell that to the players and fans home to Roma in the Europa coln City’s impudence in beat- rightfully being talked about back Shaun Cummings, whose of Lincoln City and Millwall. League on Thursday. ing Premier League Burnley as one of the biggest shocks 90th-minute goal made it an- The FA Cup remains the per- However, the best defense with a goal at the death of a in the history of the competi- other miserable result for the fect antidote to modern football in La Liga recovered to record full-blooded cup tie has rightly tion, a Sutton victory would English champions but en- and – in a world where every a 12th clean sheet in 23 games dominated the headlines. be even bigger: There are 104 sured Millwall are in the quar- Premier League team is among this season as Villarreal Lincoln City might be a places separating the sides and terfinals. The League One side the world’s 30 richest clubs – a enjoyed the better chances. professional team and the Na- the visitors have won the cup a will be in the pot with Champi- great leveler. Maybe the magic tional League leaders, but they joint-record 11 times. onship side Huddersfield, who of the cup matters more than Agencies have beaten a side 81 places Sutton must fancy their held Manchester City to a goal- ever. above them in the pyramid and chances, though, after seeing less draw on Saturday. Page Editor: become the first non-league what happened in Burnley at This is all a great sign of the The author is a Shanghai-based wanghuayun@ globaltimes.com.cn team to reach the quarterfinal Saturday lunchtime. Millwall strength in the lower divisions freelance writer. jmawhite@gmail. stage in 103 years. They will certainly did, citing the result as of English football and the com SPORTS 24 MONDAY FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Indiana Pacers forward Glenn Robinson  competes in the Unheralded Jones runner-up in contest slam dunk contest during the NBA All-Star Saturday Night in New Orleans. Photo: IC Robinson dunks best

Glenn Robinson scored a the ball, and leaped over the perfect 50 points on his final 2016-17 trio, ducking his head to dunk to capture the NBA All- NBA prevent himself from hitting Star Game’s slam dunk title the rim. on Saturday after leaping over three people for “My head was at the rim,” Robinson said. a dynamic two-handed reverse jam. “I’m an explosive player. Indiana Pacers forward Robinson jumped “I got some great help to get this done. On a over teammate Paul George, the club’s mascot couple of dunks my head was at the rim.” and a Pacer cheerleader to easily win the Houston Rockets guard Eric Gordon, the contest over Phoenix Suns rookie Derrick NBA’s leading three-point shooter this season, Jones. defeated Cleveland Cavaliers guard Kyrie “I wanted to bring some energy to the Irving in the overtime round of the three-point competition,” Robinson said. “I wanted to do contest, scoring 21 points to Irving’s 18 in the something no one has ever seen.” extra period. In the final round, Robinson faced off Gordon nailed several clutch jumpers, against Jones, who advanced from the four including a final shot in the second round to original competitors. The Los Angeles send the contest into overtime. Clippers’ DeAndre Jordan and the Orlando “It’s all about getting hot,” Gordon said. Magic’s Aaron Gordon were eliminated in the “All of us know, as shooters, anybody can earlier rounds. get hot on any given night. Tonight was my The NBA has struggled to get its marquee night. As shooters, it’s all about being consis- players in the slam dunk contest and that was tent.” underlined this year by the inclusion of the The biggest surprise in the first round undrafted Jones. of the three-point contest was that reigning Very few NBA fans know who Jones is as champion Klay Thompson was knocked out he has played just 24 minutes this season in after scoring just 18 points. the league after spending the majority of his New York Knicks center Kristaps Porzingis rookie campaign with Phoenix’s development won the skills challenge by defeating Utah league team, the Northern Arizona Suns. Jazz forward Gordon Hayward in the final. Jones didn’t record his first dunk in the NBA until Wednesday night’s contest against AFP the Los Angeles Lakers. Robinson’s perfect 50 points on the win- Page Editor: wanghuayun@ ning dunk gave him a two-dunk total of 94 in globaltimes.com.cn the finals. He ran from the right side, grabbed

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www.globaltimes.cn BUSINESSMONDAY FEBRUARY 20, 2017 INDUSTRY craft to orbit Mars, signaling By Zhang Ye a regional rivalry with China which suffered a failure in its Following India’s record-breaking sat- India’s satellite launch Mars mission in 2012. ellite launch last week, China will likely Zhang believes that India’s fast-track the commercialization of its record-breaking launch will rocket launches to vie for the world’s speed up China’s commer- burgeoning small satellite launch mar- ramps up space race cialization of rocket launches. ket, according to Chinese satellite ex- He noted that India did a bet- perts. ter job promoting its launch On Wednesday, India’s space agency services internationally than successfully put 104 satellites into orbit  China to speed up commercialization China. from a single rocket, smashing the pre- Nearly all of its 103 smaller vious record of 37 set by Russia in 2014. in bid for small satellite business: experts satellites are from other coun- Of the 104 satellites, 103 were small tries including Israel, Kazakh- ones with a combined weight of 664 stan, Switzerland and the US. kilograms and one was a 714-kilogram 26 Earth observation satellite, according 2016 to 2025. plans to launch 27 rockets this year, Still far from the top Russia 20 19 to information released by the Indian Among them, more than triple the eight rockets With respect to the research and Space Research Organisation (ISRO). 370 small sat- it sent up last year, according to development of both military and com- US China 12 “The launch indicated that India can ellites are ex- financial records ob- mercial rocket launch services, India

send commercial satellites into space at pected to be ESA 6 5 tained by the lags behind China, the US and Russia, lower costs, giving the country’s com- deployed into Wall Street said experts. 1 petitiveness in the global race for the low- or medi- India Japan Journal. “India cannot match them yet un- burgeoning commercial space busi- um-orbit for China, a less it has enough rockets types to fulfill nesses,” Zhang Yonghe, director with communica- Iran latecomer in all satellites launches,” Zhang said. the new technology department of the tion services the sector, According to Xue Lijun, general Shanghai Engineering Center for Mic- and Earth ob- witnessed its manager assistant of Shenzhen Aero- rosatellites, told the Global Times. servation im- homegrown space Dongfanghong Development Commercial rocket launch services agery which launch ser- Ltd, India’s launch on Wednesday is a should be a promising market, fueled would repre- vice provider breakthrough in terms of numbers, but by private firms like Beijing Shareco sent a yearly Launches in 2015 Landspace not in technology. Source: Compiled by the GT Technologies Co which is intent on in- market of $1.6 Graphics: GT Technology “Technologically speaking, the fusing communication with satellites. billion on aver- Corp secured a launch did not have any big difficul- Shareco, a subsidiary of HNA age over the next satellite launch con- ties… what [Indian engineers] need to Group, focuses on developing in-flight decade. tract with Danish com- do is to avoid the conflicts among satel- Wi-Fi connectivity, which costs hun- pany Gomspace in mid-January, lites, which involves lots of calculation dreds of millions of yuan in renting sat- Commercial launch race marking the first time a private and data analysis, but is not a tough ellite services every year, Shareco CEO Over the past several years, private Chinese company obtained satel- task,” Xue told the Global Times. Xue Brooks Pan told the Global Times. firms in the US, the EU, Russia and lite launching services in the in- is a satellite expert who has participated Pan said a great amount of com- China have raised their stakes in the ternational market. State-owned in the design and development of six mercial satellites are expected to be commercial rocket launch market, aerospace firms such as China satellites. delivered in the following years to re- which experts said will grow signifi- Aerospace Science and Industry Corp The 104 satellites are mostly in the place most of the satellites in space cantly as the private demand for space- created Expace Technology Co in early same orbit, indicating that India still which were used for TV broadcasting based surveillance and communication 2016 to bid for small satellite business lacks capabilities of sending multiple but aren’t suitable for new ventures like increases. with commercial rocket launch ser- satellites into various orbits, said the Shareco’s. US company SpaceX is a veteran in vices. experts. Paris-headquartered space consul- the market and aims to make rocket The Wednesday launch is India’s lat- tancy Euroconsult anticipates that a launches more affordable with its re- est triumph for its space program. Page Editor: total of 560 satellites will be launched usable Falcon 9 rocket. The company, In 2014, India became the fourth [email protected] by 40 commercial companies from founded by billionaire Elon Musk, country to successfully send a space- People watch as India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle carrying 104 satellites lifts off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, India on Wednesday. Photo: CFP

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DEBT Mongolia economic bailout Mongolia has agreed with the IMF and other partners Lotte ‘near deal’ on THAAD site on a $5.5 billion economic stabilization package, according to a statement from the IMF on Sunday. The Asian Development Bank, World Bank and bilateral partners, including Japan and South Korea, POLICY Germany on Saturday. During the But the Lotte’s deal with the South will provide up to $3 billion, while the People’s Bank By Li Xuanmin conference, Wang voiced China’s op- Korean government will change of China will expand a swap line worth 15 billion yuan position to THAAD, stressing that things, Lü said. “As an influential ($2.19 billion), the IMF said. South Korea’s fifth-largest conglom- “the security of a country should not consortium, the company could have The IMF will offer three-year loans worth about erate Lotte Group is expected to sign be achieved at the expense of the se- determined the land use itself and re- $440 million. a land-swap deal with the South Ko- curity of others” and urging respect jected the government’s request, but rean government at the end of Febru- from South Korea, China Central now it has stood against China and INVESTMENT ary to “exchange the company’s golf Television reported. igniting anger among the Chinese Slower property growth course with land owned by the South Analysts said that Lotte’s business public.” China’s investment in the property sector will likely Korean military for the deployment in China would take a hit if the land- In China’s social media platforms expand at a slower pace in 2017 as the government of the advanced US missile defense swap took place. like Weibo, a topic titled “boycott looks to curb speculation, while infrastructure spend- system THAAD,” a source close to Since entering the Chinese market Lotte” has been generated. A neti- ing is expected to maintain a double-digit growth, State the matter told the Global Times over in 1994, Lotte has opened more than zen named Yuedongxinqing listed media cited a government adviser as saying. the weekend. 100 supermarkets and five depart- all member companies of Lotte and Li Wei, president of the State Council’s Develop- Lotte’s golf course is located in the ment stores in 24 provinces and mu- called for a boycott against the brand. ment Research Center, made the comments over Seongiu region. In its stead, the com- nicipalities, according to a statement “Apparently, the company has made the weekend at a seminar, the China Economic Daily pany will receive government-owned on its website. Meanwhile, duty-free a choice between Chinese consumers reported on Sunday. land in Gyeonggi-do Namyangju, the stores in Seoul, capital of South Ko- and the South Korean government, Li also said exports would likely show growth this source said. rea, earn 70 percent of their revenue so why are we hesitating and not year, as commodity prices stabilize and the impact of Land valuation has been com- from Chinese tourists. fighting back?” an appreciation in the US dollar is gradually absorbed. pleted, the source said. He also noted Lü Chao, a researcher with the “We are going to make its Chinese that once the deal is signed, the South Liaoning Academy of Social Sciences, stores go bankrupt and withdraw Reuters – Global Times Korean government will speed up de- said that the northeastern region was from our country,” he said in his We- ploying THAAD, which could change an example. ibo account on Sunday. the geopolitical situation on the Ko- “Lotte has been one of the most On February 8, the construction rean Peninsula and harm China’s popular South Korean firms in that work at a multi-billion dollar real Dozens of Chinese strategic and security interests. region, thanks to some local govern- estate project operated by Lotte in The deal came as Chinese Foreign ments’ support policy and its busi- Shenyang, Northeast China’s Liaon- companies use ‘Ivanka’ Minister Wang Yi met with his South ness concepts, which are close to lo- ing Province, was halted by Chinese Korean counterpart Yun Byung-se at cal consumers’ lifestyle,” Lü told the regulators after a fire inspection, Re- in corporate names the Munich Security Conference in Global Times on Sunday. uters reported.

Deep attraction COMPANIES Thirty-six domestic companies have registered under names that include the word Ivanka, the first name of US President Donald Trump’s daughter, since Trump was elected in November 2016. A total of 40 companies in China have registered names with the Chinese characters used to write “Ivanka,” such as Henan Ivanka E-commerce Co and Yancheng Ivanka Cosmetics Co, though four had registered before the US election in November, according to public information from the National Enterprise Credit Information Publicity System. Companies with Ivanka in their names oper- ate in a variety of industries such as cosmetics and undergarments. Many Chinese companies have borrowed the names of world leaders for their own names over the past decade, the Financial Times reported on Friday. More than 100 Chinese companies have adopted the commonly used Chinese characters for “Trump.” Excavation work is seen here at a 50-meter-deep mine pit in Dalian, Northeast China’s Liaoning Province on Most of those companies were established af- Saturday. Chinese conglomerate Dalian Wanda Group is pouring a large but undisclosed sum into turning a former ter he was elected president. limestone mine into a tourist attraction that will have hotels, a stadium and a shopping mall around the former mine and a botanical garden at the pit bottom. The number of visitors to the tourist complex is estimated to hit 23 Global Times million a year. Photo: IC Hebei cities’ steel production capacity reduction plan incomplete: newspaper

INDUSTRY Plans by Baoding, Langfang rising steel prices, according to over the 2013-15 period, said the HBIS Group Xuansteel Co Three cities in North China’s and Zhangjiakou are still in the report. The fate of workers, report, citing industry analysts. were also working on a plan to Hebei Province’s that should progress and they require time equipment and debt are all is- In August 2016, the Xinhua withdraw the company’s pro- have finished their steel pro- to assess, domestic newspaper sues that need to be properly News Agency reported that He- duction capacity. duction capacity reduction China Times reported Friday, dealt with, it said. bei Province was asking Baod- plans in October 2016 are still citing the Hebei Development At present, the profit of steel ing and Langfang to make a Global Times “in the planning and prepara- and Reform Commission. is between 200 yuan ($29.14) plan to withdraw all their pro- tion” stage, mainly due to the The reasons for this delay and 300 yuan per ton, which is duction capacity as of October Page Editor: [email protected] complex situation of these en- may be the complex situation a great improvement compared last year. terprises and rising steel prices. of steel enterprises as well as with around 10 yuan to 20 yuan Local authorities and the Monday February 20, 2017 B3 BIZMARKETS  Move aims to narrow gap between official, black market currency prices Nigeria to boost forex sales to retail buyers

Nigeria’s central bank plans to Reuters late on Saturday. dollar on the unofficial market. The bank normally sells dividuals would be required boost dollar sales for school fee The central bank disbursed “Individuals have been com- around $8,000 a week each to to present their tax certificate payment and travel abroad so $2.83 billion to critical sectors plaining of not getting dollars,” some 3,000 licensed retail op- before buying dollars, in a bid as to reduce the premium paid of the economy in December the banker said. He said the erators. to dampen demand and also on the black market and sup- and January. However, analysts outcome of the meeting with While these operators ac- boost tax coverage. port the naira, a senior banker estimated outstanding dollar the central bank was that dol- count for less than 5 percent Analysts expect the Nigerian said on Saturday. demand at around $4 billion. lars would be sold to them at of foreign currency trading in central bank to allow greater The naira is quoted on the The bank has been trying to the rate used by international Nigeria, they help drive the ex- flexibility on the currency this black market at a discount of clear the backlog via forward money transfer firms – around change rate due to the scarcity year. around 40 percent to the of- contracts sold to manufactur- 375-380 naira. of dollars on the official chan- “We think the most probable ficial interbank market, where ing, agriculture and airline In Nigeria, retail currency nel. outcome of an FX policy adjust- it has closed at 305 to the dollar companies, hoping also to help users buy dollars from licensed The central bank, under ment is a managed float, pos- since last August. drag Nigeria out of its worst re- bureaux de change (BDC). pressure from the government, sibly a new peg, but a full float The regulator met with se- cession in 25 years, triggered by However, due to the central has been pressing retail opera- is unlikely,” Yvonne Mhango, nior bankers at an industry low oil prices. bank’s inability to meet dollar tors to narrow the gulf between economist at Renaissance Capi- event on Friday to discuss ways But retail currency users demand, BDCs have tended the official and parallel - ex tal, wrote in a research note to to address dollar shortages on have been left out, fueling the to source dollars from private change rates. clients. the official market, one banker black market. On Friday, the sources and resell them at a The banker said it was who attended the meeting told naira hit a new low of 516 to the much higher margin. agreed at the meeting that in- Reuters In custody ECB official welcomes inflation rise, but says too soon for rate hike

European Central Bank (ECB) board member Sabine Lautenschlaeger has said the ECB needs to wait to see if inflation stabilizes in its target zone of just under 2 percent before interest rates can be raised, but that she hopes its bond-buying program can be scaled down before year-end. Eurozone consumer prices were up by an annual 1.8 percent in January, the highest rate since February 2013, according to a Eurostat estimate, after 1.1 percent in December. “Has inflation returned just because we’ve had one month of that kind of inflation?” Lautenschlaeger said in an interview with Ger- man Deutschlandfunk radio. “I’m very pleased to say, quite honestly, that we’re close to our target of just under 2 percent. Police escort Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong to the special prosecutors’ office in Seoul, South But what’s important for me is that it’s not a tem- Korea, on Sunday. A South Korean court on Friday issued an arrest warrant for Lee on bribery charges, according to porary, ephemeral outlier on the upside,” the of- media reports. Photo: CFP ficial said. “For January, we don’t yet know for sure. For December, it was largely due to energy prices and the so-called basis effect ... So it’s really important Fresh funds expected to send stocks gradually higher to ascertain that there is a trend, that the inflation has really returned,” she noted. “So let’s wait a few months so that we can be sure.” Chinese mainland stocks are expect- index futures trading as the govern- Other data last week showed prices rising in ed to gradually rise as more money TOCKREVIEW ment starts to gradually unwind Germany, France and Spain, three of the bloc’s appears poised to enter the market, S restrictions imposed during the 2015 four biggest economies. according to media reports. market meltdown. But eurozone core inflation, the ECB’s focus, Optimistic sentiment rose during west this year, Reuters reported on But most of the brokerage gains which excludes volatile prices of energy and un- the second trading week after the February 10. were pared in the afternoon, drag- processed food, was unchanged in January at 0.9 Spring Festival holidays, with the Chinese mainland stocks fell on ging down the overall market. percent. securities, banking and the nonfer- Friday as investors retreated from Six newly listed stocks tumbled Lautenschlaeger also said that she was hoping rous metals sectors outperforming brokerage and newly-listed stocks by the 10 percent daily trade limit, the ECB could “return as quickly as possible to a the market, the Shanghai Securities after a recent rally, erasing most of dealing a blow to participants riding normalization from the very expansive monetary News reported on Saturday. the gains made earlier this week. the rally of small-cap financial stocks policies” – its massive bond-buying program. Some experts claimed that funds The blue-chip CSI 300 index fell recently, in particular banks and “If inflation rates continue as they were in were flowing from the underper- 0.57 percent to 3,421.44 points, up brokerage stocks. January, then I would not want to wait until next forming real estate market into 0.23 percent for the week. Zhang Qi, an analyst with year,” she said. stocks, which could provide some The Shanghai Composite Index Haitong Securities, cautioned that A premature increase in interest rates would long-term support for the equities lost 0.85 percent to 3,202.08 points, some financial stocks were driven by be counterproductive and could force the central market. up 0.17 percent for the week. speculators and their strength could bank to respond with even stronger measures, In addition, many sectors, includ- The Shenzhen Component Index be short-lived. she said. ing infrastructure and materials, declined 0.55 percent to 10,197.92 Most sectors lost ground on will benefit from the “One Belt and points, up 0.11 percent for the week. Friday. Infrastructure stocks posted Reuters One Road” initiative, which China Brokerage stocks initially jumped their worst losses in more than two is pushing ahead on. China pledged on Friday, after China’s securities months. Page Editor: [email protected] to invest more than $146 billion on regulator said late on Thursday that transportation in the country’s mid- it will relax some rules for stock Global Times – Reuters B4-5 Monday February 20, 2017 BIZOVERVIEW FigurativelySpeaking Kraft Heinz bids $143b for Unilever in E-FINANCE  Payment service represents technological progress: experts By Huang Ge global brand grab; target rebuffs offer Annual growth in total profits of While Apple Pay enjoys increasing China’s steel companies in 2016, popularity in the US, it has made only 202 percent according to information from the M&A Buffett and private equity firm a small dent in the vast Chinese mar- One year on, Apple Pay faces uphill climb Ministry of Industry and Informa- US food company Kraft Heinz 3G Capital, said it looked forward ket amid many challenges including tion Technology. Of the 35 companies listed in the Chinese mainland, Co made a surprise $143 billion to talking terms, Unilever said it low consumer take-up, analysts said 28 have already released profit estimates for 2016. offer for Unilever Plc in a bid to saw no reason to discuss a deal Sunday. build a global consumer goods without financial or strategic Apple Inc launched its mobile pay- giant, although it was flatly re- merit. ment service in October 2014 in the to become the No. 1 payment service in iPhone 6s, or later model. payment function and Alipay, which on Sunday that “although Apple Pay is Total profits achieved jected on Friday by the maker of Kraft approached Unilever last US. It was introduced into China, the the US, according to data released by However, the growth rate of Apple is quite enough,” said a retailer sur- easy and convenient, I still prefer us- by East China’s An- Lipton tea and Dove soap. week, according to people famil- world’s largest smartphone market, Boston Retail Partners in February. Pay in the domestic market is far below named Yan. ing domestic mobile payment services, 29.62 billion yuan hui Province-based A combination would be the iar with the matter, who declined through a partnership with China When the payment service entered expectations after one year. Apple Pay has higher acceptance which are more widely accepted by enterprises under third-biggest takeover in history to be identified because the ap- UnionPay Co on February 18, 2016. China, around 30 percent of Apple us- “Our store gets hundreds of cus- rate in the US because the payment Chinese business owners.” the provincial State-owned assets supervision commission, up 58.7 and the largest acquisition of a proach was confidential. Apple Pay now has a 36 percent ac- ers said they would like to use it, do- tomers every day and 90 percent of habit of US consumers evolved from There are also some Chinese users percent year-on-year and the highest in five years. UK-based company, according to Kraft believes that investing in ceptance rate from US merchants, up mestic financial news portal nbd.com. them use domestic mobile payment cash to bank cards and then to Apple who support Apple Pay. Thomson Reuters data. innovation would be an impor- from 16 percent in 2016 and overtak- cn reported Saturday. services like WeChat and Alipay in- Pay. For Chinese consumers, third-par- “It is easier to pay via Apple Pay It would bring together some tant part of the combined coming PayPal (34 percent acceptance rate) For iPhones, Apple Pay only works stead of Apple Pay,” said an employee ty payment services were in use before as you only need to double touch the Outstanding mortgages of the world’s best-known brands, pany, one of the people said. with the iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, surnamed Wang at a supermarket in Apple Pay entered the market, Li Chao, home button and do not have to unlock issued by financial in- from toothpaste to ice creams, Kraft also offered to keep three Beijing’s Chaoyang district. an industry analyst at consultancy your iPhone,” Zhao Zhenyu, a college 26.7 trillion yuan stitutions in China as of and combine Kraft’s strength in headquarters for the combined Wang told the Global Times on iResearch Consulting Group, told the student in North China’s Tianjin Mu- the end of 2016, up 27 the US with Unilever’s in Europe company in the US, Britain and Sunday that “no more than three pay- Global Times on Sunday. nicipality, told the Global Times on percent from a year earlier. Those loans accounted for 25 percent of and Asia. the Netherlands, the source add- ments using Apple Pay in our store “Therefore, it’s kind of difficult for Sunday. “Discounts are offered fre- all outstanding lending, according to a report from the central bank The global packaged food ed. each week.” Chinese consumers to alter their pay- quently via the payment service, and on Friday. industry is grappling with slow- Credit rating agency Moody’s Another employee who declined to ment habits from WeChat and Alipay they are also attractive,” he said. ing growth, new competition characterized the bid for Unilever be identified and works at a chain bak- to Apple Pay when the user experience Apple Pay uses the near-field com- from upstart brands, deflation as “credit negative” as the com- ery in Beijing told the Global Times of the latter is not any better than that munication (NFC) method of contact- in developed markets and more bined company would be more Sunday that “few customers asked to of domestic ones,” Li said. less communication, rather than the After night in cell, Samsung official health-conscious consumers. highly financially leveraged. pay via Apple Pay during the last year.” Backed by Alibaba Group Holding, barcode-like method of electronic pay- Although Kraft, which is con- Also, five small retailers in Beijing Alipay held the largest market share ments of using quick response (QR) taken by authorities for questioning trolled by US billionaire Warren Reuters that the Global Times talked to on for payments in the third quarter in codes employed by Alipay and WeChat Sunday said that they do not offer Ap- 2016, accounting for 50.42 percent of payment, according to analysts. ply Pay in their stores. “(Chinese) Cus- the total, followed by Tencent Hold- “The popularization of NFC is more PROBES He spent the night at the tomers are getting used to WeChat’s ings-backed Tenpay with 38.12 per- difficult and takes more time than -us Samsung Group chief Jay Y. Lee Seoul Detention Center on the Dongfeng, FAW agree to build joint cent and domestic financial ing QR codes, but NFC technology has was taken on Saturday for ques- outskirts of the capital in a small platform lakala.com with 3.32 advantages in security and a variety of tioning by South Korean authori- single cell with a toilet in the cor- innovation center for technology percent, according to Beijing- situations, which means there is large ties after spending a night in a ner behind a partition. based consultancy Analysys. potential for its development in the fu- small detention cell. Special prosecution spokes- UnionPay only had 1.08 ture,” Li noted. Lee, 48, was arrested on Fri- man Lee Kyu-chul said on Fri- VEHICLES The move sparked specula- percent during the same pe- Although Apple Pay has not gained day for his alleged role in a cor- day that officials were working Dongfeng Motor Corp and China tion that the two companies riod. wide acceptance in China after one ruption scandal that has led to to supplement inadequacies in FAW Group Corp said on Friday could merge, sending up shares Apple Pay faces intensified year, the service represents progress the impeachment of President their investigation into Lee, with- that they will build a joint inno- of listed subsidiaries FAW Car Co competition from its Chinese for mobile payment technology across Park Geun-hye. out elaborating. vation center, a move that brings and Tianjin FAW Xiali Automo- rivals like Alipay, so it can the world, and it still needs some time, Lee, who has a net worth of While Lee’s detention is not China’s two oldest automakers bile Co. hardly compete, analysts said. perhaps five years, for its boom, he $6.2 billion, heads the technol- expected to hamper day-to-day together after they swapped top The companies have strug- Wang Xiqiao, a 20-some- said. ogy giant that is the world’s operations at Samsung compa- executives in 2015. gled to establish independent thing white-collar worker in biggest manufacturer of smart- nies, which are run by profes- The companies signed an brands that can compete with Beijing, told the Global Times phones, flat-screen TVs and sional managers, experts said it agreement on Friday to collabo- foreign manufacturers, although memory chips. could hinder strategic decision- rate in five areas including fuel both have highly profitable joint The special prosecutor’s of- making at South Korea’s biggest cell technology, smart connectivi- ventures with international auto- fice accused Lee of bribing a conglomerate. ty and testing facilities. The com- makers. close friend of the president to The South Korean conglomer- panies did not disclose financial FAW has joint ventures (JVs) gain government favors related ate is currently going through a terms. with Toyota Motor and Volkswa- to leadership succession at the restructuring to clear a succes- In 2015, former FAW presi- gen AG, while Dongfeng has JVs conglomerate. It said on Friday sion path for Lee to assume con- dent Zhu Yanfeng replaced with Honda Motor Co and Nis- An Apple Pay logo on the window that it will indict him on charges trol after his father was incapaci- Dongfeng chairman Xu Ping, san Motor Co. of a convenience store in Shanghai including bribery, embezzle- tated by a heart attack in 2014. who was in turn named the Photo: CFP ment, hiding assets overseas and chairman of FAW Group. Reuters perjury. Reuters

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Tencent in talks with Go-Jek HNA takes stake in Deutsche Bank Meitu to launch new smartphone December exports increased 5.4 percent year-on-year, posting the that they will not continue with the bailout program unless the IMF Eurozone PMI due for February Internet giant Tencent Holdings is reportedly in China’s HNA Group has taken a stake of just over 3 Chinese photo app and smartphone maker Meitu Inc is expected to first gain in 15 months. Imports in December fell 2.6 percent. continues to participate Eurozone’s flash composite Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) for talks with Indonesian unicorn app Go-Jek about a percent in Deutsche Bank, and it said on Friday that launch its new smartphone T8 in Beijing on Tuesday. February is expected to be released on Tuesday. potential investment, according to technology news it could buy further shares in the German lender. Better known for its apps that let users retouch selfies and other Eurogroup to review bailout reforms Federal Reserve minutes for policy meeting This latest PMI data will be closely watched as it will be an im- website theinformation.com. “We have the fullest confidence in Deutsche photos, Meitu unveiled its M6 and V4 smartphones last year to al- Finance ministers of the 19 countries of the eurozone are scheduled The US Federal Reserve is expected to release the minutes of its portant indicator of whether the stronger growth trend is likely to be Details on the potential size of the investment Bank’s management and will keep a close watch on low users to take high-quality selfies. to meet in Brussels on Monday for a review of Greece’s bailout January policy meeting on Wednesday. sustained and whether underlying inflation pressures are increasing. haven’t been revealed. its future steps and lend support as a shareholder The company also launched an IPO in Hong Kong in December. reforms. The Fed left interest rates on hold after the two-day Federal Open Eurozone PMI data improved further in January and there was Tencent Holdings is one of the three Chinese In- where appropriate,” a spokesman for HNA said. An agreement or substantive progress will be needed to pave the Market Committee (FOMC) meeting in January, but the minutes will further evidence of upward pressure on prices. But there is still an ternet conglomerates whose business covers a wide The aviation and shipping company intends to Japan’s trade data due for release way for Greece to receive the necessary funding. The country faces still have an important impact. important element of skepticism surrounding growth trends amid range of sectors such as media, entertainment and keep its holding below 10 percent, he said. Japan’s Ministry of Finance is set to release the country’s trade data large repayments in the third quarter. The overall tone has been indicated by Fed Chair Janet Yellen’s expectations that growth will tend to falter quickly. the Internet. HNA’s stake of 3.04 percent, worth about 750 for January on Monday. The absence of an agreement would raise fears that there will Congressional testimony and it is clear that the FOMC maintained The European Central Bank and EU Commission maintained a It is also an investor in Didi Chuxing, which million euros ($796 million) at current share pric- Exports are estimated to have increased by 4.7 percent month- be another episode of the Greek crisis, which would undermine confidence in the outlook. generally downbeat assessment of the outlook in their latest reports owns a minority stake at Go-Jek’s competitor Grab. es, makes it the bank’s biggest shareholder after on-month in January, following a 5.4 percent growth in December, confidence in the wider eurozone, while an agreement would ease The minutes will also indicate that the Fed is expecting to in- and continued to forecast that inflation would come in below target Go-Jek is one of Indonesia’s largest start-ups by Qatar, which has close to 10 percent of the stock via according to a Reuters poll of 18 analysts. The poll also showed that immediate tensions and also help ease wider tensions within pe- crease interest rates further over the next few months, according to a over the medium term, according to media reports. valuation and is also the market leader in the coun- two sovereign wealth funds, and BlackRock, which imports are likely to have grown 4.7 percent, which would be the first ripheral bond markets. report from economiccalendar.com. try. owns 6.1 percent. rise since December 2014. Greece is continuing to resist any further austerity measures and The most important aspect of the minutes will be whether there Global Times – Agencies The Sequoia Capital-backed start-up was valued Deutsche Bank said it welcomes in principle any This would result in a trade deficit of 636.8 billion yen ($5.62 bil- the IMF has threatened to pull out of the debt agreement. The IMF is any clear indication of the likely stance in March. Yellen indicated at around $1.3 billion last year when it raised $550 long-term investor. lion), the first shortfall in five months. wants the primary budget surplus target cut, and it has warned that that every FOMC meeting was a live meeting and, if a March hike Page Editor: million from KKR and Warburg Pincus. Go-Jek has In December, Japan had strong growth in exports offset by a Greek debt is on an explosive path. was under very serious consideration at that point, then there will be [email protected] yet to comment on the report. Reuters – Global Times steeper fall in imports. The German and Dutch governments, however, have stated an important signal within the minutes. B4-5 Monday February 20, 2017 BIZOVERVIEW FigurativelySpeaking Kraft Heinz bids $143b for Unilever in E-FINANCE  Payment service represents technological progress: experts By Huang Ge global brand grab; target rebuffs offer Annual growth in total profits of While Apple Pay enjoys increasing China’s steel companies in 2016, popularity in the US, it has made only 202 percent according to information from the M&A Buffett and private equity firm a small dent in the vast Chinese mar- One year on, Apple Pay faces uphill climb Ministry of Industry and Informa- US food company Kraft Heinz 3G Capital, said it looked forward ket amid many challenges including tion Technology. Of the 35 companies listed in the Chinese mainland, Co made a surprise $143 billion to talking terms, Unilever said it low consumer take-up, analysts said 28 have already released profit estimates for 2016. offer for Unilever Plc in a bid to saw no reason to discuss a deal Sunday. build a global consumer goods without financial or strategic Apple Inc launched its mobile pay- giant, although it was flatly re- merit. ment service in October 2014 in the to become the No. 1 payment service in iPhone 6s, or later model. payment function and Alipay, which on Sunday that “although Apple Pay is Total profits achieved jected on Friday by the maker of Kraft approached Unilever last US. It was introduced into China, the the US, according to data released by However, the growth rate of Apple is quite enough,” said a retailer sur- easy and convenient, I still prefer us- by East China’s An- Lipton tea and Dove soap. week, according to people famil- world’s largest smartphone market, Boston Retail Partners in February. Pay in the domestic market is far below named Yan. ing domestic mobile payment services, 29.62 billion yuan hui Province-based A combination would be the iar with the matter, who declined through a partnership with China When the payment service entered expectations after one year. Apple Pay has higher acceptance which are more widely accepted by enterprises under third-biggest takeover in history to be identified because the ap- UnionPay Co on February 18, 2016. China, around 30 percent of Apple us- “Our store gets hundreds of cus- rate in the US because the payment Chinese business owners.” the provincial State-owned assets supervision commission, up 58.7 and the largest acquisition of a proach was confidential. Apple Pay now has a 36 percent ac- ers said they would like to use it, do- tomers every day and 90 percent of habit of US consumers evolved from There are also some Chinese users percent year-on-year and the highest in five years. UK-based company, according to Kraft believes that investing in ceptance rate from US merchants, up mestic financial news portal nbd.com. them use domestic mobile payment cash to bank cards and then to Apple who support Apple Pay. Thomson Reuters data. innovation would be an impor- from 16 percent in 2016 and overtak- cn reported Saturday. services like WeChat and Alipay in- Pay. For Chinese consumers, third-par- “It is easier to pay via Apple Pay It would bring together some tant part of the combined coming PayPal (34 percent acceptance rate) For iPhones, Apple Pay only works stead of Apple Pay,” said an employee ty payment services were in use before as you only need to double touch the Outstanding mortgages of the world’s best-known brands, pany, one of the people said. with the iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, surnamed Wang at a supermarket in Apple Pay entered the market, Li Chao, home button and do not have to unlock issued by financial in- from toothpaste to ice creams, Kraft also offered to keep three Beijing’s Chaoyang district. an industry analyst at consultancy your iPhone,” Zhao Zhenyu, a college 26.7 trillion yuan stitutions in China as of and combine Kraft’s strength in headquarters for the combined Wang told the Global Times on iResearch Consulting Group, told the student in North China’s Tianjin Mu- the end of 2016, up 27 the US with Unilever’s in Europe company in the US, Britain and Sunday that “no more than three pay- Global Times on Sunday. nicipality, told the Global Times on percent from a year earlier. Those loans accounted for 25 percent of and Asia. the Netherlands, the source add- ments using Apple Pay in our store “Therefore, it’s kind of difficult for Sunday. “Discounts are offered fre- all outstanding lending, according to a report from the central bank The global packaged food ed. each week.” Chinese consumers to alter their pay- quently via the payment service, and on Friday. industry is grappling with slow- Credit rating agency Moody’s Another employee who declined to ment habits from WeChat and Alipay they are also attractive,” he said. ing growth, new competition characterized the bid for Unilever be identified and works at a chain bak- to Apple Pay when the user experience Apple Pay uses the near-field com- from upstart brands, deflation as “credit negative” as the com- ery in Beijing told the Global Times of the latter is not any better than that munication (NFC) method of contact- in developed markets and more bined company would be more Sunday that “few customers asked to of domestic ones,” Li said. less communication, rather than the After night in cell, Samsung official health-conscious consumers. highly financially leveraged. pay via Apple Pay during the last year.” Backed by Alibaba Group Holding, barcode-like method of electronic pay- Although Kraft, which is con- Also, five small retailers in Beijing Alipay held the largest market share ments of using quick response (QR) taken by authorities for questioning trolled by US billionaire Warren Reuters that the Global Times talked to on for payments in the third quarter in codes employed by Alipay and WeChat Sunday said that they do not offer Ap- 2016, accounting for 50.42 percent of payment, according to analysts. ply Pay in their stores. “(Chinese) Cus- the total, followed by Tencent Hold- “The popularization of NFC is more PROBES He spent the night at the tomers are getting used to WeChat’s ings-backed Tenpay with 38.12 per- difficult and takes more time than -us Samsung Group chief Jay Y. Lee Seoul Detention Center on the Dongfeng, FAW agree to build joint cent and domestic financial ing QR codes, but NFC technology has was taken on Saturday for ques- outskirts of the capital in a small platform lakala.com with 3.32 advantages in security and a variety of tioning by South Korean authori- single cell with a toilet in the cor- innovation center for technology percent, according to Beijing- situations, which means there is large ties after spending a night in a ner behind a partition. based consultancy Analysys. potential for its development in the fu- small detention cell. Special prosecution spokes- UnionPay only had 1.08 ture,” Li noted. Lee, 48, was arrested on Fri- man Lee Kyu-chul said on Fri- VEHICLES The move sparked specula- percent during the same pe- Although Apple Pay has not gained day for his alleged role in a cor- day that officials were working Dongfeng Motor Corp and China tion that the two companies riod. wide acceptance in China after one ruption scandal that has led to to supplement inadequacies in FAW Group Corp said on Friday could merge, sending up shares Apple Pay faces intensified year, the service represents progress the impeachment of President their investigation into Lee, with- that they will build a joint inno- of listed subsidiaries FAW Car Co competition from its Chinese for mobile payment technology across Park Geun-hye. out elaborating. vation center, a move that brings and Tianjin FAW Xiali Automo- rivals like Alipay, so it can the world, and it still needs some time, Lee, who has a net worth of While Lee’s detention is not China’s two oldest automakers bile Co. hardly compete, analysts said. perhaps five years, for its boom, he $6.2 billion, heads the technol- expected to hamper day-to-day together after they swapped top The companies have strug- Wang Xiqiao, a 20-some- said. ogy giant that is the world’s operations at Samsung compa- executives in 2015. gled to establish independent thing white-collar worker in biggest manufacturer of smart- nies, which are run by profes- The companies signed an brands that can compete with Beijing, told the Global Times phones, flat-screen TVs and sional managers, experts said it agreement on Friday to collabo- foreign manufacturers, although memory chips. could hinder strategic decision- rate in five areas including fuel both have highly profitable joint The special prosecutor’s of- making at South Korea’s biggest cell technology, smart connectivi- ventures with international auto- fice accused Lee of bribing a conglomerate. ty and testing facilities. The com- makers. close friend of the president to The South Korean conglomer- panies did not disclose financial FAW has joint ventures (JVs) gain government favors related ate is currently going through a terms. with Toyota Motor and Volkswa- to leadership succession at the restructuring to clear a succes- In 2015, former FAW presi- gen AG, while Dongfeng has JVs conglomerate. It said on Friday sion path for Lee to assume con- dent Zhu Yanfeng replaced with Honda Motor Co and Nis- An Apple Pay logo on the window that it will indict him on charges trol after his father was incapaci- Dongfeng chairman Xu Ping, san Motor Co. of a convenience store in Shanghai including bribery, embezzle- tated by a heart attack in 2014. who was in turn named the Photo: CFP ment, hiding assets overseas and chairman of FAW Group. Reuters perjury. Reuters

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which poses huge risks to cross-border well as complicated procedures such as firms could mull buying or merging Given these challenges, e-commerce transactions. Inadequate customs formalities, commodity inspec- into African online stores to enable the Chinese government supervision of cross-border e-commerce tion, cross-border logistics and delivery, their expansion into the African market and poor management of customs which increase transaction costs. In- to be based on the well-received local needs to start building and commodity inspections, payment stead of adopting widely used logistics platforms. supply chains and guiding and logistics and reverse-logistics add models such as overseas warehouse and Second, the Chinese government e-commerce players to to security concerns. Online shop- international logistics specialized lines, should play its part in strengthen- pers in Africa are mostly social elites cross-border logistics in Africa mostly ing China’s cooperation with African enter African markets and who value quality and creditability of use a small package model. governments, telecom operators and tap local potential. goods. However commodity credit risks Given these challenges, the Chinese international platforms to improve pay- dampen their cross-border e-commerce government needs to start building ment platforms. The Chinese govern- demands. supply chains and guiding e-commerce ment needs to enhance communication By Song Wei Electronic payment means are players to enter African markets and tap with the telecom authorities for African limited, which prevents the customer local potential. countries and guide Chinese busi- ross-border e-commerce is key base from expanding. Consumers rely First, the government should orient nesses toward venturing into the local to China’s drive to upgrade its on cash and on-the-spot card swipes Chinese business operations toward markets in a targeted manner. Also, Cforeign trade companies. Africa for payment given the low penetration being fully localized when it comes Chinese firms should be encouraged has increasingly become an emerg- of credit cards and e-banks as well as to building cross-border e-commerce to build closer ties with local telecom ing market for global cross-border concerns about online payment secu- platforms. Chinese firms should be carriers, and ramp up joint efforts to e-commerce given its growing Internet rity. According to a report by IT News fostered to form strategic partnerships develop mobile shopping and payment access, rising number of cell phone us- Africa in 2015, most Kenyan consum- with Africa’s local e-commerce busi- apps to move the continent’s cross-bor- ers and consumers’ increased interest ers could not make cross-border der e-commerce development forward. in online shopping. But the barriers to e-commerce transactions due On top of that, China’s e-commerce the African market cannot be ignored. platforms should be guided toward cre- First and foremost, Internet security ating strategic tie-ups with international issues are the key factor that under- payment platforms such as PayPal to mines consumers’ confidence. Given build the payment network available in the low educational and economic the African market. development level as well as high Last but not the least, Chinese unemployment rate, African residents e-commerce businesses should do not readily accept e-commerce and work out smart and flexible logistics cross-border e-commerce and most systems to ensure continued suc- consumers are worried about online cess. The establishment of special payment fraud. Some cyber criminals airfreight routes could address the impersonate the websites of Africa’s plight currently haunting the African leading e-commerce platforms such as e-commerce marketplace, as it helps in Jumia, Kaymu and foreign platforms alleviating the pressure caused by and direct consumers to bogus sites. heavy inventory loads and also The impact of such fraud on the ensures timely and convenient development of e-commerce in Illustration: Luo Xuan/GT delivery. In addition, Chinese Africa is devastating. About 64 online retailers should push to set percent of African online users nesses. up overseas warehouses in Africa to lack confidence in the security Global heavyweights including eBay facilitate safer and more efficient deliv- of online transactions, 77 percent are and Amazon have performed poorly ery services. It is also advised that the worried about online financial fraud to the limited use of credit and in the African market. By comparison, monitoring and forecasting should be and 45 percent of users have suspended bank cards. Among the 42 million Ke- many African countries have viable given more importance in the creation online transactions halfway due to nyans, only 200,000 credit cards were local e-commerce firms. For example, of a logistics systems applied to the security concerns, according to media in circulation with a penetration rate of Cote d’lvoire residents have a deep African market, allowing local consum- reports. 0.3 percent, in a sharp contrast to the knowledge of and frequently use ers to get a package’s detailed location Commodity credit risks inhibit high penetration of Internet and mobile Kaymu, which is available across 15 at any time. demands. Given the diverse differences Internet. African countries. In Nigeria, online in laws and rules in African countries, Furthermore, underdeveloped retailer Jumia not only takes the lead in The author is an associate researcher with a unified credit identification criterion logistics systems prevent the expan- its home market, but is becoming popu- the Chinese Academy of International Trade is absent and an international credit sion of cross-border e-commerce which lar in Egypt, Cote d’lvoire, Cameroon and Economic Cooperation. bizopinion@ management system is not in place, requires extended supply chains as and Ghana. In light of this, Chinese globaltimes.com.cn China needs to cut costs to be more competitive in commercial space sector

By Hu Weijia YEONTHEECONOMY satellite launches with urgent action needed for China in the cost of rocket launches E other countries. to expand its market share is by at least 30 percent through Over the past few days, some Its independent to reduce the cost of putting various measures including people have keenly followed the research and satellites into orbit. business model innovation. debate on whether China has by its low price advantage, indigenous manufacturing China’s space sector, devel- The Chinese commercial space lagged behind India in its space a weak point for China’s of parts and components for oping rapidly as an important sector has lagged behind the race. India’s successful launch commercial space sector. satellites will help China bypass part of the country’s defense in- global market and now the of a record-breaking 104 satel- Although China is restrictions imposed by the US. dustry, has focused less on cost country has to learn from the lites into orbit could serve as a developing rapidly into a major China has made great progress control in the past few decades. experiences acquired by other wake-up call for China’s com- player in the space industry, the in the field but its customers The country should make a countries, India included, on mercial space industry and country’s commercial space are mainly from developing fundamental transformation how to commercialize rocket there are a number of lessons sector is still in its infancy. countries. China is likely to to allow some institutions in its launches. for the country to learn. Many of the world’s satellites continue to focus on developing space sector to run like a busi- Of the 104 satellites, 96 are made in or use parts from countries where price will be an ness instead of as government- The author is a reporter with belong to the US, which makes the US. However, satellites important factor in customers’ backed research bodies. the Global Times. bizopinion@ India a fierce competitor in the and components made in the decisions of choosing launch ChinaRocket Co was globaltimes.com.cn global market for commercial US are prohibited from being partners. established last year to ramp rocket launch services. exported to China, making Competition with India for up the commercialization Page Editor: The South Asian nation’s it very difficult for China to commercial space launches of China’s space sector. The [email protected] achievements are largely driven get contracts for commercial may be inevitable, and the most firm has pledged a reduction Monday February 20, 2017 B7 BIZCOMMENT Intel’s drone ambition faces uphill battle against DJI

By Li Qiaoyi the funding to go into have faltered in its drone ven- place for aerial photography USTTECH production, although the ture, with its release of the Mi drones in terms of shipments ntel’s ambition to continue J company said previously drone in May 2016 clouded by for the first time in four con- its dominance over chip it had pulled in $34 speculation over the reliability secutive quarters, it still held Itechnology has largely with DJI also moving into the million in pre-orders for of the UAV which supposedly 51.99 percent of the market, flopped in the mobile Inter- enterprise space, there’s no 60,000 units. Other high- poses a price challenge for DJI. followed by domestic rival Ze- net era. However, the US guarantee of success. profile drone failures include The Xiaomi drone report- rotech’s 24.3 percent and Par- chip giant hasn’t remained As for many drone start- GoPro’s recall of its Karma edly crashed down on a live rot’s 4.63 percent. DJI’s launch stagnant but rather has been ups, one has to admit that camera drones in Novem- broadcast which the company of the Mavic, an entirely new proactive in exploring other pulling off projects is not as ber 16 days after it became defended as an outcome of not product line, at the end of areas of promises. Its effort of easy as making smartphones available in the market over having noticed a low battery September was believed to diversifying into the fledg- or other smart gadgets. concerns that the quadcopter level. dampen the company’s drone ling unmanned aerial vehicle Therefore, success stories that could lose power and fall out In this regard, DJI’s status shipments in the third quarter. (UAV) market seems likely to proved workable in churning the sky. Another well-known has been more entrenched and Bearing in mind a general make the nearly half-century- out smart device champions drone company 3D Robotics in the consumer drone market, cooling-off in the overall drone old company cool again, as 300 might not necessarily apply to has also scrambled to shift to it seems the Shenzhen-based arena that seems to have only Intel drones danced behind drone manufacturing. enterprise customers as its drone manufacturer, a rarely made DJI fly high above com- Lady Gaga at her buzz-making Lily Robotics, the much- consumer business stumbles. well-recognized Chinese in- petition, Intel’s drone ambi- Super Bowl performance early hyped drone start-up that was In the latest industry down- novator in the tech world, is tion still needs to be fleshed this month. founded in 2013 in Berkeley, turn, French drone maker Par- mostly competing with itself. out beyond simply stunning Nevertheless, it remains California, abruptly shut down rot announced in January that Although IDC data showed in light shows. uncertain whether Intel’s high- in January, following mul- it would be cutting one-third December that in the third profile drone push will help tiple delays in its selfie-taking of its drone-related staff. quarter of 2016, DJI posted The author is a reporter with the chip king of the PC era drone shipping commitment. Chinese smartphone a decline in the the Global Times. bizopinion@ take on Chinese drone unicorn The start-up admitted in an maker Xiaomi also ap- share of globaltimes.com.cn DJI. That’s not to say DJI, email to customers that it pears to China’s referred to as the Apple of the failed to secure market- drone world, is unbeatable – in the enterprise drone market in particular – but Intel’s drone investments as well as many other drone projects don’t ap- pear to make DJI nervous. Despite Intel’s Super Bowl drone fleet, the company’s adventure, that included a $60 million investment in Chinese drone maker Yuneec – one of DJI’s biggest rivals – in 2015 and the acquisition of German drone maker Ascending Technologies last year, hasn’t translated into a substantial dent in the drone market. It remains to be seen whether there will be a resur- gence for Intel with either the Yuneec Typhoon H, powered by Intel’s RealSense technology inside, or Intel’s self-branded drone – the Falcon 8+. Intel’s effort to capture the commercial drone market with the announcement of the Falcon 8+ in October was supposed to put the chip giant Illustration: Peter C. Espina/GT in a less crowded arena. But Heir’s arrest keeps Samsung off-balance and threatens to hobble big changes

There’s only so much even the most sought to keep Lee in custody, a Seoul 1 percent at midday on the news, but Samsung Electronics has yet to final- powerful executive can accomplish court approved a second request to arrest there’s been no panicked selloff. ize investment plans for 2017. An an- from behind bars. Samsung Group’s him. Family-run local conglomerates, But Lee’s participation is critical as the nual management reshuffle is on hold. founding family heir Jay Y. Lee has been known as chaebol, have a long history of company tries to engage in a strategic Lee might make bail, but a long prison thrown into jail in an unprecedented run-ins with the law. Even so, Lee, facing shift. Lee’s father preached against sentence is still possible, and would be corruption case. This kind of scandal bribery allegations, is the first Samsung complacency, so the son is pushing a major hindrance. The deeper problem could cost company bosses their jobs chief to sit in jail. Samsung into new businesses, such as is the overdependence Samsung and its in other countries, but in South Korea, Company factories will keep running biotech and automotive, while reviewing shareholders have on family leadership. Lee’s position is probably not at risk. at full throttle no doubt. The daily opera- a restructuring proposal from activist Nevertheless his physical absence will tional role of Lee, who is vice chairman US hedge fund Elliott Management. The author is Jun Yang, a Reuters leave Samsung without anyone steering at Samsung Electronics, isn’t clearly Any prolonged absence by Lee would Breakingviews columnist. The article was the wheel. The uncertainty threatens to defined anyway, and the three key divi- be quickly felt. His sisters lack expe- first published on Reuters Breakingviews. hobble big changes at the group, includ- sions of Samsung Electronics, the $260 rience, so leadership might fall to an [email protected] ing the restructuring advocated by activ- billion flagship unit, are run by a trio of outsider. Choi Gee-sung, a high profile ist investors. veterans sharing the chief executive title. lieutenant and Lee mentor, might take Page Editor: Less than a month after a special Investors know this already – shares in up some slack, but probably not all of it. [email protected] South Korean prosecutor unsuccessfully Samsung Electronics were down around There are signs of cracks already. B8 Monday February 20, 2017 BIZINSIGHT

Workers are busy on a production line at Panasonic Motor (Zhuhai) Co, the first wholly-owned subsidiary of Panasonic Corp in China, in Zhuhai, South China’s Guangdong Province. Photo: Chen Qingqing/GT

Zhuhai, South China’s Guangdong Province, was among the first Special Economic Zones set up by the central government in 1980 to test out economic reforms. Over the next 36 years, the city’s GDP grew to 222.6 billion yuan ($32.4 billion), among the top 10 in the province, thanks to a visit by former leader Deng Xiaoping. Sunday was the 20th anniversary of the death of the Chinese statesman, who visited the city in 1992 during his second southern tour to highlight economic reforms. To mark the anniversary, the Global Times visited Zhuhai to look into the aspects of the city’s development. This story is the first in a two-part series.

 Zhuhai, foreign investors prosper in decades after Deng Xiaoping’s tour

the company received a 100 percent tax abatement for three years and a 50 percent abatement for the next two. Setting up the plant in 2005 was A visit to remember primarily a way to cut costs, said Guido Bergonzini, the plant’s general manager. By Chen Qingqing in Zhuhai NTHESPOT see, Clayton said. More than 90 percent of the com- O About a half-hour drive from the pany’s products were exported before he Nanping Industrial Park in city center, there are dozens of foreign 2008, but it has since shifted its focus southern Zhuhai, South China’s “There were two main reasons. manufacturing companies inside the to the Chinese market. “We are now TGuangdong Province, where Shenzhen is closer to Hong Kong and Zhuhai Free Trade Zone (FTZ) that selling more than 20,000 units per Japanese electronics manufacturer could take advantage of the latter’s have been thriving since the reform. year within the domestic market,” Ber- Panasonic Corp’s factory is currently ‘economic radiation’ effect,” he told the EPCOS (Zhuhai FTZ) Co, a TDK gonzini told the Global Times. located, used to be a remote village that Global Times on February 13. Group Company, is one. However, the recent drop in global few people could find on a map two The other reason was that the EPCOS built the factory in the Zhu- trade has hurt the company’s growth. decades ago. Zhuhai local government had initially hai FTZ in 1998. Production began a “And the bigger problem for us is A year after former leader Deng focused too much on developing its year later. Chinese manufacturers have learned Xiaoping launched his second south- fishing and tourism industries, rather Currently, TDK manufactures a how to make our products and now we ern tour in 1992, which is consid- than the manufacturing and high-tech wide range of EPCOS DC and power have many competitors in China,” he ered as a symbolic move to open up industries, the research fellow said. capacitors, protection devices and tem- claimed. Zhuhai’s economy, Panasonic invested Things began to change after Deng perature sensors at the Zhuhai FTZ Some “aggressive” competitors $142.5 million in its first wholly-owned conducted his second southern tour in plant, not just for the rapidly growing have copied the designs of Tai-Long subsidiary in China – Panasonic Motor 1992, when he pushed for officials to Chinese market but also for the rest of products and now sell to the European (Zhuhai) Co. accelerate economic reforms. the world, said Frederico Knorr, presi- market, which has led to complaints In 1980, the central government “After 1992, local authorities in- dent and CEO of the plant. from the company’s customers over- chose Zhuhai as one of the four Spe- vested heavily in expanding transporta- He noted that the company has seas, he said. cial Economic Zones designed to pilot tion, including building roads, bridges received a lot of support from the Bergonzini noted that the company reforms for the country’s transition and ports, and welcomed more FDI FTZ administration. For example, could spend a lot of time and money from a planned economy to a socialist in high-tech industries,” the research the administration has improved the taking these types of cases to court. market economy. fellow said. road to the zone to make it easier for The situation has become a burden for At Panasonic’s Zhuhai manufactur- As of July 2016, there were 3,293 employees to get to work. “With the foreign companies. ing complex, two photos hang on the foreign investment projects valued at improvement of FTZ infrastructure, Among several setbacks listed by wall on the left side of the reception $12.1 billion in Zhuhai, according to the FTZ has its own primary path, with the city’s bureau of commerce, more desk. One is of company founder an e-mail sent by the Zhuhai Bureau very convenient access for people and needs to be done to establish a fair Konosuke Matsushita. The other is a of Commerce to the Global Times over goods,” Knorr told the Global Times on and ho nest business environment in photograph of Matsushita speaking the weekend. Tuesday. Zhuhai to attract more foreign capital, with Deng. At the beginning of 2011, the plant according to the bureau’s e-mail. For Panasonic established the complex Attracting foreign capital began to upgrade its production lines example, local authorities and indus- in Zhuhai for two reasons: to develop Manufacturing services and solu- with the introduction of fully auto- try associations should more actively China’s manufacturing industry and tions provider China 2 West Services mated lines. The full modernization of respond to the companies’ requests. get closer to its customers, said Kimura has been operating in Zhuhai for 12 the equipment was completed in 2016. “Facing uncertainties in the macro- Yoshitsugu, managing director of Pana- years, said Mark Clayton, the com- The added production capacity turned economic situation, we need to create sonic’s Zhuhai division. “The local au- pany’s chief financial officer. into sales of 1.5 billion yuan ($218.53 mid- and long-term plans for investing thorities have given us a lot of support “I lived in Guangzhou for two years million) in the last fiscal year. in China,” said Yoshitsugu, the general in aspects such as lending facilities and prior to moving to Zhuhai, and 12 “And this fiscal year, which is from manager of Panasonic’s Zhuhai sub- facilitating custom clearance,” he told years ago both it and Shenzhen were April 2016 to March 2017, we expect to sidiary. the Global Times on February 13. much more developed than Zhuhai achieve 1.6 billion yuan,” Knorr noted. “We hope to hear more from local Although Zhuhai was among the in every respect such as infrastructure authorities on questions like environ- coastal cities first set up as special and business,” he told the Global Investment hurdles mental protection policies and possible economic zones in 1980 when China Times on Tuesday. Not every foreign company sees favorable policies for us to introduce opened up its economy, it initially Over the past few years, the Zhuhai investing in Zhuhai as smooth. more high-end technologies in the received less foreign direct investment government has been encouraging Tai-Long (Zhuhai) Machinery future,” he said. (FDI) than nearby Shenzhen, said a investment in infrastructure, such as Manufacturing, is a subsidiary of Emak research fellow specialized in Zhuhai’s in roads and bridges, and some manu- Group, which designs and makes Page Editor: [email protected] economic reform, who preferred not to facturers are expanding into newer and equipment for gardening and other be named. larger facilities. It’s progress you can outdoor uses. After it opened the plant,